Ideas on what to do with this?
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Will67
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Film you and friends doing your karate breaking it with fist strikes and post on YouTube...might make viral status if your drunk enough?
fitz11
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Burn it
Or use it as a reason to go buy a forklift. Gotta move it somehow lol
Or use it as a reason to go buy a forklift. Gotta move it somehow lol
Al Bundy
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I have a few of them that Ive saved. They should be in the burn pile, but instead I just piled them outdoors. They really aren't very useful.
impala4speed
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You know, I get tons of these at work that eventually just get hauled away. Always wonder if there's a good use for them. The only time I brought any home they were small ones that I used to store items in cardboard boxes on a concrete floor in a crawl space. The pallets keep the cardboard boxes off of the concrete in case of any moisture. Other than that, couldn't think of any other good uses.
Victorymike18
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Local monument shop near me throws out their single-use pallets that the headstones come in on... They are pretty decent pine, and I have been using them to make storage crates for tools and bulky objects in the garage. They end up strong as heck, and I don't worry if they get nicked up...
Now my wife wants me to make some wine crates for her. Yay...
Now my wife wants me to make some wine crates for her. Yay...
Steevo
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Most folks stack heavy stuff on them and ship them somewhere.
Krash Kadillak
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Collect about 14 more and build a shed... (google it)
maddog1949
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look on youtube, has alot of ideas.
mdbeck1
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Gate for the garden.
Shadowdog500
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look up pallate crafts. there are plenty of things you can use that wood for.
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rburke65
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I get mine from a garden center just down the road and I use the pallets to keep my fire wood up off the ground.
Kevin54
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Burn pile or donate wherever you see a bunch of skids sitting
Falcon67
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Platform of any kind. I built a well house on one. Makes a good base for a kids tree house too. I have a stack of 5x5 tire pallets. Damn heavy bastages, but cut up they make GREAT firewood because they are dried oak.
NCCheesehead
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I currently have a truck bed stacked cab high waiting on the campfire tonight at deercamp.
The first owner of my house (before my parents bought it and later sold it to me) used pallets in the attic of the garage to store stuff on. He laid them across the rafters and insulation and left them up there when he and his wife moved out. I have a bunch of Rubbermaid totes on them now.
jJon G
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I use this kinda of stuff for building ramps for garden sheds, built a snowblower hut out of old crates a old deck and plywood and a fence. My next plan is to build a garbage box and a recycling box out of used wood. lol right now there is a Canam ATV crate in my back yard with the top on filled with Honda z50's and ct'70 for the winter. I hate to see this kind of stuff to go to waste. BUT keeping it for no reason will only fill up your yard full of junk. Stuff like this sits in my yard and if i have no plans it will goe on the side of the road with a free sign, someone will have a use for it.
Dan in Pasadena
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Zeke
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They are for all the little animals that live in them.
DoyleDee
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I have used one recently (ok- it was more of a crate- used from our new cooling towers at work-)... to build a doghouse. I have a Austrailian shepherd/blue heeler pup that I put outside in the mornings..and it's starting to get cold. At least she will have a nice place to stay warm.
When you take those apart you will loose a bit of wood on the smaller light weight pallets- those nails don't want to come loose.
Hey, you could always add some unistrut and built a small lift..
When you take those apart you will loose a bit of wood on the smaller light weight pallets- those nails don't want to come loose.
Hey, you could always add some unistrut and built a small lift..
Assuming they are made of good lumber in the first place, it's not cost effective to disamble them for building prijects. The pallet pictured is in good shape and often you can find a use for them. Like putting a piece of plywood on top to make a work surface and put the pallet on sawhorses for a quick and dirty work bench or assembly table.
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gregusmaxis
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Pallets shouldn't be used as firewood because the chemicals they treat the wood with may contain carcinogens.
TireTracks
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If I could get Solid Oak pallets, the last thing I would do is burn them, Free hardwood for woodworking.
All the pallets made around here are crappy pine, full of holes and splits.
ezover
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you should never use pallets for firewood.
pallets get passed around from company to company, you never know if any toxic chemicals have been stored or spilled on them.
BWS
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Looks lonely,go buy a pce of equip or sumthin to put on it?
philwire
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A coworker of mine made a skating ramp with a few of those for the kids. He was so proud he even made another one for his town park.
Last summer while leveling my backyard I had to move the kid's playhouse, you know, the one at Costco that comes in 6 or 7 boxes, weights a ton and takes a week part-time for an average joe like me to build, even though they wrote 8 to 10 hours on the box?? Yeah, I had to move it to the front yard so I took off the slide, then the 10" pole for the swings, then I made SKATES out of pallet wood and small wheels to roll it to the front. It rolled on plywood pretty easily However because it was only in temporarily in the front one day the wind blew so hard it knocked it on its side but nothing broke because my garbage bin was under and slowed down the fall.
Other than that, maybe buy two forklifts: one to put on it, then another to lift it and move it around?
Just DONT do what of my towns residents did last month: jack up his house with a car jack and secure it down with pallets... The house torn in the middle and fell on him and his neighbor.
Last summer while leveling my backyard I had to move the kid's playhouse, you know, the one at Costco that comes in 6 or 7 boxes, weights a ton and takes a week part-time for an average joe like me to build, even though they wrote 8 to 10 hours on the box?? Yeah, I had to move it to the front yard so I took off the slide, then the 10" pole for the swings, then I made SKATES out of pallet wood and small wheels to roll it to the front. It rolled on plywood pretty easily
However because it was only in temporarily in the front one day the wind blew so hard it knocked it on its side but nothing broke because my garbage bin was under and slowed down the fall.Other than that, maybe buy two forklifts: one to put on it, then another to lift it and move it around?
Just DONT do what of my towns residents did last month: jack up his house with a car jack and secure it down with pallets... The house torn in the middle and fell on him and his neighbor.
gabedad
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do you get flooding in your area? If so - put your stuff on top of it
If I could get Solid Oak pallets, the last thing I would do is burn them, Free hardwood for woodworking.
All the pallets made around here are crappy pine, full of holes and splits.
Most pallets are "firewood". Only the odd piece could be considered "furniture grade" and maybe suitable for small projects. In the past I have cleaned up crating that came from Indonesia that looked like Mahogany, and many of those pieces are stored away for future use, the rest were burned. Most of today's wood comes from a place that receives steel on HD hard Maple skidding. Have much of that squirreled away also, the rest is burned.............
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There is no shortage of free wood around here, you just need to be observant and keep your ears open. It costs big $$$ to get rid of it in a box.
darkk
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I friend of mine whose last name is Hill collected about 200 of those. Him and his brothers made a *deck* platform about 6" above the ground over an area of about 15 x 20 and then a connecting area of about 40 x 5o. On the 40 x 50 area they built an open bar about 18 x 25 similar to an old west style bar for entertaining. They call it Boot Hill.