The neighbors are burning railroad ties

[mainewoods]

I tried to use the word dick-er once and that was censored. As in dickering.

 

[mainewoods]

See , it still gets censored.

 

[Whitespider]

Actually most of the folks that had to handle ties back then did smear Vaseline all over themselfs to protect against the creosote burns. Didnt work...

Ahhh-HA‼
Can you say with certainty that it wasn't the constant application of Vaseline causing the skin issues??
Maybe it was the mixing of two very different chemicals... one from petroleum distillation, the other from coal distillation??
Everyone knows it ain't safe to mix chemicals unless you've been trained and know what you're doin'.
They might have... EXPLODED‼
I wonder what the rate of spontaneous human combustion is in railroad workers
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[jdogg]

Had a farmer who used old telephone polls for his center pivot to cross ditches. He had hauled a couple he had replaced out in the woods. While cutting firewood I cut them up and burned them also. They burned real well but the smoke did have a "different " smell to it. Nowdays if we get any telephone polls we use them for elevated hunting blinds. They are the best to be up 20'-30'.

 

[Oldman47]

OK somebody enlighten me here. People have mentioned telephone poles. I thought just the bottome 6 feet or so was all that was treated. Apparently not????

The telephone companies, a few years back now, treated the entire length of a new pole. The visible creosote was mostly no longer easy to see on the part above ground after 10 years or so, but if you climbed those poles like I used to, you found out the creosote was just below the surface. The surface aged to a nice brown instead of the intense black but the creosote was still there in the wood. Without the creosote, like happened on very old poles, the wood would quickly deteriorate.

 

[.404]

Who used the N-word?

Neighbor.......... Wow that felt good. Glad there ain't none here.

 

[Oldman47]

Ahhh-HA‼
Can you say with certainty that it wasn't the constant application of Vaseline causing the skin issues??
Maybe it was the mixing of two very different chemicals... one from petroleum distillation, the other from coal distillation??
Everyone knows it ain't safe to mix chemicals unless you've been trained and know what you're doin'.
They might have... EXPLODED‼
I wonder what the rate of spontaneous human combustion is in railroad workers
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When I worked for the tel co there were lots of cases of folks picking up a skin rash if they worked belted in to a new pole all day. The extreme coating of creosote on a new pole with elevated temperatures causing it to release vapors really got to some people. Others of us had no real issue but that doesn't mean the irritation issue is non-existent. It just means each of us is more or less sensitive to the irritation than others. Happy to hear you are in the less affected group.

 

[tla100]

My buddy in town got a load old Electric Poles and cut and split for his firepit. They stank! Although I have been 3' downwind of those noxious fumes and I guess I am ok.....ok....ok....ok.....ok....ok....

The chips from chainsaw will make you itch and burn too. Moved a Morton Building a few years ago and had to cut the poles off, and all the way around building cutting the 2x6 stringer boards so it sat right with garage doors. Anyway, it sucked, not sure how many chains I went thru hitting them dang ring-shank nails.

Got another buddy that built a hunting shack with old poles.

Oh, I have burned a chunk of cresote board that got thrown in wood pile, in my woodburner. It got hot and sizzled pretty good.

 

[1 stihl nut]

Is it ironic that threads about railroad ties get derailed all the time?

 

[jdogg]

Well if you look at the original pic you see a stack of railroad ties and a pile of telephone poles both for the neighbors OWB.
I'd rec the orig poster tell the guy to sell the poles to people for hunting stands prob could get $20-$50 apiece easy.

 

[Whitespider]

Others of us had no real issue but that doesn't mean the irritation issue is non-existent.

I was never attempting to claim it was non-existent (for some). My point was that just because it causes a skin rash don't make it what some here are portraying it as... powerful deadly carcinogenic toxin that will kill faster than a speedin' bullet if you burn it. Plenty of guys right here on this board have stated certain types of wood will give a skin rash when cuttin' or handlin' it... yet they still burn it.

Here's how I see what's happenin'...
Most people find (coal-tar) creosote to be repugnant; first it stinks, it's baby-crap brown, sticky, gooey, smells like rancid sulfur when burned and can be smokey... everyone knows that stinky, brown, smokey, gooey stuff causes cancer on contact and will kill you faster than a speedin' bullet if ya' burn it.
It reminds me of school girls screamin' and runnin' away from a big, ugly, brown, stink bug... everyone knows that big, ugly, brown, stink bugs cause cooties on contact, and will chew your arm off when you're sleepin' (one girl lost her arm at Banned Camp).
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[the GOAT]

aint that just hunky dory!!! noting on you ,either,im sure,,that even with scrubbers,,that air comes out perfectly clean..yah, uh huh.............what is a gut line??

Is the comma key sticking on your keyboard?

 

[olyman]

Is the comma key sticking on your keyboard?

got that worm out of your brain yet???

 

[nathon918]

thanks to, guess who. mrs transvestite pig herself...or hisself...........

Michelle Obama Dislikes this!

 

[olyman]

Michelle Obama Dislikes this!

troof hurts the pig.....

 

[nathon918]

Is it ironic that threads about railroad ties get derailed all the time?

not really...with all the missing ties being burned, I'm surprised there's not more derails in the other threads...I suggest everyone stays off the tracks...they're not safe!

 

[nathon918]

troof hurts the pig.....

she dislikes you too Olyman...she say you don't ever like her posts??

 

[olyman]

she dislikes you too Olyman...she say you don't ever like her posts??

nathon,,you cant read your own posts??? who was I replying about??? it wasn't the WA leftist. It was moooochelle o flake...sheesh...post 54

 

[svk]

Just curious. Is this guy still burning ties or did he find something else?

 

[066blaster]

He is burning them ,,I think he has enough for the rest of this season.