Jackknifed trailer into TC Jack!!

Kayteg1 wrote:
Looks like bottom had some dryrot even before it happen.
I work with epoxy quite a bit.
What you might want to start with is "laminate" the damaged wood.
Home Depot is selling boat epoxy, what is epoxy in its original form and also packs of fiberglass cloth.
99 cents store sells cheap painting brushes, so get a dozen of them and get plenty of rubber gloves.
If you don't have experience with epoxy -start on scraps.
You will have 10-15 minutes working time before epoxy starts to set, so you need to know precisely what you are doing.
Soak the damaged wood as much as you can.
Once the epoxy sets, you can apply first layer of fiberglass over the wood and plan on doing 2-3 layers. Likely you will have to pull some siding away for it.

Yea, I thought about the fiberglass option, but was afraid I might screw it up. The thin siding seems near impossible to pull back without damaging it because it has been glued to a layer of luan. Your right that bottom bracket was the worst. It gets all of the road water from the rear tires, and the rear skirt area is nothing but exposed OSB! I can't believe they don't seal it up. I'm pretty sure that bottom bracket is just for side-to-side support and not load bearing means they drilled one of the two screws sideways through the bottom piece of OSB:S. Here are a couple of products that I was thinking about using. The product from West Marine appears to have really good reviews, and has been used to rebuild transoms, and plywood floors. Seems like it would work well here.

Rot Terminator from Lowe's

Git Rot from West Marine