Suitable wood for building a jetty?

[difflock]

We wuz towlt that the Georgian/Victorian engineers had nowt to learn (in My Polytech days)

Belfast is built on piles, where i presume the pile top is always below the water table so no worries.

But for some Georgian/ Victorian warehouse project in Belfast or perhaps Liverpool where the pile tops were going to be exposed to the air, the engineers arranged for the multiple downpipes to run off so as to keep the piles constantly wet, they may even have used the hollow section cast iron stanchions as the downpipes (cant remember the exact arrangment) but it was all very elegant.

When said warehouses were eventually demolished in the 20th century the piles were all still perfect, course they may well have been prime teak forby.

We wuz well impressed.

[farmer rod]

Well this has probabbly missed the boat ( sorry about the pun:biggrin:).

 

Creosote impregnated pine sleepers that just aren’t going to wake up. Bacteria degradation of the wood and maybe bacteria and or fungal degrade of the tar oils in freshwater aerobic/anaerobic environment... Quite impressive if you like that sort of thing.

 

these timbers had recently been excavated from mud. The timber has the consistency and smell of over-ripe peaches

 

I have some similar that were around a silage pit, no smell of peaches though

 

...and thanks for the earlier response