Re: NANFA-- Above ground pond

Joshua L Wiegert (jlw_at_dune.net)
Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:39:53 -0500

I have a friend who's grandfather built a swingset using pressure treated
2x4s. When he got a little old for the swingset, it was broken down and
tossed behind the shed, where it eventually became buried in compost,
leaves, etc. etc.

My friend is now old enough to have grandkids of his own (he doesn't, but
that's not the point. :) He recently decided that the 50 year old shed had
to go, to be replaced with a new one. When digging out the soil behind the
old shed... he found the pressure treated 2x4s, still in usable, good
condition.

JW

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irate Mormon" <archimedes_at_bayspringstel.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Above ground pond




> Quoting Tom Watson <onefish2fish_at_comcast.net>:
>
> > If you mean those "Cherry Tone" timbers, I will warn you, they will rot
> > where they come into contact with the ground.  I built a raised bed
garden
> > using them and they begin to rot after two or three years.
>
> I don't know what that is - the ones I mean can be had at Home Depot for
about
> $2 each.  They are pressure treated and rated for ground contact (i.e.
they are
> not supposed to rot!).  I have several about my place which have been used
for
> various things over the last several years - no rotting so far...
>
>
> --Irate - charter member of DNRC
>
> "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no
constitution,
> no law, no court can save it."

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