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astra



Joined: 05 Apr 2010
Posts: 1243
Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 6:36 pm    Post subject: Pallets Reply with quote
    

Please can anyone suggest a use for a load of old pallets apart from burning them?

Went



Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bee hive.




Duckhead



Joined: 24 Oct 2009
Posts: 2069
Location: Up the hill, Italy
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 10 9:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 10 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 10 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 10 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 10 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 10 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

How about a bench? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00946rg

giveitago



Joined: 02 Jan 2011
Posts: 151
Location: surrey
PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 11 3:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

misty07



Joined: 22 Jan 2010
Posts: 2223
Location: swindon wiltshire
PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 11 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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

kirstyfern



Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex
PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 11 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
PostPosted: Wed Feb 16, 11 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

yes, whats the best way of taking some of the tricky blighters apart?

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