Outside of 6×6 8ft landscape timbers, the local yard here has .25 at the max.on everything else.
Is .40 as difficult to find as SamAdams TripleBock?
I’ve heard CCA pressure treated is still produced for certain necessary applications. If true, where might it be found?
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Hey Rezzman, CCA is apparently still availalable and allowable for agricultural use. I haven't tried to get any, but maybe ag supply place? Salvage a pole barn?
We can get .60 ACQ for docks...I've gotten it at the coast...sounds like another road trip, eh<G>
if yur going looking for .4 ya might as well get .6 instead...
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When the ACQ first came out I questioned some of the lumber folks about the .25 vs the .40 thing. I was told that the .25 ACQ was being sold because the ACQ treating process was more expensive than the CCA and the lumber industry did not want to hit consumers and contractor with a huge jump in price. Then, the few that I talked to said "The .25 ACQ is just as good as the .40 CCA." This was back when these guys didn't even know much about the HD galvanized fastener thing for ACQ. It reminded me that 20 or so years ago, most PT lumber sold (except posts) was .25 (CCA), but it slowly migrated to almost the only thing that was available around 2001 before the switch to ACQ was .40 CCA. Personally I think it's just another screw up on the lumber industries part helped along by the EPA and some tree huggers. I'm not saying that I think ACQ is such a bad thing, but I just didn't like the way it was forced down our throats without substantial and significant proof. I would have rather seen both types available for a 5 yr transition period or something like that...
Anyway, if you want .40 ACQ check with real lumber yards or even speciality lumber yards that cater to out-door structure contractors - there are a few in my area...
CCA is supposed to be available for farm and some industrial use - but I have never seen it, and probably wouldn't use it in any residential applications.
You wont find any CCA anymore. Or at least that was what I found out last summer when I tried to find a supply of it for comercial use. Technicailly CCA can be used in the manurfacturing of boats as I intended to use it. But when I contacted the manufactures they told me that they would mot even consider manurfacturing it due to liability concerns. They told me that they were concerned that some of our materials may find there way to a residential use. At the time I thought that someone would be interested in selling to me since I was looking at buying at least one railcar of plywood and two by material.
Of course my former employer ended up using the cheapest ACQ that they can find against my recomendations with mild steel fasteners and stapples and the handwriting is already on the wall.
Its easy to get the .40 and higher here on the gulf coast. Look for a place that sells to dock or pier builders.
I still get a lot of lumber out of New Orleans, its a couple of hours away but have a lot of dealers there. Its all acq, I got some cca about a year ago but it was old stock kiln dried after treatment stuff.
http://www.timbersil.com/product-info.html
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been trying to find a dealer.
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