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De-scenting containers-dumb ? #6627778
09/28/19 07:43 PM
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Sorry for the stupid question. Been trying to de scent kitty litter bottles in order to carry my waxed dirt in. So far I’ve rinsed them 100 times filled with mud and let sit, repeated with muddy water, rinsed and soaked in baking soda. Rinse and soaked in oxy clean. I’m beginning to think I’m doomed and they will always smell like cat litter. Any ideas

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6627779
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Mind you this process is 3 months old hahaha

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6627795
09/28/19 07:57 PM
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Buy some new buckets and wash them out well and let air outside, no reason to do that work and then ruin it. Save them kitty litter buckets for storage.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6627809
09/28/19 08:15 PM
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Law dog,it’s the containers that are almost like a 5 quart oil container. Have a nice handle screw on lid. Was gonna tie a rope around it and carry over my shoulder.

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6627814
09/28/19 08:19 PM
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I doubt you will be able to get them descented. Some of those cover up scents seem to really get into the plastic and never wash out. Maybe time and sunlight might break them down...probably about the time the sunlight breaks down the plastic and makes it all useless. If i wanted a scent free container i would start with one new that has never had scents in it.


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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: Law Dog] #6628024
09/28/19 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Law Dog
Buy some new buckets and wash them out well and let air outside, no reason to do that work and then ruin it. Save them kitty litter buckets for storage.

This!

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628025
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I've actually wondered if coyote could smell my old plastic tool boxes my traps n coal shale and were in

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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628028
09/28/19 11:54 PM
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I like the shorter buckets 3 gallon size for tossing around in the truck, in cat country I store them with dirt and supplies ahead of time when the weather is still good enough to get around. The square buckets are sweet also like the ones rat poison bags come in.


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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628032
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Look for vegetable oil containers or even some pesticides come in those 3 gallon jugs. Those are what I use! Fill with water in the summer then sit in the sun a few months. Then let them air dry in the sun a few days. Ive never been abel to truly ever remove the scent from kitty litter jugs. Save them for jugging cat fish


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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628038
09/29/19 12:01 AM
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They do make packets of a chemical flush for containers that need to be flushed out maybe check with the local pesticide/herbicide dealer of how well that works. Also consider the smell that will leave.


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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628043
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To remove plastic odor in tool boxes or containers?

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: Tactical.20] #6628044
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Originally Posted by Tactical.20
To remove plastic odor in tool boxes or containers?


Containers


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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6628988
09/30/19 04:58 AM
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Fill with peat moss for a month or so, Then dump peat mass out. it will smell like peat moss forever after that.

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: Law Dog] #6629005
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Originally Posted by Law Dog
Buy some new buckets and wash them out well and let air outside, no reason to do that work and then ruin it. Save them kitty litter buckets for storage.



Good advice



Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629032
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I use bleach and water on everything around here, trapping related and otherwise... seems to kill original odors and dissipate over time pretty well.
3/4 gallon for $1 @ Dollar Tree...

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629043
09/30/19 07:40 AM
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I use the kitty litter jugs a lot for storage and daily use since they are handy. They pack in the truck and ATV boxes nicely and not too heavy to tote around. I tie rope on the handles to sling them over my shoulder to carry them hands free. I use them all the time for walk in sets for cat trapping.

I found my solution to the odor problem was to fill the jugs with dirt, grass clippings and some grated dry cow patties all mixed up together and let sit for a while. Dirt will cleanse a lot of odor while the grass and cow dung makes the plastic more natural smelling. There are cattle around most all the areas that I trap so it is a common occurring odor.

Once they smell clean again to my determination I rinse and let dry. I fill them with dry peat, dry dirt, mixed dirt , dry grass clippings and waxed dirt then label them as such. Been doing this for many years works well for me. Dirt is a great cleanser as is dung, grass and are other natural ingredients.

When I had rabbits I saved the droppings and used to mix the pellets with dirt and dry grass clippings to deodorize my other dirt and peat storage containers and trap packers. Leave enough room in the containers to allow you to shake them periodically. This helps to keep the odor saturated dirt media moved around and replaced by clean material contacting the plastic.

I have always layered by traps in fine hay chaff/dry grass when storing my traps and helps keep the moisture and foreign odor down while in storage.

It took me many years of experimenting to learn the positive effects of my methods.

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629271
09/30/19 12:55 PM
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A few years back I used kitty liter buckets …. I just wash them out with a little Dawn dish soap and hot water. Then rinsed them out, set them in the sun to dry. I then filled them with sifted dry dirt, put the lid on them and waited a couple months until season opened, carried them to the field and set my traps. I caught every thing is the sets including fox, yotes, coon and possums. never had a problem with them. One thing I didn't do was to smell them after I washed and rinsed them. I don't know if the had any scent or not. Just sift your waxed dirt over your trap and sift a but of site dirt on top of that. They will probably never notice a difference.

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Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629292
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I have never in 7 decades seen anything plastic that did not stink. Plastic will always have an odor, always. You have not either.
Important question for all you who know, does a coyote or bobcat or even a 'possum know what plastic is and what it smells like?

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629369
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100% agree tjm. Anything plastic has a odor. I doubt all them lure makers are smelling there plastic containers making sure there scent free before throwing bait/lure in them.

Re: De-scenting containers-dumb ? [Re: PARick] #6629373
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Mix up a batch of the de-skunking formula (hydrogen peroxide, dawn, etc)
Dump it in your bucket about 1/4 full (don't fill, this is important for oxygenation)
Swish it around good... make lots of foam
Let sit overnight
Swish around, let sit overnight
dump out the liquid and fill with dirt, put in sun for a few hours
empty the container and give it the sniff test.


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