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Can lawn mowers cause cancer?
#1
S
sockableclaw
S
sockableclaw
Cause I've been mowing the lawn once a week for many years with a gas-powered mower, and am wondering if I can get cancer from its emissions?
#2
ILENGINE
ILENGINE
In a nutshell, Lawnmower emissions can cause cancer, As well as weedeater, cars, planes, cats, horses, and everything else known to man including the state of California.
#3
reynoldston
reynoldston
Just smoke a couple of packs of cigarettes ever day can be very helpful.
#4
M
Mad Mackie
M
Mad Mackie
California is "special"!! Everything there causes cancer or everyone there causes cancer depending on who is speaking!!!
Many of us run hundreds of gallons of gasoline thru our mowers every season and some of us have been doing this for many years.
I have a small wood chipper and as I am left handed, I stand to the right side of the chute where the engine exhaust blows out. I attempt to position the machine so the prevailing wind will blow the exhaust away from me, but this doesn't always happen so I just deal with it.
When mowing, I'm more concerned with the dust and whatever the customers have put on their lawns but haven't informed me. I wear goggles, a dust mask and hearing protection. In a normal season, I go thru two dust masks, this season with it being so dry, I'm on my third dust mask and it is still August!!!
Having been a mechanic all my life, I've used solvents and other products that are nasty. Some of these products are no longer available as they were deemed hazardous and environmentally unfriendly.
Many of us run hundreds of gallons of gasoline thru our mowers every season and some of us have been doing this for many years.
I have a small wood chipper and as I am left handed, I stand to the right side of the chute where the engine exhaust blows out. I attempt to position the machine so the prevailing wind will blow the exhaust away from me, but this doesn't always happen so I just deal with it.
When mowing, I'm more concerned with the dust and whatever the customers have put on their lawns but haven't informed me. I wear goggles, a dust mask and hearing protection. In a normal season, I go thru two dust masks, this season with it being so dry, I'm on my third dust mask and it is still August!!!
Having been a mechanic all my life, I've used solvents and other products that are nasty. Some of these products are no longer available as they were deemed hazardous and environmentally unfriendly.
#5
cpurvis
cpurvis
Not to worry; something has to kill you.
Lay back and enjoy the ride.
Lay back and enjoy the ride.
#6
ILENGINE
ILENGINE
I used to wake up in the middle of the night digging the skin on my hands between my fingers because they would itch so bad. Like having poison ivy without the blisters. That stopped when I when to using a ultrasonic carb cleaner. Cause of the itching, Napa carb cleaner in the 5 gallon bucket. As a mechanic we are exposed to gas, oil, naptha, benzene, and a host of other chemicals that have all been found to cause cancer. Some of those chemicals will cause nerve damage just from skin exposure.
#7
reynoldston
Don't let the EPA get ahold of this question. They will add about 5000 dollars for emissions to the cost of a mower.
reynoldston
Cause I've been mowing the lawn once a week for many years with a gas-powered mower, and am wondering if I can get cancer from its emissions?
Don't let the EPA get ahold of this question. They will add about 5000 dollars for emissions to the cost of a mower.
#8
M
Mad Mackie
M
Mad Mackie
As an officer of a local cemetery association, I was concerned when an announcement was made in the newspaper to honor the grave of deceased man who was influential in getting the motorcycle helmet law repealed here is CT.
There were three groups of about 500 motorcycles each escorted by the State Police from a gathering area about 10 miles away to the cemetery. I was at the cemetery during one of these gatherings which were held on Memorial Day. With about 500 motorcycles arriving and about the same departing, the odor of unburned gasoline, engine exhaust and noise was overwhelming to the point that I decided to leave. Knowing the area, I positioned my vehicle so I could leave the area easily and not get into the traffic.
Watching this was actually awesome as they shut off their cycles all at the same time and in an orderly manner passed by the grave of the honoree. On signal from their leader, they started up their cycles and departed as the next group arrived from the other direction. In each group there were some cycles that wouldn't restart. After the ceremony, I returned to the cemetery and ended up bringing about 15 or so dead cycles and their owners back to the gathering area in many trips with my cargo trailer where they had maintenance support already staged there.
The 3,000 or so beer bottles that were left is another story, but I won't get into this!!!
I never have been around where there were 1,000 lawn mowers running at the same time however!!!!
There were three groups of about 500 motorcycles each escorted by the State Police from a gathering area about 10 miles away to the cemetery. I was at the cemetery during one of these gatherings which were held on Memorial Day. With about 500 motorcycles arriving and about the same departing, the odor of unburned gasoline, engine exhaust and noise was overwhelming to the point that I decided to leave. Knowing the area, I positioned my vehicle so I could leave the area easily and not get into the traffic.
Watching this was actually awesome as they shut off their cycles all at the same time and in an orderly manner passed by the grave of the honoree. On signal from their leader, they started up their cycles and departed as the next group arrived from the other direction. In each group there were some cycles that wouldn't restart. After the ceremony, I returned to the cemetery and ended up bringing about 15 or so dead cycles and their owners back to the gathering area in many trips with my cargo trailer where they had maintenance support already staged there.
The 3,000 or so beer bottles that were left is another story, but I won't get into this!!!
I never have been around where there were 1,000 lawn mowers running at the same time however!!!!
#9
K
khabbi
The new EPA study recently concluded that living leads to death.
Seriously, the exposure to the emissions is so minimal you have nothing to worry about. Now if you were in an enclosed environment, such as when a Zamboni emits into an enclosed area, then I would be concerned.
K
khabbi
Don't let the EPA get ahold of this question. They will add about 5000 dollars for emissions to the cost of a mower.
The new EPA study recently concluded that living leads to death.
Seriously, the exposure to the emissions is so minimal you have nothing to worry about. Now if you were in an enclosed environment, such as when a Zamboni emits into an enclosed area, then I would be concerned.
#10
reynoldston
That is a sure thing living leads to death. :laughing: I don't care what you are running you will kill yourself if you run it in a enclosed area. Here in the northern climate ever winter someone gets killed when they run a gas powered generator in their garage attached to their house.
reynoldston
The new EPA study recently concluded that living leads to death.
Seriously, the exposure to the emissions is so minimal you have nothing to worry about. Now if you were in an enclosed environment, such as when a Zamboni emits into an enclosed area, then I would be concerned.
That is a sure thing living leads to death. :laughing: I don't care what you are running you will kill yourself if you run it in a enclosed area. Here in the northern climate ever winter someone gets killed when they run a gas powered generator in their garage attached to their house.
#11
lawn mower fanatic
That occasionally happens here as well.
lawn mower fanatic
Here in the northern climate ever winter someone gets killed when they run a gas powered generator in their garage attached to their house.
That occasionally happens here as well.
#12
B
bertsmobile1
B
bertsmobile1
Nothing actually causes cancer.
Cancer is a natural occurrence .
I happens when the processes within your body designed to kill off & remove unwanted growth stop functioning.
It all comes down to your genes.
If this self clensing system is very strong in your body you will never circum to "Cancer"
If your self cleaning mechanism is compromised then something may trigger as abnormal growth of your own body cells leading to what we call cancer.
YOU CAN NOT CATCH CANCER
YOUR OWN BODY CAUSES CANCER.
Some external things may
1) compromise your bodes self cleaning mechanism to the extent it fails to funcion properly
2) trigger so many abnormal growths OF YOUR OWN BODY tissue that your self cleaning system can not cope.
Everything eat, drink put on your skin & even breath in triggers abnormal growths . Think of them like a pearl growing in an oyster.
However some things have been found to do this to a much higher degree than others and affect a larger number of people.
These we call castanogens and rightly so tried to reduce mass exposure to.
However as we get more & more advanced methods of medical research we find more and more potential castanoges and eventually everything will be found to be castanogenic so the legislators will decide that we must remove our brains at birth and connect them to a machine that is impervious to these castanogenic agents.
Seriously, if you are liable to develope cancer riggered by the exhaust from your lawn mower they you would be riddles with cancers triggered by the person who smokes 3 blocks away.
Cancer is a natural occurrence .
I happens when the processes within your body designed to kill off & remove unwanted growth stop functioning.
It all comes down to your genes.
If this self clensing system is very strong in your body you will never circum to "Cancer"
If your self cleaning mechanism is compromised then something may trigger as abnormal growth of your own body cells leading to what we call cancer.
YOU CAN NOT CATCH CANCER
YOUR OWN BODY CAUSES CANCER.
Some external things may
1) compromise your bodes self cleaning mechanism to the extent it fails to funcion properly
2) trigger so many abnormal growths OF YOUR OWN BODY tissue that your self cleaning system can not cope.
Everything eat, drink put on your skin & even breath in triggers abnormal growths . Think of them like a pearl growing in an oyster.
However some things have been found to do this to a much higher degree than others and affect a larger number of people.
These we call castanogens and rightly so tried to reduce mass exposure to.
However as we get more & more advanced methods of medical research we find more and more potential castanoges and eventually everything will be found to be castanogenic so the legislators will decide that we must remove our brains at birth and connect them to a machine that is impervious to these castanogenic agents.
Seriously, if you are liable to develope cancer riggered by the exhaust from your lawn mower they you would be riddles with cancers triggered by the person who smokes 3 blocks away.
#13
M
miatadude
M
miatadude
Yes it will cause cancer unless you drink at least 1 six pack of quality beer. Beer washes out all of the carcenogins.
#14
reynoldston
Is that one six pack per hour?
reynoldston
Yes it will cause cancer unless you drink at least 1 six pack of quality beer. Beer washes out all of the carcenogins.
Is that one six pack per hour?
#15
rickpaulos
Too late. Seen any new 2-cycle mowers for sale?
But yes, gasoline is the main culprit. Lots of nasty stuff that will absorb right through your skin and can be inhaled in to your lungs. So try not to get it on you, stand up wind when filling the tanks, etc.
I try to avoid getting motor oil on my hands. Something in it seems to get absorbed and goes straight to my teeth and gums. Feels like I'm chewing fine sand for a day afterwards.
rick
rickpaulos
Don't let the EPA get a hold of this question. They will add about 5000 dollars for emissions to the cost of a mower.
Too late. Seen any new 2-cycle mowers for sale?
But yes, gasoline is the main culprit. Lots of nasty stuff that will absorb right through your skin and can be inhaled in to your lungs. So try not to get it on you, stand up wind when filling the tanks, etc.
I try to avoid getting motor oil on my hands. Something in it seems to get absorbed and goes straight to my teeth and gums. Feels like I'm chewing fine sand for a day afterwards.
rick
#16
javjacob
Very well said. Liberals are just scared of everything. Scientists think they have a answer for everything and most the time they are wrong, then have to change the so called "facts" over and over. These people can't understand that nobody lives forever.
Global warming is the dumbest ideology ever though of. When the average temps are lower than normal they call it global cooling. So the earth is warming up or cooling down? Then they had to change it to climate change lol.
These frauds want you to believe that every day of every year should have the same temperature, like the average temp of that day is what is should be every day. Its normal to have occasional warm days in the winter and cool days in the summer but they want you to believe this just started after we started burning "fossil fuels".
javjacob
Nothing actually causes cancer.
Cancer is a natural occurrence .
I happens when the processes within your body designed to kill off & remove unwanted growth stop functioning.
It all comes down to your genes.
If this self clensing system is very strong in your body you will never circum to "Cancer"
If your self cleaning mechanism is compromised then something may trigger as abnormal growth of your own body cells leading to what we call cancer.
YOU CAN NOT CATCH CANCER
YOUR OWN BODY CAUSES CANCER.
Some external things may
1) compromise your bodes self cleaning mechanism to the extent it fails to funcion properly
2) trigger so many abnormal growths OF YOUR OWN BODY tissue that your self cleaning system can not cope.
Everything eat, drink put on your skin & even breath in triggers abnormal growths . Think of them like a pearl growing in an oyster.
However some things have been found to do this to a much higher degree than others and affect a larger number of people.
These we call castanogens and rightly so tried to reduce mass exposure to.
However as we get more & more advanced methods of medical research we find more and more potential castanoges and eventually everything will be found to be castanogenic so the legislators will decide that we must remove our brains at birth and connect them to a machine that is impervious to these castanogenic agents.
Seriously, if you are liable to develope cancer riggered by the exhaust from your lawn mower they you would be riddles with cancers triggered by the person who smokes 3 blocks away.
Very well said. Liberals are just scared of everything. Scientists think they have a answer for everything and most the time they are wrong, then have to change the so called "facts" over and over. These people can't understand that nobody lives forever.
Global warming is the dumbest ideology ever though of. When the average temps are lower than normal they call it global cooling. So the earth is warming up or cooling down? Then they had to change it to climate change lol.
These frauds want you to believe that every day of every year should have the same temperature, like the average temp of that day is what is should be every day. Its normal to have occasional warm days in the winter and cool days in the summer but they want you to believe this just started after we started burning "fossil fuels".
#17
B
bertsmobile1
Well yes & no.
I have an open mind about global warming.
However as an ex foundry metallurgist with a lot of friends in the chemical industry I have no problems with stopping industry treating the air I breathe or the water I drink / swim in as a sewer.
Cleaning up industrial / commercial sources makes good sense, worring about mower emissions is an extrapolation into stupidity.
However Dow, Shell etc etc can put a lot of money into the "right pockets" you me can not.
Add ignorant regurgitators masquerading as journalists and you get the system we have now.
Lead is the perfect example.
You can eat metallic lead, goes in one end & comes out the other totally unaffected.
Lead oxides are totally different, they do get adsorbed & do temporary damage in adults and cause growth defects in children.
So banning lead fillers in paint was a good idea.
Banning lead bering solders is a bad idea.
banning lead flashing in buildings is gross stupidity
Banning lead in petrol was a smoke & mirror trick to force the customer to clean up rther than the companies to clean up.
And I used to do biological lead monitoring in our 2000 workers so I am not just parroting something that looked cool on face book.
However the idea of subjucating a population by keeping them in fear is the oldest trick of manupliation in the book.
From the anchient days when the "sun god" will take away the light if you don't do as I say right down to today when , you will all die if you dont buy / use this product or stop using that one.
Hitler took this to extremes by shifting all blame to the Jewish ( minority ) population.
Us politicians want you to be frightened of the Russians and now Chineese
Aust government having us in fear of the few thousand pennyless harmless refugees who arrive by boat
Drugs got banned because booze was made legal & the FBI had nothing to justify their existence
The list goes on & on & on.
B
bertsmobile1
Very well said. Liberals are just scared of everything. Scientists think they have a answer for everything and most the time they are wrong, then have to change the so called "facts" over and over. These people can't understand that nobody lives forever.
Global warming is the dumbest ideology ever though of. When the average temps are lower than normal they call it global cooling. So the earth is warming up or cooling down? Then they had to change it to climate change lol.
These frauds want you to believe that every day of every year should have the same temperature, like the average temp of that day is what is should be every day. Its normal to have occasional warm days in the winter and cool days in the summer but they want you to believe this just started after we started burning "fossil fuels".
Well yes & no.
I have an open mind about global warming.
However as an ex foundry metallurgist with a lot of friends in the chemical industry I have no problems with stopping industry treating the air I breathe or the water I drink / swim in as a sewer.
Cleaning up industrial / commercial sources makes good sense, worring about mower emissions is an extrapolation into stupidity.
However Dow, Shell etc etc can put a lot of money into the "right pockets" you me can not.
Add ignorant regurgitators masquerading as journalists and you get the system we have now.
Lead is the perfect example.
You can eat metallic lead, goes in one end & comes out the other totally unaffected.
Lead oxides are totally different, they do get adsorbed & do temporary damage in adults and cause growth defects in children.
So banning lead fillers in paint was a good idea.
Banning lead bering solders is a bad idea.
banning lead flashing in buildings is gross stupidity
Banning lead in petrol was a smoke & mirror trick to force the customer to clean up rther than the companies to clean up.
And I used to do biological lead monitoring in our 2000 workers so I am not just parroting something that looked cool on face book.
However the idea of subjucating a population by keeping them in fear is the oldest trick of manupliation in the book.
From the anchient days when the "sun god" will take away the light if you don't do as I say right down to today when , you will all die if you dont buy / use this product or stop using that one.
Hitler took this to extremes by shifting all blame to the Jewish ( minority ) population.
Us politicians want you to be frightened of the Russians and now Chineese
Aust government having us in fear of the few thousand pennyless harmless refugees who arrive by boat
Drugs got banned because booze was made legal & the FBI had nothing to justify their existence
The list goes on & on & on.
#18
C
cashman
C
cashman
Don't know about cancer, but they've caused a lot of burns, electrical shock, puncture and abrasive wounds, eye injury, back pain, mechanical frustration, and blisters on the rear to me over the years.
#19
P
panabiker
P
panabiker
99.6% of the people who died of cancer had eaten vegetables, but less than 30% of them were smokers. That's a very powerful statistic. :laughing:
#20
M
Mad Mackie
M
Mad Mackie
When mowing, I am more concerned with dust and fertilizer than the engine exhaust. Dirt type dust can cause silicosis, a type of lung cancer caused by the silicone in dirt.
I wear a dust mask with an exhaust valve, goggles, a hat and hearing protection.
The Red Cross will not accept my blood for donation as I have petroleum distillates in my bloodstream and undoubtedly many organs. Too many years of no protection as a mechanic. But I'm still trucking at 71 with a few aches and pains!!!
I wear a dust mask with an exhaust valve, goggles, a hat and hearing protection.
The Red Cross will not accept my blood for donation as I have petroleum distillates in my bloodstream and undoubtedly many organs. Too many years of no protection as a mechanic. But I'm still trucking at 71 with a few aches and pains!!!
#21
B
bertsmobile1
B
bertsmobile1
Kow the problem.
Years of exposure to all sorts of nasties have left me with a borderline anaemia so the red cross has also put me on the banned list.
Eventually we will work out that some people are genetically stronger than others, factor that into the "clinical tests" and start to produce some meaning full results.
However to publically state this goes against the ethics nazis and of course the creationists so we go around with blind folds on , but at least no one gets offended.
Years of exposure to all sorts of nasties have left me with a borderline anaemia so the red cross has also put me on the banned list.
Eventually we will work out that some people are genetically stronger than others, factor that into the "clinical tests" and start to produce some meaning full results.
However to publically state this goes against the ethics nazis and of course the creationists so we go around with blind folds on , but at least no one gets offended.
#22
reynoldston
As I see it one mower isn't much of anything. I really think its the billion?? things that are using fossil fuel in the world. Now really don't you think that its time to be thinking about cleaning up our air and water. I am in my seventies and can remember going to the city as a child and still remember how the air smelled or getting in back of a city bus in traffic. Not only the air but also our water has come a long way. I think we have to be very thankful of the people and scientist that are out there that are thinking about cleaning up our world so our children's children etc. will have a good safe environment to live in.
reynoldston
Cause I've been mowing the lawn once a week for many years with a gas-powered mower, and am wondering if I can get cancer from its emissions?
As I see it one mower isn't much of anything. I really think its the billion?? things that are using fossil fuel in the world. Now really don't you think that its time to be thinking about cleaning up our air and water. I am in my seventies and can remember going to the city as a child and still remember how the air smelled or getting in back of a city bus in traffic. Not only the air but also our water has come a long way. I think we have to be very thankful of the people and scientist that are out there that are thinking about cleaning up our world so our children's children etc. will have a good safe environment to live in.
#23
cpurvis
cpurvis
I don't worry about the environment AT ALL. One volcano can wipe out all the 'gains' we 'made' while bankrupting ourselves doing it, chasing the illusion that man can control the environment. That means ALL of mankind, not just the people of this country.
#24
reynoldston
Yes there are things out there that can end earth and this world, nothing mankind can do a thing about, but until then. I can't prove anything because I have never been there, but I have seen pictures of third world country city's that I sure wouldn't want to live in. I have seen houses in this country I wouldn't want to live in. Yes man can clean up the environment no matter how small.
reynoldston
I don't worry about the environment AT ALL. One volcano can wipe out all the 'gains' we 'made' while bankrupting ourselves doing it, chasing the illusion that man can control the environment. That means ALL of mankind, not just the people of this country.
Yes there are things out there that can end earth and this world, nothing mankind can do a thing about, but until then. I can't prove anything because I have never been there, but I have seen pictures of third world country city's that I sure wouldn't want to live in. I have seen houses in this country I wouldn't want to live in. Yes man can clean up the environment no matter how small.
#25
7394
I agree 100% :thumbsup:
7394
Yes there are things out there that can end earth and this world, nothing mankind can do a thing about, but until then. I can't prove anything because I have never been there, but I have seen pictures of third world country city's that I sure wouldn't want to live in. I have seen houses in this country I wouldn't want to live in. Yes man can clean up the environment no matter how small.
I agree 100% :thumbsup:
#26
cpurvis
On a micro scale, yes, I agree. Do what you can.
But on a macro scale, involving governments forcing the will of special interest groups on everybody, no. It's the height of arrogance to think that one little group of 545 people can "save the planet" in the first place, let alone with or without the cooperation of the other 6 billion people, which they do not have. Or the cooperation of Mother Nature, who occasionally does things such as volcanic eruptions, with or without the permission of the EPA.
Yes, clean up after yourself. Do what you can. But Man does not control the environment. Never has; never will.
cpurvis
Yes there are things out there that can end earth and this world, nothing mankind can do a thing about, but until then. I can't prove anything because I have never been there, but I have seen pictures of third world country city's that I sure wouldn't want to live in. I have seen houses in this country I wouldn't want to live in. Yes man can clean up the environment no matter how small.
On a micro scale, yes, I agree. Do what you can.
But on a macro scale, involving governments forcing the will of special interest groups on everybody, no. It's the height of arrogance to think that one little group of 545 people can "save the planet" in the first place, let alone with or without the cooperation of the other 6 billion people, which they do not have. Or the cooperation of Mother Nature, who occasionally does things such as volcanic eruptions, with or without the permission of the EPA.
Yes, clean up after yourself. Do what you can. But Man does not control the environment. Never has; never will.
#27
reynoldston
So you are saying just do nothing on the government level so then everybody just dose as they please without any laws. Sure that will work? Just how do you get them 6 billion people to cooperate without laws? I admit I am just as guilty as the next person because I will just dump that old gas or anti freeze in my driveway. So if laws isn't the answer what is or are you saying do nothing and let what happens dose.
reynoldston
On a micro scale, yes, I agree. Do what you can.
But on a macro scale, involving governments forcing the will of special interest groups on everybody, no. It's the height of arrogance to think that one little group of 545 people can "save the planet" in the first place, let alone with or without the cooperation of the other 6 billion people, which they do not have. Or the cooperation of Mother Nature, who occasionally does things such as volcanic eruptions, with or without the permission of the EPA.
Yes, clean up after yourself. Do what you can. But Man does not control the environment. Never has; never will.
So you are saying just do nothing on the government level so then everybody just dose as they please without any laws. Sure that will work? Just how do you get them 6 billion people to cooperate without laws? I admit I am just as guilty as the next person because I will just dump that old gas or anti freeze in my driveway. So if laws isn't the answer what is or are you saying do nothing and let what happens dose.
#28
cpurvis
95% of the world's population is not governed by US laws but we all live in the same "environment". You can pass all the restrictive laws you want, creating hardship and financial ruin for US citizens, and accomplish nothing with regard to the environment.
So what is the point of enacting a bunch of one-size-fits-all laws (usually written by special interest groups who stand to profit from such laws) on 5% of the world's population when the other 95% does as it pleases?
cpurvis
So you are saying just do nothing on the government level so then everybody just dose as they please without any laws. Sure that will work? Just how do you get them 6 billion people to cooperate without laws? I admit I am just as guilty as the next person because I will just dump that old gas or anti freeze in my driveway. So if laws isn't the answer what is or are you saying do nothing and let what happens dose.
95% of the world's population is not governed by US laws but we all live in the same "environment". You can pass all the restrictive laws you want, creating hardship and financial ruin for US citizens, and accomplish nothing with regard to the environment.
So what is the point of enacting a bunch of one-size-fits-all laws (usually written by special interest groups who stand to profit from such laws) on 5% of the world's population when the other 95% does as it pleases?
#29
reynoldston
reynoldston
Your right lets do nothing I'm old enough so it wouldn't effect me. To be truthful about it nothing you or I can do about it anyways. Then if 95% want to live in a cesspool so be it. Our government is run by a bunch of no nothings to think they can they can give us a better environment so why try then with this in mine maybe our children can live in that cesspool also. So let keep that attitude going :thumbsup: