Had to redeck my trailer

[KennyG]

My long term goal is to build a place to get everything under roof. Trailer, tractors, implements and just everything I own. The sun and Mother Nature is just brutal over time and nothing will last if left outside.

Eddie

It makes all the difference in the world. I bought a used trailer 5 years ago with a deck that already had some damaged and deteriorating wood. I intended to replace it as soon as I got around to it. Today, it has the original deck and no apparent change in the condition of the wood. It's almost always stored inside. Maybe I'll get time to replace it in the next few years.

 

[clemsonfor]

The new ACQ doesn't last as long as the old CCA in any application, as far as I am concerned. Put in a new front deck, and spilled a soda on it the first year, which we didn't catch until later (froze, can burst under snow) and that section started to rot pretty much right away. OK, I can understand extra food for microbes. Stockade fence with PT rails, 10 years old. Several are growing mushrooms, I have replaced I think 3 posts now. Garden gate posts, 6 to 10 years, all rotted at the base.

30 year old 10x12 CCA deck on the back of the house, under built and rail pickets a foot apart...still standing. I did have to replace the end beam, but it had a large knot in it dead center, and was only a single across the end. Replaced it with a double just before the CCa-ACQ switch, still standing. Raised beds, CCA 4x6 double stacked, 15 years old, still good.

But even better is a rail fence my Dad built 45 years ago, out of untreated chestnut...still standing, last time I drove by the place.

You can still probably buy a 4x6 in cca as its a ground contact and there still treated that way. This was called MCA but I believe that is just some other term for ACQ from what I read??? Or maybe thats MCQ??

 

[oldballs]

Yes, Osage Orange does make good fence posts. I set some 40 years ago, some for clothes lines posts too....some in dirt and some in concrete. If you hit one with a hammer, it almost sounds like hitting steel.

But I don't know anybody that will cut them into dimension lumber. Some 8 inch PT posts have rotted off right at the ground in less than ten years....others haven't.....all bought and set at the same time. Go figure.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[Old Junk Man]

Im of the opinion that the quality of wood had went down over the years. The oak around here the best treeswhere made into Rail road ties rather than boards. less sawing a 7x9 tie would only yield 7 one inch boards because the saw removes a 1/4 inch on each pass and you lose two boards to sawdust. and they where paying big money for ties they would have culled back in the day. the same with logs. those big ships that bring the imported junk where returning home with our best logs & lumber. So we are left with the outer boards (sap wood) and the cull lumber. and since treated wood is a kind of camoflauge the ones that got treated where the worst ones. There used to be a ball bat and handle mill & factory here. You could buy handles at the mill. We all knew not to buy the painted or linseed oil treated handles because they where inferior quality. no matter how good the treatment process it cant make the wood any better.

 

[farm boy00]

I see that the lumber on the trailer was treated with CA. Not much experience with that, could b the issue. If it was just non treated lumber I doubt it would last more than 2 years. All I see around here is ACQ, so it must be better?

Nope. TBN is the only forum I frequent. Was on AS for a while, never posted much. Didnt like the atmosphere, and havent been there for years. Only other forum I frequent is plowsite and thats only in the winter months

What plow forum do you follow?? I'm going to try to start plowing in a next year or so and landscaping

 

[LD1]

Plowsite is the forum. plowsite.com

 

[merlynr]

I've replaced my trailer deck and it doesn't require any screws or bolts to hold it in place. I have to bend them in except the first couple of boards because they tuck in at both ends.

 

[Diamondpilot]

My deck at my house was built in 2005 and needs redecking. My father's was built in 1983 and is still fine.

Chris

 

[grsthegreat]

Funny.. When i first looked at the thread...i thought you said "i had to REDNECK my trailer". Im disapointed, i wanted to see some nicw red neck trailers. He he.

Luckily, all my trailers have been able to be stored indoors. Never gave had any rot issues.

 

[GreenYellow]

Funny.. When i first looked at the thread...i thought you said "i had to REDNECK my trailer". Im disapointed, i wanted to see some nicw red neck trailers. He he.

Luckily, all my trailers have been able to be stored indoors. Never gave had any rot issues.

Me too! That's what caught my attention in the first place.