Giving My Neglected Car Hauler A Makeover With New Modifications!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Had this trailer over ten years, felt like it was time for some new boards along with a few modifications to help its usability for me. Follow along with all the me getting this trailer back up to good useable conditions! Enjoy !-Dex
Instead of treated boards we started using untreated and before putting them on the trailer we soak them in used motor oil and diesel. Say 50/50 mix. Looks good kinda like being stained. And you can add more mix if you need to in a few years. ... Just an idea.
Thank you for making this whole video. I like the music in the time lapse. The trailer is always a good project, This is how I would have done it as well. Have a good day and keep them coming.
Genuinely thankful for your videos and the amount of knowledge that comes with your work experience! You made me confident enough to swap a motor out of my black Jeep and I’ve never done anything of the sorts before! Learning as I go and you have some great tips, picked up a couple just binging your videos,
Tip for your next wooden deck. Look at the end of the board and turn the growth ring down like a frown. That way as the board dries and cups the crown is on top helps to not retain water on the surface. And I always predrill the holes but, that's just me.Just an FYI. You dressed it back to good use.
I literally learned that this week.. guess it's not time to retire the old man just yet.
Dexter next summer spead some used motor oil on the boards out in the sun over a few days. That will definitely extend the life of the wood. Reason to wait some time is for the wood to dry out and the heat will help it spread out in the wood, plus keep the dang carpenter bees from tearing up the deck wood. Here in N.AL. they will attack treated wood quickly.
Nice work on the chain locks. The tucked winch is slick!
Had a bandsaw but it took so much space, so I sold it and got an Evolution. Couldn't be happy, other than not using it late at night because it is so loud. Would use a reciprocating saw before using those nasty abrasive saws.
I bought a new Radnor mig gun for my Millermatic and it has the same feed issue.
I’ve put a new deck on a trailer before, I used a 1/2 drive impact with an adapter, it worked great and fast
I was watching your video and I seen your dirtbike and I was wondering if you still got spray foam in the tire your videos are awesome. Keep up the good work.
That’s a pretty neat idea 👍🏻👍🏻. I used to do carpentry work for many years, the treated boards will shrink a good bit. After the boards dry out some (start cracking) I’d put a clear waterproofing on them.
If you go to another one run the screws with regular drill not the driver on low speed worked pretty well for me
Lmao " aww, poor things cross-eyed. Just look at it" 😂
Dang, fancy pants. I would have just replaced the one broken piece.
You are actually supposed to predrill the holes with 1 size smaller than the screws even though they are self tapping and the boards will definitely dry out and gaps will open so you done good by pulling them tight as you possibly could because you will get much littler gaps and why you had it tore down that far you should have went ahead and shot it with a coat if paint but overall it looks great and should last for a long while
Put linseed on the wood every year, helps keep wood good for a longbtime
Great video!
Need to pre-drill holes & use bolts that look like a "Y", same bolts the use in C-Trains
almost all lowes suck. i was in a lowes in Mountain Home AR and they were 100% great. everyone was helpful and knew what they were talking about.
p.s
what happened to that tire?
Looks ok
Hell yeah brother
Usually see calls homemade trailer you haul your offroad rigs on.
Dex you need a plasma arc
Nice💪
Dex you want gaps between the boards. It will swell up and buckle if you don't give it room to expand.
wood from Lowes will shrink so Don't leave a gap !
The wood shrinks. You’ll be fine.
Actually you made a mistake bud. Those is not disc brakes. They are drums. Around 1:45 you said you had disc brakes on all 4... figured I'd be that guy hahaha
Who cares. Do you feel better?
Dex u shudof used rough cut oak lumber. that will last allot longer
Show us how you did your cherry picker
Lowes better start paying some people
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Treated lumber is cheaper then non treated?
It shouldn't be? Never heard of that before but honestly It's all about quality. lowes treated wood isn't as good as lumber yards. But it's fine it just tends to twist more after a while but that also depends how much sun it gets
@Thomaslowmaster91297 in the south treated is cheaper
Can you link your other TH-cam channels here...👍🏽
Shud sand the trailer and paint it with rhino rust prevent.
Put your used motor oil on those boards with a paint roller,those boards will last longer. Why didn’t you use the same holes you already had in the frame, your making Swiss cheese of you frame
Boards will swell with water. Heat, etc, you typically should leave a ⅜" gap between all decking boards, but that's just my 2 cents lol! Not that it means to much, but yea 😅🤷🏼♂️
Mop that deck with used motor oil