Laundry dilemma!

[Mrs Sprog]

Oh how I had forgotten the joys of trying to get cow muck out of work clothes. We sold our dairy herd nearly five years ago; my son aged 17 is now doing a couple of days a week as part of his Agricultural course on a local Dairy farm. His clothes are frankly covered in unmentionables and I’m struggling to find a decent laundry detergent to get them clean. Help!

 

[Dairyfarmerswife]

I think any bio should do, I'm on Daz at the moment. Tbh all our staff wear waterproofs at the moment and they wash them in the outside washing machine, although a bucket of water and some washing powder would work too. Does he wear an overall?

 

[Mrs Sprog]

He tells me he does in the parlour however looking at his clothes it looks like he manages to have a good roll outside the parlour!

 

[Dairyfarmerswife]

I swear cow muck is like a badge of honour for young lads! Get him to do his own washing, he'll soon start covering up

 

[Mrs Sprog]

I swear cow muck is like a badge of honour for young lads! Get him to do his own washing, he'll soon start covering up

To be fair he does do it when at college. Think everything goes in together and the tumble dryer apparently does more than an extra hot setting Not too much has come home shrunk.

 

[Lili]

Soak in a bucket of warm not hot water +some sort of bio detergent, cheap is fine + a slug of something like Ace solution. Leave for a day or 2 then put through the machine.

 

[Mrs Sprog]

Soak in a bucket of warm not hot water +some sort of bio detergent, cheap is fine + a slug of something like Ace solution. Leave for a day or 2 then put through the machine.

I’ll give this a go boys

 

[Ffermer Bach]

throw it in the 30 minute wash, so what if it is stained, only going to get dirty again, as long as it gets 90% out

 

[Bald Rick]

Oh how I had forgotten the joys of trying to get cow muck out of work clothes. We sold our dairy herd nearly five years ago; my son aged 17 is now doing a couple of days a week as part of his Agricultural course on a local Dairy farm. His clothes are frankly covered in unmentionables and I’m struggling to find a decent laundry detergent to get them clean. Help!

Easy peasy.... buy a pot of Vanish powder

Bosh some of it on to the clothes in the machine, add your usual detergent, wash at 40 deg
Proper job

Thank me later

 

[Hilly]

Tiny reminder but if your on septic tank don’t use bio use non bio .

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Tiny reminder but if your on septic tank don’t use bio use non bio .

really? Does Bio stuff up the bacteria?

 

[Hilly]

really? Does Bio stuff up the bacteria?

Yes it stuffs up the bacteria .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Don't use fairy liquid ......OH in hospital recently and I had to do some washing . Never did it before but filled the 'drawer' up with fairy liquid cos I couldn't find anything else ......bubbles everywhere !!

 

[Al R]

Don't use fairy liquid ......OH in hospital recently and I had to do some washing . Never did it before but filled the 'drawer' up with fairy liquid cos I couldn't find anything else ......bubbles everywhere !!

I fill the machine up that does dishes, tablet in, press on

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Got the hang of it eventually ......dishwasher as well !

 

[Farmer Roy]

Err, haven’t had any experience of dairy clothes, but for really dirty clothes I always use a “truck wash” style detergent, hot water & make sure you let it all soak for a decent period of time at the beginning of the wash cycle

 

[primmiemoo]

A good bucket soak, or spot wash really filthy areas with old fashioned bar soap. Fairy non-bio, 40°C prewash and full wash cycle in washing machine.

Then tackle the clothing.

 

[Farmer Roy]

Yes, regardless of anything else, it is the pre soaking that is crucial I think

 

[RichardSou]

If they are just used for working in then it doesn't matter is all the stains are taken out as long as they have had a hot wash. Grass stains on cricket whites are far more of a problem!

 

[Lili]

If they are just used for working in then it doesn't matter is all the stains are taken out as long as they have had a hot wash. Grass stains on cricket whites are far more of a problem!

Rub some glycerine either neat or dilute into the grass stain before washing. Works very well on cricket kit.