On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 09:49:14 -0600, Bob Adkins wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:43:03 -0700, (paghat)
wrote:

There are now on the market pressure-treated rot-resistant woods that do
not have arsenic & copper & are environmentally safe. The only part of a

What do they treat them with? Garlic maybe?

Boron. Sodium tetraborate/pentaborate/octaborate but the wood must be
kept away from water. It's good against termites and fungi where the
wood can be kept dry ( as in structural members of a house ). It should
not be kept in contact with soil.

Everything else that I see has at least copper in it (but no arsenic )
except for the stuff they put on utility poles. That's pentachlorophenol
and it is disolved in an oil before being pressed into the wood.