Starting BX24 in boathouse (avoid fumes)

mswlogo · Dec 2, 2007

It's not even summer yet and just fiddling with the thumb, fumes got pretty nasty in less than a minute. And I wasn't about to work on it outside, it was in the teens with 42 mph wind. When it's 10F or so out I'd prefer give the tractor a few minutes warm up before moving it. Folks seem to be doing more more **** things with their tractors than I. I may want to run it once and a while over winter even if I don't plan on taking it out.

I don't have a wide open garage door on it. I also have to drive out fairly slowly. It's just big enough to fit the tractor through. It's fairly enclosed space.

And how can you call these little guys a nuisance.

rdsaustintx · Dec 2, 2007

mswlogo said:
And how can you call these little guys a nuisance.

Touché dude. They're very cute.

Here in central BubbaLand we have swallows, but more problems with these guys. Not quite as cute:

PS: My kids are pretty cute too, but I don't let 'em crap in my barn.

mboulais · Dec 2, 2007

Any animal not bred for captivity does not belong in my barn. Too much money tied up in the things I keep in the barn and too important for the health of my family. Bird and bat droppings are nasty stuff.

I don't see anything about the effects being cumatalive. Each exposure is a stand alone event.

The Effects of Carbon Monoxide

Berniep · Dec 3, 2007

rdsaustintx said:
Love your posts Bernie, but YOU are the one in the silly hat.
RDnT

Hey the hat's not half as silly as the guy under it

I love barn swallows, they eat lots of flying bugs (my least favorite type of bug) So I can see wanting to keep them around.
Doesn't take much diesel fume exposure to make me want out. Too much time working behind an idling jet engine on the flight line I guess. So I can see wanting to keep the fumes down.
As far as the exposure being cumulative, I may have made a mistake in trusting what the papers put out. I read that in a story about some kids riding in a pickup camper shell on a trip.

Also a lot of signs have been going up at customers docks stating that diesel fumes have been linked to cancer and not to idle the trucks please.
I haven't read any research myself but it's probably not as bad as smoking.
But does anyone really want to increase their chance of cancer?

Wow all this just because someone wanted to vent their exhaust out of a boathouse

Mswlogo
Have you found any hose yet?

mswlogo · Dec 3, 2007

Been working on the thumb, now that that's done I can go shopping for the hose. The aluminum dryer hose suggestion sounded good.

Your dead on the little guys eating all the bugs all day and the bats eat them at night.

LBrown59 · Dec 9, 2007

mswlogo said:
Been working on the thumb, now that that's done I can go shopping for the hose. The aluminum dryer hose suggestion sounded good.

Your dead on the little guys eating all the bugs all day and the bats eat them at night.

got it solved about starting your bx23 in the boat house yet?