Someone asked the question if I was going to treat the wood that I used on the posts.
That was something that I forgot, and i was planning to write about when I made the posts and enches.
When I was at the big orange home supply center I saw some new treated wood. It’s by Thompson’s, its called Thompsonized wood
he wood was not the normal green treated wood. It’s more of a natural color wood treatment.
This post is treated wood.
The price is about the same as the green treated wood. In fact when i went into the store to buy it I found that the green pressure treated wood was in the same compartment as the thompsonized wood.
According to the advertisement. Their Southern Pine treated wood is available at Home Depot east of the Rockies, the redwood treated wood is available west of the rockies, and the Jackpine treated wood is available in Canada.
I also found on the web this site. Sounds great. They say its the future of treated wood. Timbersil
-- Karson retired in DE e-mail karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
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roman
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posted 216 days ago
being a gardener and lover of this spaceship we call earth
some how, for some reason, I really wish they would stop cutting the Redwoods. Both jack pine and southern pine grow reasonably quick but those redwood trees are so slooooooooow growing, so majestic when they are big and there are so few of them.
-- Central northish Ontario
Bon
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posted 216 days ago
I agree with you greenthumb.The redwoods are so beautiful,big and tall.I was really saddened when I heard they were going to take down the big one in Stanley Park that everyone gets their picture taken inside of.I had my picture taken there when I was a teen.Long ago (lol) and again about 10 years ago.And now it’s gone booo hooo hooo.I also say leave them alone.
Great news on the PT. It’s about time it came in more than just green.
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more
roman
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posted 216 days ago
Bon….......I was not aware that Redwoods grew in Stanly park, having visited the park on many occasions I have yet to see one. I always thought they were inclusive to California and some neighboring states.
I’ve been wrond so many times before and maybe I am wrong now but perhaps you saw the Sitka Spruce or the western cedar or Western Fir? So far as I know, the redwood is the tallest tree on the planet and does not grow in BC.
A great native chief was siad “Whatever befalls the earth also befalls the children of the earth”
Moving along. I am woodworker, self employed, and have been for the last 30 or more years. Having many passions in life, wood, trees, gardening cooking and the list is ever growing and this is my observations on PT wood. I have found little difference in how ‘long” wood lasts, be it treated or none treated. I have noticed that wood that stays wet…......like fence posts in a bog or in a lake/river….........dont rot. Wood that stays dry is the same, it doesnt rot but wood that gets wet,then dries out, gets wet and then dries out…......rots. The degree and speed to which it decays is allabout mother nature and what she throws at it. Even the sun will make wood shrivel. The more wood is punctured from the top down and the more water can sit in cavaties made by nails and screws….....the faster it decays, thus why I screw decks down from the bottom up. Any wood that sits outside, that isnt maintained on a regular schedual, be it treated or non treated…...will rot. This doesnt mean that all woods come under this rule as teak, redwood, cedar to name a few, have natural oils and properties which make it outlast other species.
Sorry for going on and on. I personally love the look of a wooden deck no matter what kind of wood it is albeit as a rule (not the exception) I will never make myself another one, rather choosing concrete.
-- Central northish Ontario
Bob
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Earth first, we’ll mine the other planets later!
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Bob
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Bon
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posted 214 days ago
Greenthumb.I thought they were redwoods.I maybe stand corrected.But these trees sure are huge.The one I mentioned was hollowed out at the base and you could drive a car through it.If you have been to Stanley Park then you possibly saw it?What kind of tree was it?Possibly a Douglas Fir?I have seen the redwoods in California too so maybe I got the names mixed up.As usual (lol) But one thing is for sure.The trees on the west coast sure are humongus.
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more