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I had to go into the sealed silo yesterday to work on it, and yet this morning my wife tells me I stink yet, after a shower last night and changing clothes. If you have ever been in side a sealed silo you would know it is a whole different smell, not good either. LOL Those clothes are probably going to the laundry mat.
 
Tom
I used to be a Firefighter, After a going into a good smokey house fire My hair would smell for a week.
I tried many different shampoo's and it didn't make a difference.

Steve A W

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Tom,

I have a Boston Terrier dog. She tangled with a skunk about a month ago. I have bathed her repeatedly with "Skunk Remover" shampoo, baby shampoo, and some kind of regular shampoo that my wife uses for her hair. She still stinks a little bit until she gets wet. Then she stinks a LOT.

In the past I've tried the tomato juice regimen and the baking soda idea, both with little or no results.

Some stinks just linger.

Tom in TN
 
Thanks for being the one walking in while others are leaving!
Ypop
(uncles are firemen as well)
 
I agree on the hog poop.

Also, this last February, or was it January?, our daughter was going to a Super Bowl party and had a jug of Southern Comfort punch on the front passenger seat. She got into a fender bender and the punch was dumped onto the floor of her car.

She hadn't partaken yet, and no one picked up on it at the scene. Her car was still drivable, so after the formalities she proceeded to the party.

Even after her vacuuming it, several days in a body shop, and two trips to detail shops, it still took a month for the smell of Southern Comfort to disappear.
 
You guys need to skin a sheep that has been out in the sun for 12 hours. NOTHING LIKE IT!!!!! GAG GAG
 
Never done the silo thing. Was a firefighter, know about that. Daughter is pre-vet/animal sciences at MSU and you never know what she is going to smell like at the end of the day. The one question that lingers in my mind is why would ANYONE want to skin a sheep that has been dead 12 hours in the sun? You would have to want a sheepskin pretty badly to do that. I got mine the easy way...6 years in night school.
 
A friend had a college roommate who no one could stand. His parents bought him a car, and somehow a brick of Limburger cheese ended up getting smeared on the manifold and in the heater ducts. Ended up having to sell it, as nothing they did would take the stench away. On a similar note, when I was young we'd bring milk from the farm in gallon jugs to drink at the house. At one point, we had an old station wagon with the rear-facing 3rd row seat and they were usually bought up to the house in the foot well of that seat. One got spilled, and despite our best efforts to get it out, every time you got in the car you'd catch a whiff of sour milk.
 
Boss bought a van at auction years ago. Someone had died in there. Must have been in there for days. The van was completely gutted and re done with parts from a wrecked van, even replaced all the plastic on the sides, dash, etc. Never did get the smell out.
 
Tomcat pee. For those of you unfamiliar with tomcat pee, it's in a league of its own.

Once had a '67 Cutlass; I'd often park it under the carport with the driver window down (smoker). Unbeknownst to me, a neighborhood tomcat considered my car his apartment.

One night a meaner, tougher tomcat did a 'home invasion', and the two cats had it out all over the inside of my car. There was cat pee, crap, blood, fur and slobber everywhere. The pee smell never went away completely. I never enjoyed that car as much again.
 
We have more than our share of buzzards around here, some turkey and others the calf killing grey necks.

During the mating season most road kill is from skunks.

These things will gang up on a 3 or 4 day old road killed skunk like they were going to a wedding dinner.

Mark
 
yup - knew a guy with pigs once that just didn't take care of them - tiny pen and they could barely move because of all the .... and mud piled up.

I felt so bad for them that I went in to shovel them out - regretted that move for several days. As did anybody within a 20 foot radius of me.
 
Place I worked about 25 years ago... The rail tracks went behind the building. Right after I started there a grain car derailed at slow speed. It ripped the hatches open and unloaded the grain for several yards down between the rails. They cleaned it up best they could, even treated it with lime, but that smell of fermenting grain lingered for years!
 
I used to work in a slaughter house where they killed beef cows. I got tapped once to load the rendering truck {gut truck} with barrels of cow guts that had sat in a warm area overnight. I can tell you that after many showers and hair washings I could still smell that foul oder even though my wife said I smelled like soap. Sticks in your mind, I believe. Lost some weight that following week.
 
I second that.

Just out of high school I had a beautiful 86 F150. It was immaculate.

A family friend took in a stray tomcat. After a week, she decided it wasn't working out. For whatever reason, she couldn't just turn it back loose, and couldn't take it to the humane society herself.

I got hooked into going to their house after they had left for the weekend, finding the cat buried in the back of the closet and taking it to the shelter. The first 100yds of the drive went well, after that, everything came unglued.

Tomcat pee, crap, and my some of my blood were all over the interior of my truck and myself. That smell never left that truck, I cleaned for hours, with anything someone said would work. It would be ok until you opened the door on a warm day then, bam, there it was again. Nauseating.

The lady at the shelter wanted me to pay a drop off fee and fill out paperwork. I was so friggen mad at the situation, I walked out the front door, tossed the cat, got in my truck and left. BW
 
Hope you ran a fan or blower for a while to get the silo gas out and make sure the air was breathable. Obviously it was OK or you would'nt be telling us about it.

Stink?

Neighbor bought some fish from a local, street vendor who was a commercial fisherman. Forgot and left the fish in the trunk of his car. About two or three days later they figured it out. This was in the hot summer.

They ended up selling the car cause they could not get the smell out. Dont know who would have bought it.
Gene
 
Second the post about the firefighter smelling of smoke. I was a volunteer for a number of years and SEVERAL showers would be required to get some smoke smells out with car fire smoke being the most persistent. Yes we used full turnout gear back then too.
About 5 years back we had a custom operator that was applying sewage waste (legally!) on farms around here. Guess who got to go out to do their repairs? I had a coat shirt and pants that I considered burning before I got them clean. My wife wouldn't let them in the house, heck I had to do some talking to get in myself. My tools were rank smelling for quite a while as well.
 
Handling little pigs (vaccinating, teeth clipping, etc) the smell is in your hands for at least 24 hrs. Milking cows - the smell of the iodine on your hands and the smell of a dairy barn in general gets in your clothes, your hands, and your vehicle. If you've ever had the pleasure of working on hooves with hoof rot, thats a smell that will stick with you as well.
 
Former employee of mine got in a fight with his wife while they were grocery shopping. One of them busted open a gallon of milk, which leaked out inside of the car. Neither would admit to being the one who caused the problem. So neither would relent and clean it up. One day he drove their car to work. It was raining and in the low 40's and he had all the windows open when he pulled in the driveway. I stuck my head in the open window and liked to gagged. Nasty.
 
There was a 2nd shift worker who hated the maintenance boss. He went in the overhead and removed the air ducting to the bosses office, and took a dump in it, and closed it up again. After a few days it was really ripe. The boss finally found the problem and removed the pile. the stink finally went away. Stan
 
Was a 'classic' joke awhile back about a guy that got a IRS audit notice, must come to office at 0900 morning and wait his turn, all day if needed. 0700 went to neighbors hog farm and borrowed the cleanout clothes, strolled through the farrowing pens in the future IRS office visit boots and went to the IRS office, checked in and sat in waiting room at about number 12 to see seat. Told reception when asked about waiting in car in parking lot- the letter I have on top of file says I MUST wait in office until audited or go to jail, etc- I'm going to obey the letter. 5 minutes later when number 3 is being called in a change call noted-send in number 12. Auditor said can leave the door open- audited one says its supposed to be a private tax audit behind closed doors, shut the door. Auditor does a quick check of file and say's we'll get back to you. Audited one say the letter said decision will be made today at meeting time- I'm willing to wait and can have my lawyer here in 10 minutes as advised if not satisfied with a decision contrary to a 'no more tax needed' decision- written on the letter and the file summary sheet, audit checklist. Mind if I lean back and put my feet up? That audit set the record for the year as fastest audit office visit- and no extra tax collected, subject file noted as 'do not call into office' just take tax returns as is within 50% of occupational average. Guy goes toward home, stops at neighbors place to return clothes, boots and notes his clogged sinus are starting to clear up. Gets out BIG tube of Goop and rubs all over, strolls through lawn sprinkler connected to warm water tap about a hour with couple resoaps. Mild Teasing Alert!- but consider it if ever called in for a tax audit or jury duty interview. RN
 
My dad had repair shop and I worked for him through high school. One of his customers was rendering service, I will never forget that smell.
 
My hat's off to hog farmer housewives. I raised a few Durocs for meat and that smell permeated everything.

Mark
 
As a kid growing up on a dairy farm- Solution with iodine in it, to wash udders. Dip a washrag in it, and scrub. That, combined with cow manure, made a long-lasting odor.
 
The 26 day of July in 1956 was my first day working road maintenance on the Ohio Turn Pike. The skimmer on the plaza's sewage tank had got caught and bent down and back. The skimmer arm was a 8 inch I beam. The day before they had built an A frame type stricter over the top. They had me set on a swing type rig and dropped me down with a big rose bud torch. I spent 10 hours in the tank with it close to 90º outside with a bright sun while the others worked with chain falls pulling it back in shape. My mother gave me all kinds of stuff to put in the bath tub to soak in trying to get the manure smell out of my skin. None seemed to work. It just took time with two hot baths a day. Seemed like it took a month before my wife to be stopped holding her nose when I showed up. Not sure anymore how long it actually took.
 
Try clearing off the top of a concrete stave silo that has been sitting there for 11 months.

We would keep the "little" silo in reserve to feed the cows during corn chopping while the other two were being filled. That meant it would sit for 11 months, and even though it was capped, the top 2-3 feet of material was always this festering rotten moldy slop with dead pigeons and mice that had to be pitched out by hand.

Once you pitched it down the chute, you had to pitch it AGAIN to get it into the gutter.

Stink. Oh my God. You'd stink for days. There wasn't enough hot water and soap in the world to make it go away.

I always said we should fill that silo just one more time and invite Mike Rowe over to help open it up.
 
Thought of another....maybe my brain was trying to supress this one. Helping the vet do an embryotomy (sp?) on a nice July day. That calf had been dead for a week, the cow sure was happy when we were done, the vet and I were barfing in stereo!
 

Wind Song Perfume on high school sweetheart. It still takes me back to her. This last summer a skunk sprayed outside an open basement window in the early AM. It stunk up the whole house so bad that I had to go outside and come back in in order to be able to identify the smell. Chlorine dioxide removed the smell in 24 hours.
 
guy drove his car way up on the powerline right of way and shot himself, they didn't find the car for a few weeks

car was towed to local garage and parked alongside, smell was something to experience, they kept moving the car further and further away

somebody finally bot the car, they handed him the keys and he drove it away
 
I'd forgotten about that. My girlfriend wore Lilac- just heavenly (and so was she)(and she got away).

Fast forward 30 years- DIL wore the same fragrance- That was painful.
 
I worked in rendering plants for 11 years but I can top any rendering plant smell on two occasions. My Mom's roommate was getting bad (dementia/Alzheimer's) one day he slipped out of the house 'cause he figured he needed to get some groceries. Mom finds him and his truck gone and calls the police. They find him driving down US 10 at 70 MPH in a 55 MPH zone, and yes he was going the wrong way. One of the cops responding drives the truck back to Mom's place (this is in August) the roommate ends up in the hospital and then into long term care. In November I'm at Mom's doing some repairs to the garage and fixing a garage door that got messed up So Mom can lock the garage and the weather doesn't get in. This happened to be the weekend that the roommate's daughter came to get her dad's pickup, we found out he made it to the store, bought milk and eggs at the store, been setting in the truck for 3 months.

We had a county motor pool van that was assigned to our HHS branch on summer day one of the clients being transported in the van threw up, the social worker didn't bother to tell anyone about it and parked it in the summer over a weekend with the windows rolled up. Ended up reassigning that vehicle to the job coach, he'd park the darn thing with the windows rolled down. We tried everything form the array of odor counteractants to having the upholstery steam cleaned or water extracted. Two years later the van came up for sale and we sent it out to be detailed (I did that to all county vehicles) the guy that detailed it parked it with an ozone machine in it for a week, that knocked the smell down considerably.
 

I had a rental house years back that the renter moved out while I was out of town. When I returned and went to collect rent the house was unlocked, power off and junk every where. The garage was full of trash however, there was a new chest type freezer. I am thinking - there is part of my back rent.

Well not so - the power company had turned off the power forcing them to leave and the freezer was full of fish from a fishing trip. The smell was enough to make a maggot blow lunch.

I hired a guy to clean out the place. Sure hated to see that new freezer go to the dump - some renters really know how to hurt a guy.
 
Gets stuck in your nose, You will posibly smell it next cold you have. Resmelled smoke from electrical fire in barn for 4-5 years afterwards.
 
I have clothes that get their own load - anything that has been to the hog pens. When it is dry I iust wear my boots, but when it rains I wear my muck boots. They get washed off when I am done and I keep them in the machine shed. They aren't making it anywhere near the house.
 
A few years ago, I was in a local grocery and found several packages of steaks and other meat that had been reduced. I checked out with about three of those highly durable plastic bags that stay tightly closed, (know what I mean?), put them in the front passenger floor and drove home. A few days later I began smelling something unpleasant, sprayed inside of car but smell came back. Found a package of meat that had slid out of bag and slid under passenger seat, and had leaked into carpet. Had to remove passenger seat and scrub carpet repeatedly with carpet cleaner and another cleaner or two, as well as leave car open for a few days. Most of the smell went away, but I am very careful where I place groceries now.
 
Reminds me a of a boxcar load of rotten potatoes that was in the railyard where I worked. Somehow, that car had become lost in a track where it didn't belong and when the smell of dead bodies were reported (hehe), they opened the car to find what was inside. They had to take that boxcar to a side track where a fire hydrant was located and the poor suckers who cleaned it out had to wear face masks with bottled air and dress in haz mat suits.......the stench could be smelled for miles. Spilled grain smells like pure ol' *hit after a good rain and a week of 90F sunshine.....railyards are stinky places.
 
We were on stage one night during a live performance of Orphan Annie with a real dog as "Sandy".
The cast was large, the area to wait silently in the wings at stage side was small. The wing area was hot from costumed bodies and stage lights. Airflow was limited by the surrounding heavy stage curtains.
Somebody must have feeding this stage frightened dog some rancid discount kibble. The dog let slide with a cloud of eye watering, paint peeling , knee buckling flatulence that we could not escape from.
The "hang time" was remarkable as the stench hit us by surprise again like wall of p**p when exiting the stage while singing at the end of the act.
 
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