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astra

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 6:36 pm Post subject: Pallets
Please can anyone suggest a use for a load of old pallets apart from burning them?

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 6:49 pm Post subject:
Easy to strip down and us parts as: Compost bins, bird house, hedgehog home, cold frame (add perspex or glass), Cat bed (ours has a two tier one made from pallet wood).....

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:14 pm Post subject:

the only limit is your imagination. A friend got some good quality ones and made a welsh dresser type thing. I have a door, a gate, three compost heaps, seed trays coming out of my.., last year I had one as an outdoor shower tray, thing, I'm about to use some to give strenght to a pig ark, when our puppy decided to be a chewer I made him a bed time cell

only for a while. etc etc don't burn em use em

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:51 pm Post subject:
Bee hive.

Duckhead

Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:58 pm Post subject:
Sorry, i forgot that one. You can use a pallet to make a holding place for a bit of old tin and a couple of blocks.

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Fri Jul 23, 10 9:29 pm Post subject:
always have a use for pallets i could use about 100 atm just off tom of my head for putting things on making gates everything made of wood i will make out of pallets i can get i need a new batch of pallets but need to get my dads tractor sorted 1st before i can collect them from garden center

astra

Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 10 10:31 am Post subject:
Thanks everyone. I'm not noted for my woodworking abilities but I'll give it a go, what have i to lose but a few thumbnails

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 10 10:48 am Post subject:

astra wrote:

what have i to lose but a few thumbnails

How many hands have you got?

There's a book on the subject (pallets) called, I think, building with pallets.

My word, I've just goggled 'building with pallets': who knew there were so many relevant sites?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Sat Jul 24, 10 12:13 pm Post subject:
I have a double bed base made out of pallets. It isn't a thing of beauty, but then it is hidden by the mattress.

Dave NE

Joined: 08 Sep 2010
Posts: 18

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 10 1:30 pm Post subject:

I made a pallet wrecking bar last year and it is posted on (youtube), you could make one from an old garden fork, cut off the outer tangs with an angle grinder, in use the U shaped fork straddles the spacing bar of the pallet and you lever up the plank from the pallet, (does that make sense)? I have made planter troughs and they have been great this year for growing salad leaves etc, cheers Dave NE

AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 10 5:15 pm Post subject:
How about a bench? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00946rg

giveitago

Joined: 02 Jan 2011
Posts: 151
Location: surrey

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 11 3:31 pm Post subject:
make flower/veggie boxes and sell em to the townies....

misty07

Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 11 3:54 pm Post subject:

giveitago wrote:

make flower/veggie boxes and sell em to the townies....

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 11 4:55 pm Post subject:

My first pallet 'building' was the dog kennel, 15 years later it has had dogs / cats / rabbits / ferrets and chickens in it and has survived 3 house moves, solid but HEAVY!

I use them as perches in the sheds and burn when manky

Currently reinforcing the post and rail fence with the larger Euro pallets to stop the goats escaping - not pretty, but functional.

Hay rack for the goats - worked very well.

On shed floor under feed bins.

Next task - goat play benches, but I need the ones with very narrow slats to stop feet getting stuck in them.

I do find them fiddly to take apart so could make more use of them if I could be bothered.

I'm afraid I do burn a lot of them as well though, cos we love bonfires

giveitago

Joined: 02 Jan 2011
Posts: 151
Location: surrey

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 11 9:53 am Post subject:
yes, whats the best way of taking some of the tricky blighters apart?

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