Rough Deck Boards

Full-Sawn Rough Deck Boards

Rough deck boards are full-sawn, square-edge hardwood planks for decks that call for maximum thickness and load capacity rather than a finished floor. Because they are cut full to size, a 2x8 measures a true two inches by eight inches, which leaves more wearable material than a dressed board of the same nominal size.

Stocked sizes run from 2x6 and 6/4x8 up through 2x8, 2x10, 2x12, and heavy 3x12 planks, in Standard-and-Better Apitong (Keruing) and kiln-dried Angelim Pedra (Brazilian Apitong). These are the boards used on low boy and drop deck trailers that haul equipment, steel, and machinery.