Posted by Billy NY on May 11, 2015 at 08:25:34 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: Re: Treated 4 posted by Donald Lehman on May 11, 2015 at 07:22:09:
I used some left over creosote on the bottoms of poles, that were PT, dry as heck, and I pulled on after 8 years, clay/gravel, but well drained soil, it percolates well enough for a leachfield septic system. Nothing wrong at all, and this was just hand applied.
I thought you may be able to make a coal tar creosote, homebrew. None of this properly used for applications that make sense has any adverse effect, the country is littered with creosote treated utility poles. Cripes I had a volunteer cherry tomato grow right next to one of the ones I installed, last year, all kinds of tree frogs, toads and other wildlife around. Its the open pit treatment and similar abuse of a perfectly good material that caused clean up sites and so on from what I saw of it. Same with CCA, ok so maybe you don't want it as a picnic table or playground material, was used like that for years, I handled trailer upon trailer load of it, as well as picking orders of it for 4 years, laden and crystallized CCA, used gloves, never burned it or got splinters of it, of course I did not eat my meals off the surface of it either.
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