Whenever I split oak, my hands look dirty for days. I'm using a log splitter so I'm basically just handling rounds and splits. I have washed them multiple times and spent close to an hour in the pool. I refuse to wear gloves unless it's cold out. Anyone else experience this?
Is it green?....I did at least 8 cords of standing dead n never had anything that looked like that.... Looked like pine tar to me...lol
While I always wear gloves when processing wood, I’ve never seen that with oak. Maybe there’s something up with the oak in your area.
I always wear gloves. I've never seen that. The closest I've seen to that is pine sap, but that's more concentrated.
Gloves.......if I don't, I get splinters. Oak splinters are the worst. I don't recall ever having that staining when processing Oak.
I've told this story before but many years ago I worked on a portable sawmill. When ever we cut red oak there was a chemical reaction between the oak, the metal band saw blades and the cooling water that would stain my hands purple. I tried many different products and lots of elbow grease but nothing seemed to do much until one day my grandmother told me to use butter. I was thinking , however it worked almost instantly .
It's not green as in fresh dropped but it certainly needs time to dry while it's split as pretty much all oak does.
Hands of a working man. Have your wife fix supper ,pour you a beer and rub your feet. It’ll be fine,leave the bitch mittens in the truck unless it’s freezing out.
Doesn't happen to me ( at least not noticeably like that ) I'm guessing the same tannins that the leaves can stain the driveway with sometimes. Your skin must absorb/react with it more readily. If anyone asks just tell them you bought some really cheap toilet paper . Or rub the rest of you with the same oak so you match.
Hey, wait just a dog-gone minute. Just don't wait too long or I'll forget what we were talking about.
I get splinters here and there but they don't do any damage. Just dig em out with a sewing needle and move on. Gloves just slow me down.
It's literally ink. Google: iron gall ink. Once your hands toughen up you hardly will get splinters. Gloves actually fatigue my hands faster. The mrs doesn't even wear gloves for wood handling anymore It's like a thing now, whenever someone is doing "yucky" outside work or "yucky" handling of a foriegn object you "need" gloves.
