Ok guys, I am not the brightest of the bunch, so I spilled some diesel on my blue jeans and hung them on the line. I did not realize that some diesel soaked into my boxers (not briefs) and I tossed them into the laundry basked.
So Sunday evening about 10 minutes after most of the stores in our area closed for the day, my loving wife, saint that she is, tosses ALL of my daughters Catholic school uniforms into the wash. And oh yeah, she also tossed some of my undies and socks into the washing machine. Well the diesel soaked boxers ended up in the wash with all school uniforms.
So about a New York second after the bell rang on the washing machine a shriek that would have scared a dinasour into extinction come from the laundry room.
Now most of the stores are closed, it is pushing 9pm on Sunday night, my 8 year old daughter has tears streaming down her face, she is clutching her stuffed animal and in total hysterics. The lovey wife is screaming at the top of her lungs, and there is no way that my "selective hearing" is going to work in this case.
Off to the only store in town that is open and I fill up a basket full of every possible chemical solution that might remove the smell.
To make a painful situation come to a quick conclusion, the answer turns out to be SIMPLE GREEN. When you spill diesel fuel on your tractor, and you will eventually do that, then make sure to shower in a stream of SIMPLE GREEN. It will take the diesel smell out of your clothes, because that spill on the hood of our machines will run down your leg and end up in the wash, if not with your kid's school clothes, then with that lovely lace tablecloth that grandma hand made or with some other priceless piece of cloth that some critical family member needs a lot more than they need YOU and your diesel stink.
Now to some of the other attempts . . . OXI CLEAN does not work. ORANGE cleaners do not work, LESTOIL does not work, PINE SOL does not work, TIDE does not work. About two in the morning we get to the SIMPLE GREEN and find that it did work.
AND IF YOU WANT TO TAKE GEAR GREASE OUT OF YOUR BLUE JEANS . . . you should use LESTOIL, but Lestoil has it own stink. You need the SIMPLE GREEN to remove the smell of the LESTOIL. But the LESTOIL will do a darn good job of removing the grease, it just leaves its own smell that you have to get rid of.
I can honestly say I don't know how to get TAR out of my clothes and after the whole episode with diesel smell I went to church and prayed that I am never within 30 yards of wet tar.
My advice to you is simple. You have tools, you have a tractor, and you have a family. Buy a large bottle of SIMPLE GREEN and a large bottle of LESTOIL. Keep them with your tools so you will be able to find them. Then, when you get greasy or when you spill that diesel, take the clothes to your lovely sainted better half, and take the S.G. or Lestoil & S.G. and explain that you are a man and that men are clumsy and sometimes get dirty . . . Because when momma is not happy then nobody is happy.
