[Shop-talk] Preventing rot

[Ronnie Day]

I'm surprised you can't find treated 2 x 12. They're readily available here
in Texas at Home Depot, Lowes, smaller lumber yards. In any case I'd never
wrap them in anything and use precast blocks of some sort for footers, not
wood. Even with pressure treat wood there has to be provisions for drainage.

Treated lumber is no guarantee again rotting. I replaced the original wood
decking on my utility trailer with treated 2 x, and even though I soaked
all sides in deck paint the ends rotted out after several years because
water collected in the angle iron frame at the rear and had no place to
drain out. When I replace it again, I'll drill holes in the corner of the
angle every few inches so water can drain out.

HTH

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:37 AM, Robert Nogueira <nogera at icloud.com> wrote:

> I’m replacing some rotted out stairs out side. The stringers rotted out. I
> can’t find pressure treated 2x12 to make new stringers so I’m having to use
> untreated pine.
> I’ve capped the base of each stringer with PT blocks so the pine is not in
> direct contact with the concrete.
> My question, would covering each stringer with roofing felt paper before
> installing the steps and risers help prevent rotting in the future or would
> it just trap moisture under the felt increasing the chance of rot?
> Bob Nogueira
>
> > On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:27 AM, Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 10:00 PM, john niolon <jniolon at att.net> wrote:
> >> I've got a H.F. Predator 212 cc (6 hp) engine on my old 1980 Yazoo big
> wheel
> >> mower that I use for trim work... It's about 2 years old and performed
> >> flawlessly... even better than the Briggs before it.
> >>
> >> Today I choked it, pulled the cord twice and it fired up on the third
> >> pull... opened the choke and started for the grass... it did seem to
> smoke a
> >> little but I figured it was a little flooded. It ran about a minute the
> >> kinda 'sputtered' backfired twice and quit.
> >
> > I had a Snapper mower die similarly.  Turned out the keepers fell off
> > the end of the intake valve.  Have you got compression?
> >
> > I put mine back together (hint:  Use zip ties to keep the spring
> > compressed, then cut them loose after it's all together) and it works
> > fine now.
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