Best wood sealer for a trailer bed

Brown Green · Jan 1, 2010

I'm having my trailer rebuilt almost from the ground up, and will be putting down 1.25" ash for the bed. I don't want to put used oil on it because of the mess and look. What else do you think would help preserve it well?

Thanks!

bo · Jan 1, 2010

Copper napthanate couple of oz, a cup of boiled linseed oil, shaved paraffin all melted into a gallon of mineral spirits. I used this stuff on pine and it was on a dock and it lasted over 15 years.
You'd do just as well with boiled linseed oil mixed with mineral spirits. The mineral spirits are just a carrying agent to soak the linseed oil into the wood...then it all dries out. Copper napthanate is a spore killer...you'll have problem getting it. The shaved paraffin is tough to put into suspension as it wants to a liquid first but tends to solidify right as soon as it hits the mineral spirits.

RayP(MI) · Jan 1, 2010

bolied linseed oil. Now if I could just find a source of several gallons, cheap, I have three hay wagons neding it!

JayinNY · Jan 1, 2010

My father in law uses creosote paint or something, on his hay wagon decks. He claims it works really good. I guess you cant get it anymore, he has a hoard from 30 years ago......

Uncle Ernie · Jan 1, 2010

I coated my trailer deck boards with preservative then painted it with primer the deck paint.Looks real sharp and should stand up for many years.

Uncle Ernie · Jan 1, 2010

Forget to add I bought everything at Ace Hardware.

bc · Jan 2, 2010

I'd think about a good deck stain like Behr.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 2, 2010

Treat the bottom of the boards before you put them down.I think Thompsons water seal has some parafine in it.White oak would be a far better choice of woods.I use treated wood on trailer floor repairs.

showcrop · Jan 2, 2010

I use Thompson's. It needs a recoat about every other year and I can get about fifteen years out of a deck.

Dave 2N · Jan 2, 2010

Like it or not, the best preservative you can use is a abundant slopping of used motor oil. Repeat yearly.

Jim in Ma. · Jan 2, 2010

You didn't say, is it a work or show trailer. For work - Boiled Linseed oil and oil mixed with mineral spirits.
For show I would sand it and then use Polly urethane.

gregk · Jan 2, 2010

I haven't tried it but have heard anti freeze works good. A guy I know had a trailer built for him and the guy that did it used anti freeze. That floors been on there 5 years maybe and looks good but don't know for how long. How long should a trailer floor last?

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