ALMOST

im too tough for that shit, but it was definitely one of my more "human" moments

but man was i close, my head felt like it weighed 30 pounds and i was gettin wobbly

but i FINISHED

7/22/2008 6:10:55 PM

Was it enough to convince you to be an organic farmer now?

7/22/2008 6:13:49 PM

fuck no


that organic crap is bullshit, you hippies are being taken for a ride

it was the heat not the chemicals, and i think my mask was too tight, my dreds are gettin bigger and they mess with the fit of my mask

Quote :

"PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT"

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 6:15 PM. Reason : d]

7/22/2008 6:14:34 PM

always wear protection

7/22/2008 6:16:30 PM

lol fuck the "organic" industry

"organic" is just people making $$$ off of basic plant care principles

the difference is organic farmers (the HONEST organic farmer...which there are very few) just cull a bunch of product and have a bunch of plants die on em (if the want to stay within the pithy govt regulations regarding organic certification), traditional rational farmers have more steps to protect their investments and the crop/health of the plant

thats why your hippy bullshit costs so much more

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM. Reason : x]

7/22/2008 6:25:12 PM

I thought the thread read:

I almost passed out spraying testacles today

7/22/2008 6:25:48 PM

youre weird

7/22/2008 6:26:17 PM

gm is where it's at

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 6:27 PM. Reason : ^^way to misspell your anatomy, b]

7/22/2008 6:26:48 PM

you have dreads?

7/22/2008 6:28:24 PM

motherfucker said "pithy"

7/22/2008 6:31:35 PM

Quote :

"I thought the thread read: I almost passed out spraying testacles today"

I'll admit

this is what I read as well the first time

except I read it with an i

7/22/2008 6:34:18 PM

same here... tho I wasn't spraying pesticides, I was picking leaves 10am and I was dripping sweat...

I also hadn't eaten much bfast tho, so that was part of the light-headedness.

7/22/2008 6:41:14 PM

Quote :

"definitely one of my more "human" moments"

hahaha

7/22/2008 6:42:05 PM

man, that's a significant health risk

if passing out is even ALMOST happening to you, you need to speak to your supervisor and have him make adjustments to the procedure that you all use to spray.
I don't care how much people pay you....it's not worth causing yourself bodily harm (long or short term) to do your job

7/22/2008 6:44:31 PM

it was just a one time thing, i adjust gotta not be in such a rush to put the mask on

it only sucks because you cant exactly readjust unless you wanna resuit up again

7/22/2008 7:01:40 PM

what were you spraying?

7/22/2008 9:01:25 PM

Quote :

"the difference is organic farmers (the HONEST organic farmer...which there are very few) just cull a bunch of product and have a bunch of plants die on em (if the want to stay within the pithy govt regulations regarding organic certification), traditional rational farmers have more steps to protect their investments and the crop/health of the plant"

This sounds like the certifications for having free range chicken... the qualification is that you....


OPEN

THE

DOOR.

But the chickens don't choose to go outside, they'd rather be where its sheltered.

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 9:21 PM. Reason : ]

7/22/2008 9:21:51 PM

the only qualifications to free range is that they are allowed like two feet of space around them

what those guys do is fill their little areas with lil chicks and then let em all grow up together

then put em in a big cage, thats still free range

there is no "chicken heaven" just larger pens

7/22/2008 9:23:28 PM

It's cool man. TWW still knows you could beat up Jack Bauer and Bruce Lee at the same time.

Or something... What sort of pesticides were you spraying that you needed to wear gear? Was this one of those commercial situations where you've got high-powered equipment and are spraying an ass-ton of shit that'll give you cancer/lung failure?

7/22/2008 9:28:19 PM

we spray stuff at the higher-than-the-pesticide-label-indicates concentration and we suit up for any spray we do

we spray under a research use license, whic allows us to use higher concentrations than the labeling allows

some of the stuff is more nasty than others but because we mix our stuff at higher rates than the MSDS has researched we suit up in full gear

it just sucks when its 100 degrees

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 9:32 PM. Reason : x]

7/22/2008 9:32:06 PM

yo i cut some aloe vera today and put the yellow goo shit on my wound...felt cool to use nature to fix myself

7/22/2008 9:32:51 PM

i dont think ive ever seen yellow goo come from aloe vera...its always been clear


maybe u applied a bunch of fungus

7/22/2008 9:33:47 PM

dude, are you a verminator?

if i were as big as you, i'd be the dude that hauled transmissions back and forth from the shop to the NAPA truck all day

7/22/2008 9:34:19 PM

lol my friend was like yo its supposed to be that color...i was like are you sure?

got some new growth but the ones i cut were kinda old and sunfried

7/22/2008 9:34:33 PM

No job is so important that you should have to rush to get it finished and not have time to prepare your PPE. Unless your employer really really sucks.

7/22/2008 9:35:23 PM

yeah aloe looks like precum

ha ha i found a way to say precum

7/22/2008 9:35:27 PM

i think your friend has officially confused aloe vera with "lotion with aloe vera in it"

^^nah its more like WE wanna get the hell outta there and get it over with

im a slow and heavy sprayer, prolly one of the slowest of the group

when i spray they have to add a few extra gallons of chemical

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 9:36 PM. Reason : d]

7/22/2008 9:35:27 PM

placebo effect ftw? lol

7/22/2008 9:36:26 PM

ANSWER ME

pesticides/incecticides/confused

7/22/2008 9:36:42 PM

pesticides and fungicides

7/22/2008 9:37:15 PM

yeah but what im asking is (maybe you havent seen the verminator tv show on discovery)

i was asking if youre an exterminator

or maybe you apply stuff to plants or something that ive never heard of, you always talk planty...

maybe you do the job of the huge sprayer in the field beside the house i lived growing up

fucking hick ass farmer spraying the neighborhood with some funky smelling shit in a huge water cannon. he was just mad his kids sold the farm for houses i bet. fag

anyways

7/22/2008 9:40:11 PM

nah man nah


i work in a greenhouse

haha im not one of those apartment complex/government housing sprayers

guys that dont care about their jobs enough not to kill peoples plants

[Edited on July 22, 2008 at 9:41 PM. Reason : ss]

7/22/2008 9:40:40 PM

Organic is too much trouble, but my customers seem satisfied with chicken and cattle raised without animal by-products and antibiotics in the feed. I haven't had any disease problems, but I will use medications as needed for livestock and insecticides as needed for crops. I also don't use hormones in the cattle, and it has long been prohibited in poultry. I can't get the prices that the organic stuff at Carrboro market brings, but I can sell stuff for a price that is decent for me and for the customer.

7/22/2008 9:44:34 PM