Grade-One 



Liquid 



Creosote 







Decay in braces at joint where moisture tends to 

 collect. (Courtesy of U. S. Forest Service) 



Preserving Outdoor Timbers 



How Barretts Grade-One Creosote Oil 

 Solved a Problem 



1 



The following question was put up to us recently 

 by a lumber dealer. 



" I have a problem right now in which you may be 

 able to help me. I have just sold some yellow 

 pine timbers to a customer for a coal trestle. He 

 is afraid they will decay and has asked me 

 whether a brush treatment with a preservative 

 will be of any value in preventing decay." 



We answered, 



" Yes, brush treatment will certainly be of some 

 value but immersion of the timbers in a bath of 

 Creosote Oil would be much better if it is possible 

 to manage it. The Creosote should penetrate into 

 the sap of the wood as completely as possible. In 

 almost all cases, the entire sap wood of yellow 

 pine can be thoroughly treated by open tank 

 treatment along approved lines. This result can 

 hardly be obtained by brush treatment, although 

 the penetration obtained by brush treatment, so 

 far as it goes, is well worth its small cost." 



Question, " Can I use the ordinary Commercial Creosote, 

 such as is used in the regular treating plants ?" 



Reply, "Commercial Creosote is not well adapted to cither 

 brush or open tank treatment of timber, because of the prac- 

 tical difficulty that it is solid or semi-solid at ordinary tem- 

 peratures. This makes it difficult to remove from the con- 

 tainer and interferes with proper penetration of the oil. 



"Commercial Creosote is also very apt to contain small 

 amounts of water, which cause the oil to boil over when 

 heated. In regular vacuum treating plants, these features 

 of Commercial Creosote make no difference, but in field work 

 they form troublesome obstacles. 



" Accordingly, we have refined and standardized a special 

 product known as ' Barrett's Grade-One Creosote Oil'. It is 

 designed for exactly such purposes. It is liquid at ordinary 

 temperatures, works readily with a brush, penetrates very 



rapidly and freely, causes no trouble in tank work, and 

 requires no skill or apparatus except an iron tank with pro- 

 vision for heating the Creosote. 



"Treatment with Creosote is very simple and inexpensive. 

 Simply put the Grade-One Creosote Oil into the tank, heat 

 the tank by a fire underneath or with live steam until the 

 Creosote Oil is hot, then plunge the timbers into it for half 

 an hour. It is a good idea to transfer them after half an 

 hour from the hot bath to a cold bath of Creosote Oil, 

 where the cooling process will give still further penetration. 



"Such treatment will double the life of timber. In a trestle 

 the great trouble results from dampness collecting in the 

 joints of the timbers, where it dries out very slowly. 

 Creosoting postpones and retards this process so that it 

 ceases to be a problem." 



The biggest field of usefulness for Grade-One Creosote Oil is 

 for fence posts. A post of soft cheap wood can be made 

 more durable than a hardwood post at insignificant expense. 



Stable floors, platforms and all other woodwork exposed to 

 dampness of weather or soil benefit immensely by the 

 treatment. 



Lumber dealers can make good profit by treating and selling 

 creosoted timber. We shall be glad to give advice regarding 

 the price of apparatus, methods of handling, etc., on request. 



There is also good profit in retailing Barrett's Grade-One 

 Liquid Creosote Oil. The profit margin is ample and thrifty 

 consumers are glad to find a Creosote Oil which they can 

 easily apply themselves, with a certainty of results and free- 

 dom from trouble. 



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