On Friday, June 28, 2013 5:19:26 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On 28 Jun 2013 16:20:54 GMT, KenK wrote:



I live in the southwest desert and am having a cactus problem.



I have a very large 9 - 10 foot cactus in my yard - prickly pear I think it

is, the one with the rosy red large edible buds - which lost about half the

plant through a breakoff.



Anyway, I'm slowly cleaning up the corpse. This variety of cactus has very

fine thorns, like fur, but very very irritating. I hate to use good fabric

gloves to handle the pieces for fear the thorns will probably imbed

themselves and make the gloves unusable for anything else. True? I think

the thorns will go right through latex gloves. Any convenient way to handle

the large pieces other than piercing and moving them with a big knife or

screwdriver? Not very convenient.



Next question - a way to get the thorns out of my skin? They are so small

they are almost invisible to my aging eyes to get out with tweezers.



TIA

Search for COWHIDE LEATHER PALM GLOVES HEAVY DUTY. Home Depot, Lowes,

ebay, Amazon: they all have them, these are what I use!!! Or, as one

individual suggested, bbq tongs.

He wants to know how to get thorns out of his skin. They can be hard to see. Could you ask a friend or neighbor to weld the tweezers?

You might also try over in rec.gardens.

Good luck.

HB