Wood for bed

[mp8200]

My '65 truck needs a new wooden bed. I wanna bring the truck back to original. Can any one tell me what wood type where used?, and what kind of threatment did they give it?

thanks!

 

[dcsi5919]

Southern Yellow Pine with 1/2 paint-1/2 Kreosote mixture. I use SYP & oil-base Flat Black Rustoleum.

 

[kieth]

My '65 truck needs a new wooden bed. I wanna bring the truck back to original. Can any one tell me what wood type where used?, and what kind of threatment did they give it?

thanks!

I went to Mar-k website and they give the detail for the cutting of the wood, also a lot of good suggestions on what materials really hold up. The original wood was #2 yellow pine and final finish was black. (lil red was correct on his detal)

I cut the wood to size, dido blades the edges as Mar-K showed, primed the wood with chasis saver satin black and am just getting ready to final coat with UV resistant Baehr black paint, I think it will look good with polished S/s hardware

http://www.mar-k.com/june_2010_update.html

I could not find the Mar-K diagram on line that gives the detail of the wood if you want to do it yourself. I bought my wood locally trimmed it, sanded it, didoed the edges and painted it. the wood only cost 60.00.....Kieth

 

[brkile]

Kieth, do you have a 6 foot step side or 8 foot fleetside ?? If its a fleetside , did you buy 10 foot boards and cut them to the 8 foo 1 inch length ?? All the lumber for $60 ?? Seems like a screamin deal....Bruce Kile

 

[kieth]

Kieth, do you have a 6 foot step side or 8 foot fleetside ?? If its a fleetside , did you buy 10 foot boards and cut them to the 8 foo 1 inch length ?? All the lumber for $60 ?? Seems like a screamin deal....Bruce Kile

I have a SWB Fleetside, I bought the wood from Economy lumber in Tulsa, Ok. They supply a lot of production grade wood to companies, I went through a whole bundle of it and cherry picked it, I did purchase longer pieces than needed so I could pick the part of the board I needed I think mainly 8' (reason it was cheaper) here is a link to what it looked like after trimming, have not posted any pictures of it painted yet but it ended up being some pretty good wood. Kieth

Here is a link, ps each truck is different, I have a 65 chevy 8' long bed and the width of the boards is arranged differently than the 66 swb.......Kieth

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-GMC/13311086_gRF57#1156429441_bZsJq

http://kieth.smugmug.com/Trucks/66-GMC/13311086_gRF57#983248401_dPNrN