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Posted by Harry K on May 20, 2008, 12:14 am
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> > You do know that creosote is now listed as toxic and is a restricted
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> > Well, they were resold to me by the local farm supply store in rural WA.=
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> > certainly wouldn't buy them again, for my current reasons and because of=
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> > As an aside on this, wonder if there's any restrictions on the sale of t=
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> > old ones they tear up. =A0I drive past a BNSF fail yard every weekend, a=
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> > they have stacks of them (hundreds, maybe thousands) with a big "4 sale"=
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> > cheap dock or anything like that.
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> The seller does not know what you will be using them for and probably
> doesn't want to know. =A0There are a lot of uses where people do not
> come in contact with the creosote and are probably safe for that
> usage. =A0Rural barbwire fence corner posts come to mind. =A0When you
> mentioned it being tracked onto your deck that raised a flag in my
> mind as possibly getting into the house also - something I would worry
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The "Oh my God, Creosote!!, panic, run" is/was nothing but a political
movement. Yes, you could have health problems if you chewed up and
ate enough of the treated wood but short of that, no. Same with the
dreaded "leaching".
The ban is on using it to treat wood members, there is no restriction
on selling and using already treated salvaged members. Any RR ties
for sale will almost always be the creosoted ones and likely will be
for a long while to come.
Age of RR ties is no gaurantee that they will, or won't, bleed. I
have retaining walls (5 ft high) and border edgings from RR ties that
are 20 years old that have a few that still bleed. The ties were
probably a lot older than that when I bought them.
The OP's problem is with tracking it. All that I can think of is to
either cover it up somehow or replace the ones that bleed. In my
case, it is the odor on a hot day that is a minor problem.
Harry K
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