Creosote sprayer

[Shaunpaul]

Hi all, does anyone know if there’s a suitable pressure sprayer out there for use with creosote, the original stuff not the creosote substitute. I’ve already tried one that stated it was chemical resistant but it gave up after a few mins. Or is there only the good old brush and shed loads of time option?.

[GarethM]

Good old brush.

 

Plus always best doing it on an evening after a roasting hot day and the wood will drink it up.

 

But to be honest Creoseal's original 100% coal tar creosote is now absolutely crap, used and filthy engine oil is better.

 

Spent hundreds on it and wished I'd just used engine oil after the wood just rotted.

Edited 10 hours ago by GarethM

[Mick Dempsey]

Used engine oil is no bueno. 
 

 

[GarethM]

3 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Used engine oil is no bueno. 

So which is ecologically worse.

 

Used engine oil that will probably make the timber last for decades or crap Creosote and replacing the wood after 18 months ?.

[Mick Dempsey]

10 minutes ago, GarethM said:

So which is ecologically worse.

 

Used engine oil that will probably make the timber last for decades or crap Creosote and replacing the wood after 18 months ?.

It’s not about ecology. 
It’s about you dying of cancer 

[GarethM]

3 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

It’s not about ecology. 
It’s about you dying of cancer 

How is me changing the oil on various equipment every year Vs painting a wooden fence for example any different?.

 

I'd probably take my chances with engine oil over anything from the DIY shop.

 

Life is a risk, I think several years of lead solder inhalation is going to be more damaging in my 20s or the usual daily life of farming/chainsaws and a long list of things including 3 phase.

[Mick Dempsey]

Ok, fill your boots then. 

[GarethM]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

Ok, fill your boots then. 

Remind me what you do for a job!.

 

Unless you're that boy in the bubble?, before the end of the film obviously.

[Mick Dempsey]

No, you’re right, slop on used engine oil, big brush strokes, don’t muck about, breathe that good stuff in, don’t be a poof. 

[GarethM]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

No, you’re right, slop on used engine oil, big brush strokes, don’t muck about, breathe that good stuff in, don’t be a poof. 

And how is that any different to putting on Creosote, commercial stuff is thin like water and evaporates because it's some form of voc like paint. It's not water based fyi.

 

Ah, you pay a man I guess.