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Condition of Materials 



No treated piling, lumber or timber will be accepted that has been 

 injured during treatment by rubbing or scraping against tram arms, 

 rivet heads or due to rough handling. 



Handling of Oeosoted Materials 



In handling creosoted material extreme care should be used so as 

 not to damage the edges of lumber and timbers, or to break through the 

 portion penetrated by the creosoted oil and thus expose untreated 

 wood. Sharp pointed tools, such as cant hooks, peavies, pickaroons 

 and crowbars, must not be used except in the ends of sawed material 

 and in the ends, or within three (3) feet from the ends, of creosoted 

 piling. 



In the rafting of creosoted piling, the use of dogs will be permitted, 

 provided the dogs are driven within three (3) feet of either end of the 

 pile. Shrould the creosoting company place these dogs farther from 

 the ends than above specified, the pilling may be rejected. 



No creosoted material carried in stock by the creosoting company 

 can be applied on the purchaser's contract without the consent of the 

 purchaser. If agreeable to the purchaser to apply stock material on his 

 contract, such material must stand the same rigid inspection as here- 

 inbefore specified for the various classes of material. 



GENERAL CONDITIONS 



1. The Creosoting Company shall furnish an affidavit giving a des- 

 cription of the material furnished if lumber, the grade, treatment and 

 tally of same; if piling, the butt and tip measurements, lengths and 

 treatment; and in all cases an analysis of the creosote oil with which 

 the material was treated. 



When material is purchased subject to tally and inspection by the 

 creosoting plant, such inspection at the plant, as evidenced by sworn 

 certificate, shall be final. 



2. An inspector may be appointed by the purchaser to make such 

 inspection at the creosoting plant as will enable him to accept such 

 material, before and after treatment, as meets the requirements of this 

 specification. 



3. All facilities and reasonable assistance which the inspector 

 may need to execute his work shall be given by the creosoting company 

 free of cost to the purchaser. 



4. The creosoting company shall supply the inspector from time to 

 time with such samples of the creosote oil which is being used or is to 

 be used in the creosoting of material for the purchaser, and at such in- 

 tervals, as the inspector may direct; these samples to be taken from 



