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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 3:15 pm Post subject: Used to be some pallets and a barrel.
Bloody hate taking pallets apart. Grrr.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 7:30 pm Post subject:
I'm impressed.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46245
Location: yes

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 7:30 pm Post subject:
nice bench

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9887
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 7:56 pm Post subject:
pretty good. I've been eyeing up the pile of pallets and thinking of making a bench. I suspect my bench will look like a pile of pallets...

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 8:59 pm Post subject:
I'd like to claim the design, but it's not mine. Saw them at a beer festival. The back is sprung, so it's more comfortable than it looks.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8950
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Sun May 10, 20 9:41 pm Post subject:
Nice chair. Yes it is a pain and time-consuming but can be worth it

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 6:47 am Post subject:
He's done a good job.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 6:53 am Post subject:
I'm impressed

jema
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Posted: Mon May 11, 20 6:53 am Post subject:
I'm impressed

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15993

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 8:17 am Post subject:
Very nice. We fire our charcoal kiln on pallets and we are having problems getting them at the moment. People will insist on taking them for making things, usually without asking the owner. In addition, with fewer people travelling, the tyre place we get the pallets from are getting fewer deliveries.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 11:38 am Post subject:
Are you bored Nick? That is really good. How long did it take you?

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 3:37 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Are you bored Nick?

That is really good. How long did it take you?

BORED? I'm married. I have a list of jobs that keeps growing, as well as a full time job. Ish. (maybe 8 hours a week, currently.)

How long did it take? Well. There are two schools of thought on this.

School 1. I saw very similar ones at a beer festival in May last year. Making them became added to my list there and then. I bought the staves from the same brewery around a month later. (£30 for 9) And I bought the pallets from someone local about a fortnight ago for a tenner. So, about a year.

School 2. I put the saw to the first pallet about an hour and a half before screwing the final barrel stave onto the arm. Arguably, it still wants running over with a sanding block, but under 2 hours, and the only plan I had was in my head, so plenty of tea was consumed during the time.

People who choose school 1 as the answer are in the, incorrect, minority.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 6:12 pm Post subject:
Definitely School 1 and I'm pretty sure I am not in the minority.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46245
Location: yes

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 9:21 pm Post subject:
school 2 here how long did that take? 15 yrs or about 12 hours, i know the one i prefer when did you decide to do that? is a very different question

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Mon May 11, 20 10:24 pm Post subject:
I know that I don't pay a lawyer for their hours in law school

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