Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["jerry walker" <cubby149@vermontel.net>]

Call your local railroad [maintaince of way] office and ask if they have any 
you could go pick up and where they are

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From: "BirdWalk" <birdwalk@frontiernet.net>
To: "'Healthy soil and sustainable growing'" 
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] raised beds made with railroad ties


> What I can get is used rail road ties - how old?  Old enough the rail road
> no longer wants them and I doubt they change them out very often.  Anyone
> know anything on that front? I'd love to use them for the ease involved 
> but
> I may do a few poured concrete wall beds to see how hard they are to make.
> The forming would be the worst of it as hubby got a mixer that fits on the
> tractor for Christmas.
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> lucile
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> To each his own.....has not killed me yet and I'm 77.  I do use OLD RR 
> ties
> in which I expect the treatment is minimal.
>
> BArbara
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