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Originally Posted by Island Girl
A few years ago, we came upon a huge log, the type used for building breakwaters at the SE tip of Rattlesnake Island. It was dusk on a Thursday or Friday night. Somehow Island Guy got a rope around it and we towed it home. I shudder to think how much damage that would cause someone especially after dark.
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Last year, I found a lot of stuff after ice-out. There were wooden chair sections, storm debris, plastic bags, 4X8 dock sections, a giant fiberous flower pot like you see around the lake, a size-11½ flip-flop (
Merrymeeting remembers
). Most was thrown away after I reported it here. The wooden chair sections I actually later matched up with a chair set "upstream" -- but they didn't want it back.
Of the two very different dock sections, I towed one home before the wind kicked up: By morning had lost track of the other which had only an 8-inch galvanized cleat sticking up above the water to be seen. (Should have towed that one
first).
After I called the
M("Keep us posted")
Ps, I winched the first section up on shore. It turned out to have been used as a concrete "form". I mention this because most of the floating "dimensional" (squared) wood objects in the lake are construction-related.
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Originally Posted by Island Girl
By the way, are those logs treated with any preservatives?
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While most of the dried natural wood debris (and untreated concrete forms) makes great fireplace stock, the old "PT" pressure-treated stuff (greenish) should be sent to a landfill.
That log, if it was "huge", probably originated in the Pacific Northwest -- like the NH Lake Region's telephone/utility poles! Go figure.