Lumber lung

[cousin jack]

Wear a mask whenever I use the sawbench, otherwise my chest will tighten up.

[Brushcutter]

When using the chainsaw mill i wear a dust mask. As for chipping i tend not to but i have started crane feeding the chipper more to avoid dust,lifting and whippy branches.

 

I use to get a bit of a tight chest around fresh woodchips but this has gone now.

[White Noise]

Sorry I did not join in on a thread I started as the computer was playing up .

 

Some really good feedback . Dust mask when chipping from now on . Also Ive noticed that when chipping into an enclosed chip box the blow back of dust is bad . A chip box with sides and no roof reduces the dust blow back a far amount

[blazer]

Worked in a factory in the 60's where they had the carpenters machining 'asbestos' for the remelting of alloy. They had no dust extraction and looked like floor graders - all died early.

 

Been told machining hard woods causes lung problems, along with some fungi infected wood, working indoors you only have to look as the sun lit dust beams to see the dust density.

 

I tend to have a CO fume problem, so I wear a 3M mask as part of my PPE - works great no headaches or sore throats only about £16 and last me a year.