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Welding on a trailer with a wooden deck

Sandy Johnson

Sandy Johnson

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Going to be adding some D-ring to the back of my trailer, right next to the wooden deck. What does everyone do to make sure they don't scorch the wood? There's got to be an easier way than removing the deck, right?
 
The rear crossmember the ramps attach to was breaking off of my trailer frame. I welded the cracks and fish plated over them with 1/2" bar scrap I had and burned the hell out of it. It was the 2nd time I had fixed those cracks, and there isn't going to be a 3rd.

There is no visible damage to the wood deck, at least from the welding.
 
and this friends is what a joe biden voter worries about :lmao:

i use a piece of sheet metal, aluminum foil, and a welding blanket to protect things while welding
 
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How far from the wood are you putting the D-Ring? In my experience as long as the weld isn’t right next to the wood you should be fine. Wet the wood down if you’re really worried about it.
 
Use weld gel you idiot.

You can get it everywhere you have tanks filled and or buy filler rod.
 
rockyota83 said:
and this friends is what a joe biden voter worries about :lmao:

i use a piece of sheet metal, aluminum foil, and a welding blanket to protect things while welding
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If you hold grudges between threads, you're gonna have a bad time in life. Just sayin.

I do worry about those things because I have never done them, and I'm not sure your solution would work. The decking is held in place by the angle iron that I'll be welding to, so no real way to get something thick enough in between the two that would protect it:
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i dont hold any sort of grudge against you, im just amused by anyone dumb enough to vote for that tard and felt like taking a jab at you :lmao: :flipoff2:

get the wood wet for a few hrs prior to welding if youre worried about it
 
rockyota83 said:
i dont hold any sort of grudge against you, im just amused by anyone dumb enough to vote for that tard and felt like taking a jab at you :lmao: :flipoff2:

get the wood wet for a few hrs prior to welding if youre worried about it
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You got me right in my lack of knowledge soft spot. I'm a terrible welder. Thanks for the tip! I'll soak it first.
 
Anytime I have welded around wood it catches on fire a bit but nothing major. Wetting it would probably help.
 
I would run a hose on it for a while before welding. That wood looks pretty dry. Wet it down, burn it in hot and it will be fine. Unless you voted for Biden. Then you are fucked :flipoff2:
 
I wouldn’t weld D rings there first off.

It’s way too easy to pull that piece, it’s not really structural at all, more or less just meant to be a filler between the deck planks and the dovetail planks.

Go down to the corners where the ramps sit, where it’s the actual frame of the trailer.
 
Byro said:
I wouldn’t weld D rings there first off.

It’s way too easy to pull that piece, it’s not really structural at all, more or less just meant to be a filler between the deck planks and the dovetail planks.

Go down to the corners where the ramps sit, where it’s the actual frame of the trailer.
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this.

that piece of angle is just there to capture the deck boards.
personaly I always favored bolt on D rings. Less a chance that I fucked it up.
 
I just wet down the wood and had the hose nearby and put a piece of sheetmetal under the D ring as I welded it on. Then dribbled water onto the wood under it afterwards. I welded mine along the sides of the trailer deck though and not like in your pictures.
 
I welded d rings in a similar spot on mine, except it was on thew frame. Just let the wood burn and blew it out when i was done. few months later couldnt even tell
 
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