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Identifier: creosotedtimer00norf (find matches)
Title: Creosoted timer
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Norfolk creosoting company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (n. p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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linedexacts the most careful attention and skillful management,supplemented by adequate and suitable appliances. Thewide divergence in the characteristics of timber ; the vary-ing amounts of sap, due to the lapse of time since, and theseason in which the tree was felled ; its possible subsequentimmersion in water for a longer or shorter time ; the char-acter of the soil and the conditions under which the treegrew, whether in a dense forest or a comparatively opencountry, wdiether it is of a rapid even growth, or a slow in-termittent one, are all factors contributing to a more or lessperfect product. To the experienced operator these condi-tions indicate, in each case, the proper course to be pursued.Failure to observe and to take them into consideration is toinvite indifferent, uncertain and in the end unsatisfactoryresults. Of equal importance is a proper understanding ofthe circumstances under which the finished product is to beused. Timber for piers, wharves and other structures in
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< oo OO Q OPh ITS PREPARATION AND USES 3& tropical waters demandjprocesses and degrees of thorough-ness of treatment that are unnecessay in the harbors ofmore temperate chmates, which are, in turn, more exactingthan land and fresh-water construction. It is as true as it is unfortunate, that, in the past—per-haps at present—much creosoted work has fallen far below

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