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Pentachloraphenol, WAY OT
By:Craig Bumgarner
Date: 8/3/2001, 11:13 am
In Response To: Careful (Tony B)

Yep, Pentachloraphenol is pretty nasty stuff. As a teenager in the 60's, I set a bunch of fence posts on the family farm one summer. My dad had me dip each post in a bucket full of the stuff before setting it in the ground. A few rain storms later the water in the well started to smell like penta. We probably didn't drink it but we did wash clothes in it. I remember going to the movies on a hot night without air conditioning and when my persperation mixed with the penta in the clothes, the itch was unbearable. I had to leave the movie early and strip down in the car and wait for the rest of my friends to come out. Fairly embarrasng as a teenager.

I would suspect that wood soaked with penta would likely yield the same reaction as the dust lay on your skin or in your lungs. Penta has a distinctive odor, very chemical like. Ditto for cresote.

I won't be surprised, however, if they are not treated. WR Cedar is naturally very rot resistant, that is why they probably used it in the first place.

Craig

Messages In This Thread

Free Old Red Wood cedar
David J. Bonany -- 8/2/2001, 11:42 am
Careful
Tony B -- 8/2/2001, 2:59 pm
Pentachloraphenol, WAY OT
Craig Bumgarner -- 8/3/2001, 11:13 am
More OT penta musings...
Jim Pace -- 8/3/2001, 7:17 pm
Re: Pentachloraphenol, WAY OT
West -- 8/3/2001, 3:58 pm
Re: cutting trees (OT)
Don Beale -- 8/3/2001, 4:44 pm
Re: Cresote
Chip Sandresky -- 8/2/2001, 3:57 pm
Re: Cresote
West -- 8/2/2001, 4:09 pm
Re: Cresote
David J. Bonany -- 8/3/2001, 11:16 am
Re: WOW!! how many boats do you want? *NM*
Ben Staley -- 8/2/2001, 12:36 pm