Replacing decking on 015 Doonan Stretch Step Extendable

ill shoot you the link

 

Oh i can top that one. We had a dude who got a brand new tape measure and it was a cheap walmart one. Turns out every single measure on it was wrong. And not just a tiny bit or the same wrong. For example the 1" mark was actully 3/8th of an inch too short. The 2" mark was an inch and a half. The 3" mark was 2 inches, the 4 inch mark was a third of an inch ect all the way to the end but it gets better. Turns out it was mixing metric and imperial on the same tape and the printer had all the measurments messed up as well.

Really obvious if you stopped to look at it, but this dude never once glanced at it. Took us a week to figure out what was going on because he floated between jobs all over the shop and he was usually one of our best. Talk about chaos.

 

Quit Effing around and just buy a newer trailer. You know you want to.

 

Speaking as a carpenter, I would agree with those numbers. 2 guys for three days in a shop with all the tools. Provided they do it properly and treat and seal all the exposed metal while it’s exposed and do slick job with the wood. It’s not a complicated job, but by no means easy. 2 days of kneeling or being bent over at the waist is no fun. ( milling the wood you get to stand for half a day). The company I work for bills 100 an hour for myself and a helper, and truck and carpentry tools. Your quote seems reasonable, but should be top notch when complete. Good luck with it

 

If you do it yourself, pass the router with a small round over bit, it helps the boards resist cracking at the edges and having those big splinters open up at the 90 degree edges

 

To help it last longer you can oil it, ( mineral oil or something thin, not old engine oil!!)if you can have it sit for a day and absorb all the better. Shouldn’t be any excess by then. Sprinkle some sand on top lightly to add some grip for the next day or so until no residue on the surface. I do that with our little equipment trailer once a year, keeps the wood much happier. I would understand if it won’t work for your application, I’m only pulling a mini loader around on it, having learned from this site , will be putting 6 chains instead of the 4 I have been using

 

Use an oil thin enough to go through a pump sprayer, makes it quick and you won’t put on too much like a paint roller would . Then you don’t have to wipe up the excess

 

I agree. There might be some places in the country where you can still get away with that but they're getting few and far between.
I imagine if they caught you with a motor oil covered deck they'd OOS the trailer and you'd have to remove and haul the wood decking to an authorized landfill.
Around here...the prime example of Stuck in the Sixties... they probably wouldn't bother with a trial, just take you out and have you shot.
We found a drum of linseed oil at a farm auction. I don't know where you'd buy that much in a store.

 

I still use my used motor oil. No, the swat ain’t out to get me, and no, it’s not an oos

 

Boiled linseed oil cures in 48 to 72 hours and can be thinned with methyl hydrate or mineral spirits
Linseed oil cures much slower but can penetrate further into the wood and can be thinned as above.
Both should be renewed annually or at least every second year. I found that if I sprayed a thinned B.L.O. before a long weekend parked while empty was a great way to refinish the deck during the summer.
it was recommended to me to treat all end-grain with B.L.O. when patching decking.