Creosote everywhere -- cleanup ideas?

[SkyPup]

Not jokingat all - Serious As A Heart Attack!

Cresote is the oldest known cancer causing agent on the face of the earth, being the very first substance medically proven to produce skin cancer in humans back in the 1800's in chimmney sweeps in London.

Better check your facts or plan on spending some fun times with your oncologist...... male breast cancer and cresote exposure are directly linked. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[djradz]

Paint Thinner.

 

[Varmintmist]

So every utility person that has ever strapped on a set of hooks is going to get breast cancer? Funny, I have seen a lot retire and have yet to hear of one that got that. Throat cancer, and lung cancer yes, breast cancer, no.

Every pole out there that is slightly brown or now turning grey is a old blackjack, creosote soaked. There are some cedars and others but most are blackjacks. The were used until about 10 years ago when they went to the greenys. About the same time the Gov. mandated MTBE to be used, go figure. Most of the board fences that are not painted are creosoted. I dont know any farmers having there boobs cut off.

You should take care not to get anything chem wise on you, but that is no reason to run around like a pre dinner yard bird if you get a drop of creosote on you.

 

[Farwell]

If you burn it you get Dioxin (a great source of carcinogens). Like asbestos, Creosote is a great product but it does have its down sides. When I lived in California I had a neighbor that worked for the phone company. He would bring home free wood from work to burn in his wood stove. The free wood was the upper portion of telephone poles. The wood was not as highly saturated with Creosote as the underground part but it had its share. Wonder if this is the reason for his family's health issues?
Farwell

 

[Farwell]

If I had it I would use it. If I had asbestos I would use it as well, but I would exercise a good deal of common sense when I did. Another one is Chlordane, one of the best termite killers ever made. If it was used with common sense it would still be readily available.
Farwell

 

[SkyPup]

Rubbing cresote into your skin or the skin of your family members is not advised, nor is it great to drink once it's leached into your water supply. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

BTW, it is not funny. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Highbeam]

"I dont know any farmers having there boobs cut off."

But that is hilarious.... 'bout spilled my coffee.

 

[SkyPup]

The most common human cancer caused by cresote is scrotum (testicular) cancer.

Know any male missing something important?

Or perhaps they just don't wish to talk about it because it is so funny?.... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[TMcD_in_MI]

SkyPup -

Thanks for the heads up on the carcenogenicity of creosote. The National Safety Council backs up most of what you said, but perhaps you did open yourself up to some pokes by making it sound like the possibility of getting cancer was 100% for a short term exposure like the original poster, PM1 was describing.

NSC Creosote Link

Tom

 

[slowrev]

Good point Tom, I believe the 100% sound of the post was what got people a bit upset. Yep, I have touched cresote, Benzine, asbestos, mercury, etc.... Not dead yet. Dont have any cancer where I burned myself on a few telephone poles 25 years ago, not from painting fences and barns with creosote. There is a linkage, but the sole cause of death is birth /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Diesel exhaust fumes is a cancer causing agent as well ? Gonna stop using your tractor ?

About 10 years ago I added up the main causes of death and came up with about a 4,000% figure of related deaths /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
ps... I am sure I have breathed Radon as well.

Ben