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Heard this “method” the other day to keep bears from chewing on a wheeler, tent, etc.

Pour pine sol on the ground around the object and bears avoid it.

Color me incredulous.

Well, Herters used to advise circling your tent site with skunk juice to keep the critters out.

Dunno if it worked or not - just figured "not with my kids".

I think you're to drink the Pine Sol and pee around the tent.

I witnessed a guy drink Pine Sol in a suicide attempt to get out of the Army. And we hadn’t hit basic training yet. Still at the reception barracks.

I ended up spending an extra three weeks at reception while they investigated. The kid was some kind of messed up from it and apparently almost got the job done. He took a huge amount before I could stop him.

????

I suspect it depends.

Having seen bears repeatedly bite through metal cans of Blazo, one after another, then two-cycle oil quarts, then starting fluid...all Chevron if that matters..

...and on other occasions seen where they burglarized a cabin, chewed up the Blue-Chem (with formaldehyde for honey buckets), aerosol oven cleaner, spray foam, as well as every other item therein....flour, baking soda, salt, pepper...

Stuff might work often....like a battery power radio often does for long periods of time...weeks...months...until that one bear comes along and breaks "the rule".

???

Moth balls work.

Strikes me that it’d be more of an attractant than repellent.

I don't know about all bears, but when I was having problems ( I think one particular one, particularly with oil cans) like Mark described, I left a couple cans of aerosol bug dope out on top. Fugger(s?) quit trying to bite into everything after the first one.

I heard some guides hang bottles of bleach around their remote hunting camps effectively, also. I've not tried that one.

Now I have a big one sleeping under my cabin overhang - I call him my "watch-bear". He seems to keep the others away, and doesn't bother much- a few claw marks on the logs near the kitchen window, and a crushed propane line there.

Got a splint for that, if we ever get there....

Chit, all I need to do is have a bear tag in my pocket, guaranteed no bears around 😉

Go to Nabesna mine, was told they used pine oil to separate the gold by Kirk Stanley a mining engineer, it reeks of Pinesol!

Pine oil makes bubbles and gold sticks to bubbles

Scrape froth into trough and let bubbles collapse. Filter, melt

Froth floatation.

Works to deter otters from getting onto and crapping all over docks/boats.

I first read "others", not "otters" and was wondering who randomly stopped by your dock to crap in your boat.



As a mixer, I'd rate pine sol very low. Possibly below barbicide even. Although both effectively mask the bad flavor of cheap tequila.

On a bicycle touring forum a guy was riding his bicycle from the US to Nunavut, miles and miles of remote dirt roads through the north woods, he encountered bears most every day, most of which ran or ignored him.

At one point he had stopped to take a leak. A big male black bear walked out of the forest, picked up his bicycle by the attached panniers, walked off some distance and tore into a bag.

Things were looking grim until it bit into a pressurized can of bug spray, the bear immediately took off running.

I had heard that old wives tale also and then one spring was helping clean out an old cabin that had a gallon of Pinesol that had broken and soaked the rug. We threw the rug out the door and were cleaning up the mess when a brown bear happened to walk by and then spend the next 20 minutes rolling around on the pinesol soaked rug and cardboard boxes to get the scent all over his back.

The way those things smell sometimes, he could use the help!

Bear version of Hoppes#9?

Eau du pinesol!

Breeding season? 😂

Will it keep mustelids out of a shed?

On my bucket list!