Problem is polyester burns are worse.because the plastic sticks on the skin and can cause worse degree burns .I was burn on my neck by polyester I couldn't get the plastic off it burned realy deep.cotton doesn't stick on the skin but disintegrates.melted plastic causes worse damage.
As you say, reality is very different from burning shirts on hangers, not least because both sides are exposed to the air that fuels the flames. This results in the fire spreading about 6 times faster. In reality, when your shirt is on fire, you don't just stand there watching it burn. LOL. I have had the edge and sleeve of a light cotton shirt catch alight a few times and I just pulled it away from my body and scrunched it out with my hand at the sane time. I avoided any damage to my body and hardly felt the heat on my hands as I was putting it out. If the same had happened with any synthetic fabric, even if I had pulled it away in time, I have little doubt that the shirt sticking to my hands while melting at 700 degrees wound have caused burns that would have required considerable medical treatment. The safest fabric to wear around fire is denim. The densely woven fabric firstly absorbs the heat and then does not ignite until it reaches 400 degrees. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would not have felt the heat and then not moved away from the fire before the shirt caught alight. Even if it did, the fire would still be fairly easy to scrunch out with your hand.
@@wilsjane Thank you ,I didn't know denim was the best ,I'll remember this ,what you say makes alot of sense,I realy appreciate your comment.Im glad you didn't get burnt my friend.
Thank you for your reply. My boyfriend and I lived in the country for many years, so we were used to open fires in the house, coming across small grass fires and burning the stubble, so we never wore anything synthetic, A few burn holes in our shirts were just an everyday event and no one ever gave them a second thought. Denim is not fireproof enough to be worn by the fire department, but in everyday life it is extremely safe and even if the frays catch alight, they just burn out, occasionally leaving the edge of the fabric smoldering and easy to just pinch out. We mostly only remember things that damage and take the others for granted, but when you think about it, have you ever had a burn on your jeans or denim shirt that worried you.? I always laugh at this advert, because it is something that I have seen several times over the years when we came across a small grass fire, but the guys used their denim jackets, rather than taking their pants off LOL, (Jane). ua-cam.com/video/IwzYuoBxEqI/v-deo.html
@@wilsjane 😯.Im glad they didn't take Thier jeans off😬.I grew up with censored television (it was government censored) ,yikes.Its a 1994 Ad.i don't think I'll take this as an example to follow 😁but will in the future keep demin as good idea when dealing or working with fire.i I woke up and my sleeping bag was on fire it was given to me by someone for winter I was sleeping out in this time,yes we do often remember the bad things but this is part of learning and can help us to be more safe.sometimes we only learn the hard way.and yes sometimes we take the good for granted that's very true .I'm thinking about sewing a denim dress or jacket from some old jeans from my brother.Thank you for sharing it was interesting I try not to use synthetic items if I can.Thanks for your good advice 👖😉✝️🕊️❤️my friend
That skirt or dress that you are making will be ideal to wear at a barbecue. Their have been several accidents over the years where the swirling flames around the edge of the barbecue (that are invisible in bright sunlight) have set someones shorts or skirt alight. Obviously most people were wearing cotton and just brushed them out, but their was a case a few years ago where a guy wearing nylon football shorts ended up in an intensive care burns hospital for 8 months. Had you seen that advert before.? It (and a similar advert made by Lee jeans) were banned in the UK after a teenage guy decided to try it out in a hay barn, obviously wanting to impress his girlfriend and get his jeans off at the same time. Unfortunately, he overlooked the fact that his jeans would not come off over his boots and the resultant fire destroyed the barn, doing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage. I am more aware of safety as well, because my boyfriend works in the film industry. If you look closely at films where people are running around on fire, you will notice that they are always wearing denim or leather. This is purely to prevent the actors ending up in a burns hospital. Even when you see a girl with her dress on fire, she will be wearing skin colored nomex or leather leggings under the dress. The editors will cut to avoid any of their secrets being revealed
Cotton > Polyester. Cotton light catches on fire you get off with no burn (Why? Continue reading). Polyester on other hand? you may be able to detect heat but I am not so sure, but you will definitely find it when you get concentrated 3rd degree burn and that plastic sticks to yo skin, making it even harder to take it off. Now the reason most likely you won't get any burn is if you own oil lamp, try touching the oil and you will find its at room temperature no matter how vigorous / big the flame is. Just like cotton clothes, it is super hot from outside but not so much from inside if you can take it off fast enough no burns.
One thing about this. There is a historical context regarding this question. Tank crew. Many crews operating in russian tank in the middle east uses cheap poliester uniforms. When they were leaving the burning tank they are always appears to be seriolusly burned with plastic pieces gotten stick to their skin. Also the fact that the molten material appears to be near imposible to remove without further damagibg the skin. On the other hand I seen footages from the recent ukraine tank shows russian tank crews leaving a burning tank with clothing remaining almost intact and inly suffering minor facial burns. Their clothing seems less likelly to catch fire. And it appears to be thick cotton clothing.
Im late but polyester also causes cancer since it came from plastics and when you sweat your skin absorbs the micro plastics which is there's no way to clean your blood from micro plastics
look at how bright the polyester/cotton is burning. Cotton poly shirts are very comfortable to work in, but I have done a bit of reading, and the cotton wicks the polyester that would normally drop off of it creating a sort of candle wick and wax style of reaction.
I got my FR coveralls on fire at work while welding. If I had not had a cotton undershirt, my uniform shirt would have melted to my stomach and sent me to the hospital.
Problem is polyester burns are worse.because the plastic sticks on the skin and can cause worse degree burns .I was burn on my neck by polyester I couldn't get the plastic off it burned realy deep.cotton doesn't stick on the skin but disintegrates.melted plastic causes worse damage.
As you say, reality is very different from burning shirts on hangers, not least because both sides are exposed to the air that fuels the flames. This results in the fire spreading about 6 times faster.
In reality, when your shirt is on fire, you don't just stand there watching it burn. LOL.
I have had the edge and sleeve of a light cotton shirt catch alight a few times and I just pulled it away from my body and scrunched it out with my hand at the sane time. I avoided any damage to my body and hardly felt the heat on my hands as I was putting it out.
If the same had happened with any synthetic fabric, even if I had pulled it away in time, I have little doubt that the shirt sticking to my hands while melting at 700 degrees wound have caused burns that would have required considerable medical treatment.
The safest fabric to wear around fire is denim. The densely woven fabric firstly absorbs the heat and then does not ignite until it reaches 400 degrees. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would not have felt the heat and then not moved away from the fire before the shirt caught alight. Even if it did, the fire would still be fairly easy to scrunch out with your hand.
@@wilsjane Thank you ,I didn't know denim was the best ,I'll remember this ,what you say makes alot of sense,I realy appreciate your comment.Im glad you didn't get burnt my friend.
Thank you for your reply. My boyfriend and I lived in the country for many years, so we were used to open fires in the house, coming across small grass fires and burning the stubble, so we never wore anything synthetic, A few burn holes in our shirts were just an everyday event and no one ever gave them a second thought.
Denim is not fireproof enough to be worn by the fire department, but in everyday life it is extremely safe and even if the frays catch alight, they just burn out, occasionally leaving the edge of the fabric smoldering and easy to just pinch out.
We mostly only remember things that damage and take the others for granted, but when you think about it, have you ever had a burn on your jeans or denim shirt that worried you.?
I always laugh at this advert, because it is something that I have seen several times over the years when we came across a small grass fire, but the guys used their denim jackets, rather than taking their pants off LOL, (Jane).
ua-cam.com/video/IwzYuoBxEqI/v-deo.html
@@wilsjane 😯.Im glad they didn't take Thier jeans off😬.I grew up with censored television (it was government censored) ,yikes.Its a 1994 Ad.i don't think I'll take this as an example to follow 😁but will in the future keep demin as good idea when dealing or working with fire.i
I woke up and my sleeping bag was on fire it was given to me by someone for winter I was sleeping out in this time,yes we do often remember the bad things but this is part of learning and can help us to be more safe.sometimes we only learn the hard way.and yes sometimes we take the good for granted that's very true .I'm thinking about sewing a denim dress or jacket from some old jeans from my brother.Thank you for sharing it was interesting I try not to use synthetic items if I can.Thanks for your good advice 👖😉✝️🕊️❤️my friend
That skirt or dress that you are making will be ideal to wear at a barbecue. Their have been several accidents over the years where the swirling flames around the edge of the barbecue (that are invisible in bright sunlight) have set someones shorts or skirt alight. Obviously most people were wearing cotton and just brushed them out, but their was a case a few years ago where a guy wearing nylon football shorts ended up in an intensive care burns hospital for 8 months.
Had you seen that advert before.? It (and a similar advert made by Lee jeans) were banned in the UK after a teenage guy decided to try it out in a hay barn, obviously wanting to impress his girlfriend and get his jeans off at the same time. Unfortunately, he overlooked the fact that his jeans would not come off over his boots and the resultant fire destroyed the barn, doing tens of thousands of pounds worth of damage.
I am more aware of safety as well, because my boyfriend works in the film industry. If you look closely at films where people are running around on fire, you will notice that they are always wearing denim or leather. This is purely to prevent the actors ending up in a burns hospital. Even when you see a girl with her dress on fire, she will be wearing skin colored nomex or leather leggings under the dress. The editors will cut to avoid any of their secrets being revealed
Dripping fire? More like you mean melting to the skin.
You hit the nail right on the head. Take a look at my reply to the other comment. LOL.
Wow, didn't know cotton was more flammable than polyester!
Nice example, I like how you showed the entire burn and didn't do any fancy edits.
I agree, There is a list of other materials that I want to try, just have to find the time. Thanks for the suggestion.
Cotton > Polyester. Cotton light catches on fire you get off with no burn (Why? Continue reading). Polyester on other hand? you may be able to detect heat but I am not so sure, but you will definitely find it when you get concentrated 3rd degree burn and that plastic sticks to yo skin, making it even harder to take it off. Now the reason most likely you won't get any burn is if you own oil lamp, try touching the oil and you will find its at room temperature no matter how vigorous / big the flame is. Just like cotton clothes, it is super hot from outside but not so much from inside if you can take it off fast enough no burns.
lets not forget about all those pesticides that they spray on em fields
One thing about this.
There is a historical context regarding this question. Tank crew.
Many crews operating in russian tank in the middle east uses cheap poliester uniforms. When they were leaving the burning tank they are always appears to be seriolusly burned with plastic pieces gotten stick to their skin. Also the fact that the molten material appears to be near imposible to remove without further damagibg the skin.
On the other hand I seen footages from the recent ukraine tank shows russian tank crews leaving a burning tank with clothing remaining almost intact and inly suffering minor facial burns. Their clothing seems less likelly to catch fire. And it appears to be thick cotton clothing.
Better question is why you would be setting fire to children. But for real, polyester is worse because it melts to skin and makes worse burns,
Im late but polyester also causes cancer since it came from plastics and when you sweat your skin absorbs the micro plastics which is there's no way to clean your blood from micro plastics
look at how bright the polyester/cotton is burning. Cotton poly shirts are very comfortable to work in, but I have done a bit of reading, and the cotton wicks the polyester that would normally drop off of it creating a sort of candle wick and wax style of reaction.
Thanks for the info, it makes scene to me.
Should have included wool.
Could you do more like wool and some of those fancy acrylics and such?
I usually burn my clothes when I get bored of the style and they usually burn easy so I think they must be cotton
That tshirt has an ability of flammability
thanks for video , keep testing fabric materials ..
Interesting! Keep making more videos like this in the future! 😃
I got my FR coveralls on fire at work while welding. If I had not had a cotton undershirt, my uniform shirt would have melted to my stomach and sent me to the hospital.
Test jeans next!
Very nice experiment 👌 👍
Try nomex.