Month: August 2011

Making your own laundry detergent is easier than you think. Some people make their own to save money, some to protect their family from dyes and perfumes. Whatever your reason for making your own, Rural King makes it easy for you by carrying all the products you need.

Ingredients

• 1/3 Bar of Fels Naptha laundry Bar Soap (grated)
• 1/2 Cup of 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster
• 1/2 Cup Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
• 1 Rural King 5 Gallon Bucket with lid

Directions

Mix Grated Fels Naptha Soap with 6 cups of water in sauce pan, heat until soap melts.
Add washing Soda and Borax to Sauce Pan Mix. Mix Well until Washing Soda and Borax Dissolve
Pour 4 Cups of Hot Water into Bucket and add mixture from sauce pan.
Add another 1 gallon 6 cups of water and stir well.
Allow 24 hours for soap to gel.

Use 1/2 a cup of soap per load, recipe produces approximately 50 loads

*We recommend using a dedicated sauce pan for this recipe. Keep soap and ingredients out of reach of children and keep bucket sealed when soap is not in use. A double recipe may be produced with the Rural King 5 gallon Bucket.

Have you ever gotten your ATV in a place that you’re not quite sure how to get out of? Then this could be of some help. There’s nothing worse than being in the middle of the woods, tracking for the “sweet spot”, and all of a sudden, you’re up to your axles in mud. Well, if you have a winch like the Grip Tools 3,000 lb. 12 volt electric ATV winch from Rural King Supply, then all of your worries will be a thing of the past. You can also use it to get that perfect kill out of a precarious location.

Here are some tips on how to winch properly…

1. Inspect your cable for frays or kinks before going on your trip.
2. Always wear gloves while winching.
3. Make sure you have anchor points (usually tow hooks) front and rear of your rig.
4. Make your you have a tree strap, some ‘D’ shackles of size, short length of 3/8 chain and a good pulley block rated at twice the capacity of the winch.
5. If you are winching another rig out you should anchor your rig to something like another rig , or a tree or a special made winch anchor.
6. Put a heavy coat, towel or blanket over the cable while winching.
7. After the trip, or when you put on a new cable, or when you buy a new winch you will need to rewind the cable.
8. Let out the cable while on flat ground and run it to an anchor point.
9. Winch your rig to that anchor point making sure the are no gaps between the cable as it winds up.

Remember:

1. Always use a tree strap to get an anchor to a tree and not your cable. Cable cut into the tree and will kill it in the long run.
2. The heavy blanket or what ever you use on the cable while winching helps the cable to go toward the ground instead of up where it could hurt or kill someone.
3. Remember winching can be dangerous.