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  1. eatonpcat

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    Noticed my deck boards are getting a lot of sun damage, do any of you stain or seal the boards? If so, let me know what you use! Thanks
     
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    used motor oil out of the Cummins.........
    sorry could not resist.
    Olympic sealer from Lowes a dark color
     
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    X2...only I'm serious...
     
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    It's very common to use used oil or tranny fluid to treat a trailer deck. Mines a tilt deck so I don't like the idea of greasing the deck then trying to walk up on it.
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    I know the used oil thing...but, My wIfe will bit...ch about the enviromental issues!
     
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    you mean like Kaitlyn Jenner
     
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    Everytime I post that I use used oil from the Cummins in the saw, people go nuts about it getting on the ground....
     
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    You put used oil through your saw?!?o_O
    Don't you know what thats doing to our environment?!?:bug:
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    :p

    :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    I wonder how they feel about the MILLIONS of vehicles dripping fluids all over the place?
     
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    You mean on pavement made with petroleum? :whistle:
    ;)
     
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    Or the recylcle cans they pick up with giant diesel, fossil fuel burners!

    Not much help from you kids tonight!
     
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    Oh boy...fun stuff going on here :wacky:
    Too cost prohibitive to swap wood for expanded metal, or not a gooder substitute, period?
     
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    ...you mean the ones driving on thousands of miles (and millions of tons) of new asphalt laid every year...ever see the sheen running off of new asphalt during the first rain? :whistle:
    But back OT...I've used Thompsons sealer on a trailer before...seems OK if you want to recoat every year or two...
     
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    Or railroad ties...perfectly legal to leave them in place but as soon as they are removed from a railroad bed they are considered hazardous. Shouldn't that be the other way around considering how much creosote has already leached out of them?

    As for oiling the deck, just buy a Clark 664C skidder, it will do it for you as much of an oil sieve as that thing is.

    All joking aside, here most people just use rough sawn White Oak planking with no sealant.
     
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    DON"T bring that up again. Wow, I never saw this board get so irate as me bringing up how bar oil is an out right scam.
     
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    Just go buy a gallon of new oil.............problem solved.
     
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    When I were a kid we'd dump used oil down our water well. I knot turned out toooo bd.
     
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    Seriously?!
    Why the heck would you do that?! :hair:
     
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    I was joking, but we did pour it on the ground behind the barn. Now it sounds crazy, but that's what we did.
     
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    Yeah there was a whole bunch of it poured/sprayed on drives/roads, etc.
     
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