Trailer Floor - Oak or Treated?

(quoted from post at 08:00:15 10/26/11) If you had a choice on a new flatbed 14,000 gvw gooseneck trailer, would you get treated lumber or rough sawn oak?

Get the pressure treated. Apply a generous amount of used motor oil to it once or twice per year and it will last for as long as you need it.
 
Rustyfarmall -

You better watch out with used oil recommendation :) Few yrs. ago on this same site I got SLAMMED HARD about the same recommendation. Some folks got down right twisted about it; even got the bunny huggers calling me everything but home-made sin.

Thick-skinned and still in the weeds here in FL . . .
 
Mine is PT for the deck and has been on there for 5 or 6 years and still looks good.
And I will still use old motor oil once a year.
My brother uses boiled lynseed oil and at the same age, His needs to be replaced.
 
If you can get white oak that makes a great trailer deck as it is rot resistant and harder than PT. Red oak is not as desirable for decking as it will not last as long.
Zach
 
Well I have a couple of trailers on hand here. The one with the treated lumber still has a good deck on it and the one with the oak you better be careful if you try to walk on it because you will fall threw it in some places. I also treated the oak with oil and that did not help so if I where you I would go with the treated stuff it will last 3 or more times longer
 
(quoted from post at 09:32:05 10/26/11) Rustyfarmall -

You better watch out with used oil recommendation :) Few yrs. ago on this same site I got SLAMMED HARD about the same recommendation. Some folks got down right twisted about it; even got the bunny huggers calling me everything but home-made sin.

Thick-skinned and still in the weeds here in FL . . .

Yes, I'm pretty sure I was in on that conversation, and like you I am thick skinned also and still maintain that used motor oil is the best preservative for trailer floors.

For what it's worth, I just finished constructing a new front stoop on my house. I built it entirely out of pressure treated lumber and since I need it to be good and solid for at least 20 years, I did some research on maintenance and found out that any kind of water seal, Thompson's or otherwise, is no longer recommended for preserving pressure treated decks. What is recommended is to allow the wood to cure out naturally for at least 6 months, and then paint it with 100% acrylic house paint.
 
What works better then oil and way better for the ground water? Thin out Tompson's water seal and put a few coats on . The deck On my gooseneck is about 15 years old and still rock solid. It's oak sits out side in Michigan Weather. Ive treated with Tompson's about 3 times.
 
at work we had used oak on out flatbeds.. seems we have to repalce it every 2 ys.

I hve PT on my personal flatbeds and get on average of 10ys out of it.

one of them is a 14k gn as well.

soundguy
 
Depends on your climate, but I'd say PT. And be genereous with used oil. Beats spilling it down the drain ;)
 

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