Since 1995, even if we didn’t know it already, everyone should realize that commercial fertilizer is dangerous stuff. It was on April 19th that Timothy McVeigh used a truckload of fertilizer mixed with Diesel fuel to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
It didn’t happen quite as fast, and the results weren’t nearly as spectacular, but I recently discovered evidence of fertilizer destruction in my barn.
No Diesel fuel or blasting caps involved, but over a period of about a year the chemicals leaking from a left-over bag of fertilizer ate over two feet of a 4X4 steel support column.
I have more than enough square tubing on hand to replace the damaged post, but I may not. It is an interior support that probably wasn’t necessary anyway.
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