On 24.05.16 17:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2016 17:19:42 Bruce Layne wrote: > > I love the look and feel of walnut, but the dust is very > > aggravating. Much more so than other North American hardwoods I've > > used. However, the dust from some South American hardwoods can KILL > > YOU, as in DEAD! And some Australian woods are even worse. It seems > > that a lot of stuff in Australia can kill you.
It's not a land for wusses, I'll admit. In the Royal Flying Doctor Service's list of the world's 25 most venomous snakes, the first 11 are Australian. (The Cobra comes 12th.) Some of the spiders are best not aggravated, and the blue-ringed octopus is best avoided. Heck, even the jellyfish up north keep people out of the water for months every year. Up around Darwin, the crocs get a feed on a tourist or two pretty much every year, including one tipped out of his rowboat in the last week. Mind you, dad was bitten by a Redback Spider, and though he was bedridden for days, it didn't kill him - just cured his arthritis for many years thereafter. I thought that the Brown Snake we have here in Victoria is the one which is 21st, not the one which is 2nd most venomous - not least when I squatted down on very short grass to watch a big one tootle past within a few metres. Ah ... errr ... the map says I'm wrong. Oops. > > Most wood dusts are > > irritants, some are allergens of varying degrees, some are > > carcinogenic and some are directly toxic. > > > > http://www.tedswoodworking.com/toxic-wood.htm At first I figured the Blackwood in the list would only be African, and our Acacia Blackwood (Acacia Melanoxylon) would be harmless, but on wikipedia, I read: "The tree's twigs and its bark are used to poison fish as a way of fishing." No-one told our cattle that, because they browsed so hard on the stuff that regrowth didn't have a chance. The leaves must be less iffy, then. > > > > http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/wood-allergies-and-toxicity > > Please turn off the html Bruce. And I forgot the international nature of > this list, so there may well be more toxic woods about, just not local > to me. That's the tricky bit when we hear a common name, and have to stop to think "That's not our Blackwood, I reckon.". I did, though, buy a facemask with microfilter and fan years ago, for woodworking, just in case. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
