A few workshop jobs.

[Larel]

If your going using that trailer to move diggers I personally wouldn't put creosote on the top of the timbers, it I'd be like a skating rink to steel pads.

I hadn’t thought of that! Will have a think, but the floor is far from pristine so will get replaced somewhere along the line. But to be honest hadn’t studied it to hard before I went to refit it and decided to take the last out of it before renewing at a later date if I start breaking boards.

 

[Larel]

Also do not underestimate the power of wood regarding it swelling when wet , the width expansion, megga power .

Your right there. I had to cut a good 1/4” off one of the boards before I get them to go back in and they were drier than when I removed them.

 

[tomlad]

Mate done his years ago
2 " kerouin . Summer , dry rammed in tight, width i mean, bloody mess come winter.

 

[tinman]

I hadn’t thought of that! Will have a think, but the floor is far from pristine so will get replaced somewhere along the line. But to be honest hadn’t studied it to hard before I went to refit it and decided to take the last out of it before renewing at a later date if I start breaking boards.

i have a low loader here thats had its floor replaced twice in its time with me, when i replaced the timbers i only ever used imported timber as it has a finer grain structure and is just better quality and puts up with more grief, its rough sawn not planed.
the trailer lives outside 90% of the time as under roof space is a premium here as the more expensive items get to live under the roof and as tom says, don't wedge them in either, when the floor is dry in the summer there could be 2-3mm of a gap between them, when its wet they fill out.

i treated the underside of the timbers and the sides but not the top where the machine sits, off the top of my head the floor dose about 8-10 yrs before needing replacing when one or two boards would go down.

you don't need to go mad with fixings either, their not going anywhere and will be a lot less faffin about when it comes to replacing them.
on my trailer (a kane) the headboard keeps them at the front, iirc i might have two lines of countersink tek screws over the lth of the timber ( 1 per fixing or 2 in the lth of the board )and there is a lth of 25x6 along the back where the ramp starts/ends so the timbers slide under that and they can go nowhere.

 

[Zebbedee]

What do we think about laying rubber belting, and running on that

We use rubber very good for grip

 

[tinman]

Mate done his years ago
2 " kerouin . Summer , dry rammed in tight, width i mean, bloody mess come winter.

its only personal choice but i wouldn't use keruing timber on a low loader floor, its similar to teak so a hard timber, good job on a flat bed floor but on a low loader it id be too hard imho, you want a soft wood so the tracks have something to grip to, as in, less chance of slipping.

 

[herman]

Looks a smart job that, our tri axle herbst needs the same treatment but I would like to sandblast it totally to stop the rot going and further than it is. The front toolbox has rotted off so would consider putting a pair of boxes under the side too, in that instance it would give room to possibly fit a winch of some sort to recover dead tractors maybe

 

[Tomr10]

Thinking of putting rubber on ours what do you use

 

[Larel]

She was tight to get out the shed, gave up on the tractor and pulled it out on the gib of the digger

Lifted up for the final time hopefully to get a final coat of waxoyl underneath

 

[Larel]

Out for a test drive

 

[Andrew]

Out for a test drive

Looks very nice, an awful lot of time and effort got into that, a credit to you.

 

[v8willy]

Looking good, are the ramps on springs?

 

[Robert K]

Out for a test drive

Very smart

 

[Larel]

Looking good, are the ramps on springs?

Yes springs on the ramps, surprisingly effortless to use.

 

[Larel]

I have had these fittings lying round the shed for over a year finally got round to running in a permanent airline.

 

[tinman]

After all the work with the low loader, which looks good ill add, you didnt blast and paint the rims??

 

[Larel]

After all the work with the low loader, which looks good ill add, you didnt blast and paint the rims??

Or the hubs!! Didn’t have much intention of painting the rims but completely forgot about the hubs until it was out of the shed. Will need to get done when it’s next in the shed or else when the weather is better.

 

[Larel]

Next project is to create a mezzanine above the end of the workshop for storage. Wood chip flooring was the cheaper per square meter than 18mm ply, and easier to join as its tongue and groove

 

[Larel]

6x1 boards on their edge with 2 blocks either end nailed both ways for the joists

 

[Larel]

Floorboards down, it looks like a job that should have taken an hour but there was a bit of cutting around obstructions that seemed to stretch the whole job.