How To Keep Wood From Rotting For FREE

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One bit of advice from a 40 year carpenter...treat the ends (end grain). That part of lumber absorbs water like a sponge and is where dry rot usually starts first.

Old farmers' trick: stand your boards up in an old five-gallon bucket or pan with oil for a week on each end to completely saturate the end grain. Brush some on the surfaces too while waiting. There's boards in my family's 150+ year old barn floor that are older than my great-grandfather and they show no signs of deterioration.

Working with a third generation Swedish shipwright, I watched him use a mixture of equal parts of pine tar/ coal tar, turpentine, and raw linseed oil to protect anything made out of wood. It smelled and worked great. We would adjust the ratios to meet various needs. More tar gave us much better traction on sloped ramps and decks. More turpentine made the mixture absorb better. More raw linseed oil fed extremely dry wood. Used on an oak planked boat, it worked as an anti growth bottom paint.

My best friend's father used old engine oil as a preservative on his fence and weed killer around each post in 1950's. Worked great and left a lasting impression for the first few weeks every time you climbed over the fence. Mom was not happy.

OK, Hoss. This is an old farm trick that has been used since the first oil change happened in 1891. For best results I would wait until early September when the wood is at its driest and no rain is expected. Apply the stuff out in a sunny, hot area so the mix absorbs to the max possible. And go 50/50 used oil and diesel. Filter the oil through a rag/funnel and use in the pump sprayer. That way you can blast the mix into spaces between the boards where they go into the channel iron around the edges. Those blind areas are where the rot otherwise would start. You are "whistling Dixie through a tin horn," pilgrim, using a mop around the edges. Blast the stuff into hidden areas with a pump sprayer. And you are supposed to be drinking beer during this process for the proper "don't give a rip" attitude!

I've been using this for years. Also works on fence posts. I put the fence post in the 5gal bucket with oil to my depth while I dig(auger) the hole, pull it out and put it in an empty bucket for a few min then bury it in the hole! We put in several fences in the eighties, some this way, some with pressure treated posts and some with no treatment. The ones without treatment lasted about 3yrs, the pressure treated lasted 8-10, and the oiled were ripped out 25yrs later for developers!

Where can we get the free diesel?

Excellent video. As a kid we did it this way and 60 yrs later, if you keep it treated every couple of years, ours is still there. I like all the upgrades as well.

I did our old wood fence that had never been treated in about 15 yr and just used 100 % used oil from the local garage ,that gave it to me ,15 gals for a 300 foot fence just one side, and just used an old concrete rough roller on a 5 foot pole, took me a while but just did it in my spare time looks great and waiting to do the other side this summer

Great advice on treating decking on trailers. I have been doing this for 30 years and I have never replaced any boards on any of the trailers I have or had .

My farmer dad use to treat his pine fence posts with this mixture,. Never had a problem.. Welded one end of pipe filled it and let it sit for a few days before installing them.

In the Australian Army it is standard practice to wipe tool handles over with engine oil. The tool handles last for ever, even when mounted on the outside of vehicles.

Lots of old timers in the south where I grew up did this so I do it to my trailers. Works great.

I use straight oil on my trailers it will take a few days to fully soak in. I've used this method on non pressure treated lumber and even that works just as well at preventing rot and bugs

Arizona resident here... I've been using automatic transmission fluid on my trailer decks for years. It's fairly cheap and the viscosity is just right for an easy application. Seems to do a decent job, but we dont get too much rain around here. Great video. Thanks!

I built a similar rig before heading back overseas in 2009. Never hauled ATVs, but moved a lot of household goods and such. Wish I’d known about that oil/diesel trick though, had to swap boards once. Great job.

If you use a hub and bearing kit to mount the spare tire. You can swap a hub and bearing set. Just assemble the hub with the bearrings seal and greased and redy to go. With the rim and tire and use a bolt to attach it snap on a cap.

Know a bunch of farmers that have done that for decades. Only main issue with used oil is the heavy metals it picks up. As a 50+ year carpenter, I was taught to use BLO! Boiled Linseed Oil, lol. You can thin it with mineral spirts, bit it soaks in well, the spirts leave a bit if a sealer. Its what is recommended for shovel handles, etc...

When covid hit, I took advantage of the free time and replaced all the wood on my little utility trailer. Then I got some used motor oil and some oooold heating oil mixed 50/50 and bathed that wood till it couldn't take any more. Did it again the next year. About to do it again. I think that wood is going to last a long time (barring any fires, lol.)