Carpediem44DB
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- Aug 18, 2015
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- Boat Info
- 2000 Carver 506
2006 44 DB Sedan Bridge
- Engines
- Volvo TAMD 74 P
When I as 11 years old, the family bought a prune ranch in Nor Cal. Dad sent all of the itinerant workers packing and the the five of us in the family,(three boys, Mom and Dad) did all of the labor to raise raise the crops including spraying three times a year. We had an ancient 300 gallon trailer with a platform on the back that was pulled by a tractor with a high pressure pump to propel the sprayed chemicals thru hand held wands from the aft platform. We here protected by a rain jacket and pants with boots and a hard hat. We were literally covered head to toe after several hours of being in a Diazinon or Seven mist. We used that system for 15 years and back ten never gave a thought about the health affects. So far all of us are cancer and serious disease free and all of us bros are in our early 60s. We look back at those days and now shake our heads and cross our fingers. We also used round up and chlordane around the ranch for weed and pest control as well as just about every other now-banned chemicals. We must just have super genes or something.I qualify for the roundup law suit. I used roundup and I got cancer ….. how the heck they prove the two are related is beyond me….. I am curious so I might hit the send button….. it just doesn’t feel right….. it’s like reverse mortgages I applied to see how it works with no intent of doing it….. might do the same with roundup
To see the ads on TV over the years about all the victims of the chemical companies we always just thought it would be a matter of time when one of us would develop something.