Quote Originally Posted by skibo View Post
I have had plenty of experience in lime kilns at the pulp mill I worked for 40 years! Weather I was shooting out lime rings or replacing fire brick, there is no fun in this work at all, they are the driest places on Earth and still hot due holding it's heat! You can get nasty chemical burns from anywhere you might be sweating and the lime dust reacts to make caustic,BAD Stuff!
Maybe the humid was just what we felt from our own sweat in our PPE They wouldn't let us enter the kilns until the temp got down so somewhere around 130f had to wear sealed face gear with breathing umbilical air supply I couldn't understand the requirement to trim my beard to nearly a shaved face since we wore a sock over hour heads anyway. almost like that of a diving suit. But they said a couple years before during a shut down the welders just wore paper masks or painter's respirators some wound up with lung damage so the safety folks weren't taking any chances.
I liked shut downs as long as I could work up on the hill fabricating pipes for air ducts but hated anything to do with going inside the kiln tube.