Seemed like a good idea at the time

rockyridgefarm · Sep 21, 2022

I bought this trailer about 4 years ago and installed my previous seed cleaner on it. When it was built, someone said -Boys, I have a genius idea! Let s cover the whole thing with bedliner paint! Everywhere the paint stuck, the metal looks new under. Everywhere the paint got damaged looks terrible. I think I will be in a pretty bad mood by the time I get this all peeled off.

I picked up the new deck boards last week and am letting them dry out for a few months so they can shrink before installation.

Geo-TH,In · Sep 21, 2022

My 11 year old implement trailer had 2 bad boards.
I was told I can't buy CCA 2x6 boards.
No one told Menards they can't sell CCA boards..

I needed an 18 ft board. Menards only sell 8 ft 2x6 and 12 ft
2x6. No 10 ft boards. Total cost was about $35 with sales taxes
for one 8 ft and one 12 ft board.
I'm happy I could buy CCA boards.
They were special order. It took a few weeks to get them..

Doug-Iowa · Sep 21, 2022

Same way with powder coat on my 2018 H&H. Once the surface is broken the corrosion takes hold.

Check Break · Sep 21, 2022

We Rhinoline a lot of wear surfaces and some wear parts. The Rhino will trap water and rot out the surface behind it. We're still doing it, but I don't think we're gaining anything. The people applying it don't follow directions, which is where the problem begins. The maintenance crew doesn't send it for repair before the problem becomes major. It adds a lot of weight, for example, to a trailer. Reduces payload and when it comes loose, it comes off in chunks and ends up somewhere it shouldn't. If the applicators did their job correctly, we'd have a lot more rot. As it is now, the Rhino fails before the surface behind it. In our case, the problem has kind of taken care of itself. In your situation, you're probably dealing with improper application and you have to deal with the damage without a cheap/easy way to clean the iron.

DoubleO7 · Sep 21, 2022

Take everything that is bolted on and not steel off.

Then haul it to the industrial hot dip galvanizer as is.

rockyridgefarm · Sep 21, 2022

Menards in platteville wi had 18 foot 2x8 treated critical structural on hand. Cost me $300 for 11 of them. They had enough to do 10 trailers.

504 · Sep 21, 2022

A guy down the road had bed liner sprayed all over his Dodge pu. I think the
bedliner is the only thing holding the body on the truck. At least the flat
black doesn't show the rust as bad.

dpendzic · Sep 21, 2022

he decking should be placed with the sapwood up---that is where the greatest preservative retention is---and the boards will usually cup to shed water

Northvale PA · Sep 21, 2022

My father bought an 89 F250 which he had Zbarted, which was a tar like undercoating. It trapped the
salt water underneath and promoted the rust. Bad idea.

showcrop · Sep 22, 2022

It very similar to powder coat. Anywhere you scratch it the moisture gets in and the rust gets a start. The coating protects the moisture and the rust and instead of drying out and rust stopping until the next time it gets wet as is the case with paint, The bed liner and the powder coat maintain a perfect environment for the rust to work 24-7. The key is good prep including primer, before application.

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