pipwish-
I really only know of 'zinger' from the Big Bang Theory,
and,
the recipient of a Sheldon zinger seldom looks happy or even comforted.
While I can be as sarcastic or ill-tempered as anyone,
I had hoped that my earnest request to jackbepablo was factual, informative,
and positive in offering an alternative (eventual) solution to the disposal of old fence panels and sheds. I realise this is now sounding a bit too earnest,
but having made a career out of selling (benign) chemicals
I try to do my bit to help people who will not know the continuing risks
from previous standard practise.
The other obvious example is safely removing old gloss paint that
unbelievably used to contain lead acetate as a curing agent.If we, all, get through this, drop over to Wests for a Thursday night drink.
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mespilus' knowledge of our industrial-chemical heritage is quite something. :)
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Oliver Schick
Please don't ever suggest burning old fence panels or wooden sheds.
The old way of preserving thin section timber was tanalising.
Planks of timber were loaded into a thick steel walled pressure chamber and a vacuum applied.
The solvent-based tanalising liquid was then pumped in, with (hopefully) all the microscopic airholes in the timber filling with the tanalising fluid.
The pressure chamber was then returned to normal air pressure and the timber unloaded, allowing the solvent to evaporate.
Quite apart from the solvent contributing to NMVOCs, (non-methane volatile organic compunds), adding to urban smog,
the active material in the tanalising liquid was copper chrome arsenate.
Any of those three constituents will kill you,
and,
you and your neighbours don't need toxic smoke in the local atmosphere,
especially as we currently have the cleanest air in living memory.
Any old fence panels and sheds can be safely deposited at your local Councils domestic recycling facilities, when they re-open.
tl;dr: don't burn old fence panels or sheds.