Oil Your Hogs
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Topic: Oil Your Hogs
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: Oil Your Hogs
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2025 at 11:58pm
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Hog Oilers https://ibb.co/ZpLhzQhs" rel="nofollow">  As Seen at Renfro Valley Appalachian Harvest Festival__2006 There are two in this photo, the three-legged orange one and also the green and red one. These are mounted securely to either a fence or the floor such that they can withstand a big hog laying all his weight against them while using them for a scratching post. The reservoir on top was filled with used engine oil. Note the ridges cast onto the uprights; these ridges induced the hog to scratch his itchy hide against them. The pressure of the hog scratching against the oiler opened a valve that allowed the used oil to run down and coat the scratching surface, thus transferring the used oil onto the hog's hide. It was believed that the used engine oil would kill hog lice on hogs that were already infested and prevent lice on hogs that were not infested. I have seen people that were too stingy to buy a purpose-made oiler use a water-dipper or old can to drizzle used engine oil along a hog's back-bone; I have also seen them use a wide paint-brush to apply the oil on red/raw inflamed-looking patches where the lice had nearly eaten the hog alive. Once he got his itching hide well coated with used engine oil, of course the hog's next stop would be to lie down in the creek that always ran through the hog lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_oiler" rel="nofollow -  Lice used to be a huge problem with school kids; the common consensus was that, if old used oil would kill lice on hogs, it would also kill lice on a kid's head; I have seen more than a few scalped kids get on the school bus with what few hairs that had escaped the Sunbeam mule clippers shiny with oil and their whole head about three shades darker than it was the day before. No matter how bad their heads were itching, girls with a full head of hair would never scratch where anyone could see them, nor ever complain, for fear that those big Sunbeams would be used on them; I have seen more than a few girls with their heads slick as a peeled onion and their faces red with embarrassment. US Hwy 25 - Renfro Valley - Rockcastle County - Kentucky I-75 Exit #62 Saturday_07-October-2006 37° 23' 1.07"N 84° 19' 43.12"W Elevation 928'
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Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 8:17am
Yikes!
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 8:30am
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YEP... that USED engine oil, full of LEAD and CHROME is GREAT STUFF for you skin !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Darwin W. Kurtz
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 11:45am
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I have seen different hog oilers over the years. Mostly the watermelon type ones, including one that was even branded "The Watermelon". Columbian ones from Kansas City were popular and I have seen several. I have seen the ones that were kind of a wheel or a pair of wheels.....one was branded The Sipes Mfg Co and it was somewhere in Kansas. I remember asking someone that had that last name if they were related as they had come from that area, but they didnt know. As for oiling hogs with used crankcase oil, it worked just to brush it on the hogs with a paintbrush.....thought it did wonders as far as taking care of lice on the hogs. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 12:53pm
I found some good reading https://www.agriculture.com/all-hail-the-hog-oiler-8557379" rel="nofollow -
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Darwin W. Kurtz wrote:Posted By: modirt
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 5:14pm
| I vaguely remember dad hosing them down with Malthion from a garden sprayer. As needed. Nothing like the smell of Malthion in the morning. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 5:23pm
It couldn't be any worse than hogs. When I was a kid, everybody, including us, had hogs; the whole world smelled like hogs. All my first fifty years, we ran a public business and had lots of farming customers. The wives of hog farmers smelled strongly of hogs, no matter how many baths they took nor how much Evening in Paris they sprayed on their hide; they just couldn't escape that strong hog smell. Like dairy farmers wives; they smelled strongly of bleach, sour milk, and silage manure; no amount of lipstick, mascara, and eye shadow could hide it.
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 6:14pm
| Smells like Money!! |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 6:25pm
Only to those profiting from it; to everyone else, it smells just like what it is...
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Posted By: jvin248
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 7:27pm
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. Only time we oiled hogs with crank case oil was trying to mix new with old hogs. Didn't work. The old hogs ran the new hogs to exhaustion and killed them. Eventually other splits and mixing was used. But it was a big problem. . |
Posted By: Les Kerf
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2025 at 8:48pm
I milked cows before school and my buddy worked on a hog farm; when we went to high school in town the 'townies' thought we stank so they picked fights with us. They soon learned that weren't a good plan  |
Posted By: allis g
Date Posted: 21 Sep 2025 at 3:24pm
| mom talked about getting hair washed with kerosene to kill lice. |