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Gardening

Baltimike

(4,441 posts) Sun Jun 9, 2019, 06:32 PM Jun 2019

Does anyone have any experience with garden wall replacement? [View all]

My old landscaping timbers are finally giving way (they are at least 25 years old) and my replacement ones aren't as big...it's making me rethink wooden timbers at all...

So then I came across this: https://itsrecycled.com/site-amenities-railroad-ties-6x8/

Has anyone done this, or know someone who has?

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Does anyone have any experience with garden wall replacement? [View all] Baltimike Jun 2019 OP

My dad built garden walls out of radom stones and no mortar. He just applegrove Jun 2019 #1

I don't think I could lay stone in such a small from garden nt Baltimike Jun 2019 #2

Those wood railway ties are full of creosote or something. We had them applegrove Jun 2019 #4

My only question on old RR ties is the creosote they were soaked in. marble falls Jun 2019 #3

old RR ties are treated with preservatives, they are fine for landscape but I would be careful Kali Jun 2019 #5

We get them for about 5 bucks apiece dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #6

I just read that ad and they are plastic! Kali Jun 2019 #7

Plastic....in the hot sun....100,00 each.. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #9

composite plastic...in the hot sun... Baltimike Jun 2019 #11

I think none of us read the link very carefully... Kali Jun 2019 #8

I posted a link to them in the OP Baltimike Jun 2019 #10

As applegrove said, railroad ties are treated with creosote and not desirable in a garden csziggy Jun 2019 #12

I would be using ones that aren't *actual* rail road ties, but made from recycled plastic Baltimike Jun 2019 #13

Whoops - sorry, missed the recycled part! csziggy Jun 2019 #14

LOL. No prob. Lots of folks did. nt Baltimike Jun 2019 #15

We used recycled plastic for the floor and rails on our deck csziggy Jun 2019 #16