tool tip...

[growalot]

I have rakes with fiberglass poles...Wear gloves using older ones! I was raking moss off a new plot areas yesterday...I have a thing about gloves...just have a hard time wearing them even in cold weather , but especially while working...Well I'm raking away for quite a while when all of a sudden both hands are in  quite a bit of discomfort and then out and out pain. Well that older fiberglass handle had given off minute slivers and in bedded them into the palms and fingers of both hands.  I might as well have been rubbing fiberglass insulation between my hands....I'm hoping in a day or two they'll recover...for now it's very irritating... so there's a heads up tip...

[Jeremy K]

O ya ,lots of hot water and a scrub pad is in your future.

[growalot]

Epsom salts....

[growalot]

in bedded? lol .......embedded

[Lawdwaz]

I've gotten those slivers from the "bows" that support the canvas on my boat.  Hurt like a sumbiotch and ya can't see 'em!!

 

[coonhunter]

If you can still feel them pricking , get your hands softened up doing a batch of dishes or taking a bath. Then take some good tape and pat it on the affected area. It is not 100%, but it sure does help.

[dbHunterNY]

yea as a farm boy we used lots of temporary fencing with fiberglass "posts", wiring, and insulators.  i've spent hours handling them.  basically grab hold with each hand and push the end down into the dirt without hitting a rock.  you'll get in a hurry every now and then skipping putting on gloves.  it's a bad idea.  tape and other stuff helped, because you can't see it to pull it or cut it out like a normal sliver.  eventually they worked out and you were at ease.  co-workers on the farm got sold off and eaten i'd imagine so no need for fence anymore.

[growalot]

Not sure what the point of my correction " like" was buckmaster...Though that's not fully true...You should see the ones I catch before sending...such as guilted, the  Kindle replaced it with , was violated. Here's the dumbest thing even the computers spell check does not recognize the word guilted, It has a red squiggly line under it.It is an old English term and one found in literature. The Kindle  is fond of composing whole sentences when it doesn't like a single word. I won't bother posting the Urban nor Dictionary.com source  They are mostly deemed irrelevant on this site. Here is a fine literary example of it.  A read I recommend.

Quote

The study and meaning of public apologies that have become frequent in the contemporary world

A Guilted Age

Apologies for the Past

Search the full text of this book

Ashraf H. A. Rushdy

"A Guilted Age exhaustively researched, analyzing texts and arguments from numerous disciplines—philosophy, politics, history, and religion—with sensitivity and insight. Rushdy writes beautifully and with a strong and confident authorial voice. His argument concerning the differences between apologizing and mourning is especially intriguing. This is a learned and humane work."
—Brian Weiner, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco and author of Sins of the Parents: The Politics of National Apologies in the United States

Public apologies have become increasingly common scenes and representative moments in what appears to be a global process of forgiveness. The apology-forgiveness dynamic is familiar to all of us, but what do these rituals of atonement mean when they are applied to political and historical events?

In his timely, topical, and incisive book A Guilted Age, Ashraf Rushdy argues that the proliferation of apologies by politicians, nations, and churches for past events—such as American slavery or the Holocaust—can be understood as a historical phenomenon. In our post–World War II world, Rushdy claims that we live in a “guilted age.”

A Guilted Age identifies the two major forms of apologies—political and historical—and Rushdy defines the dynamics and strategies of each, showing how the evolution of one led to the other. In doing so, he reveals what apology and forgiveness do to the past events they respectively apologize for and forgive—and what happens when they fail.

 

Edited March 29, 2017 by growalot

[landtracdeerhunter]

Fiberglass hammer and ax handles can also become a problem.  use nothing but hickory.