Powered "Boot Wash"

Powered "Boot Wash" FARM HOME Miscellaneous 26-4-2 Need help cleaning dirty boots? Then have a look at Gene's Clean Machine, a new powered "boot wash." Made from heavy-duty poly, the unit is fitted with 16 water jets - 8 on each side - and two overhanging shields. It measures 10 in. wide and deep and 10 3/4 in. high. It runs off a garden hose. To clean your boots you simply stick them one at a time into the jets. It takes only about four seconds for the jets, which spray the boots from four directions, to clean the boots. There's a small drain hole in a pipe at the bottom of the unit for draining water out of the unit in freezing weather. "It has a lot of pressure and does a great job cleaning," says inventor Gene Himelick. "Eight of the jets shoot upward at a 25-degree angle, and the other eight go down at a 25-degree angle so it covers the entire boot. I got the idea after some neighbor kids took care of our 4-H calves and used our boots whenever they went into the barn. The boots got extremely dirty. We tried using a hand brush and two fixed brushes and water to get the bottoms of the boots clean, but couldn't." Sells for $49.95 including S&H. Also available is a larger unit for hog producers that dispenses disinfectant with the water. It measures 10 1/2 in. wide and deep by 30 in. high. Disinfectant is sucked out of a 1-gal. jug that sets on top of the unit and is tapped into the water line. A ball valve is used to control the boot washer and a quarter turn valve to control the disinfectant. The unit has 15 choices of metering tips with a range of .3 oz./gal. to 8.1 oz/gal. Sells for $195. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Gene Himelick, Gene's Clean Machine, 10986 Taylor Road, Economy, Ind. 47339 (ph 765 886-5661; fax 765 886-5259; E-mail: glhimelick@aol.com).

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