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mikecotterill

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  1. For sure, but we don't get to decide how we go and if we worry about it we are wasting the time we do have.

     

    No we don't get to decide but we can reduce/increase the chances of what we die from. Wearing a mask could easily be as routine as putting chainsaw trousers on, I think people tend to disregard long term effects on their health, if smoking caused cancer within a week of starting smoking how many would still smoke, few if any I reckon

  2. Anyone working with a saw for any length of time should be wearing a mask.

     

    Your saw spews out 2 stroke fumes, the residual oil in the fumes binds to the fine wood dust particles created by the cutting, you then breath these oil laced dust particles in, they get lodged in your lungs and can't break down or be coughed up.

     

    Tissue starts to grow round the particles and eventually after many years this leads to lung cancer in much the same as breathing in asbestos dust will.

     

    Is this a proven thing?

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