[papercreters] Re: meh - hot lime slaking- whitewash

While we are posting general freakout posts...

Here are 10 things that are unsafe that we should try to get everyone to panic about:

10. Crossing the street.
9. Driving.
8. Using a Tablesaw with the cheap, crappy, floppy, dirty, plexiglass blade guard removed.
7. Shaking someone's hand (there be germs out there.)
6. Exercising.
5. Not Exercising.
4. Stepping into your bathtub.
3. Stepping out of your bathtub.
2. Stinking up the world by not using your bathtub.

(drum roll.........................)

and the number 1 unsafe thing that we should try to get everyone to panic about!
1. Swallowing Your Own Saliva
(It causes cancer, but only if taken in very small amounts over very long periods of time. Statistics show that every person that has ever contracted Cancer had indeed previously swallowed his own saliva. 100% statistical correlation.)

/endsarcasm


Seriously...

The dude in the video claimed to have been working with lime for 30 years. That amount of experience COUNTS FOR SOMETHING.
Looks like he still has both hands. Looks like he hasn't burned his face off. He said it would burn if he put his hand in wetted mix. Seems to me that he effectively told his students through implication that he wasn't mindnumbingly stupid enough to stick his hand in the bucket once the water was added.


I'm all for everyone using reasonable safety precautions. Gloves make sense. Eye protection makes sense.

Screaming that the world will come to an end if a veteran with 30 years experience dares to stir a bucket of lime without using gloves might be a bit of an overreaction. Dude was well aware of the risks he was taking. It's his life. He can live it however he wants to.

Lime ... even quicklime... is a very useful material, and can be used extremely safely. There's no need to try to frighten people away. As long as individuals take responsibility for their own actions and use good common sense, they need not tremble in fear and lay awake at night pondering the destruction of all life as we know it because they chose to stir a bucket without using gloves.


As far as handling the dry powdered quicklime with bare hands. I don't recommend it, but if someone's hands are dry, and they handle the quicklime for a short time, then immediately clean their hands, they probably will not encounter much if any ill effects. Quicklime requires moisture before it will cause burns. Those who get sweaty palms when nervous probably shouldn't attempt it. If someone allows the powdered quicklime to remain on their skin for an extended period of time, they will probably feel it and dry out their skin.


Some people are willing to take risks. Sometimes they get burned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dgpsI1MdQI

And sometimes they don't get burned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgRBYA-zpM

Perhaps the most important tool to have when building anything.
--Common Sense. Don't build a home without it.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@...> wrote:
>
> the WHITEWASH video shows men touching hot lime with bare hands!!!!
>
> if you wouldn't put your bare hands into wet cement to use it......
> cement burns are notorius for harming skin
>
> at the very end the poor film guy doesn't get an answer asking if harm will
> come if lime touches bare hands, the old codger is proud he hasn't used
> gloves in 30 years.. so if you like that, go right ahead.
>
> ..and pouring water INTO the hot lime...this is the exact opposite of how
> to do it safely.
> "Do as you oughta, add acid to water.
>
>
> hot lime attacks any possible moisture--from eyes, nose, wet hands and
> causes severe burns instantly... the need for hot lime to slake" its thirst
> for water overwhelms water and can and has exploded.
>
> -- also other videos online show kids using bare hands to trowel on lime...
> it can be very very drying to the point of harm, an author of a strawbale
> book wasn't aware of this and ended up in the ER with burnt skin...even
> touching limewater can make hands pruney it takes days before your skin
> can replace the oils, and it feels weird.
>
>
> just be careful folks I *love* lime, I use it, mix it, play with it, put
> it in papercrete, and sawdustcrete , and protect my self from it too.
> *Charmaine *
>
> Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
> PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
> www.papercrete.com
>
>
> *Michel de Montaigne:* "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual
> cheerfulness."
>
>
>
> *Socrates:* "He is the richest who is content with the least."
>




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