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Post by nextofkin on Sept 2, 2013 15:51:58 GMT -6
I have been meaning to ask this for a while.
We have noticed that when we walk through the grass in our yard and the neighbors that we have an orange residue/dust/powder on our shoes and that the push mower we use that isn't washed after every use has the same thing all over it. It almost seems as the push mower is rusting very bad.
The only thing that both our yards have in common is that they are both treated by S.ing Green and we contacted them and they said they never had any such problem with this type of accurance anywhere else and that all there chemicals are safe. (I AM SURE LOL)
What I was wondering is if anyone else has had their lawn treated or not and has noticed anything like what I have mentioned on there shoe's/feet or lawn mower.
This has been going on for two years and just wondering if this is happening elsewhere.
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Post by father of two on Sept 2, 2013 16:52:47 GMT -6
Could it be from the railroad cars?
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Post by beachbum on Sept 2, 2013 16:53:47 GMT -6
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Post by Blue Star on Sept 2, 2013 18:04:45 GMT -6
I have been meaning to ask this for a while. We have noticed that when we walk through the grass in our yard and the neighbors that we have an orange residue/dust/powder on our shoes and that the push mower we use that isn't washed after every use has the same thing all over it. It almost seems as the push mower is rusting very bad. The only thing that both our yards have in common is that they are both treated by S.ing Green and we contacted them and they said they never had any such problem with this type of accurance anywhere else and that all there chemicals are safe. (I AM SURE LOL) What I was wondering is if anyone else has had their lawn treated or not and has noticed anything like what I have mentioned on there shoe's/feet or lawn mower. This has been going on for two years and just wondering if this is happening elsewhere. Google IS your fiend! lol www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/expert/Rust_in_turf.html |
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Post by dive61364 on Sept 2, 2013 18:28:27 GMT -6
if you look it up for him then you're his friend blue lol
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Post by ~MnM~ on Sept 2, 2013 19:16:23 GMT -6
Yep...my daughter lil M informed me that it was a fungus, and not uncommon. Anyone ever watch the show "Joe Rogan Questions Everything"? Now, that show can make one think about "strange" things...................... Oiy! M  |
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Post by Blue Star on Sept 2, 2013 19:24:06 GMT -6
I would think w/what Spring Green charges, they would include some kind of anti-fungal stuff in that spray!
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Post by ~MnM~ on Sept 2, 2013 19:27:56 GMT -6
OH GOD, avoid that SPRING GREEN crap, seriously! A neighbor of mine had that service and went to put some of her porch house plants out off of her porch after a rain down by where they'd sprayed, and literally burned her FEET because of! M  |
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Post by nextofkin on Sept 3, 2013 4:13:45 GMT -6
Thanks Everyone.
Have a good day
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Post by super on Sept 3, 2013 7:36:49 GMT -6
too much iron NOK  |
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Post by No Alter Ego here on Sept 3, 2013 15:26:32 GMT -6
Thanks for an actual worthwhile question! I deliver 225 papers a day and I notice this "orange gunk" (as I cal it!) after walking through certain yards as well. I asked someone and he suggested, because my tennis shoes were fairly new, that it may be because of the "tanning process" they use in making of leather shoes. That explanation seemed reasonable enough to me, so I stopped thinking about it, until you posted that it was on your mower as well. So thanks! And thanks to BlueStar (and someone else, I think) for posting the answer. Nice to come on SO and read something other than a Kyle bashing, for once.
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Post by focus on Sept 3, 2013 16:20:46 GMT -6
Possibly the lawn was over fertilized. I did this one year. My shoes were orange as well.
It took the whole year to run it's course. It is best not to fertilize your yard in the summer
with no rain.
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Post by chevypower on Sept 3, 2013 22:56:05 GMT -6
When I checked my air filter I noticed orange powder in there also....... Id say fertilizer from crop dusters..... a build up maybe.
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Post by helencrump on Sept 4, 2013 13:35:17 GMT -6
Beachbum posteded a link explaining it, then blue followed up with another affirming the info, cp. It explains it all for you.
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Post by chevypower on Sept 4, 2013 23:37:42 GMT -6
Beachbum posteded a link explaining it, then blue followed up with another affirming the info, cp. It explains it all for you. There also maybe other reasons to helen,, I had a pile build up in my air filter (meaning a lot) so I'm sure the chemicals are from other things too...... I don't need too google common sense, do you? are you a french model? lol |
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