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!

Pine Sol and I mean a lot of it did NOT keep a young black bear out of our dry dog food that was stored in an out door shed!!!

You can soak Carburetors in it, cleans them very well and doesn't harm O-rings.
Soak 24 hours.

Park Circus was trying to take the Nabesna mine property from Kirk Stanley devaluing its value and saying it was full of toxic mining chemicals Kirk maintained Pine oil was used to separate the gold.

Hope you "invited" it to "dinner"

This...👆

At least, the 11th or 12th trip to Kodiak, utilizing the same protocols to keep bear safe: All deer meat (behind electric fence,) and cooking shelter kept 100 yards from the tent respectively. No food around tent. Honey bucket at 50 yards (downwind) and elevated for viewing pleasure of the usert, allowing to view surrounding area while occupied elsewhere (for bruin watch.) Typical stuff with nary a concern for more than a decade. . .

Last trip 2 years ago. 0430 hours. Hear a plastic container rattle in the distance. Figure a fox had found something. 5 minutes later, the plastic "clunk" of a bucket sounds off close to the tent. Put shoes on, grab the 375 and the 1k lumen light. The boar stands up at 20 yards, displaying a partial leftover of the contents of the honey bucket (that was now laying at it's feet) out of the left side of it's maw. Then, displaying a look of (seemingly!) guilt and humor (both at the same time) on it's face, decided to take Sir John Falstaff's verbiage of "the better part of valor being discretion," and bolted off, never to be seen again on that trip!

It never fails now, that when chatting with one of the 3 other fellows I accompanied on this trip bring it up, the phrase "schist-eating grin" is somehow worked into the conversation each (and every!) time...

I have a theory, wholly unsubstantiated, so probably having the same value as the aforementioned honeybucket....... however, I believe any container that remotely resembles a can of SPAM or hash, etc which said troublemaker has previously encountered will not deter a bear regardless the contents. Sometimes you have to "kiss" a few toads to uncover the next reward. The same may be true of associated odors.

The only time I ever had bad bear experiences where when I didn't bring a very small 2-3oz collection of mothballs. The old guys from the 40s and 50s would pepper them around your living areas and the bears would avoid them. I have used them quite a bit on solo hunts. I got brave and started not to bring them and had two bad bear experiences on one trip.