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Oddly, I see no mention of horse-hoof care in this article. Pine tar is used both to dry an overly-soft hoof, and to seal in moisture. So one horseman said on the mailing list equine-l, some years ago, it won't easily overdry the hoof, as other common products such as iodine and chlorine bleach will do. So in the deep desert, you can consider soaking your horses crumbling feet, then applying the tar to keep them from drying back out quite so quickly.
What I also don't see in this article, and was hoping to find, was the ideal temperature to apply the stuff. I just bought a can of pine tar, and at my house's 60deg F. the stuff is almost as hard as a rock. I'm currently planning on setting the can in boiling water until it loosens (rough guess: it should become applyable with a brush at around 90d) but I don't know if lighter compounds will boil off if I do that, or if I risk otherwise denaturing the stuff.
--Further explanation this makes no sense-- this is on the page "Other Uses of "Pine tar"
Pine Tar also is the name of the renowned show horse kept by Cordo Carraher of Oxford, Maryland. On March 25, 2006, Pine Tar broke through his electric fence subjecting himself to previously unforseen danger." i'm guessing that the horse is still lost? why is the horse renowned? "previously unforseen danger" c'mon thats overdramatic and obtuse.
This lengthy baseball trivia doesn't really belong on this page - could someone remove it to a more suitable location? (or just delete it, I'm not convinced it is notable) - MPF 01:43, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Pine tar, especially now, is a huge topic in baseball. I believe it should be kept in.
Uh, does anyone know _why_ pine tar is used to cheat when pitching? How exactly does it help the pitcher??
I've added some other uses, including furniture preservative, soap, and horse care. I also added a link to an article about the history of Scandinavian pine tar production. -- Cosmoline 06:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I think the whole discussion on pine tar in baseball should be on a separate page from the info on general and historical uses of pine tar. Someone (a vandal?) recently cut out much of the baseball/pine tar stuff. I did not return it yet because I frankly think the article is better without it, but certainly some baseball fans will disagree. Could someone take the initiative and create a page for pine tar uses in baseball? Ekotekk 07:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with the suggestion of merging "tar" with "pine tar". Suggest instead distinguishing between "mineral tar" and "pine tar" (or perhaps more generally "plant tar", although I am not familiar with any other plant tars beside pine tar). It is increasingly important to distinguish between renewable resources (e.g. pine tar) and non-renewable resources (e.g. mineral tar). They are not the same material. Ekotekk 17:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't find any information that verifies that one company had a monopoly on the production of tar in Sweden, a claim that sounds very improbable anyway. Indeed, there was a company who had a monopoly on the export of tar from 1648 to 1715. See [1] for more details (in Swedish). Thuresson ( talk) 22:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Expert needed for information on composition. The description given is very ambiguous. 71.203.125.108 ( talk) 13:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
At which temperatures is pine tar solid, gooey, liquid? Thanks. Maikel ( talk) 12:30, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
All the (citation needed) in this section are from a link on lookchem.com, which is a blacklisted site. Any suggestions to fix this for an anonymous user? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.89.139.37 ( talk) 18:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
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Oddly, I see no mention of horse-hoof care in this article. Pine tar is used both to dry an overly-soft hoof, and to seal in moisture. So one horseman said on the mailing list equine-l, some years ago, it won't easily overdry the hoof, as other common products such as iodine and chlorine bleach will do. So in the deep desert, you can consider soaking your horses crumbling feet, then applying the tar to keep them from drying back out quite so quickly.
What I also don't see in this article, and was hoping to find, was the ideal temperature to apply the stuff. I just bought a can of pine tar, and at my house's 60deg F. the stuff is almost as hard as a rock. I'm currently planning on setting the can in boiling water until it loosens (rough guess: it should become applyable with a brush at around 90d) but I don't know if lighter compounds will boil off if I do that, or if I risk otherwise denaturing the stuff.
--Further explanation this makes no sense-- this is on the page "Other Uses of "Pine tar"
Pine Tar also is the name of the renowned show horse kept by Cordo Carraher of Oxford, Maryland. On March 25, 2006, Pine Tar broke through his electric fence subjecting himself to previously unforseen danger." i'm guessing that the horse is still lost? why is the horse renowned? "previously unforseen danger" c'mon thats overdramatic and obtuse.
This lengthy baseball trivia doesn't really belong on this page - could someone remove it to a more suitable location? (or just delete it, I'm not convinced it is notable) - MPF 01:43, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Pine tar, especially now, is a huge topic in baseball. I believe it should be kept in.
Uh, does anyone know _why_ pine tar is used to cheat when pitching? How exactly does it help the pitcher??
I've added some other uses, including furniture preservative, soap, and horse care. I also added a link to an article about the history of Scandinavian pine tar production. -- Cosmoline 06:57, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I think the whole discussion on pine tar in baseball should be on a separate page from the info on general and historical uses of pine tar. Someone (a vandal?) recently cut out much of the baseball/pine tar stuff. I did not return it yet because I frankly think the article is better without it, but certainly some baseball fans will disagree. Could someone take the initiative and create a page for pine tar uses in baseball? Ekotekk 07:14, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with the suggestion of merging "tar" with "pine tar". Suggest instead distinguishing between "mineral tar" and "pine tar" (or perhaps more generally "plant tar", although I am not familiar with any other plant tars beside pine tar). It is increasingly important to distinguish between renewable resources (e.g. pine tar) and non-renewable resources (e.g. mineral tar). They are not the same material. Ekotekk 17:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I can't find any information that verifies that one company had a monopoly on the production of tar in Sweden, a claim that sounds very improbable anyway. Indeed, there was a company who had a monopoly on the export of tar from 1648 to 1715. See [1] for more details (in Swedish). Thuresson ( talk) 22:33, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Expert needed for information on composition. The description given is very ambiguous. 71.203.125.108 ( talk) 13:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
At which temperatures is pine tar solid, gooey, liquid? Thanks. Maikel ( talk) 12:30, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
All the (citation needed) in this section are from a link on lookchem.com, which is a blacklisted site. Any suggestions to fix this for an anonymous user? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.89.139.37 ( talk) 18:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)