Pallet up-cycleing

[nahuebsch82]

Wife wanted a self so I made her one from some pallets. [emoji23]

Anyone else use pallets to create other things?

 

[Richard Cranium]

There is a lot of pallet ideal on utube

 

[MikeinNorthWales]

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Firewood storage. I needed a place to put it quickly when I had 3 trees dropped.

 

[Outlander]

I'm sure my man card is in jeopardy .... but..... https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=pallet+recycling

I made a wine shelf for my daughter, and used one for my tire changer.

 

[Kaizen]

compost bin. too much work to make furniture out of it imo. grit and nails never good for tools

 

[nahuebsch82]

compost bin. too much work to make furniture out of it imo. grit and nails never good for tools

There is a lot of work, however there are some shortcuts as well. I was able to cut most the nails off with my sawzall. I didn't do any finishing I like the rough look and character it gives it. Making whatever it is your making to the size of your pallet boards.....not always doaboe but it worked with this

 

[Slowgsr]

It's great for low budget & 'learning' projects

 

[crguy]

That stuff is just too crude for my tastes, especially in the house.

 

[PCustoms]

We have some "nice" pallets at work that are a 3" wide plywood slat. I grabbed a few clean ones, cut them down the middle and added 2x4 uprights for garage shelving.

Other then that if they are hardwood they get cut up for campfires, the solid oak ones that come under our 300lb grinding wheels are the best!

 

[RVDan]

I use them to heat my house sometimes, does that count?

 

[Tedley]

Had a pallet from glass doors for our fireplace... probably 6/4+ oak was clean so I pulled the twist nails and started cleaning it up. I'd made a tapering jig I wanted to use and an oak stair tread so I built what I could.

I left the nail holes.

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[Cyberbear]

I once had an "in" with a flooring company that received car loads of oak hardwood flooring wrapped in protective rough cut oak pallet lumber. They used to pay to have their roll-off dumpsters hauled to the land fill. I was able to take as much as I could load in my truck per visit, and it was all free. My high end customers liked the look of the pallet lumber after I planed it and used it for decorator items. Ah, those were the days.

 

[Kaizen]

There is a lot of work, however there are some shortcuts as well. I was able to cut most the nails off with my sawzall. I didn't do any finishing I like the rough look and character it gives it. Making whatever it is your making to the size of your pallet boards.....not always doaboe but it worked with this

yea I get ya. I did try it after seeing something years ago and as I prefer traditional joinery I decided to just stick with full dimension rough lumber. i'm always looking for scraps but never find them. my neighbor built an entire 1 car garage out of plywood and 2x that some company was using temporarily.
like I said though I use them for framing in my compost pile and they last for years. also use them under my bee hives to get them off the ground.

 

[AndrewDouglasBird]

We get oak pallets all the time at work for large rolls of steel. My boss has taken several home, rip and planed them and turned them into all kinds of stuff.