Elite Tacky by Dave Ostlund, Strongman, Stone Lfiting (4 oz jar)

What I love about this purchase is the generous quantity of pine tar I've acquired. Sure, the stuff helps me with stone loading, but the greatest benefit is how it has brought my wife and I closer together. We laugh and laugh as she discovers little dabs of sticky goo on faucets, door handles and water bottles. Even better, when she discovers these telltale signs of my dalliance with strongman training, she transfers the gunk onto her clothes and all her stuff. Elite tacky stays tacky. It doesn't ball up. It warms up quickly. It sticks to everything. Clean yourself and your gear in the garage or your wife will join mine and plot your eventual demise.

The product does work, but it is not for cold environments. Even in my house, at normal room temps, I had to continually warm it up (I used water baths) before I could use it, which brought on another problem; if your hands are moist, at all, this stuff will ball up (think silly putty) and not adhere to your skin. I tend to sweat pretty profusely, so I had to take extra time to make sure my hands were totally dry (which is not easy to do when you've been moving heavy things for an hour), before I could apply. That being said... when it does work, it works well; you do get pretty fierce grip.

I have been using a rival tacky for years. I decided to go with this since it was “formulated for over 75 degrees”. Fortunately I had the rival tacky in my bag as well because when I tried to use this tacky it wouldn’t stick. It wouldn’t stick to my hand, wouldn’t stick to the object I was trying to lift. It was just a clump. It almost looked like froze maple syrup. It was total garbage and I feel guilty for cheating on my go to tacky. I also feel bad that I can’t rate this product lower than a 1 star.

Works great!

This tacky is very pliable easy to spread and obviously comes off with some oil very easily. Used on stone to shoulder and was perfect because it doesn't stick too much.

Not good in cold climates. You really have to work this tacky. I would recommend getting spider tacky instead.

This was my first time ever using any kind of tacky, so I don't have much of a comparison, but it is sticky and allows me to perform better.

Doesn’t spread very well, often clumping into balls rather than being more pliable and the jar was cracked when shipped. A few times I had issues getting enough out of the jar and spread around that after three or four lifts not much was left.