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I've read that there are currently more trees on this rock than there are stars in the Milky Way. What's a few thousand more either way...
No one is wearing a mask. I think the dust would kill you as much as the laquer.
When I started working with wood as a kid in the 90s I never saw anyone wearing a mask to do anything ever.
The guy I learned guitar making from would spray laquer without a mask. He would hang his guitar out on the porch and go inside the door, take a big gulp of air and then run out on the porch and spray until he had to breath again, then he'd run inside. Apparently his wife made him stop when he started coughing up blood, then he switched to French polishing. I wanted to raise my hand and suggest there might be a middle ground there, perhaps, maybe, just some small amount of safety equipment, but I held my breath.
In Maine I think the paper mills gave local farms their waste materials as "fertilizer" and we are crawling with pfas as far as I know. A couple I knew had a well known organic farm and had their soil tested and it was riddled with them. They had to wrap it up.
I wanted to raise my hand and suggest there might be a middle ground there, perhaps, maybe, just some small amount of safety equipment, but I held my breath.
I see what you did there......🤣
Yup, and in theory there could certainly be plenty of nutrients in the effluent from paper mills but it doesn't matter when all the bad stuff like PFAS is still in it. I'm not as familiar with the east coast but I do know of a few farms in MN that were shut down for similar reasons, spraying gray water from manufacturing plants onto fields with who knows what in it. And then in WI, there's a company that manufactures PFAS fire suppression foam up in Marintette and as I'm sure you can imagine, didn't take long for the PFAS to spread into adjacent municipalities (and not just from using it).
I don't want to sound radical but up for banning things that could lead to the end of humanity.
I was going to do a no pun intended, and it wasn't, but it wasn't really a pun?
I think this thread is drifting hard and far from the best archtops we've ever played. 😂 But wrt to WI/MN specifically(@voutoreenie), I will add that the karst geology doesn't help anything. Much of SE MN and a U-shape along the West, south, and east border of WI is made up of limestone/dolomite "karst" that is like swiss cheese. Lots of caves and sinkholes. Direct access straight to the underground aquifers and drinking water. No filtering through sand/sediment/dirt/etc. Easier to contaminate the water making the problem spread much farther than just a few acres.
Florida has some of this geology too. There was an old phosphate mining settlement pond that developed a sinkhole in the middle and drained 200million gallons of arsenic and radioactive mining waste into the shallow water table/drinking water. Of course, the mining company had long gone out of business so who pays to remediate? Fun stuff...
I think Florida is going to cease to exist at some point in the mid future? Rising sea level percolating through porous limestone or something? It will solve the groundwater problem.
I got to know Hank Garland during the last year of his life. The last time I saw Hank was Christmas day 2004. I played hid Epiphone a few times.
@JerryGeezer Oooooo very jealous