Willie B
Senior Member
I have a CAM Superline triaxle trailer rated 22500. It's about 12 years old now & the deck planks are getting old. It's stored outdoors. Planking is 1-1/2" white oak now. Not readily available, red oak is easy to come by, but rots faster than white.
Black locust is said to last 10 years longer than stone. It's used for fences, & manufactured rail fencing is VERY expensive. Farmers claim a fence post split from a trunk can sometimes sprout & grow. Nobody uses it for lumber, it's said to dull tools.
I managed to find logs, & get them sawed. Planed them out to thickness.
Now it's time to put them down. using existing holes is near impossible to line up. The wall thickness of the steel channels is about 1/4". The present screws are self drilling & almost always break off backing them out. I expect it'll be a matter of cutting old planks each side of the cross members & splitting the planks away from the screws.
How would you fasten the new planks?
Black locust is said to last 10 years longer than stone. It's used for fences, & manufactured rail fencing is VERY expensive. Farmers claim a fence post split from a trunk can sometimes sprout & grow. Nobody uses it for lumber, it's said to dull tools.
I managed to find logs, & get them sawed. Planed them out to thickness.
Now it's time to put them down. using existing holes is near impossible to line up. The wall thickness of the steel channels is about 1/4". The present screws are self drilling & almost always break off backing them out. I expect it'll be a matter of cutting old planks each side of the cross members & splitting the planks away from the screws.
How would you fasten the new planks?