2008 Unaugural - 4 week warning!

[BT Humble]

On Apr 14, 4:21 pm, TimC <[email protected]
astro.swin.edu.au> wrote:
> On 2008-04-01,BTHumble (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> > In short, the Unaugural is an annual gathering of aus.moto people in a
> > paddock on my farmlet near Tarago, NSW. Weather permitting, we have a
> > bonfire of sufficient size to provide a reasonable simulation of
> > Armageddon.
>
> I shall attend one of these years, but this year I have gone down to
> Melbourne to make another last ditch attempt at finishing my thesis
> (hence my reading USENET). To get here, I took the train down from
> Cootamundra. They are doing trackwork. Tonnes and tonnes and
> thousands of tonnes of wooden sleepers are lying discarded by the
> track for hundreds of kilometres, waiting to be picked up by wood
> recyclers, and/or massive bonfire builders.
>
> Do your duty. That is all.

Heh! There's a few piles of them around Tarago too (they replaced all
the sleepers between the village and the Sydney-garbage-train
terminus).

I was under the impression that they put a lot of creosote on them?


BTH

 

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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:33:38 +1000, TimC wrote:

>On 2008-04-14, Terryc (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Well hello, rhodite.

--
Mr H (ex lawESS servant)

 

[TimC]

On 2008-04-14, [email protected] (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:33:38 +1000, TimC wrote:
>
>>On 2008-04-14, Terryc (aka Bruce)
>> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>
> Well hello, rhodite.

Oh wow! There are people still there too! Death of USENET and all
that.

--
TimC
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

 

[Andrew McKenna]

BT Humble wrote:
>
> Heh! There's a few piles of them around Tarago too (they replaced all
> the sleepers between the village and the Sydney-garbage-train
> terminus).
>
> I was under the impression that they put a lot of creosote on them?
>
>
> BTH
All railway sleepers are preservative treated with something, but if
they were made after 1970, chances are it would be
copper-chrome-arsenate (CCA). You don't want to be within 5 kilometres
of someone burning CCA treated timber.

Coal tar creosote is a probable human carcinogen (according to the EPA
in the United States) but burning creosote treated timber in a bike
rally bonfire ought to be safe enough, since the creosote will vaporise
in a hot fire and be blown away. Not so good for your neighbour's sheep
may be.

--
Regards

Andrew

 

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On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:34:05 +1000, TimC wrote:

>On 2008-04-14, [email protected] (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:33:38 +1000, TimC wrote:
>>
>>>On 2008-04-14, Terryc (aka Bruce)
>>> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
>>
>> Well hello, rhodite.
>
>Oh wow! There are people still there too! Death of USENET and all
>that.

Well, that's one group I thought would never die. Remember the halcyon
(450 plus per) days? A great group - I wonder if it will ever
resurrect itself?

Mr H (recd.humor.oracle.d sic for Luddites with a passing interest)