Farmers donate your dust masks

[renewablejohn]

On Sky news this morning research saying Corvid 19 is active airbourne for 3 days so masks should be worn all the time outdoors. Same report is saying spread from a cough is 6 mtrs and a sneeze 8 mtrs with the research to be used to update WHO guidelines. If true its a bit late now.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

FFP 3 are good enough for handling asbestos. So I’d guess they’d be the ones they wanted? How many people actually fit them properly? I know I always seem to get a black snout down the top near where it goes over the ridge of your nose.

Im afraid we’ve been short on them for months, currently blowing ours out with an airline when bagging spuds.

 

[renewablejohn]

Tried to buy some as we're dressing wheat out of store this week: "None to be had for love nor money".
Now wondering if I'm hacking my lungs up because of dust or Covid19. My advice to farmers is to hang on to them, you bought them for a valid reason in the first place (cough), and come harvest your lungs will need looking after too.
If someone has a few boxes fair enough, but I doubt many farmers are sitting on more than a part box of 10 or 20.

Which part of the country are you. Our local hardware store still has supplies but there not on display but as a regular customer was able to get supplies.

 

[renewablejohn]

FFP 3 are good enough for handling asbestos. So I’d guess they’d be the ones they wanted? How many people actually fit them properly? I know I always seem to get a black snout down the top near where it goes over the ridge of your nose.

Im afraid we’ve been short on them for months, currently blowing ours out with an airline when bagging spuds.

Used to have the problem of badly fitting masks so bit the bullet and upgraded to a respirator with 2 filters as the rubber seals so much better. Its only a half mask as I prefer engineering glasses to see through.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Used to have the problem of badly fitting masks so bit the bullet and upgraded to a respirator with 2 filters as the rubber seals so much better. Its only a half mask as I prefer engineering glasses to see through.

Yes the half mask is a much better machine, bloody uncomfortable though.

My dad wears glasses and complains that they steam up while using a dust mask, would that be his breath coming up from a poor seal around his nose?

 

[Steevo]

Yes the half mask is a much better machine, bloody uncomfortable though.

My dad wears glasses and complains that they steam up while using a dust mask, would that be his breath coming up from a poor seal around his nose?

Yes.

I can't stand fabric masks and switched to a rubber 3M version which has a proper seal.

 

[Steevo]

This is my usual:

3M 4251 A1 P2 Reusable Dust Mask Respirator

The 3M 4251 half mask respirator is part of the hugely popular 3M 4000 Series, these reusable dust masks are maintenance free and ready to use which makes them the most convenient dust masks on the market. Designed to sit comfortably on the face with adjustable head cradle and neck straps, while...

www.respiratorshop.co.uk

I see they do a P3 for a pound or so more, which is out of stock

3M 4255 A2 P3 Reusable Dust Mask Respirator

The 3M 4255 half mask respirator is part of the hugely popular 3M 4000 Series, these reusable masks are maintenance free and ready to use which makes them the most convenient dust masks on the market. Designed to sit comfortably on the face with adjustable head cradle and neck straps, while at...

www.respiratorshop.co.uk

 

[Wellytrack]

If only they would donate them to farmers!

It’s strange, so many things they had where rubbish and they would continually bodge, others reached a use by and was binned without being used or opened.

The more you hear about government run departments the more it annoys you.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Any masks that can be donated are gratefully received. I had a call today from my neigbour Leon Furlong from Vencomatic UK, asking if I knew of any local NHS facilities needing the masks that his firm has in stock.
As it happens mu wife works in a GP surgery and they had staff ringing round trying to source masks all morning, I connected Leon to my wifes surgery and he drove 30 miles to deliver a good supply of masks and gloves F.O.C.