Creosote everywhere -- cleanup ideas?

[SkyPup]

Excellent point slowrev, it is a 100% proven fact that if you live long enough you will die, some sooner and some later, this data is supported by empirical observations...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[tjkadar]

On a long enough timeline, your probability of survival drops to zero.

When I'm not on the tractor, I spend my time finding and assessing Superfund Sites. Most people's concerns involving their exposures to chemicals in their environment is overblown. They are often doing far more damage to themselves via their own living habits.

When a person is sitting there smoking a cigarette with one hand whilst drinking a beer with another, he is increasing his cancer risk far higher then a 30-year exposure to a carcinogen contaminant that is right at the MCL. That MCL is based on a 1 in 1 million cancer risk increase after a 30-year exposure (The MCL is actually much more complex, but for brevity’s sake, we’ll generalize with the carcinogens).

Of course, most of the guidelines are very conservative. You cannot anticipate every known combination of factors, so there is a bit of a fudge margin.

Most Americans greatest exposure risk occurs every time they fill up their gas tanks. Benzene, toluene, ethylene, and xylene (BTEX) are the major components in gasoline and you get a pretty good whiff of them at the pump.

Exercising a bit of common sense when dealing with hazardous chemicals will go a long way to alleviating most concerns. If someone is really worried about their cancer risks, there is much you can do via exercise and diet to help yourself live longer and healthier.

 

[EastTexFrank]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Take good care of my tractor guys </font> )</font>

Sure will. Where about in Eunice can I pick it up? That's not too far of a drive for a TC35. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I agree with most of you. I don't think we need to go overboard about the dangers of creosote but then again, we don't need to be silly about using it either. Personally, I hate the stuff and try to avoid it whenever possible. "Simple Green" or dish washer detergent should get it off.

 

[Soundguy]

While we are at it.. i use the 'pink' stuff in my un-sweet tea.. i think I hear the ambulance down the street right now...

Soundguy

 

[Highbeam]

Dang, the whiskey in my glass last night will surely be my last.

 

[tjkadar]

Naw... the ethanol will help preserve you from the inside out.

 

[Soundguy]

I pretty much agree. Virtually everything in our environment will contribute to some sort of problem.

If you avoided everything.. i imagine you wouldn't go outside.. would have to breathe filtered air/ drink RO/filtered water... eat a bland nutritive paste... be locked in a padded room with an exercise machine.. you might have a radio.. but the volume would be locked out.. don't want to damage the hearing... No computer.. you know.. mice and keyboards can cause carpel tunnel.. etc...

In the end.. you will probably die of somehting coming from all of the plastic materials around you...

Me? I try not to step in front of moving cars... I have a cheeseburger if I want to.. I try to get some exercise every now and then.. and have a bowl of cerial or two...I really try to limit washing my hands in diesel or gas to get the grease off from working on the tractor to once a week or so... I don't stnad right at the muffler/smoke stack on my tractor for any longer than i have to.. I try not to inhale any of the spray or powders I put on my animals.. at least for as long as I hold me breath... I paint outside when spraying the tractors.

I put sunblock on if I am heading out to mow for a few hours.. that and a hat and/or long sleave shirt.. if I can stand the heat.

if I get sick and it doesn't 'go away' in a few days.. i head on down to the doctor...

I pay real close attention and go to the doctor fast if I see blood coming out of any orifice other than a 'wound'.

I have arch supports in my shoes...occasionally take a vitamin.. wash my hands alot when other people are sick in the office, and otherwise just try to focus on living a decent life and having a bit of fun doing it .. after working 2 jobs and taking care of the farm... that about sum it up?

Soundguy

 

[SkyPup]

Genetics is the sole determing factor as to whether or not tobacco, coffee, toulene, benzene, cresote, sunlight, air pollution, etc. etc. are going to cause cancer in your body.

Either you have the undamaged genes to prevent it or cure it, or you don't.

 

[slowrev]

Skypup,
I believe you have it right. If you have the wrong genes you can do everything right and still get cancer. Or exercise and diet right and still have high blood pressure, etc...
Ben

 

[SkyPup]

NOT having the proper genes makes you much much more susceptible to environmental carcinogens due to the protooncogenic genes being turned on by the alkalytating and electrophillic agents that ones body comes in contact though the air, water, food, etc. Your lungs, eyes, skin, intestines, etc. are your first line of defense, once a chemical substance makes past them, only your genetic constitution can detoxify that agent and excrete it from your body via sulfation, conjugation, phosphorlation, etc. to make it water soluable to get it out of your system.

Toxic hazardous chemicals in the environment cause the vast majority of human cancers.

 

[slowrev]

I agree, but this sounds a bit political to me. Gotta wait on more scientific evidence.........

Ben

 

[JeffT]

Skypup!

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!

Still up to yer old propaganda????

Diesel is diesel, is diesel, its ALL THE SAME!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Soundguy]

35ys.. naa.. you are already a ghost..

Soundguy

 

[SkyPup]

Time to start smoking Camels.....