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Ok guys, I don't have a tractor and wood question but I do have a trailer and wood question if I may? I recently journeyed to the fine state of Maine to purchase a car hauler trailer. The main (Maine) reason was the price was cheaper and it's powder coated instead of just painted, may last an extra year or 2. But since I want to haul more than just cars, I want to make wood racks for the sides so I can haul wood and brush if needed. The question is, what wood should I build those racks out of? Right now the leader is a tie between white oak that I mill from my trees, or a mahogany that I purchase. Plan C, oh, here we go with that plan C again is just get pressure treated 2x's for stakes and 5/4 decking for rails. Yes I'd love to find some locust, but I also want to be able to lift these out when I don't need them. Thoughts?
The oak is free except for your time. If a stake gets broken, you can go mill another one. They won't be setting on the ground, so you shouldn't need to worry about rotting.
I used to use red oak for canoe racks on my pickups, they always outlasted the truck.
I used to use red oak for canoe racks on my pickups, they always outlasted the truck.
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Black Locust weighs 49 lbs/cu ft when air dried. White Oak weighs 47 lbs/cu ft. A 4% weight difference is not enough to scare me off. However, if it's something I wanted to be able to add and remove by myself, I would think carefully about how big each section was from either wood species. (FYI: not that it matters in this application, but when green, Black Locust weighs less than White Oak.)
Black Locust is a little tougher to work with, but if maximum life is what you want, I'd use it if I had it. White Oak is also a great choice for this, especially if you have some handy. It has good rot resistance (Red Oak does not come even close to the rot resistance of White Oak or Black Locust.) I think cost is one of the few reasons you don't see it used more often
What really tends to accelerate rot in wood is when water is trapped or held against it. Just getting rained on is not a big issue, as long as it has the opportunity to dry out again. This is why the first place to rot on deck boards is often where they butt up against something or are supported from underneath. Both types of areas tend to hold water. You would want to make sure your stake pockets can drain, for example (but you'd probably want that anyway, to protect the steel).
The posts and railing for the pavilion we built near our pond are Black Locust. It was harvested from a stand a couple hundred feet from where the pavilion stands. As far as I know, that's the only stand of Black Locust on my 144 acre property, though there are isolated trees here and there. It sits not far from an old cellar hole and what appears to be an old dug well hole (I think the dwelling dates back to the 1800s). It makes me wonder if what I'm seeing in this stand might be the offspring of something planted by the family which lived there long ago (as farmers often did back then, as a supply of fence posts).
Black Locust is a little tougher to work with, but if maximum life is what you want, I'd use it if I had it. White Oak is also a great choice for this, especially if you have some handy. It has good rot resistance (Red Oak does not come even close to the rot resistance of White Oak or Black Locust.) I think cost is one of the few reasons you don't see it used more often
What really tends to accelerate rot in wood is when water is trapped or held against it. Just getting rained on is not a big issue, as long as it has the opportunity to dry out again. This is why the first place to rot on deck boards is often where they butt up against something or are supported from underneath. Both types of areas tend to hold water. You would want to make sure your stake pockets can drain, for example (but you'd probably want that anyway, to protect the steel).
The posts and railing for the pavilion we built near our pond are Black Locust. It was harvested from a stand a couple hundred feet from where the pavilion stands. As far as I know, that's the only stand of Black Locust on my 144 acre property, though there are isolated trees here and there. It sits not far from an old cellar hole and what appears to be an old dug well hole (I think the dwelling dates back to the 1800s). It makes me wonder if what I'm seeing in this stand might be the offspring of something planted by the family which lived there long ago (as farmers often did back then, as a supply of fence posts).
So that was you that blew the horn at me and gave a hand signal, least I know I'm number 1..............I pick oak all day long it's one reason why the USS Constitution is still in service, save the mahogany for the coffee table. And whats with no picture of the trailer, how rude even pool people post pictures.............
Started lining up the marks and one mark didn't line up, for some reason I forgot to double check and go back threw writing the measurement down on this line, it was 4" off so had to re-drill one hole out of 120, least it wasn't the oak.
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Didnt feel like going to the woods today so I sent the butler
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