Diesel fuel and motor oil deck treatment

[clemsonfor]

Its really not all that slick after the first few months. I have done it to my trailer 2-3x and its not any slicker than smooth wood is when wet, or stained/painted wood is when its wet.

 

[Tollster]

Only the government and large corporations are permitted to spray, or inject the ground with anything they please, NOT YOU!

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I would not put motor oil in it no matter what I used it for. Straight diesel is a good preservative. soak your ground contact wood in it for a day and the termites will leave it alone. I was in Vietnam with the Navy Seabees and we treated the floor joists and the plywood floors with it during construction. We all learned to love the smell of Diesel fuel. We treated the floors again every month. It was very easy to keep the floors clean as they swept up easy. I would never use it where it could be tracked into the house. Great for out building wood floors though.

Ron

 

[Midniteoyl]

Chip seal (slag) roads are made by shooting AC (Asphalt cement) and the laying a thin thin layer of 1/2" or 3/8" granite in the tack, and using a traffic roller (9 wheel pnuematic tire roller) to firmly press the stone into the tack.

But it used to be quite common to spray limerock roads with used motor oil to keep the dust down, not done anymore by counties but some individuals still do.

If you think asphalt is toxic try throwing a shovel full on some sod, and come back in a week, greenest sod you'll see. Heck look at paved guardrail pad, its ate up with grass.

They still spray in my county.. and glad they do. But, only just before to just after a home. Not the whole road.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Best wood preservative I have found is a mix of RV antifreeze (propylene glycol) and Boric Acid. Soak good..

 

[PhysAssist]

Best wood preservative I have found is a mix of RV antifreeze (propylene glycol) and Boric Acid. Soak good..

Or use borate rods inserted on 12" centers (depending on the size of the post)- that is a safer way to prevent rot and insects.

We have borate and copper sulfate rods that we put into holes bored in our log house in areas where wetness is prevalent (due to the guy who built it cheaping out on the overhangs), we bore a hole, put in the rod, and cap with a plug of SYP (same as the logs) to prevent fungal rot and insect infestation. The rods slowly diffuse into the wood when it is wet killing fungi and bugs.

The best price for the size and qty we needed was at www.coppercare.com.

BTW, as to the motor oil safety issue, it says right on the bottles that it is a known carcinogen, and having it run through a hot engine where petrochemicals are being incompletely combusted can't make it any healthier, and it is known that used oil has all manner of toxic things like heavy metals, PCBs, etc.

In the no so distant past bunches of hazardous things were released into the environment, a lot of which no one knew (or admitted to knowing) were as bad as they ended up being.

Remember DDT, Agent Orange, etc, anyone.

At the campgrounds where we camped at summers while growing up they used to drive through and spray the whole area with pesticides once a week to kill any mosquitoes because people complained about them.

Typically, we were outside playing while they were doing it and no one ever told us to go inside to avoid the spray or wash our clothes or other precautions.

Yeah we're still alive (well most of us), but who knows what the exposures did to us? I ended having a rare bone cancer at age 19, with no family history of it.

We now live on property that was a fruit orchard 50-100 years ago, and a good friend who is an environmental engineer (and does environmental safety studies) recommended that (between the oils they used to spray on the fruit trees and the superfund site 3 miles away from us, where a town highway dept employee had stored barrels of the oil (not asphalt) they used to spray on the dirt roads to keep dust down 30 years ago, both of which ended up leaching heavy metals and PCBs into the ground water), we should only raise veggies in soil brought here from somewhere else, and put into raised beds to sequester it from the native dirt here to avoid heavy metal poisoning.

 

[loudhornsrule]

I use crude oil. It works excellent

 

[PhysAssist]

I use crude oil. It works excellent

Way to bump an old old thread loud horns!

While I suspect you're just busting chops, honestly, Crude scares me less than a lot of the refined stuff with all the additives, or used stuff with the changes made by high temperture and products of combustion added in...

Thomas

 

[loudhornsrule]

No, I really do use crude oil. Works excellent>

 

[Xfaxman]

No, I really do use crude oil. Works excellent>

Were do you get crude oil?