07/06/08, 08:56 AM
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Too many fat quarters...
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SW Nebraska, NW Kansas
Posts: 8,537
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Originally Posted by homedad
my dad built a cabin with a friend out of phone poles 35 years ago. It's used probably 100 days a year, and no ill effects at all except that your clothes smell like creosote when you get back home. No problems at all, and free wood was really helpful!
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Definitely don't build with creosote. It's a known carcinogenic.
Fact Sheet from the EPA
Or rather, don't build a confined space with them. Run-ins, Pole barns, that sort of thing are probably okay. We have a massive corral that DH built with telephone poles and irrigation pipe. It'd hold buffalo.
There's no doubt you can come up with 101 uses for old creosote telephone poles. Just don't put them in your living space.
Last edited by ErinP; 07/06/08 at 09:02 AM.
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