"Consultant": N. "Someone who comes in from out of town and shows slides."

Seriously, rot is just a fact of life. What are folks going to do when you
can't get treated lumber for your outdoor projects any longer. I understand
it will be banned soon. Probably due to the efforts of the steel and
concrete industries.

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Keith
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Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.
"Stephen Baker" wrote in message
...
Bill Gough says:

Research the facts and formulate a system
for yourself, you might even get rich marketing it.

You're missing his point, Bill. He specifically stated "As a consultant -
I
track and solve problems through systems."

This consultant doesn't _do_ research, he relies on others' rules of
thumb,
which are resold at a profit. That's the way it reads to me.

Now, if he had offered money for someone to develop a "system" to prevent
rot
in boats (as _if_....) then maybe I't'd-a bin diff'runt.

Steve

For years (since about 1988 or so) my brother (a professional
carpenter/contractor since the mid '70s and still going strong) has
professed that "pt lumber will be the asbestos of the 'oughts'". It has
little to do with the steel and concrete industry. It has to do with
birth defects, accumulated toxins that lead to chronic illnesses, etc.
The chems in pt lumber are nasty stuff. Duh... it's made to kill stuff.

What will we do? We'll create a big enough market for recycled plastic
lumber to make it more economical for the people who produce it which
will in turn bring the prices down. And us, the bottom of the market,
insignificant home boat builders will truly benefit from it. (IMO)
Ed

Keith wrote:
"Consultant": N. "Someone who comes in from out of town and shows slides."

Seriously, rot is just a fact of life. What are folks going to do when you
can't get treated lumber for your outdoor projects any longer. I understand
it will be banned soon. Probably due to the efforts of the steel and
concrete industries.

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:28:06 -0500, "Keith"
wrote:

"Consultant": N. "Someone who comes in from out of town and shows slides."

Seriously, rot is just a fact of life. What are folks going to do when you
can't get treated lumber for your outdoor projects any longer. I understand
it will be banned soon. Probably due to the efforts of the steel and
concrete industries.

CCA treated lumber has arsenic in it. Arsenic is bad. The lumber
industry has already created other pressure-treating techniques that
use chemicals that work just as well but are not nearly so toxic to
mammals. I believe that CCA will be gone in the US in the next few
years, to be replaced by other materials.

- Rick Tyler