Replacement wood trailer guides

[dennis]

I was about to go to the lumber yard to pick up and replace the carpeted 2X4 wooden guides on my Haulrite pontoon trailer and remembered hearing NOT to use salt treated wood b/c it would eat into and corrode the aluminium pontoons! I keep my pontoon and trailer in a barn and use it on the upper James River in Virginia which is brackish. I was about to get the salt treated wood until I remembered this bit of info. Does anyone know if this is true? I even tried finding haulrites web site to ask them and they had a message saying not to contact them about boat trailers b/c they don't make them!! Dennis in Va.

[dockholiday]

Not sure what the treated wood is treated with chemical wise but if you are concerned why not just replace with glide on or rollers.
Never had any problem with the wood bunks, I have had on my boat trailers, guess it is treated wood under the carpet.
http://www.easternmarine.com/Boat-Trail ... nk-Covers/
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[chill'nthemost]

I don't know about the wood on the east coast but..... I was told P/T treated wood is made from sap woods like pine, which is soft and can easily be treated. I used a heart wood (douglas fur) and then put a brush on wood preservative. Take a look at the "recovering bunks".

[lakerunner]

The new chemicals they treat wood with today is bad for aluminum in DIRECT CONTACT. If you put a coat of carpet glue and then carpet you have no worries.