Do you wear a dust mask... wheeze

[Dave Martin]

I really dont like wearing dust masks but I am really starting to feel that my lungs are full of dust after processing with my Haki Pilki Eagle. Do you wear a dust mask and has anyone cut out the bottom of the grill so that dust can escape more readily....... wheeze wheeze cough

[Mortimer Firewood]

Ive cut part of the grill away to get the big chunks out or it fills up with saw dust and starts spitting back at you. I know what you mean about the dust been doing sycamore today and you can taste the dust from it cant be doing the lungs much good.

[Alycidon]

I really dont like wearing dust masks but I am really starting to feel that my lungs are full of dust after processing with my Haki Pilki Eagle. Do you wear a dust mask and has anyone cut out the bottom of the grill so that dust can escape more readily....... wheeze wheeze cough

 

No, sawdust gets taken away from operator on my processor, unless its windy !!. Do wear chainsaw helmet with face guard and muffs.

 

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[Dave Martin]

What worries me is whether or not the dust is carcinogenic

[samtheman365]

I really dont like wearing dust masks but I am really starting to feel that my lungs are full of dust after processing with my Haki Pilki Eagle. Do you wear a dust mask and has anyone cut out the bottom of the grill so that dust can escape more readily....... wheeze wheeze cough

 

How will i be able to smoke with a dust mask on?...lol

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

What worries me is whether or not the dust is carcinogenic

 

Some are in long term studies but more so tropical hardwoods. There are good airpowered systems with batteries and helmets with full face protection and filter worn on the belt.

[gensetsteve]

What worries me is whether or not the dust is carcinogenic

 

Spaulted beech = very. get yourself one of those cheap dust extractors for about £140 it will draw it away from your face and could also be connected to the machine. One of the advantages of a chain bar

[openspaceman]

What worries me is whether or not the dust is carcinogenic

 

Perceived wisdom was that working green wood wasn't a problem, possibly because the particles were larger or clumped so the body coped with them.

 

Some hardwood joinery dust was considered dangerous and this included english oak.

 

A couple of exceptions I know of:

 

1 a sawlog customer of mine is/was a medical doctor (his first ever enquiry to me was via a radio link from a main battle tank in germany in the run up to Iraq1), he was building a house extension and doing all the wood himself from the round. In some way the initial work sensitised him and he subsequently became allergic to sawdust and had to wear gloves and face mask.

 

2 two round timber buyers I sold to between 1980 and 1995 have died from throat cancer, I don't know what their previous work history was. I have no other acquaintances that have this cancer.

[Dave Martin]

Perceived wisdom was that working green wood wasn't a problem, possibly because the particles were larger or clumped so the body coped with them.

 

Some hardwood joinery dust was considered dangerous and this included english oak.

 

A couple of exceptions I know of:

 

1 a sawlog customer of mine is/was a medical doctor (his first ever enquiry to me was via a radio link from a main battle tank in germany in the run up to Iraq1), he was building a house extension and doing all the wood himself from the round. In some way the initial work sensitised him and he subsequently became allergic to sawdust and had to wear gloves and face mask.

 

2 two round timber buyers I sold to between 1980 and 1995 have died from throat cancer, I don't know what their previous work history was. I have no other acquaintances that have this cancer.

 

This is very worrying as I wake up this morning still feeling the dust in my throat. Project for today is to cut the grill off that causes the sawdust to become blocked (no doubt in a couple of weeks my new nickname will be Stumpy ) and it looks like I will be getting the Homer Simpson facial suntan from the dust mask

[renewablejohn]

Make sure you wear a dust mask. My father died at the age of 50 due to inhalation of sawdust. His job was the wood machinist at the local ship building graving dock where the majority of his work was repairing the wood bearings on ship propellers (Lignum Vitae) or replacing ship decking (Teak). When they opened him up they suggested that he died due to smoking 100 cigarettes a day and his lungs were clogged. After explaining he had not smoked a cigarette in his life they tested the dust and found it was predominately Lignum Vitae.