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11-06-2016, 07:58 PM | #1 |
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Factory bed wood
What type of wood was used from the factory for the bed wood in our trucks?
Is it a sort of Pine? I know people use just about every kind of wood you could think of, but I want to cut and mill my own, for no other Eason than I can say "I did it myself". I'm looking at yellow pine, soaked down with Boiled Linseed Oil. I love the way it looks as it ages, and it would outlive me in the long run. My original bed has lasted 46+ years and still looks decent, but I'm fixin to relocate my gas tank, and move on to finishing the body work, so it's time to replace the wood. |
11-06-2016, 08:12 PM | #2 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
I cannot answer your question, but the individual boards in the wood bed in the 71 longbed I owned back in the day curled. The climate where I lived was fairly hot and dry. I guess my point is that either they chose the wrong species of wood, or else they did not treat and finish it correctly.
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11-06-2016, 08:53 PM | #3 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
Mine became a mushroom farm underneath. When I bought the truck 24 years ago, the wood was solid, so I thought I was doing a good thing by treating it with marine grade varnish. Bad. The top stayed nice, but it rotted from the bottom.
I figure that soaking the boards in the BLO, that they'll be permeated and moisture won't have a chance to get in. I'm also looking into adding a green dye to the BLO, since my truck color is Medium Olive, o mimic the way they did it from the factory(when they painted the wood and strips body color). |
11-06-2016, 09:05 PM | #4 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
I think it was pine, but am not 100% sure. I do know they were painted body color, not stained and varnished like we all do these days!
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11-06-2016, 09:15 PM | #5 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
I thought so.
I thought about painting the wood body color, but I would also like have some of the woodgrain visible |
11-07-2016, 10:07 AM | #6 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
I believe the wood was pine from the factory, it along with the strips were all painted the same color as the body. If you get an original Boucher with a picture of a wood box you can see it.
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11-07-2016, 07:30 PM | #7 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
If it was pine, it was the hardest clear pine I ever saw.
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11-07-2016, 07:35 PM | #8 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
Southern Yellow Pine, I believe?
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11-07-2016, 07:51 PM | #9 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
Originally pine but if you treat yours with Coppertox you will have your green color and the best wood preservative on the planet.
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11-07-2016, 11:28 PM | #10 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
Bed wood and strips were painted black up until 1967, 68 and after were painted body color.
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11-08-2016, 09:59 AM | #11 |
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Re: Factory bed wood
I posted yesterday that they were pine & painted body color from the factory. I just bought a 69 step side this spring & the reason I wanted a 69 was because I had bought one new in the fall of 1968. It had a pine wood floor and the whole thing, strips and all were painted same as the truck. They may have been painted black before that, I don't know. The 69 I have now has the original floor (needs replaced) and it is painted same color as the body. Hope this helps.
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