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Dan Maday

January 04, 2008 07:15AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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I do not know about the feasibility of using them for railroad ties but I do know that beetle kill is being used quite a lot in the home building industry here in CO. I have seen it used for such things as stair treads and toungue and groove ceilings and floors. It is a really beautiful product once cut and milled with a cool blue staining to the wood from the saliva of the beetle. But, again, I'm not sure how durable or how hard the pine is and how it would hold up from the abuses of a railroad.

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Pine Beetle Ties?	Ken in Buena Vista	January 04, 2008 05:32AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Dan Maday	January 04, 2008 07:15AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Ed Stabler	January 04, 2008 08:05AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	San Juan	January 04, 2008 09:23AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Jim Grigsby	January 11, 2008 09:29AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	hank	January 11, 2008 11:15AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Jim Grigsby	January 14, 2008 09:29AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	hank	January 14, 2008 10:06AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Jim Grigsby	January 15, 2008 08:04AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	dan	January 11, 2008 02:24PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	ncorailfan	January 11, 2008 03:58PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	dan	January 11, 2008 06:00PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	ncorailfan	January 13, 2008 04:46PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Yosemite Sam	January 04, 2008 04:16PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	doodlebug	January 04, 2008 04:22PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	South Park	January 06, 2008 02:28AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Yosemite Sam	January 06, 2008 07:28AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	doodlebug	January 06, 2008 11:47AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Yosemite Sam	January 06, 2008 05:27PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	doodlebug	January 07, 2008 12:14PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Wade Hall	January 11, 2008 12:57PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	J.B.Bane	January 12, 2008 09:11AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Ken in Buena Vista	January 12, 2008 09:55AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	San Juan	January 12, 2008 02:25PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Rick Steele	January 13, 2008 07:45PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	hank	January 14, 2008 10:32AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Rick Steele	January 14, 2008 02:29PM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	davegrandt	January 14, 2008 08:57AM
Re: Pine Beetle Ties?	Wade Hall	January 12, 2008 09:50AM

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