Re: [ST] Wayne National Forest (OH) - Need Advice

["B Parker" <bparker15@xxxxxxx>]

<Since you're probably not referring to the output of volcanoes, or
> the remains of burned out houses or forests, exactly what type of
> cinders do you folks find on your local roads? Hopefully not the
> block type.

Some places spread gravel (aka cinders) on the roads in winter to aid
traction rather than use salt. Not sure of the origin of the name, but I
think it's just gravel. Might be coke oven or steel mill related though.
Dunno...

Garry>

when i was a yout' in Pittsburgh, we called them clinkers, or Red Dog -
ostensibly the slag off the top of a run of steel in a blast furnace, or
out the top of a Bessemer converter. an endless supply...back then.

bp
waiting for my wife to finish reading "Out of This Furnace", the human
side of the Pittsburgh Hunkies in da' mills.


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