I finally bot my hands on....

[walkin jack]

....a couple of Pallets. I took them apart and got all the nails out and I have a fair stack "project wood now. I plan on making a couple of planter boxes but what can y'all think of that would be a good use for Pallet wood.

I look forward to your ideas. Thanks!

 

[raljr1]

My wife had me get a load of pallet wood to use for shiplap on the walls of a house we were renovating for resale...ended up in the dumpster, however, you could use it for that.

Robert

 

[cherrypointmarine]

We were at our towns craft fair yesterday . A guy was set up and selling carving boards and cheese and cracker boards , we ended up buying one of each . We got to talking to him , he does beautiful work , and guess what he makes them out of ? Pallets , he takes them apart , gets the nails out , and planes them . Something for you to think about .

 

[Rustyt1953]

In 1995 I got to play this Taylor Pallet guitar at the trade show in Anaheim. To prove that craftsmanship could conquer exotic tone woods Bob Taylor built this out of oak shipping pallets and scrap Formica. It included aluminum nail heads and staple marks. It played and sounded great.

He only made a handful of them but the last one I saw recently sold for north of $16K.

 

[sureshotbob]

A good friend makes all kind of yard ornaments out of pallet wood.
He also made a owl puzzle and another owl and horse that he gave me that we have on a shelf that takes up a wall in my living room.

He also made side boards for my special needs grandson's American flyer wagon. He also has made bird and bat houses.
He gets the plan's off the internet.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

Rusty, our State Attorney General used to play a Taylor in a duet (in OSU campus area bars) during his college days. His guitar looked a heck of a lot nicer, but I'm sure Mr. Taylor upped the ugly to help prove his point.

Ivan

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I saw at a yard sale three summers ago, vertical planters on wheels made from pallets.

On a 4 crossmember pallet, cut inside the center 2 crossmembers, this leaves to ladder looking things. Add bottoms to the slats, Those can then hot small pots or be filled with planting soil. Putting them on wheels allowed them to be rolled into the garage on frost nights!

Ivan

 

[sureshotbob]

My wife had me get a load of pallet wood to use for shiplap on the walls of a house we were renovating for resale...ended up in the dumpster, however, you could use it for that.

Robert

Many years ago I worked at a spring shop and got a lot of 12' crates that rods for screw machines came in. We used the boards to shiplap the front of my brother inlaws Mom's house then stained them it came out really nice.

 

[arjay]

I'm pretty sure that's white oak. Lots of possibilities with the right tools and some patience.

 

[Peak53]

Wow! Oak pallets are still a thing? I just built a new garage and all the material came on very crappy whitewood masquerading as pine that just barely made it off the truck. I still have a few, like three, actual pallets from the original cabin construction in 1980. I use them as pallets. Still going strong!

 

[hittman77]

..…. Pallet wood.

I look forward to your ideas. Thanks!

Kindling for the fire pit.

 

[M1Garandy]

We were at our towns craft fair yesterday . A guy was set up and selling carving boards and cheese and cracker boards , we ended up buying one of each . We got to talking to him , he does beautiful work , and guess what he makes them out of ? Pallets , he takes them apart , gets the nails out , and planes them . Something for you to think about .

Considering what I see carried on and leaking all over pallets on a daily basis, I don't believe I'd ever eat off something made from one.

 

[djohns6]

I used to stop by a pallet factory and load my pickup with " cut offs " from the scrap pile . It was all Oak wood . Burned it in my fireplace for several years until they put in an incinerator because they couldn't get rid of it quick enough .

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

I use 4 pallets to enclose my compost piles. Also if not stained with some
chemical the oak ones make good charcoal.

 

[raisedin99]

We were at our towns craft fair yesterday . A guy was set up and selling carving boards and cheese and cracker boards , we ended up buying one of each . We got to talking to him , he does beautiful work , and guess what he makes them out of ? Pallets , he takes them apart , gets the nails out , and planes them . Something for you to think about .

Let's think about this for a while,,,cutting cheese and meat on a board who's previous life was for the purpose
of hauling numerous 55 gallon drums that were leaking unknown chemicals (to us and the builder) in all
sorts of environments.

Are you sure you really want do that?

terry

 

[Rudi]

They make good kindling and starter.

 

[M1Garandy]

The oak blocks from cut up pallets also make good blocks for a barrel vise.

I think I used some pallet wood to make wedges when I put new handles on my wheelbarrow as well.

 

[bigwheelzip]

SIL makes outdoor Christmas decorations from pallets.

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[sigp220.45]

My best use for pallets:

I was at a SAC base not to be named. Midnight shift, B-52 alert area. They call for an elephant walk, which is when the alert crews respond like its the end of the world and fire up those beauties and then drive them down the taxiways and the active runway and then park them back in their spots. I was a lowly Security Police shift commander, but I had a ticket to the show and I never missed one.

So the Buffs were driving around and there was a big CLUNK and everything stopped and a bunch of maintenance guys and Colonels showed up. They wheeled all of the birds back to their assigned spots except one.

They opened the bomb bay doors and the big rotary launcher full of Short Range Attack Missiles (SRAMs) had come loose and dropped down and hit the closed doors and now the bottom one was hanging by its tail with all of it nuclear goodness pointing toward the ground.

The plan was to put a big inflatable bag under the dangler, inflate the bag, and when it was pushed into place some poor guy would put a pin back where it belonged and all was good.

Except the bag filled and filled and then exploded.

I leapt nimbly behind a portable light-all unit because it would protect me from a thermo-nuclear blast 20 feet away.

When we all un-pooped ourselves they had me send my boys to the commissary to get (here it comes) pallets. It was 3am but there were a bunch stacked out back. We hauled some back, they put them under the big bomb, put a new bag on top, inflated it, and it worked. Nuclear disaster averted.

 

[Mule Packer]

Planter boxes??!! C'mon, Jack! A creative guy like you has gotta set his sights higher than that! Build a cabin!!

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