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Railway ties oozing creosote Mamba 05-19-2008
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Posted by Mamba on May 19, 2008, 4:36 pm
I foolishly used some old RR ties as risers in a landscaping walkway. With
the hot sun this past weekend, old tars starting softening on the surface,
and folks tracked creosote up onto my deck. I can sand it off the deck, but
is there any way to treat the surface of these ties to prevent this?
Tearing up the risers would be somewhere between inconvenient and really
hard.

Tnx



Posted by ransley on May 19, 2008, 4:39 pm
> I foolishly used some old RR ties as risers in a landscaping walkway. =A0W=
ith
> the hot sun this past weekend, old tars starting softening on the surface,=

> and folks tracked creosote up onto my deck. =A0I can sand it off the deck,=
but
> is there any way to treat the surface of these ties to prevent this?
> Tearing up the risers would be somewhere between inconvenient and really
> hard.
>
> Tnx

I dought it, maybe cover them with 1" treated, screwed on.

Posted by Pete C. on May 19, 2008, 5:17 pm

Mamba wrote:
>
> I foolishly used some old RR ties as risers in a landscaping walkway. With
> the hot sun this past weekend, old tars starting softening on the surface,
> and folks tracked creosote up onto my deck. I can sand it off the deck, but
> is there any way to treat the surface of these ties to prevent this?
> Tearing up the risers would be somewhere between inconvenient and really
> hard.
>
> Tnx

Visit your materials place and get a bucket of stone dust. Apply a thick
layer of stone dust on the ties while they're hot and oozing. Pretty
much the same idea as the chip seal they do on roads.

Posted by Boden on May 19, 2008, 6:59 pm
Pete C. wrote:
> Mamba wrote:
>
>>I foolishly used some old RR ties as risers in a landscaping walkway. With
>>the hot sun this past weekend, old tars starting softening on the surface,
>>and folks tracked creosote up onto my deck. I can sand it off the deck, but
>>is there any way to treat the surface of these ties to prevent this?
>>Tearing up the risers would be somewhere between inconvenient and really
>>hard.
>>
>>Tnx
>
>
> Visit your materials place and get a bucket of stone dust. Apply a thick
> layer of stone dust on the ties while they're hot and oozing. Pretty
> much the same idea as the chip seal they do on roads.

If you have a cement manufacturer nearby get a load of "crusher dust,"
the stuff that is produced as a byproduct of Portland cement
manufacturing. I've found that it is a bit better than plain stone dust
for this purpose.

Posted by Red on May 19, 2008, 5:59 pm
> I foolishly used some old RR ties as risers in a landscaping walkway. =A0W=
ith
> the hot sun this past weekend, old tars starting softening on the surface,=

> and folks tracked creosote up onto my deck. =A0I can sand it off the deck,=
but
> is there any way to treat the surface of these ties to prevent this?
> Tearing up the risers would be somewhere between inconvenient and really
> hard.
>
> Tnx

You do know that creosote is now listed as toxic and is a restricted
use product, right?

Red

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