sterilizing equipment

[Farmer Ferd]

I do a lot of take downs on diseased trees. What should I do about sterilizing my equipment after in order not to spread it to heathy ones I am pruning?

 

[woodville]

What disease are you talking about? Most disease can't survive a chlorox bleach solution.

 

[Farmer Ferd]

Mostly bacterial leaf scorch in oaks. Is clorox bleach good to put on my blades, bars and sprockets? it is highly corrosive.

 

[Stumper]

Clorox santizes but it is corrosive. Alcohol will sanitize without the corrosive qualities , Hydrogen peroxide doesn't seem nearly as corrosive as sodium hypochlorite(clorox).Personally I use Lysol aerosol sprays and the copycat products-they contain both alcohol and ammonium chloride compounds-Not a corrosion problem but decent sanitation and the spray tends to cut some sappy deposits on handsaw blades.