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 The Bird Lady
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Location: The end of the Earth, SE AR | I have a saddle that got left in the trailer for months and its now covered with green mold, especially on the stirrups.
How do I clean the leather and kill the mold without hurting the leather?
Would I use vinegar?
Or do I just clean with a good leather cleaner or neatsfoot oil and not worry about the mold coming back if I take care of it like I should?
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Location: Texas | Mine did the same...took one to the saddle maker and had cleaned (hubbys..lol) I took some Lexol saddle soap/cleaner and really washed my other 2 saddles..let them dry and then oiled with Neatsfoot oil heavily over and over....worked wonders..
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | rollingrfarm - 2014-08-30 8:43 AM I have a saddle that got left in the trailer for months and its now covered with green mold, especially on the stirrups.
How do I clean the leather and kill the mold without hurting the leather?
Would I use vinegar?
Or do I just clean with a good leather cleaner or neatsfoot oil and not worry about the mold coming back if I take care of it like I should?
Sounds like it was damp in the tack room, If it was mine I would saddle soap it real good and let it air out really good for a few days, then oil/condition it with a good leather condition like Blackrock or someting else besides neatsfoot, I dont really care for neatsfood oil. You can go to Caldwell saddlery's web site and they have good saddle condition there.  |
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Location: Montana | I have this happen a lot being from the Willamete Valley, I wipe off the mold, clean it with a good saddle soap like lexol then oil it once a day for the next five days while it's in the house so it can really set in. I normally oil all of mine the first week we have the pellet stove running, so they can sit in front of it to dry. I like to use the Brick leather conditioner on them as well once the oil has set. |
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Veteran
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| sponge off with vinagar and water.The vinager will kill the mold. |
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Location: Sunny California | I bought a used saddle that didn't have any visable mold, but boy did it smell musty/moldy. I bought a brand of leather wash and conditioner called Leather Therapy from Tractor Supply. It worked wonders! |
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Sock Snob
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| I use a body wash and warm water as body wash clean and not take oil out. Take an old tooth bush and get thr cracks and and nice washcloth and scrub and change water often. Then put some blackrock on it after it dries. Take a wire brush and get the roughout done in fact do,that first then clean saddle. Bodywash or ivory soap a real mild soap. I had a pleasue saddle made light oil they told me ivory soap that is before body wash. But change water often and then wipe down i usually put my blackrock in microwave and soften it then take my gloves and clean cotton rag and put a thin coat of blakrock on it will leave a good finish. The new saddle that i had made that saddle maker said used olice oil. |
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Elite Veteran
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| All of my tack went through a tornado and got rained on. We gathered it up and hung it to dry but it got mold on it. I mixed up a bottle of 1/4 bleach and 3/4 water. Sprayed the whole affected area with the bleach mix. Cleaned with Murphy's oil soap then used a good conditioner.
If you have a suede or colored seat you might test this mixture first or use color safe bleach.
Edited by playinwithfire 2014-08-31 6:51 PM
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Expert
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Location: East Texas | Orange cleaner that comes in a spray bottle. The cheap kind at Dollar General works just fine. I learned that from a saddle maker. |
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