Well it's time to replace my trailer bunks and I think I'm going to add a couple more for a little added support but was just wondering what people like to use. Should I use just a pine board, carpeted board, or some sort of plastic? Just wondering what people are using and like

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I got some treated 2 by s with some place water hose for runners. But will be going with carpet soon.

I made some star board strips that i had laying around , just don't unhook ya boat until it can slide in the drink.

Bare treated 2x4s or the synthetic 2x4s also bare

2x12's. Work great treated


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Whatever you do...do not use carpet. I just had to repair a small crack in my boat that is only four years old. You can see where the boat sits on the carpeted bunks when it was removed to be repaired. It appears the crack started from the water pitting the bottom some.

I have 2x4 bare boards but thinking ab ordering some loadrite bunk covers

Cover em quick. Treated wood and aluminum don't mix


Jesse
27 PD FPR 16x36 skiff - aka - DITCH WITCH

Guess I better order them! I know a few guys that all they run is bare boards

I've heard a lot of horror stories, mostly people that use treated wood to make a deck. It will eat right through the aluminum.


Jesse
27 PD FPR 16x36 skiff - aka - DITCH WITCH

ha2 plastic board covers over treated boards best way to go but expensive. i have some nice sheets of plastic i will be glad to cut you some covers out of for free pm me your # and i will fix you up. you can check with RJ duckhunterf250 i made him a set. let me know

You can buy ALOT of carpet for $60 per board!

pintaildrake and bigrich those plastic boards are nice but look at price vs. the plastic i have its 3/8'' thick white i can cut it wide enough to cover your 2x's looks damn good for free give me a call if you want a set my name is Craig 334-444-3074

From my understanding its the chemical they use to treat the wood that reacts with aluminum. I would use something else besides untreated wood. I have carpet on my boards...


Jesse
27 PD FPR 16x36 skiff - aka - DITCH WITCH

I just have regular yellow pine 4x4s. I had those plastic covers on my last bay boat and they were nice! I'm about to put them on the mud boat. And there so much easier to install

Anyone use the plastics 2x4s for theirs?

Something like this: http://www.plasti-tek.com/proddetails.php?item=82

Anybody added something like this to their existing carpet boards?

http://www.overtons.com/modperl/product ... &from=grid

$29.99 for a set of 10 (3" x 15") with SS mounting hardware.

On my Mclain I have the carpet with the slick strips screwed down on top. Really nice for pushing the GDSD off the trailer in shallow water or a ditch. On my plateboats I use 4x4 with the slick pads between the treated wood and aluminum. I'm a big fan of the slick strips or slick pads. When they wear down I take my cordless drill and a set of slick strips to the ramp. Launch and repair. They will never wear down on my GDSD rig. However on my plateboat trailers they get thrashed launching and loading several times a day.
I read up on the treated boards vs aluminum and seen where it may cause some serious problems. My boats have enough adversaries with out adding more to the list.

I might add those to mine. I like


Jesse
27 PD FPR 16x36 skiff - aka - DITCH WITCH

think i'm going to go with just pine 2x6's maybe cut some poly strips for it at work thanks for all the ideas guys

The ones I put on my bay boat were uhmw.

There's this company too I just emailed them for price on custom length
http://www.surfixinc.com

http://www.basspro.com/Bunk-Slick-Boat- ... 00500571/#

Here's an option too (never used), but you get ten 3"X16" for $38. So that's just over 13' if you butt each one up to eachother, but you could obviously space them and get WAY more coverage for a ten pack.

Anybody every thought about buying a composite board such as Trex and using as a guide on? May or may not be cheaper than buying the composite guide-ons they sell.

I think this is the best way to do itImageUploadedByTapatalk1371069951.721308.jpg

Really easy to install and if you put them on treated wood it will last forever

It cost like 60$ to do my last skiff

Just replaced the orginal carpeted bunks on my 2007 G3 aluminum bass boat. They where molded and rotted. I have 4 bunks on my trailer. Two 5' on the sides and two 9' in the middle.

I used untreated 2x4 pine and ripped plastic cutting boards from Sam's Club down to 3.25" wide on a table saw. Countersunk coated decking screws to hold the plastic strips to the 2x4's. Looks nice and the boat slides off sooooo easy compared to carpet. I have about $15 in lumber and $40 in the cutting boards. I figure the cutting boards will last forever and I will just get new 2x4's every few years. My wood boards should last longer too, now that they are not completly wrapped in that water holding heavy marine carpet.

http://www.samsclub.com/sams/bakers-che ... /126035.ip

I don't think the directional grooves do anything. I never had any problems