Oil & Fuel diesel exhaust

[Anonymous Poster]

I was looking through my tractor manual this morning and noticed that there was a warning that diesel exhaust caused cancer. Any other input on this?

 

[DocHeb]

That statement is a lawyer vaccine.

Any product of combustion for complex molecules (diesel fuel, roofing tar, over-cooked hamburgers on the Bar-B-Que) results in new molecules forming that can be carcinogenic. It is all a matter of amount and length of exposure. Eat 500 overcooked burgers a day for a couple years and you'll have in increased incidence of cancer. The EPA regulates materials as carcinogenic with little regard to typical exposure levels.

Just don't breathe diesel exhaust the way laboratory rats do (24 hours a day at choking doses), and you'll need to worry more about meteors than diesel exhaust. The human body really has an incredible ability to filter, clean out, and repair damage from dangerous molecules.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Thanks DocHeb that’s been worrying me all day.
I called and asked the dealer and he didn’t know anything about it.
He said I was the only one who ever asks about it.

 

[dmccarty]

Clem,

I came home from a long 12+ hour day on the property one Saturday in the Summer. I'm REALLY disgustingly filthy. Lubed the tractor. Sat on the tractor for 6 or so hours. Ran the chainsaw/brushcutter a couple of hours. I think I had ran the brush cutter so I was covered in dirt. Yuck! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I walk in the house and after a bit the wife say's I like the way you smell. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif SAY WHAT says I! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

She said that I smelled like her grandfather when he would come in from the fields. I figured it had to be the smell of the diesel since I certainly have come home just as dirty and disgusting but I certainly was not told that I smelled good! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif In fact I was told to either hit the showers or get out of the house! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

My wifes grandfather grew up on a farm and lived on that farm until he died. He went from mules to tractors and he was the brother that maintained the equipment on the place. So the smell that reminded my wife of her grandfather had to be diesel.

Russel lived to be in his 80's. Eventually he died from a bad heart but he lived 5-10 years more than the average person with his health problems. His lungs were good but his ticker died from to much fried southern cooking which led to clogged arteries.

Exhaust did not get him but the fried chicken chicken may have! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Later...
Dan McCarty

 

[Boondox]

In a case-control designed study in California, 1000 rats (the cases) were exposed to high doses of Kubota exhaust for two years, while another 1000 rats (the controls) were not. At the end of 2 years, 6 cases had cancer but only 4 controls.

Pete

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