Does this make sense

[fatheeler]

talking to a fella today, that said local shooting range has to get rid of some of their railroad tie backstops because somebody some where has determined that the creosote in the ties causes cancer, I ask if any one had thought about the 10 million power poles in use around the US or the miles and miles of train track in the US he said that due to Government control of the range property that's the way it is, it just keeps getting better common sense aint what it used to be

 

[joshb]

Wait until they shut it down because of the presence of "toxic levels of lead". It's coming.

 

[ClassCat]

talking to a fella today, that said local shooting range has to get rid of some of their railroad tie backstops because somebody some where has determined that the creosote in the ties causes cancer, I ask if any one had thought about the 10 million power poles in use around the US or the miles and miles of train track in the US he said that due to Government control of the range property that's the way it is, it just keeps getting better common sense aint what it used to be

They don't shoot at Rail road tracks or Power poles

 

[hogpatrol]

talking to a fella today, that said local shooting range has to get rid of some of their railroad tie backstops because somebody some where has determined that the creosote in the ties causes cancer, I ask if any one had thought about the 10 million power poles in use around the US or the miles and miles of train track in the US he said that due to Government control of the range property that's the way it is, it just keeps getting better common sense aint what it used to be

Is that in California? If not, it sounds like bovine fecal matter.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Thats the govt regulations we been trying to get under control

 

[fatheeler]

no its in the fine state of AZ, all the folks that control our ranges come from our esteemed institutes of higher learning being taught by very impartial scholars who have absolutely no alternative motives

 

[joshb]

.....and sure enough we get the "right leaning" guy to start cleaning up the regulations and he turns into an idiot and has to resign. Here comes the New Boss....

 

[fatheeler]

Is that in California? If not, it sounds like bovine fecal matter.

By the way Bovine fecal matter has been know to cause ( you pick the disease ) in Kalifornia

 

[Bc'z]

Wait until they shut it down because of the presence of "toxic levels of lead". It's coming.

They shut us down to just 300 here locally for that very reason. Claiming "possible " contamination of adjacent property.

 

[memilanuk]

no its in the fine state of AZ, all the folks that control our ranges come from our esteemed institutes of higher learning being taught by very impartial scholars who have absolutely no alternative motives

@Matthew Schwartzkopf

 

[Rsadams]

Same here in Texas. I guy I know let the railroad dump a BUNCH of ties on part of his property years ago.. His dad thought oh ya you can stack them out there for $5000 , that's what they offered him... He thought he would just burn them , till the state said nope you can't burn them , he thought ok I will dig a hole and dump them in... Once again the state stepped in and said nope... Now he has a bunch of old rotting railroad ties on his property for the last few decades... I remember when you used to paint that stuff on everything...

 

[dedogs]

creosote in the ties causes cancer

It's not just the creosote that's a problem. It's the millions of gallons of very toxic herbicides that get dumped on railroad beds. Ties soak that stuff up like a sponge. dedogs

 

[MGYSGT]

Those ties make great fence post.

 

[K22]

Bull stools.

 

[DirtySteve]

Same here in Texas. I guy I know let the railroad dump a BUNCH of ties on part of his property years ago.. His dad thought oh ya you can stack them out there for $5000 , that's what they offered him... He thought he would just burn them , till the state said nope you can't burn them , he thought ok I will dig a hole and dump them in... Once again the state stepped in and said nope... Now he has a bunch of old rotting railroad ties on his property for the last few decades... I remember when you used to paint that stuff on everything...

It would be shamed if the spontaneously combusted.. i would not ask i would have just burned them.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

It would be shamed if the spontaneously combusted.. i would not ask i would have just burned them.

Then say those dang kids with the fireworks

 

[shortgrass]

Thats the govt regulations we been trying to get under control

Bovine fecal matter?! They are full of it and have lost control!

 

[joshb]

Is New York City still filling barges full of trash and dumping it all "offshore"?.....along with the millions of gallons of barely treated sewage that ruins the fishing? Don't hear much about that these days.

 

[Texas10]

Local range here in Central Texas just installed railroad ties across the rifle side as a barrier to stop any reckless shooters from elevating their barrel and sending a round into a not too distant new home. They're new, not recycled. Don't enjoy the odor, but they'll do the job and keep the range open as housing developments encroach.

Speaking of bovine fecal matter, have you ever taken an AM Track across the US? When you flush the toilet, you can look right down on the tracks zipping by. Yep, that's where everything you put in a toilet on a train goes, right onto the tracks. That's why they close the toilets while in a station.

So I suspect human pathogens is as much a worry in old train track ties as pesticides and other dangerous chemicals. JMHO.

 

[rwj]

Is New York City still filling barges full of trash and dumping it all "offshore"?.....along with the millions of gallons of barely treated sewage that ruins the fishing? Don't hear much about that these days.

At least some is being shipped via rail to a disposal site in the great state of Alabama!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...abandoned-new-york-city-poop-train/527364002/