View Full Version : Wood treated with creosote (redwood)
martyphee
09-23-2006, 4:25 PM
Any hope of salvaging it? Must be an old water tower. Wondering if it can just be bandsawed off. A 3x8 gives a lot of material to work with. I don't think I'd want to put it through the planer or jointer until it's off.
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/for/211157686.html
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Nevermind, big no-no http://www.koppers.com/htm/Citiz_SHaE_CIS_CTW.html
Ben Grunow
09-23-2006, 9:45 PM
Creosote is a carcinogen. PLus it stinks and sticks all over you when you cut wood saturated with it. I say no IMHO.
Cody Colston
09-23-2006, 10:05 PM
I didn't know creosote was a carcinogen (isn't everything) but the dust will blister any skin that is exposed when sawing it.
I worked with a guy that has a bandsaw mill and he got a bunch of old bridge timbers from the county. He would saw them up into 4/4 planks for fence boards.
I always knew when he had been sawing those timbers because his face would look badly sunburned.
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