Do you Sterilise: your tools?

[Will Hinchliffe]

Which tools do you sterilise and how?

 

After talking to the Lady on the Central science lab stand at the AA show I have decided to sterilise my tools more often especially before working on healthy horse chestnuts. Im going for a 10% milton solution for sterilising silkys, secateurs and chainsaws. Dont think il be sterilising the chipper but we should be.

 

Should we be moving chip from Horse chestnuts around? or Burning on site?

[MasterBlaster]

Why sterilize a chipper?

[Jamie]

why not

 

Jamie

[MasterBlaster]

Unnecessary extra work?

[kevwrenn]

If only I had an unsterilized chipper, i could breed from it and produce lots of baby chippers to sell!!

[Will Hinchliffe]

Sterilise the tools and chipper (unlikly) so that you don't turn up to a clients healthy Horse chestnut covered in the bacteria that causes Bleedinng canker.

[Andy Collins]

Personally I think all tools should be inspected and cleaned properly before and after use, after all we dont want to spread infection

[Amelanchier]

Good idea but I have to say, good luck sterilising a chainsaw.

[Peter]

I say 20 minutes in boiling water!

[Andy Collins]

Aside from tools, how about when your pricing, walking around looking at the large fungus around the bottom of the beech, "tut tut" to the customer, give a price for removal, hop back in your vehicle and drive off to look at the next job, taking with you fungal spores on your boots? Or is that Job Creation?