That was a good read. My first paying job
other than selling night crawlers along
the side of the road was working at the
neighbor's farm diagonal to us when I was
11. My friend Bill (all of 10) & I used to
do it all including running the tractor,
bailing hay, running silage, shovelling
cow crap, getting them milked and out to
pasture before school and well, 100% of
everything for all of $1 a day. Good money
when my weekly allowance was 50 cents.
Bill bought a 50CC Yamaha with his
earnings. Mine went to comic books &
Mallow Cups...
Many years pass, I'm going to Chiropractic
College in MO & the YL & I look out our
window maybe 3 weeks after arriving to see
people in Hazmat suits in the front lawn
digging cores. Turns out a genius named
Russell Bliss had been dumping Dioxin oil
on the roads in this little dead end
community of Ballwin, MO called
Castlewood. IIRC it was also he who was
doing the same across the Merrimac river
in a town called Times Beach. That town
was closed, nobody was allowed back in to
get their belongings and it became a major
superfund site. Of course the river
flooded like it always does and most of
the surface Dioxin went down the Merrimac
to the Mississippi & landed in the once
safely fertile LA Delta.
I remember talking with the locals who
said they'd oil the dirt roads for years
with this stuff and the kids always came
in from playing covered in road dust &
oil.
As bad as all that is, I haven't heard of
anyone in that town growing an extra leg
and while the effects of Dioxin are
documented well & PCB's, I suspect there
is more concern over the remote
possibility of problems than the
probability of problems.
If PCB's were as dangerous as the EPA
feels, then there's a whole lot of Old
hams & electrical workers living today
that wouldn't be here any more.
Just my guess that minor exposures aren't
going to hurt you. Make a cocktail ever
night of the stuff & probably so.
73,
Gary
KA1J
> It was a good gravel road past our place. The county must have used
> the roads as a disposal pit. They used brine and sometimes a mix. We
> were only about 5 to 6 miles from the edge of a shallow oil field to
> the N and about 10 miles to the E of a refinery. By the end of summer
> that road was like concrete with potholes. It took some heavy
> equipment to recondition those roads We'd get snowstorm that would
> leave enough that it'd take two plows to open the road. They'd use
> two "V" plows with one pushing the other. "Usually" the back plow
> could pull the front one out. It might take 5 or 6 tries to get past
> our place.
>
> More than once the school bus was caught in a surprise snow storm. The
> senior boys would pile out and between digging and pushing would free
> the bus. We were farm kids and that was nothing out of the
> ordinary. They'd crucify today's buss drivers who did that.
>
> BTW, I'm not receiving any posts from contesting dot com since I
> changed my address to k8ri dot net because of the colorful spam. The
> addresses work, they just don't receive any news groups. The site says
> my address changed for all the sites, but I'm still not receiving
> anything and I can't find a way to contact them. Moderators haven't
> been able to do anything.
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI)
>
>
> On 11/4/2017 Saturday 12:49 PM, donroden@hiwaay.net wrote:
> > Lots of country dirt roads were "oiled" with anything the county
> > could find... burnt motor oil,,, industrial oil... whatever they
> > could find. Don W4DNR
> >
> >
> > Quoting JTB <jerryjtb@comcast.net>:
> >
> >> In the 70s most were GE Pyranol oil. I not being aware I used the
> >> oil for dust remediation on a country lane.
>
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