Well I would only go with metal if you like it being slick. I have a tool bed with a checker plate floor. With any moisture you can not stand up on it. Whether it is rain or frost that floor is slick. If your hauling grain then steel is fine. If your hauling equipment than that steel floor is pain.
Good yellow pine boards are just about as strong as oak. Look it up in a strength of materials book. Just make sure you get YELLOW pine not white pine or fur.
Removing the old floor is not hard. Just cut the floor cross ways an inch or so away from the row of screws. Then just break the wood out from around the screws. Then cut them off with a cut off wheel on a grinder. The old floor is junk anyway so why worry about "saving it.
When going back in you can weld a strap on each end to hold the floor at each end. Then just run a row of screws on a few cross members in the middle. Not ever cross member needs to be screwed down.
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