HogValleyFarm
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I recently bought a 5 ton equipment trailer that has a slight twist it in. I have not yet had it in the shop on the concrete yet, but you can still see on the back left side there is a slide downward slant towards the back. My plan was to weld to 1x1 square tubing onto the bottom on the rails that the deck boards are sitting on in an X format to try and give the trailer some more support and strength. Does anyone think I should use something different on the bottom maybe some C channel, or would you support it a different way? Also the boards are a little beat up on the top but they are not rotten at all. My plan was to just flip the boards over and get a few more years out of them? Anyone done this with their deck boards before? I have crawled all underneath the trailer and I do not see any cracks or bends in any of the trailer cross members.