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Michael Soldan

04-18-2006 19:57:25

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Welp, I wear a hat everyday and they are ball cap types, some from machinery dealers, some from businesses, seed companies , mills, and a few sports caps from our local hockey club. My problem is grease, sweat,paint, manure dirt, dust, cobwebs ad infinitum...all the stuff around a farm that tends to ruin a hat in appearance and sanitary condition so I wash them periodically. I usually do a batch of 4 or5, I put them in the laundry tub, fill with real warm water and I take a scrub brush and some Tide, I scrub the peaks, the top of the hat and the sweat band, rinse in clean water and let them drip a while. Then I bunch up newspaper into a ball about the right size to fill the hat and fit the paper until the hat looks the right shape, then set out on the patio to dry. When the outside looks dry I remove the paper wad and let the hat dry completely.I got two Nascar hats, a Taylor Tree Removal Service and a hat Mitch The Farmall kid gave me drying now. About two weeks is all I can stand for a hat before cleaning it again, worse in haying season when you sweat more, sometimes a day is long enough. A friend of mine says he got a rack that your hats fit on and you can put them in the dish washer to clean them, anybody got a method they like for their hats? ,,, Mike in Exeter Ontario

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Tallperson

04-20-2006 14:04:15

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

Peabody there is an outfit here in Colorado called Greeley hatworks in Greeley colorado. They do customs and refurbishment of any good felt hat. I believe they have a website. It is hard to believe that there isn't anyone down south taking care of good felt hats. I wear my western felt hats except if the wind is doing 50+ or I am mechanicing on equipment... I have a good straw lid when it is really hot.. Then a bandana soaked in water goes in the crown.. Turns my head into a swamp cooler. Tallperson

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Hugh MacKay

04-19-2006 17:52:21

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

Michael: Some hats wash well and others don't, and the one's that don't you may as well put in the garbage. I don't think all the special treatment going will help.

My big concern is how well does that screened secion at back keep the sun's rays off my bald head. Precisely why I wear my Oliver hat. Very best hat I have for screening out the sun. My Farmall hat is not worth a damn, and IH hat very little better.

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Farmallkid From Ont,

04-19-2006 11:34:01

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I have washed a couple in the washing machine but they go funny and get smaller, i think i will try the sink method next time. Those MFA hats are collectors now, dad dont work there now, A feed company come lookin for him to sell dairy premix, so now he is dealin with cows again, he"s pretty happy. BSC Animal Nutrition is the name, they are out of ST.MARY"S. I have alot of hats, maybe 100. I got alot from my grandpa, he had over 1000, that he collected over the years, plus i buy a couple once and awile, once i get a good hat dirty, i have to find a new good hat, heck if i was aloud i"d were a hat to church. Everyone says my hair will fall out if i keep wearing hats all the time, i just tell them it"s a load of crap!

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scotty

04-19-2006 09:29:50

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

Hi Mike, Some of my treasured hats :")

The hat on the left is s great hat, cant you tell by the grease stains :"(

scotty

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P Backus

04-19-2006 08:11:48

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

Mine get pretty durn raunchy before I do anything- I haven"t cared about being "fashionable" for a looong time.
When I do wash them, I"ve been doing it by hand in warm water in the sink. They last much longer than using the other methods metioned. I have used the clothes washer, but they get beat up pretty bad. I don"t like having them in the dishwasher, because I don"t like the idea of that nasty crud from my hat getting sprayed all over the dishes as the cycle continues. I don"t want to run a dedicated cycle just for one or two hats.
Only takes a few minutes in the sink.....
Paul

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banjo

04-19-2006 05:08:42

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I use the dishwasher also. It's hard to get free hats around here also. Just 1 feed store in town. Have to travel 50 miles to do my other shopping,greese,oil,tires,shop supplies,etc.

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williamf

04-19-2006 04:40:12

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I wear bucket style hats instead of ball caps. I like the brim to keep the sun off my neck and ears, and in the rain they do a lot more good than caps. Heavy dark ones in the winter, light in the summer. Most of them handle the washer/dryer fine. If I've got a long job in the sun in summer I wear a wide brim straw hat. Those I just wear until they start to fall apart. Sometimes until they finish.
Wm

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Farmer Bob

04-18-2006 21:43:20

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

Do mine up in the wash machine on Gentle cycle. after final spin out,while wet, I form it over the bottom of a three pound coffee can and wrap a fairly sturdy rubber band around the bill to make it rounded instead of flat. When I get it all in place, I tighten that plastic adjusting strap in the back as tight as I can and let them dry. This works good for either summer or winter weight hats, either mesh backs or solid material. The better quality ball caps always last through many more washes than the cheap ones.

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WyoDave

04-18-2006 21:29:29

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I must be one scruddy guy. I've never washed one. I just wear one for about 6 months everyday, all day, and then throw it away. I have bags full of free hats, so I'm not afraid of running out.
David

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Peabody

04-18-2006 20:11:43

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I've always used the top rack of the dishwasher, and the caps hold their shape MUCH better than in the washing machine that makes them come out looking like dunce caps. My problem is with a couple of fedoras I really like. They need cleaning and blocking, but I don't think anybody in the State of Alabama (or the southeast US, for that matter) does this anymore.

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Broomstacker

04-18-2006 20:09:55

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I've got a plastic cage that opens up, you trap the hat in the right shape, lock it, put in the washer. Take it out, leave it in the rack to dry. Trouble is, I don't remember where I got it.....

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the tractor vet

04-18-2006 20:06:21

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to Michael Soldan, 04-18-2006 19:57:25

I have a bunch of hats also and i have about three or four that i wear for work and a couple for good and a unch of summer and winter hats that fill 4 cardboard boxes the work hats just get throwen in the washer when they start walken across the floor and the wife throws then in the dryer on a lower setting as one time she melted the adjustable straps on a couple of my favorts was not a happy camper . And nowa days people are not handing hats out like they use to.

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gtg155v

04-19-2006 08:02:50

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to the tractor vet , 04-18-2006 20:06:21

You should go work for John Deere. They gave me a hat when they came to give an ASME presentation a year ago. They threw up a picture of a combine in the middle of a bean field and the guy asks "what�s it doing?"... someone in the back said "planting corn" after a few more similar answers I couldn�t take listening to the "educated" refined city folk give wrong answers so I spoke up and got a hat. So then I go and get a job with them and about a week or so after I accept the offer a nice new hat shows up on my doorstep. Pretty good deal if you ask me.

I also looked up the link for the hat dishwashere cage- Link

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the tractor vet

04-19-2006 08:24:12

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Re: All of Your Hats in reply to gtg155v, 04-19-2006 08:02:50

Well i don't like this to get out but i do have one John Deere hat and it is hidden it was part of a prize from a tractor pull it is along side to the Cheve hat and Tee shirt that was give to me for helping out at a big tractor pull when i sent up two of my tractors to be used during the pull . The Tee shirt was way to big to fit and wearing a chebby hat and shirt around my friends would make good target pratice . And as for the hat rack for the dishwasher i thing she would get real mad over that.

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