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- How To Treat Trailer Deck Boards
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“Hey, you’re putting diesel in a gas container!” “Yeah, I know.” That’s freaking funny!
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I laughed too. 😂
Spray paint it yellow, problem solved. HA HA
It’s ridiculous that people cant mind there own business and its not against the law either !!!!!
@@mickturner957 I've done that. Or use a antifreeze jug for kerosene
My dad soaked his fence posts in this this concoction when I was a kid and 40 plus years later the same posts are standing.
Very cool!
The best wood preservative Is antifreeze
I did the same thing but used old transmission fluid(transmission shop gave it to me for free). It turned out beautifully, the wood had a red tint to it like a redwood stain
Did u add diesel?
@@markopolo286 nope, straight transmission fluid, turned out fantastic, would do it again
Diesel will be ten bucks by next year! FJB! Subbed!
I use an old garden sprayer to apply. Works fantastic and you can spray the cracks between boards really well. More is not always better… any excess can make the floor slippery, especially when wet. If you pressure wash the trailer first make sure it is bone dry, like at least a couple days in the sun, before you apply the oil for maximum penetration.
My Dad was a painter his entire adult life. He used linseed oil and terpentine 50/50 to treat cedar shingles and his wooden ladders. He applies a coat yearly to his ladders with his sprayer and his ladders lasted at least 40 years. He applied this mixture to cedar shingled roofs every 5 years and it would double the length of time for those shingles on a roof and on the outsides of houses for years. He also grew up on a farm and used used motor oil as a preservative for wood also on fence posts and stuff on the farm. He would soak fence posts overnight in the oil before they were put in the ground and he said that post will last 40 years if you use cedar posts and motor oil cut with diesel.im the EPA would not be happy but it's better than the approved treatment. Less toxic by far !!
I use straight boiled linseed oil.
"Diesel....smells like.....like Victory!" LOL!! Great video!
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Try transmission fluid . looks like cherry wood. really nice finish
Mixed with diesel or no?
Curious too and about if it would last as long as the oil/diesel mixture (assuming it would be new not used)?
Awesome idea! I’ll be treating my trailer this way. Not gonna lie…if I close my eyes and tilt my head, I hear Kenny Powers. Haha thanks for the video!
I used straight oil on my trailer. The boards do attract dust from the dirt roads I drive on . I used a paint roller to apply my oil to deck. Works great.
Been using used oil for 50 years, for this and other things, learned for granddad
Thank you I did subscribed I’ve seen this before. This is pretty cool and it does work.
Make sure you use your neighbors driveway to do this
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Pump up sprayers work well for doing this. Did this to a new trailer 6 months after getting it to let boards dry. It's been 4 years and need to do it again now.
Thank you for confirming this does work!
I have a trailer same as yours will be replacing the deck soon. I'm sure this treatment will last longer than the wood deck treatment $45.00a gallon. Didn't read all of the comments but I'm sure you've had a MASTER GENIUS environment saver that has a Pet rock and drives an electronic vehicle.
I did the same thing except on the bottom side, I melted paraffin and mixed it in your recipe. I used my bobcat to set the trailer on its side and sprayed it with a cheap airless sprayer, covering all the boards and steel on the bottom side. Worked great and the underside still looks like new.
Good idea. I was wondering how I could do the underside til you said that. I guess I can use my winch to tip the trailer and do the underside.
Ha ha good and bad memories with the smell of diesel! I grew up in SE NM dad owned a welding and roustabout business we used diesel for everything, treating lumber, decks, killing weeds, killing ants, shop heaters! The smell of diesel takes me back to good and bad days!
Dude before you even talked about your grandpa, I was saying to myself I bet that he learned this from his dad‘s dad, or some sort of front porch dudes talking generational, but like solid old world knowledge. Not about trying to make something to charge people money it was like we’ve got to make our stuff last we’ve got a treat it right so this is what we have and this is what we can do, I love it. Thank you for sharing this.
Exellent trailer deck preservant but be prepared for gravel road dust to stick to it like a magnet. I have been using it on a trailer I bought new 18 years ago and there is absolutley no rot now or what looks like the foreseeable future.
I remember when diesel was 80 cents a gallon.
I bet when it rains you get the nice oily rainbow on your concrete or what ever the trailer sets near.
Great video
This is great
Thks for info
I do the same to my trailer wood but I use a Nylon Street Broom to spread it and a cheap 2 gal sprayer to apply it. My ratio is 25% Diesel and the rest in used motor oil. The Nylon Street Broom does not absorb any of the coating and you can wipe your hand over the bristles when done and they come off clean. Thompson's Water Seal is a waste of money.
Tobin, great information.
My family has been doing this for years with just the used oil. It works great & is cheap.
Love you all & your videos 💕
Love from NC 💙
Great tip!
New sub. Thanks for that video.
We did this last year for our fence. Works great.
Interesting!
Hey great job 👍. Good idea
Excellent information, thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
If you have any equipment you leave outside, mowers, disks, ECT.... put this same solution in a yard/garden sprayer and coat your equipment for the off season! Old farmer trick... :)
Just the oil works great, ya dont need the diesel. Been doing it for years. Works great!
Thanks for the tip! I’ll be doing my trailer with this soon!
Used motor oil will definetley preserve the wood longer than just about anything. I
I'm gonna try it
I have a 20ft equipment trailer I just bought, I fully intend on doing the same thing, thanks for sharing.
Great video dude ! Been treating my trailers like that for years .
Let me get $5 on the diesel and a $20 scratcher! 😂
Heck yea I’m going to go that route 👍🏻
Those old timer’s knew all types of tricks to make stuff they had laying serve a purpose.
Thanks for sharing bud
You bet
Lol I’ve been doing my fences just like your grandad… did my trailer as well. Great video!
Nice job god bless
Been doing same thing for over 40 years....works great for me
good job bro. i do it all the time
I did it too on my car hauler, it lasts but be mindful thatt is slippery.
Thanks for the advice I will definitely be using this on my wood projects including my trailer
Hola great video Sir! N good idea n cheap! Thanks 👍👍
When I was a kid my dad used to go to the bush and cut fence posts when he needed some. Then he'd go to the local repair shop and get enough used motor oil to half fill a 45 gallon drum. He'd sharpen the posts and leave them standing in the drum until he was ready to use them. The posts would absorb the oil up the bottom half of their length - the top part of the post would still be free of oil except for a few inches above the ground. Posts usually rot off near ground level so this preserved them quite well.
Can you treat it like this and still put liner on it and it’ll stick?
It works good. I've done this since I was a kid. I use a pump up sprayer.
Good tip! Thanks got lots of used oil around here!
I heard of the oil treatment but didn’t think of cutting it with diesel. I like the idea of making it easier to apply if it’s cut some
Will be redecking my trailer this winter, I’ll use this method on both sides of the new boards before installing em.
That also works on barns and keeps termites out of the wood
Didn't know that about the termites.
@@The5MFamily If it keeps termites away shiiitt im going to coat everything with that.
Personally I’m just not a fan of 2x6 lumber on my trailer regardless what you do with the lumber to treat it?
Unless you’re going to sand down the face of your lumber so it’s smooth, you’re still going to have a rough grain and adding any kind of fluid to the lumber also going to raise the grain too.
Maybe if you’re just using your trailer to haul equipment of some kind the rough grain of the lumber may not bother you? But if you ever need to slide a shovel across the surface you’re probably going to rip your lumber and have splinters pulled up off the boards.
Myself, I changed to using waterproofing plywood that’s also covered in plastic laminate like you find on many countertops on kitchen cabinets. Plywood way more stable and actually much stronger then any 2x6 lumber or any other size lumber you want to use?
You won’t have more need any gaps between boards like you do with lumber. Plywood will only swell or shrink no more than 1/16” and solid lumber can swell or shrink up to a 1/4” on every board you have on your trailer regardless what type of treatment you put on it?
40 years ago roughly, I didn’t have much money at the time. So I put a sheet of 3/4” plywood on the deck of my trailer and put a exterior finish on the plywood. Never did anything else to it for a few decades and eventually the plywood did start to rot and needed replaced. But it far outlasted any 2x6 lumber boards.
Later on I started using waterproofing plywood that’s covered in plastic laminate and some 30 years later the deck still looks as good as the first day I installed it!
I really love having the smooth surface of the plastic laminate where I can throw in dirt, bark dust, gravel, etc.? Then just slide my shovel across the smooth deck floor scooping up whatever material I need to take out of the trailer!
Unless you really slam the point of the shovel into the floor deck, you’re not going to damage the plastic laminate either. Naturally you can abuse anything, but using common sense and taking care when using a shovel the floor will last a lifetime easily!
Using lumber each board can and likely will vary in thicknesses, which is another thing I hate about using lumber. Plywood a more consistent thickness and size.
I double up 3/4” waterproof plywood with the laminate on it and stagger the joints wherever I need to splice plywood for wider or longer decks bigger then 4x8. So the plywood ends up the same thickness as your 2x4 lumber would be.
It just looks so much nicer and really stands out looking more professional than slapping on a bunch of lumber on the trailer floor!
I have had numerous compliments on my trailer deck and people wanting to know what and how I put down on the trailer floor?
Have yet to see another trailer with plywood on the deck floor though, except for my own of course!
I‘ve been using flatbed trailers and utility trailers since I was 16 years old and I’m now heading towards 67 years old. So I got many years of experience with trailers and putting on different types of materials on the trailer deck floors. By far I haven’t found anything yet better than waterproof plywood! Once you use it, you’ll never go back to using lumber!
Works great for posts going into the ground as well. Even federal agencies and utility companies do this to their posts. They “tap” the post and periodically add oil to the core. Works excellent. Thank you for sharing, 5M.
Yup. I pour a small amount around my house foundation once a year.
That is Such a good idea, Thank you. God Speed.
Stand that trailer up on it's tail and coat and underside also. My father was a mechanic and taught me the same thing.
We used this method to treat field equipment. Disks, chisels, and moving parts. My grandfathers mix as well!
Man thanks for this video I can finally stop replacing boards every few years thanks again 💪🏽
So I was looking to coat my deck where I usually workout at and am wondering if this method would be ok to use? Will this leave a sort of sticky filling on my hands after applied? Or will it pretty much just soak into the wood? I just don't want to be doing push ups and have a oily on my hands or on my back from situps ya know. But thank you in advance and God Bless you all🙏✝️🙌
Rite on! I’m going to do that
Only difference is the old pressure treatment was awesome. Today the pressure treatment is crap
You can see who can swab the deck down. Are you coating the under too?
I know it would add more expense but how about using fresh oil and diesel? Wouldn’t have all the carbon and gunk in there. And a lighter finish.
You could do that!
Your idea like most of the world is built on common sense. Thanks for posting this. And for those complainers of oil and the environment can stick their heads up their exhaust pipes. BTW, I put gas into a gifted 5 Gal. diesel container, with a flexible pour spout oh my.
Good video. You saved some $ for yourself and others at the same time. Thanks.
My neighbor has a trailer like yours so I texted him your video. He’ll love it. His trailer deck is due. He is always up for saving $ and doing a good job too. 😅
Thanks.
1976 when i got out of the active military my grandpa died and left me his tractor 16ft tandem utility trailer he made in 1953. He put red oak planks from the farm on trailer 10 16 ft boards. He poured used motor oil on the deck. Took the planks out and swabed both sides until oil pooled on the surface and left boards out. Next day put boards back in the trailer. I stll do it every 6 months i do it in October and again in late April. In East Texas April is above 65 and October we are in the 70s. I haul tractors and Skid steers front end loaders and a bulldozer on this trailer. This trailer is not made with angle iron. This trailer is made with 3 inch C channel for frame with 7,000 lb GVWR axles and there are 2 of these. I have a 2008 Clevy silverado 350 and i have hauled 5 tons with this trailer and still these deck board are in great shape. I am just amazed how long they have lasted. But i do keep my trailer outside ever. It goes in the barn. I don't leave nothing out in the eliments.
I used to use new oil on work boots to water proof them😮
Great idea!
I HAVE DONE THIS. FOR YEAR S YES U ARE RIGHT THANKS
Let’s see a new video update on how’s that motor oil stain deck looking. I’m getting ready to pull the trigger on my car hauler as well.
One time I put diesel in a kerosene can....I hid this shameful deed (so embarrassing) from the public but with your confession of diesel in a gas can - ON VIDEO!!! I feel so much better knowing you haven't been jailed or worse yet received the electric chair.
😂🤣😂🤣 Hello my name is Tobin and…… I put diesel in a red can…
@@The5MFamily LOL
Lol tobin there will always be those who point out the obvious. Love your humor
Did my trailer with the same treatment. My only difference is I used a heavy nap paint roller.
used to do horse fence with Roof tar and kerosene mix
Instructions unclear i used diesel oil now my hands have been stained for 3 weeks🤣🤣
nice
Funny me and Curtis were just talking about doing this the other day to our trailer! I’ve never seen this done or ever even heard of this 🤔
My brother was a navy Seabee during Vietnam conflict. He use to do the same thing there.
Yep it works.
Also a great grass and weed killer !! 😅🤣
Good call, never tried cutting it with fuel oil but makes sense. Worked on a farm through adulthood and we’d take straight used motor oil and soak the floor of our manure spreaders. The floors always outlasted the metal.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Old time ways are tried and tested and proven to work. Recycling the oil and putting it to a good use. Nothing wrong with that. Take care and stay safe out there. GOD BLESS Y'ALL
Every little bit helps right now!
Just changed out the original boards on my 16ft that had been there for 30yrs. They were pressure treated and never had this done.
I’m curious, how long does it stay smelling like diesel and oil? Love the idea of reusing a “throw away” product, but the idea of it smelling doesn’t thrill me. I use my trailer for hauling dirt bikes.
Not long. After it fully dries you can not smell anything. We also haul our 4 wheelers and dirt bikes, and never have an issue.
Ha awesome my grandpa's from Kansas and that's how he's always treated his wood. Well with straight used oil no diesel.. Even the chicken coop! Still looks like the first time he did it
The trailer we did 20 years ago still looks good, too!
Great video! I’m not sure what the diesel does but you say it works. And that’s good enough for me!
Diesel oil helps the oil to get in the wood better. I always make sure to put on the bottom of post to help with rot and termites
That is precisely the thing to use , I've got an equipment trailer I'm getting ready to coat the bords on but I'm also putting new ruff cut lumber on it so I'll be coating both sides . If anyway possible you need to coat the underside of your trailer !! Maybe Jack it up and put Jack stands under it and mop it that way. It will be messy but worth it. Thanks for sharing your videos.
Wood now matches the color of the frame!! Bonus
I've used this technique for years.
My old 63 chevy truck I put a standard 5/8 plywood floor in the truck bed. Every few oil changes I would put the oil on the plywood.
Probably 12 or so years later I sold the truck and the plywood was still in very good condition.
This is how farmers used to treat wood like fences for years, used motor oil and diesel, and it used to be a pretty common smell out in the country when the farmers would paint their fences.
Yep, I did mine about 2 years ago with about 75% old Engine Oil & 25% Kerosene but I used a cheap paint roller :)
Thanks for the tips! I pull commercial lawnmowers with my trailer that get very hot - would the heat from those mowers be a concern with the oil and diesel mixture in the boards?
I don't think so
I use Asphalt sealant 30 years grade, creds on old school way
My son wanted to borrow my trailer to help a friend move some furniture and I told him what I had done and for him to use a tarp to keep from getting oil on the feet of furniture. I have used my straight oil for years but I will try cutting it with diesel next time.
I've used mineral oil and a paint roller to treat deck boards for a while now. It works the same, but doesn't discolor the wood. Oils still evaporate, they just do so slowly. So, I recoat mine every 4-5 years.
Cut it more with diesel and put it in a garden sprayer makes it even easier plus you can spray the bottom side. Iv even used straight diesel
This is a tried and true method for making your trailer decks last forever. My friend's crusty old grandpa showed my this when I was 19 and bought my first sand rail trailer, and was replacing the shitty old deck boards. I let the new boards age long enough that all the shrink was out of them before applying the diesel/oil mix. That was in 1989 (34 years ago) and I still have the same trailer, with the same deck boards. I will admit, here in Phoenix where the summer sun is WAY more punishing than most other climates, this treatment needs to be repeated every 5 years or so. I have also used boiled linseed oil in the same manner, and it works about as good, and the deck will not be black if you want a more natural look. The black oil treatment makes the deck really freaking hot in the sun, so the linseed oil treatment is my preferred method, but it costs a bit more. Either way, great video and great advice!!!
I wonder if it would cover up a lot of the stains that have been left on my flatbed. Guess I would probably need to go over them first with a sander before applying this. What do you think?
I bought a 6x12 Aluminum trailer had 2x6 treated boards on it. The dealer said to get 3 quarts of Transmission fluid. Roll it on with paint roller or pump sprayer! Works good an isn’t slippery when dries out!
i got ops paint from menards deck paint for 10 bucks too 2 year of treatment not bad and couple hrs sanding couple hrs painting
I like it !! 👍🏻
When I was a kid, my step dad had me treat the deck of a homemade low bow we had fabricated from an old camper frame. He had me doing this back in the mid 80s and every time I share the story, people want to talk about how “crazy” my step dad was.
Well now - I don’t know where the trailer is, but we still had it and it was in real good shape up until around 2010.
Thanks -