[AT] Reconditioning Leather belting

[Mike M]

Hey Charlie, I'm on that list too, quiet as a church mouse lately though. 
Mike M


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From: charlie hill 
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Time: 2012-01-17, 15:07:16
Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting


Cecil, haven't seen Farmer here for quite some time. I subscribe to his 
frugal living Yahoo group and he's real quiet on there too. I think he 
might have had some health problems a while back.
Don’t know what's going on with him.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:51 PM
To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting

My first engineering job was under an old engineer who started out as a
surveyor for the city of OKC. He said when he started up as an
apprentice, he was required to buy steel toed lace up boots. The
procedure was to buy a pint of neatsfoot oil, and they put their boots
in a bucket of neatsfoot oil. They would let them soak for a week in
this bucket. The pint he brought was to make up what his boots soaked
up. Then they would put the boots on a drying rack, with a pan
underneath that took the runoff back to the bucket of oil, for 2
weeks. Then the boots were ready for any type of work. He said they
never leaked and lasted for over 30 years. He also said that he only
put one set of soles on them in 30 years.....

For water proofing I have used Johnson's wax melted in a microwave. I
would paint it on all theseams and all over the leather of my boots to
seal the seams from snow. I am now trying this URAD to see how it
works. Like I said, it smells like the old time shoe shop....l

Hey, what happened to Farmer, he used to have a cobbler shop.........
He sure would have an opinion....

Cecil in OKla

On 1/17/2012 11:23 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
> Humm. Maybe it's time to head to Lehman's Hardware in Kidron? Too bad 
> Johnson's in Orrville closed its doors. They probably had what I'm 
> looking for.
>
> Larry
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gene Dotson"<gdotsly at watchtv.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:04:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting
>
> Neat is an old English word for cattle. Neatsfoot oil is rendered 
> from
> the feet and shinbones of cattle. A few years ago, I took some Amish
> neighbors to Mount Hope, Ohio for a horse sale. I took the gentleman to a
> supply house on the edge of town. He bought a 55 gallon drum of Neatsfoot
> oil which he supplied to his neighbors for harness maintenance. Seems like
> the cost at the time was about $345.00 for the barrel. Said it would last
> them about a year.
>
> Gene
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cecil R Bearden"<crbearden at copper.net>
> To:<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Reconditioning Leather belting
>
>
>> I always wondered what they did with the rest of the animal after they
>> processed the oil from the foot. ( I was told that the oil came from
>> the foot of a Neat, a small orned animal from southern Africa.
>> Cecil in oKla
>>
>>
>> On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
>>> On 1/17/2012 9:22 AM, Paul Waugh wrote:
>>>> Very few of the next generation will even know about Neatsfoot oil :(
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>> I think I have a bottle of neatsfoot oil on the shelf from a "few" years
>>> ago. Not too surprising that the word is so old that my spell check does
>>> not recognize it.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
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