NEWS FLASH! Red Oak Good for Trailer Decking??

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[noshsreqd]

Nice expanation of the difference between red and white oak. When I was a teen my dad worked for a lumber wholesaler in Arizona and the railcars of lumber that would come in had rough sawn red oak as dunnage. It all ended up on a scrap pile so he brought some home once and we ran it through a planer, it was beautiful and I ended up making some wood working projects out of it. we had so much of of we even built a horse corral with it.

[carpetguydalton]

Red oak is a great value for trailer flooring. Won't last quite as long as white, but it's still nearly as hard, not as expensive and waaay better than most trailers origional wood people don't realize are a lot of times pressure treated pine from factory. So even raw cut red oak is an upgrade in my opinion.

I have decked about 5 trailers with red oak at our own lumber/logyard. 2 for ourselves and 3 for customers. Never had a problem yet. And milling them ourselves, we can adjust the widths wider to speed up installation and compensate with more deck screws. They dont have to be 6" and 8" boards. We did 9 1/2" for short front section and 1ft wide for the ramp section this last trailer. Hard work but well worth it for the fresh trailer floor and looks good.

Keep the white oak off the trailer that getting beat up anyway and save it for nice projects worthy of its price point. Red oak trailer flooring is king!!! Lol

[LarryUlrichsen]

You girls are Rockin’ It !!
Rough & Tough :)

[davidhainline]

Red Oak is beautiful for flooring. Used solid Red Oak in my log house back in early 2000’s. Loved it!

[firstjohn]

Ok, fun point: My dad's house, built in 1970, has all joists and studs made from dimensional Red Oak, with the sub floor made of White Oak planking...
Why?
Because he worked out an agreement with an Old-Timer who owned a saw mill, who needed welding & mechanical work, the trees came from the property he was building on, so they basically swapped labor for labor....he removed 1 wall 15 years ago....even after cutting, that Red Oak wood was HARD...Never underestimate how hard Red Oak really is....
His kitchen is solid Black Walnut, the logs of which came from their farm as well..

[JesseJames-wjft]

Overhead and rear view cutting shots very good idea and creative - Variety is the spice of life !

[dannybrown]

Love y’all’s videos from one coffee drinker to another drinking hot coffee during a hot day will cool you off keep these awesome videos coming

[johnwinslow]

I live in Maine, just redecked a 20 ft 14k trailer with full 8 1/4 hemlock. treated with cuprinal no.10, 10 year + lifespan. Just an option. We have plenty of old growth, old growth is key.

[deanfranklin]

Tracks vs tires. Part of it will be point of contact and weight distribution. All of the weight with Tires is 4 relatively small areas. Tracks spread the weight over the entire track.

[dennishinkle]

The difference between white and red oak is so little most people won't ever notice. Works great for trailer decking. Excellent job ladies thank you for sharing.👍♥️♥️

[indepentinvestigator]

Love watching the girls being so excited about their jobs!

[Aquame]

Wow great video🎉🎉 the over head shots of log cutting the tones and even got some soothing 🎵 in there very good🎉🎉🎉🎉

[W.EdwinCosman]

Enjoyed this episode very much. Thanks

[thomasaccuntius]

If you look at the end of a red oak board you will see little holes, and on the face you will see them cut open. Now do this to a white oak board and you wont see but just a few. Picture a handfull of drinking straws and you look at the end and how the straws ae open. That is what is in red oak wood, the open cell structure, but in white oak thoses cells are plugged with tyloses which fills them and prevents water to enter.

[bushcraftjoe]

Good information. Love the different camera angles. Always good to jade hard at work

[ishure]

G'day Ken and family, I enjoy watching lumber being milled from other countries. I've been milling 17 foot timbers for a low boy this week for a customer that restores WW2 Grant and Stewart tanks and he's also featured on the Australian Armour you tube Chanel . Anyway he had White Oak on his deck and it broke up in no time with the tank tracks chewing it up, he was going to use steel but called me instead so I'm cutting 8x2s in Grey Box it should last ten years it can't be milled by a horizontal band saw it's much harder than you can imagine the dust accumulates then friction heat expansion then it's up and down like waves. Vertical wide blades are ok or Tungsten tipped circle mills 👍.

[kroadie]

The bigger wheels and tires offer better transfer of traction to the ground, chains to add traction in the slippery conditions.

[nicks_]

tires vs tracks, all about pressure

Same reason way up north they use tracked vehicles to transport across snow off road, lower pressure means less sinking into the snow

[gtmark]

My "speculation" as to why rubber wears the trailer decking faster- We begin with the rubber making larger and more fluid contact with the decking than the studs of a track will. The rubber will slide somewhat while a steel track will not. Also the rubber contacts the surface more that the steel studs will. The steel studs will not hit the same surface area every time. Now consider the dirt stuck to the rubber tires as the tires slide over the surface. That is like using sandpaper on the decking while the steel studs only impress the sand into the wood. This is my speculation as to why rubber tires wear the decking out faster.

[philmcghee]

I agree! The track causecidistribution 😊