Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

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Bob Mannix wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

Nearly as good as a fresh tarmac being laid ;-)

Chris
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Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:07:06 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Bob Mannix wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

Nearly as good as a fresh tarmac being laid ;-)

Chris

Or my brother's motorbike on Castrol R.
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It's not rocket science, you know.

On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

You should have reported it to the Ecobollox Brigade. They would have
had the lorry off the road until it was fitted with some hazmat
sheilding to protect us from the deadly creosote. (Did you see anyone
drop dead as it went by? I am sure there are file loads of reports on
this happening) )

On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


Forgot!

Has anyone seen any genuine old fashioned creosote around? I have
some new fencing and and gates and want it to last longer than 18
months.

Cheers

"Bob Mannix" wrote in message
...
Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

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The horror, the horror!

On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:24:37 UTC, PeterC
wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:07:06 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Bob Mannix wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

Nearly as good as a fresh tarmac being laid ;-)

Chris

Or my brother's motorbike on Castrol R.

Or Edinburgh on a brewing day.
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"EricP" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


Forgot!

Has anyone seen any genuine old fashioned creosote around? I have
some new fencing and and gates and want it to last longer than 18
months.

Do you have a pressure tank to treat it in?
If not don't bother.
You would have to leave it soaking in the creosote to protect it.
Creosote just doesn't work as a brush on treatment.
I hate the smell of the stuff so if you use it by me I will try and get the
council to remove the stuff.

Cheers

Huge wrote:
On 2009-05-20, Bob Mannix wrote:
Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

I was on my way to a race once (I think we were on our way to Cadwell Park, so
it would be around Sleaford somewhere) and we passed a yard with hundreds of
freshly creosoted telegraph poles stacked up in it. The smell was so strong
it made my eyes water...

We had the poles that carry power to my house replaced last year. When the
old ones were cut down, they smelled of creosote, and they're 40 years old.


You should have been at my place today Hugh. Been chainsawing railway
sleepers into raised bed retainers for SWMBO's garden.
So far with the exception of one cut, the penetration of the creosote
has been 100%. The sleepers are 1976 vintage and no signs of rot. The
beautiful odour of the creosote pervades the garden this evening.

Bob

On 20 May 2009 18:42:18 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:24:37 UTC, PeterC
wrote:

On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:07:06 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

Bob Mannix wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.

Nearly as good as a fresh tarmac being laid ;-)

Chris

Or my brother's motorbike on Castrol R.

Or Edinburgh on a brewing day.

I'm only a few miles from Carlsberg brewery and that's good at times.

Also British Peper and Spice can be evocative.

As for riding in to Dufftown 20-odd years ago, at about sunset - got ****ed
on the fumes!
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You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

EricP wrote:


Has anyone seen any genuine old fashioned creosote around? I have
some new fencing and and gates and want it to last longer than 18
months.

Cheers

Still available at specialist timber suppliers. Strictly for
professional application, so when the salesperson asks you if it's for
the farm, the answer is yes.

PeterC wrote:

I'm only a few miles from Carlsberg brewery and that's good at times.

Also British Peper and Spice can be evocative.

As for riding in to Dufftown 20-odd years ago, at about sunset - got ****ed
on the fumes!

I worked for some time in Trafford Park. To the south west was
Kellogs, so the prevailing wind had an aroma rather like putting
your head in a cornflakes packet. To the north east were the
Rubber Regeneration Works. Whatever they did, it was pretty
noxious. To the north west was Turner's Asbestos. No aroma, I
just hope their filtration was up to scratch.

Chris
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Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh.

Bob Mannix wrote:
Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


Takes me back about 50 years, incredibly evocative.

Dave Osborne wrote:
EricP wrote:


Has anyone seen any genuine old fashioned creosote around? I have
some new fencing and and gates and want it to last longer than 18
months.

Cheers

Still available at specialist timber suppliers. Strictly for
professional application, so when the salesperson asks you if it's for
the farm, the answer is yes.

Shouldn't the answer be "ooh arr" to be convincing?


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www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Thu, 21 May 2009 06:35:20 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

PeterC wrote:

I'm only a few miles from Carlsberg brewery and that's good at times.

Also British Peper and Spice can be evocative.

As for riding in to Dufftown 20-odd years ago, at about sunset - got ****ed
on the fumes!

I worked for some time in Trafford Park. To the south west was
Kellogs, so the prevailing wind had an aroma rather like putting
your head in a cornflakes packet. To the north east were the
Rubber Regeneration Works. Whatever they did, it was pretty
noxious. To the north west was Turner's Asbestos. No aroma, I
just hope their filtration was up to scratch.

Chris

Yes, an asbestos flakes packet...!

When I used to go to Banbury quite often there were the 'fumes' of
coffee/chocolate from about 5 miles away if the wind was SW. Now, in to a
headwind that's getting on 25 min. of the stuff and I used to feel slightly
nauseous by the time I got there.
I prefer the whisky any day :-)) hic!
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You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.

PeterC wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 06:35:20 GMT, Chris J Dixon wrote:

PeterC wrote:

I'm only a few miles from Carlsberg brewery and that's good at times.

Also British Peper and Spice can be evocative.

As for riding in to Dufftown 20-odd years ago, at about sunset - got ****ed
on the fumes!
I worked for some time in Trafford Park. To the south west was
Kellogs, so the prevailing wind had an aroma rather like putting
your head in a cornflakes packet. To the north east were the
Rubber Regeneration Works. Whatever they did, it was pretty
noxious. To the north west was Turner's Asbestos. No aroma, I
just hope their filtration was up to scratch.

Chris

Yes, an asbestos flakes packet...!

When I used to go to Banbury quite often there were the 'fumes' of
coffee/chocolate from about 5 miles away if the wind was SW. Now, in to a
headwind that's getting on 25 min. of the stuff and I used to feel slightly
nauseous by the time I got there.
I prefer the whisky any day :-)) hic!
The converse is driving past the cellophane (?) factory at Bridgewater,
if it still exists. The smell is terrible, I don't know how local
residents put up with it!

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On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


When I lived in Lincolnshire a few years back I used to have to drive
to the Pilgrim Hospital at Boston, every three or four days. On the
A16 around Wyberton, there was a big yard filled with telegraph poles
emanating a very strong smell of creosote. That did more to clear my
lungs than any of the hospital treatment. Always loved that smell.

Old Git wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


When I lived in Lincolnshire a few years back I used to have to drive
to the Pilgrim Hospital at Boston, every three or four days. On the
A16 around Wyberton, there was a big yard filled with telegraph poles
emanating a very strong smell of creosote. That did more to clear my
lungs than any of the hospital treatment. Always loved that smell.

Can I just say that I quite agree that the odd whiff of real creosote is
lovely, but if anybody does decide to go ahead and get some, you *need*
to take appropriate precautions.

It really is horrible stuff, so wear old clothes under a disposable
overall. Wear long sleeves, long trousers, long waterproof gloves,
wellies and safety specs. Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel
handy, cause if you get it on your skin it burns. Preferably, make sure
there's an eyewash kit in the house, cause you don't want to get this
stuff in your eyes. If you're using it for an extended period in an
enclosed space, use a respirator - it's probably carcinogenic and will
trigger your asthma.

Oh, and if you're planning to get laid on Saturday night, don't paint
the fences on Saturday afternoon - it takes days to get the smell off
your skin and out of your hair...

On Thu, 21 May 2009 15:37:34 UTC, Dave Osborne
wrote:

Oh, and if you're planning to get laid on Saturday night, don't paint
the fences on Saturday afternoon - it takes days to get the smell off
your skin and out of your hair...

Unless you get the layee to help...!

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On Thu, 21 May 2009 16:21:55 +0100, Broadback wrote:

The converse is driving past the cellophane (?) factory at Bridgewater,
if it still exists. The smell is terrible, I don't know how local
residents put up with it!

Was cellophane and closed in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Cellophane

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in 203442 20090521 162155 Broadback wrote:

The converse is driving past the cellophane (?) factory at Bridgewater,
if it still exists. The smell is terrible, I don't know how local
residents put up with it!

The lino factory at Staines was pretty pungent ...

"Dave Osborne" wrote in message
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Old Git wrote:
On Wed, 20 May 2009 08:26:50 +0100, "Bob Mannix"
wrote:

Cycling to work, passed in the sun by a whole lorry stacked with newly
creosoted wood.

I love the smell of creosote in the morning.


When I lived in Lincolnshire a few years back I used to have to drive
to the Pilgrim Hospital at Boston, every three or four days. On the
A16 around Wyberton, there was a big yard filled with telegraph poles
emanating a very strong smell of creosote. That did more to clear my
lungs than any of the hospital treatment. Always loved that smell.

Can I just say that I quite agree that the odd whiff of real creosote is
lovely, but if anybody does decide to go ahead and get some, you *need* to
take appropriate precautions.

It really is horrible stuff, so wear old clothes under a disposable
overall. Wear long sleeves, long trousers, long waterproof gloves, wellies
and safety specs. Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel handy,
cause if you get it on your skin it burns.

No it doesn't, I have frequently been in (somewhat too liberal) contact with
it. Not that I would advise that but it doesn't burn.

Preferably, make sure there's an eyewash kit in the house, cause you don't
want to get this stuff in your eyes.

True, as with everything else aside from water!

If you're using it for an extended period in an enclosed space, use a
respirator - it's probably carcinogenic and will trigger your asthma.

I wouldn't use it in an enclosed space anyway


Oh, and if you're planning to get laid on Saturday night, don't paint the
fences on Saturday afternoon - it takes days to get the smell off your
skin and out of your hair...

Now that *is* true ;o)


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Bob Mannix wrote:

Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel handy,
cause if you get it on your skin it burns.

No it doesn't, I have frequently been in (somewhat too liberal) contact with
it. Not that I would advise that but it doesn't burn.


Well you must have skin like an elephant hide then, because the stuff I
had sure as hell burnt me. Very uncomfortable after only a few seconds
of skin contact.

Dave Osborne wrote:
Bob Mannix wrote:

Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel handy,
cause if you get it on your skin it burns.

No it doesn't, I have frequently been in (somewhat too liberal)
contact with it. Not that I would advise that but it doesn't burn.


Well you must have skin like an elephant hide then, because the stuff
I had sure as hell burnt me. Very uncomfortable after only a few
seconds of skin contact.

I used to creosote my grandmother's fences as a kid in the 50s and don't
recall a problem re stinging but sure as hell would have been concerned
about Saturday night if testostrone had kicked in!

Clot wrote:
Dave Osborne wrote:
Bob Mannix wrote:

Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel handy,
cause if you get it on your skin it burns.
No it doesn't, I have frequently been in (somewhat too liberal)
contact with it. Not that I would advise that but it doesn't burn.

Well you must have skin like an elephant hide then, because the stuff
I had sure as hell burnt me. Very uncomfortable after only a few
seconds of skin contact.

I used to creosote my grandmother's fences as a kid in the 50s and don't
recall a problem re stinging but sure as hell would have been concerned
about Saturday night if testostrone had kicked in!



It's quite possible that the formulation has changed over the years and
it's also quite possible that the formulation varies between suppliers.
I'm just relating my own recent experience. I wasn't imagining the
burning effect. YMMV as they say.

in 203660 20090523 003420 "Clot" wrote:
Dave Osborne wrote:
Bob Mannix wrote:

Have a bucket of clean water, soap and a towel handy,
cause if you get it on your skin it burns.

No it doesn't, I have frequently been in (somewhat too liberal)
contact with it. Not that I would advise that but it doesn't burn.


Well you must have skin like an elephant hide then, because the stuff
I had sure as hell burnt me. Very uncomfortable after only a few
seconds of skin contact.

I used to creosote my grandmother's fences as a kid in the 50s and don't
recall a problem re stinging but sure as hell would have been concerned
about Saturday night if testostrone had kicked in!

Creosote would sting if the sun got on the creosote on your skin.
Like accelerated sunburn.