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.

 

[have_blue]

I went to a friend's house a while back, and he had a brand new pallet of bottled water on his back porch. I gave him a quizzical look when I saw the pallet, and he said "I'm only drinking bottle water from now on. You just don't know what's in that city water". I replied "Well, we know what's in that cigarette you're smoking" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Better to do everything in moderation and die doing what you love to do than to go through life in mortal fear of every little thing.

Remember, the researcher's #1 job is not to protect the public. Their #1 job is to make themselves appear useful to the public so thir jobs will be secure. There's just a tad of "conflict of interest" in every report you read.

Watch out! Death will kill you!

 

[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.

 

[Varmintmist]

This is the point:

By tjkadar "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"

Panic over the "death dealer special of the day" that is being served up is as dangerious as the threat.
DDT is a great example. DDT is the BEST thing to use against skeeters. You cant lay it on thick to every area which is what we did. Panic over DDT got it banned, we now have people dying of malaria again. Panic is killing people.

No you shouldnt bathe in creosote, that is foolish (not to mention it burns like the fires of hades if it remains on your skin, even just the fumes )

If you were to try to stay away from all of the "cancer causing agents" you might as well suck on a gun barrel and be done with it.

EVERYTHING can cause maladays if used or applied incorectly. Water = drowning, oxygen = extremely flammable, bunny slippers = strange looks, red meat = heart problems. Which are you going to give up? Water, Air,comfy feet, or food?

Check this out. I'm real dead already IAW this. It does not list creosote as a solo insert.chicken little goes to washington
Then again, maybe you dont want to look at this. I am not a chemist nor do I play one on TV, however I recognize and have used quite a few on this list.

BTW, everyone I know has both their berries. If they dont, they never let me know. AND I WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[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.