Got going today with the usual morning tasks but after seeing the forecast for a rain event to move in by this afternoon I went to buy decking for the trailer. I knew what materials I wanted for decking and with my 2009 pickup full of stuff for the landfill I had to use my UTV trailer to haul the wood. Dropping the tailgate in the yard first I hooked up the trailer and went for a drive.

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This trailer has a very odd width to the deck so I needed 11 2x6x12's and 2 2x8x12's to fill it out perfectly. First I put a few boards on for size.

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Seeing the boards would need trimming I put the rest on to mark them all at the same time. Found out my Mercedes was ready to pick up and faced with loosing my ride to the shop till next week I dropped what I was doing to pick up my car. The shop did a full Transmission service (you must have the Mercedes STAR Software to do the service) and fixed a oil leak while under the hood.

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So tomorrow will be a drilling & bolting, 78 bolts are going into these boards. That will take a while.