/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1796868
Grab a 6 pack of beer, hit the desert with a bud or two and have a nice kick back.
That's my vote.

>>1796868

Make some crap shelves and sell them to a trendy hipster cunt for 50 times what they’re worth

you can make vertical places to plant plants in garden from those
sorry I dont know a specific word
anyhow vertical gardening and simple carpentry are your best bets

>>1796868
make something you need, necessity is the mother of invention and scrap lumber is good for all sorts of shit. fixed this clamp a couple days ago with a piece of pallet wood.

I make planters from them. Welded up a special tool to strip the wood off them. Have about 100 boards here ready to use. They're usually softwood but I've gotten a couple made from oak and have a bunch that are pressure treated.

>>1796871
ok but nearest desert is 2000 miles and i don't have freinds.
>>1796875
the wood is not quality and i'm not a jew.
>>1796885
Have that in mind but i don't have much space to put it on a wall and already have a greenhouse with all i need so, but thanks for the idea.
>>1796886
I repair my stone bbq table with some but it does not look like it will last a year or maybe two, i know the wood is treated for wood bugs but not for water, maybe varnishing would do the trick idk.

i made a bedframe and used another one vertical to make some shelves, where i place my projector. my pallets are EU and pretty more sturdy than americans. Its not beauty but gives some rustic look to my bedroom.

I mean with this that you can actually place them practically wherever you want to make a surface or structure to begin a project with some fews improvements. use your imagination, and clean them before use it.

Put a plank under each of the supports and then you have a pretty cool gardening thing.
Like this.
English isn't my main language.

>>1796925
If the pallets are treated wood, don't do this unless you don't plan on eating anything you grow there.

>>1796868
Make a nice spanking paddle from each plank. They sell for €10 each at my local crafts walk.

Firewood. Everything else is hipster trash.

>>1796945
You can seal the wood on the inside with something like some tar paint or plastic, even varnish might work

>>1796945
Does treated wood leach into your food if you water it?

These two planters and the window box are pallet wood. You may as well have taken a picture of some planks of wood and asked what you can make with them. Use your imagination/google

>>1796871
yup

i have an open fire, and pallet wood is an excellent source of free wood, takes about 5 minutes to saw up into bits that will fit in the fire grate but I get about two hours worth of free heating per pallet, it would be way more if i had some way tp control the burn rate.

>>1796999
Enjoy the smoke, jeez.

>>1797095
even if it doesn't, would you really want to risk it, the stuff they treat pallets with is pretty toxic.

>>1797201
>>1796945
If the pallet is blank I won't take it, if the pallet says MB I wont take it.
If the pallet says KD or HT I take it.

>>1797201
They usually just heat treat them or at worst fumigate them with methyl bromide.
Which isn't *that* toxic.
It used to be a widely used pesticide (it was phased out because it's bad for the ozone layer not because it was too toxic).

>>1797205
And you can tell what was spilled on it, what kind of nasty floor it was stored on it, and what it was treated with if it was imported into the country based on the stamp put on it when it left the mill?

>>1797226
Bro, I'm literally burning the pallets, I'm not that worried if it's covered in pigs blood.
It's getting burned.

>>1796868
burn them

>>1797095
Yes. Some pallets also have pesticide or rodentacide residue on them depending where they came from. Shipping containers are commonly fumigated with some bad shit too.

>>1796868
make a solar air heater with the pallets as thermal enclosure, a front glass and a metallic sheet painted in black as heater.

>>1796868
You can line the interior of your shipping container with them for a comfy wooden interior, and they'll absorb the soothing odor of imitation crab meat.

I take any good boards off of the pallets I get and then store them for later projects. Got enough of them to build this dog-house for my puppers. Keeps the wife happy when she wants to build something out of pallet wood too. I built a rack under the deck that I can sort the boards into by size to keep them out of the dirt and organized. I also have saved a bunch of them to use as siding on an interior wall of my shop once I get a loft built... Should look bretty gud.

I've been trying to think of a quick and easy way to take the boards off with my forklift. Mixed results so far...nothing good.

>>1797402

Something like this works wonders... Also if you can sacrifice a bit of length of the boards just run a cut down one side of the pallet right next to the side board to free up one end of the top/bottom boards. It really helps to be able to grab the one bys and pull them apart to pop the nails out of the center board with some light hammer taps. Once you have it out of the middle board the 3rd board is a piece of cake.

>>1796868
Wood shed for fire wood

Have a bonfire

I use it to provide lateral support for my shipping container bunker.

>>1796868
I have a few ideas.

:-)

Make a work bench is what I did.

Easy and free frame to store things in a garden or garage. You can also make flower boxes.
Pic related is my balcony.

Howerver I find interior furniture made of pallet really awful. Either it looks like shit or it needs so much work to disassemble and shape it in a decent looking thing than it's just a huge waste of time.
For an interior shelf/furniture, just buy some nice wood, it will save you tons of time and look way better.

>>1796868
i made a guitar body with some

>>1797400
Why did this happen?

>>1796868
yeah throw them out

>>1797694
Because I was trying to get the maximum size dog house into that space that I could and missed it by a smidge.

Zero fucks given. It's overbuilt as all fuck anyhow. And if somehow on the literally never gonna happen chance that it fails, there's a beefy doghouse there to hold up the deck. That doghouse has a concrete foundation, plastic pallet base, and steel frame underneath the solid wood siding...

>>1796917
But what about the toxins like that cause off gassing and other issues? I was excited to make something with it, but I don't want to anymore because of what they treat them with

Build a tower to live in.

>>1797774
This shit is completely overblown.

Name a SINGLE case where anyone was ever seriously harmed by chemicals from pallets

>>1797778
>Name a SINGLE case where anyone was ever seriously harmed by chemicals from pallets

Most of the people in California got cancer from pallets.

>>1797791
Everything causes cancer according to Californians.

>>1797795
Everything except deliberately spreading AIDS to unknowing victims.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/10/09/knowingly-infecting-others-with-hiv-is-no-longer-a-felony-in-california-advocates-say-it-targeted-sex-workers/

>>1797778
I'd pay a dollar to see that guys house burn.

>>1796868
>Any useful things to do with these?
Hmmm, let me think....what can I do with some 1x4s? Gee, that's a real puzzler............

>>1796868

I built a fence out of pallets - nothing crazy just to keep people from dumping garbage on my property.

>>1796868
Some retarded friends of mine made a shed out of em to host all their random car projects they do. Took alot of foam insulation but semmed to work pretty well actually.

>>1796871
THIS. But you can burn them anywhere.

>>1796925
Gross. Have fun with cancer.

>>1797754
Build a dog house for your favorite pit bull.

>>1798067

It's called a coffin.

>>1796871
>>1796925
>>1797095
>>1797226
>>1798065
>>1798064
throw them in the fucking garbage, don't build with them or fucking burn them unless you want to inhale poison gas from all the chemical shit they were treated with

>>1798067

Pit bulls are the niggers of the dog world.

Yellow labs is where it's at...

>>1796868
Bonfire

I made a planter thing from pallets and a bit of varnish. Does the job.

I also made a work bench, but its kind of shit.

I have probably a dumb question:

Do I have to worry about bedbugs and shit like that if I grab a bunch of pallets and plywood that I find out behind businesses.

The businesses don't deal in furniture but I am afraid to bring any of the wood into my apartment before building anything.

>>1796868

a few pallets you say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjkdpuWsRU

>>1798979
I made a shelf one out of pallets and scrap tile.

>>1797513
>ive got his location sir
>should i send the hit team?
>Sergent: yes all systems go

Reclaim it and make something

>>1796868
together with plywood and bikes they become great teeth extraction devices for children

>>1797791
California is the leading cause of cancer in California.

>>1796871
god so much this. I thought I could make a prototype of a cabinet or something but tearing the planks off and sanding them is more work than it's worth and I get my pallets for free

>>1796868
sell them back to a pellet company. take the money and buy some clean wood

They're quite often useless, as they're often treated with toxic chemicals. If you find pallets not treated with toxins, the wood probably isn't that good anyway. If you can find non-toxic and good (enough) wood from a pallet, make small decor things for outside. I wouldn't build indoor furniture with it.
Just buy some good wood for that.

>>1797520
>For an interior shelf/furniture, just buy some nice wood, it will save you tons of time and look way better.
I have more time than money. Check your privilege.

>>1798047
>semmed to work pretty well actually
>still refers to his "friends" as retarded
seems legit

>>1796886
What am I looking at?

Made this in last few days

>>1803947
>I have more time than money
get a job

>>1797226
the worst example of a contaminated pallet is one with some pork on it?

Vegan faggot detected.

>>1803947
gtfo

>>1796868
I built a shoe rack for my Mom!

>>1797778
One word: Methyl Bromide.

You can be harmed by chemicals and not know it for ten to thirty years.
It's not like the movies you get your info from, where the guy smells something and keels over dead.

https://hellohomestead.com/upcycling-pallets-what-pinterest-is-not-telling-you-and-what-you-need-to-know/

https://earth911.com/living-well-being/health/how-to-safely-use-pallet-wood/

Google: "toxic material in pallets"

>>1796868

>>1804356
Something has to kill you... nobody can die of natural causes anymore.

>>1796868
If you use hand tools primarily, they're good to practice chiselling

>>1796868
Ever heard of pinterest..? Lots of pallet projects on there...

>>1796871
Some of these are treated wood. They're toxic as fuck.

>>1804356
Which isn't that extremely toxic. It was widely used for crops as a pesticide - yet humanity survived.
And we don't use it less because it's so toxic but because it's harmful to the ozone layer similar to HFCs.

I got some free pallets from work, planning on making some cornhole boards with them. Started by taking them apart

>>1805015
Next I checked them all with a metal detector to make sure any nails and staples were removed. Actually found a couple which would have messed up my planer, so I’m glad I checked

>>1805017
My new planer came in so I put it to work. The results were almost therapeutic seeing that crap wood come out soooo smooth. I still need to run them through a jointer but I was just too excited to wait so I did this for now. I’ll probably loose a little thickness doing it backwards but I feel like establishing a smooth base will help make the plaining process easier

>>1805021
Mmm das good stuff

>>1805022
Everything smooth and ready for the jointer.

>>1805025
I’m kind of looking at making something like this. It probably won’t be perfect but I’ll see how close I can get. Might make a thread about it later idk

>>1805021
*sorry I meant make the jointing process easier

>>1805017
>metal detector

Good idea Anon... Have to get one ordered for future projects.

>>1798385
Retard, most pallets are made of the cheapest wood, there's no point in pressure treating them because they are fucking throwaway anyways. Have a fire.

>>1804351
>I built
More like you put a pallet against the wall

>>1797521
You just keep your banjo not only by an exterior wall but one made entirely of windows??

>>1805049
>there's no point in pressure treating them because they are fucking throwaway anyways.

bullshit. they make some trash pallets for one use, but in general they are collected and returned for reuse. Some are color coded or otherwise marked so that shitheads only reclaim the ones they are entitled to.

Pallets can be a cheap source of hardwood if you’re lucky

I’ve gotten big pieces of white and red oak out of pallets. One time we had a 4x8 pallet come in and one runner was walnut with some beautiful heartwood in it. Buddy of mine used it to make two small end tables with.

Pallet furniture is trash but if you know your wood you’d be surprised. Here in the Midwest a lot of pallets are made in local shops from trees cut down by the city or fallen in storms.

>>1804358
THAT, is fucking ugly

>>1805188
I find some mahogany ones every so often.

>>1805267
Not to mention it gonna fall apart faster than IKEA shit.

>>1804358
the crossbars on the bottom are unnecessary and ruin the aesthetic.

I would have put the top on the legs, and not put the legs thru the top.

Finish it with a reclaimed wood boarder and pour a resin top.

>>1804859
Are you, by any chance, a shill for Monsanto?

At least I provided links to support my post.

Lobbyist Claims Pesticide Safe to Drink, Refuses to Drink Some When Offered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

Is this you on TV?

>>1807090
Your links don't provide any new information.
It's the same crying about how dangerous it is, without anything to back it up.
How much methyl bromide can leech out of a pallet under what circumstances? Is it anywhere close to toxic levels?
No one ever addresses that, it's all just the same panic about anything chemical you see everywhere.
The basic truth of "The dose makes the poison" is always ignored.

>>1805025
Not sure if anyone cares but I got the jointing done over the weekend. Takes longer than you would think

>>1807331
Got some nice smooth edges on the slats and the actual framework pieces

>>1807332
Took the framework to the router table next. Needed to clean up the parts where the forklift forks would go. It’s really rough in there and I don’t want any splinters

>>1807333
Nice smooth edges. I’m pretty much ready to start working up the frame at this point. I’ll need to build some legs too. Gonna try to build at least one frame after work today

>>1805027

My cousin has some nice seats like that in his outhouse.

>>1807332
>>1807333
>>1807337
seems like a lot of effort for Pine but hey, whatever floats your boat.

>>1807426

He's just happy that he found a use for all that brand new equipment he's showing off.

>>1805160

I don't keep it here for a long time, just when I play it over the week end mostly.
It's usually in its case. Why?

>>1807430
lol I just noticed all of that is fresh out the box.

>>1805049
Different export markets have requirements for treating pallets holding merchandise. Canada requires them to be sprayed with some chemical for them to be imported. These are color coded blue

>t. Warehouse manager at food processing plant

>>1805331
i'm more concerned that they stained half the wood and made no meaningful pattern with it. all the stained wood is thrown in the middle of the top.

>>1796868
They're great for storing firewood.

>>1807587
Yep. Back when I worked in an automotive parts factory everything going to Volvo, for example, had to be on treated skids. IIRC same with stuff going to canada.

>>1807337
Worked on one of the frame tonight. Got everything clamped in place. Drilled the holes for the screws and then a little bigger one to countersink the screw head

>>1807822
Got one side frames up, I’ll work on the other side tomorrow.

>>1807822
>>1807824
I want to make fun of you but I also remember my first wood projects too.

>>1808835
If you got something to say spit it out

>>1798979
This unironically can make you some money

Go to poor neighborhoods and offer coffins for sale for recently a deceased family member and theyll buy it in a hearbeat after you explain to them how utterly useless it is to buy a coffin from a funeral home

>>1808892
you're posting pictures of 4 scrap boards and a few screws like you just built an heirloom rolltop.

>>1808892
those harbor freight clamps are great clamps for the money.

>>1808892
You purchased a few thousand dollars worth of tools to do what anyone could do with a few Home Depot 2x4 and an impact driver in 10 minutes.

>>1796868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pZfChTJ-Lg

personally if anon is having fun, i'm happy for him. as long as it turns out how you wanted it to, its a success.

>>1796868
yeah, called keeping around as buying your own can cost you a lot of unneccesary money, they are great for storing rubble when you tear down concreat or anything else that is hard to move and you don't have the time to drive away in the middle of your project

>>1808977
Guess I’m just too poor to outfit a whole shop to reclaim pallet pine.

But I’m glad people are having fun.

Wayne lambright is a pedophile

>>1804804
we made those sofas in the army, brings back memories

>>1804804
these are so fucking uncomfortable
also dont do it unless you like splinters

>>1808946
>>1808956
You're both missing the point entirely and I'm guessing you've never worked with pallet wood in this manner. The whole point of this exercise is to do a challenge. Yes I literally bought a grand worth of tools that I've been wanting forever, and I'll have those tools twenty years from now and I'll still be using them to make things. You're absolutely right, anyone can go to Home Depot and buy a few 2x4s and make a frame. But there's craftsmanship in taking the absolutely worst wood you can find and working out the cups, bows, warps, fixing the holes, making everything perfectly flat, angles line up, all the same thickness, etc. Genuinely reclaiming this wood is difficult and by the time you have everything in great shape there's not much left. That's what makes this so special. It's not just pallet wood, it's pallet wood that's been made perfect. Taking literally absolutely shitty wood and making it into something everyone can play with and enjoy. Now that's what I call a project. It's like people who build their own cars vs those who just buy a fast one from the dealership. I'm much more impressed with the guy who built his car...

>>1809473
You're a good dude Anon.

I do the same kind of stuff. I'd rather take the time and effort to reclaim something that everyone else would throw away and make it into something nice.

Yes sometimes it "isn't worth it" in the grand scheme of things, but if you enjoy doing it, then do it anyhow! It is better than sitting on your ass larping like most of these faggots.

>>1809473
I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself

The rails are those ~1/2" slotted deals for mounting shelf brackets, turned like: |_| and screwed to the edge of the pallet slat. The smaller plastic bins (which you can get at thrift stores for next to nothing sometimes) fit perfectly.

There's a company a couple doors down that probably gets 50 pallets a week. They leave the empty ones outside, and encourage people to take them. They might need 3-4 a week to ship stuff out.

>>1809513
I got the rails from Habitat ReStore. $0.50 a stick.

>>1809513
>>1809514
I made this planter out of pallet slats.

>>1809513
I love Akro bins. This is a good pallet build.

>>1809516
Based

>>1809480
>It is better than sitting on your ass larping like most of these faggots

Top kek

>>1809281
Sanding helps smoothing wood... and there a these things called cushions... highly recommended when creating couch type structures..,

>>1807824
Worked on the legs today. Planed and jointed all faces and cut the angle with a miter saw. Used the drill press to start the hole for the bolts and used a forstner bit to drill a shallow bigger hole so the bolt will countersink. Mocked everything up with some clamps

>>1811496
Traced a half circle pattern at the end and cut it out with my scroll saw. I don’t use this thing much desu but it was the perfect thing for this little job

>>1796868
i made a bike rack with pallets once by cutting out the crossbar piece so that the wheel fits into the slot. it works ok

>>1811497
Also added a stabilizer board to link the legs together. This is the underside of the board with everything in place. I had to cut the legs a little so they would fold up around the stabilizer that connects the brace that runs the length of the board. The brace had to be in that exact spot because when it’s time to cut the hole, a top panel will end up resting perfectly on that spot.

>>1811501
It’s getting there. Everything is so crisp and flush and the angles are nice and straight. Feels good man. The other board ending up having one side that was crazy twisted and there’s no real way to undo it. I’m just gonna have to make a new side for the other board but oh well

>>1811502
Side note, it may be cheating a little but I used a 2x4 for the board legs and planed them down. I got a bunch of 2x4s from a disassembled crate at work. So it’s not technically pallet wood, but it was headed for the trash so I grabbed it. Got a pneumatic nail remover coming soon because pulling every single one of those nails by hand would be a pita.

>>1811508

I actually have one of those pneumatic nail removers, but I haven't tried it out yet...

Next time I disassemble pallets I gotta break it out!

>>1811508
>Got a pneumatic nail remover coming soon because pulling every single one of those nails by hand would be a pita.

Are we witnessing the birth of the woodworking version of Bepis? My money says this guy finishes this little project to justify purchasing all this equipment, and maybe starts a second project, but never actually does anything afterwards.

>>1811702
They need a Twitter so they can announce every time they’ve drilled a hole.

>>1796868
would heating the pallets get rid of most/all toxins in them? say, I put them inside a solar air heater for a couple hours, would that help somehow? or throwing hot water at them?

>>1811969
No. Stop wanting pallets. Stop wanting childish stupid shit that wastes intellectual effort you could put to better use. Learn to sort shit from useful things.
Pallets are MAGNIFICENT at being PALLETS. You could use them for that.

>>1811969
No. Stop asking

>>1811983
>>1811985
I didn't even mention reusing them. they could also be used to heat homes. and they are used that way where I live. I have to breathe shit coming from other houses because these fucking people don't give a shit about other people, or even their own health.

>durrr they were treated with poisonous chemicals
>durrrr they dont treat them they are cheap
Both equally retarded. I work with pallets in a major warehouse. Some retard hits a bottle of bleach with their fork? Pallet soaked in it. Pallets of drain cleaner gets broke en route? Pallets soaked in it. Trailer roof leaks and boxes of rat poison get soaked? Rat poison leaches out onto, you guess it, the pallets.
Take it from someone who actually works with these all day every day. Do NOT reuse them. Do not burn them. Dont buy them either. It's the stupidest shit ever invented. You don't need to "recycle" pallets. We di that shit already. Only small local yokel retard companies dump them because they are too cheap to ship them back.

>>1796871
dont burn treated wood you stupid faggots

>>1811852
>Get on computer
>Visit a diy board
>Enter a thread about what can be made from pallets
>Some guy shares what he’s currently making from pallets
>”lol stfu fegget go post on twitter”

Never change /diy/

>>1811502
>>1811502
Got the slats all planed to the same thickness today. Doing a little test fit mock-up to see how it can work

>>1796868
Burn it all.

https://youtu.be/QHSw3iw0yUs?t=758

>>1812285
how you gonna finish that? poly?

>>1812283
he should start his own thread, "how to build a corn hole board from pallet wood, step by step"

>>1812525
I’m gonna stain it rough looking with some beach themed colors. I’m using this picture for inspiration. Then I’m gonna put multiple coats of poly to finish it off. I plan to leave it down at our bay house for friends and family to play with. It’ll stay in the shop when it’s not getting used

>>1812534

>>1807337
I'm doing something similar.
I've already put the pallets in my wood chipper and the chips in my newly bought defibrator.
But I'm still waiting on my press and resin to form them into MDF blocks. Then I can finally mill a bird house out of it with my 5-axis CNC.

>>1807331
How do you like the Craftsman jointer? Thinking of getting it with me Trumpbux.

>>1812272
Why not?

>>1812581
It’s been great so far. I didn’t have to adjust anything out of the box. As long as you’re realistic about what it can and can’t do. It’s not really made for long pieces unless you build a table for it and even then it can only do so much. But getting those perfect 90 degree sides had been wonderful. Just be wary that some kind of dust collection is required to run this. Unfortunately even with the shop vac plate fully removed, the opening where it throws out shavings still still jams full of shavings and you have to stop to clean it out. The machine just can throw them out fast enough. With just a few passes the inside of the box fills up, so to actually get any work done you’ll need to hook up a shop vac to keep it clear. I plug my shop vac and the jointer into a power strip and just turn on the power strip when I’m ready to go so they both come on at the same time. The board edges do taper pretty quick as you joint them so expect to run a pass through a table saw to get them parallel again when you’re done. Time will tell as far as blade life goes, but so far so good. I’d recommend it

>>1812564
Be sure to post a photo of each little step.

>>1812581
I ripped up my Trump Socialism Handout check. Just because the left wants to push socialism down my throat doesn't mean in gonna buy into it.

>>1812794
post pics

>>1809513
>>1809514
>>1809516
I made 4 of these Sunday. This is the prototype. I tapered the part where the jacket hangs on the "production" versions.

>>1813299

>>1812592
you enjoy huffing chemicals?

>>1812794
nobody asked

>>1813301
>spend hundreds of dollars on safety equipment for motorcycle
>store it on splintery shit wood
You know you can buy wood, right?

>>1813365
>>1812272
The pallets I burn are HT or KD, they arent treated with chemicals.
Retard.

>>1813377
>you can buy wood

I told cornhole guy that too

>>1813379
It’s 11pm, do you know where your pallet woods are?

>>1813386
I mean, fair, but cornhole is supposed to be cheap and easy, so I can at least understand the justification of not wanting to spend a lot on it. But motorcycle safety gear ain't cheap.

>>1804356
why are they putting pintrest on blast

>>1813410
>cheap and easy

Lol not for that guy

I use them to keep the log still when I m using the chainsaw

>>1805017
>>1805047
Are you American consoomer idiots lazy to use your eyes ?

>>1799145
Cool snake, I want to get more taxidermy stuff as decorations.

Thinking about gluing a bunch of pallet slats together to make a big slab...gonna be fun truing it up.

>>1814051
It's actually 2 snakes. I bought it from a very large woman on the side of the road...it was just too weird not to have.

>>1797513
Wayne, I must admit your weird ass posts have a revolting charm.

>>1797451
this.
https://www.easypalletideas.com/pallet-firewood-shed/

bunch of other ideas on here. I get about half dozen a week. used to drive my wife crazy until we started building shit with them.

I cut up most for firepit wood and for the shop heater.

Put 'em on Craigslist for people to pick up for free. They're trash.

>>1814042
The problem with rough wood is that brad nails or metal shavings or thin staples can get embedded in the wood where you don't see them until you shave off a few 64ths of a inch, and by then it's too late. Your planer/joiner blades are fucked. Few passes of the metal detector is a life saver for those sneaky hidden blade killers

You can secure a compost pile with those if gardening is your thing.
Dig them into the ground and fix them toghether with nails or screws or whatever

>>1811508
>>1811583
If you have the tools, just build one out of scrap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InaubkRlRg

I build boat docks using pallets
I’m an expert so it isn’t for ametuars

>>1796868
You can make them into bows.
But really, extra material for wood stuff, and somewhere to put things on.

>>1814975
Did you keep your boots on the ground while working? I personally don't give quotes for my work, I just do it and then my customers pay me

any experience with houses from scratch pallets? should be the same as any house if counting in insulation and interior fittings

>>1815334
did you think about this even for a second before posting? how would that possibly work?

>>1815341
look up those pallet cabins on youtube and trendy rustic homes. you can use them instead of osb, and even use them as sidings or trimmings.
check it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF5NG97oLAI
asking for people whove tried it

>>1796868

Use as fuel for wood gassifier and power your home during crisis.

>>1805179
>tfw delivering pallets of stuff to international shipping company
>guy sends goods to South America and Caribbean
>probably gets 10-20 pallets of stuff from us a week
>one day I’m there, see a stack of our pallets, ask him if he wants me to pick them up and get them out of the way
>”Nah, we use those to support stuff in the shipping containers because your company is the only one who doesn’t count pallets”
>tfw this billion dollar company nickels and dimes on other shit but must lose hundreds of thousands of pallets a year

>>1803988
>>1804251
Oh, I forgot, you Yanks don't get any of your tax dollars back when you get furloughed. Unlike us Brits, that get 80% and allowed to stay home for two/three months. Like I said, more time than money, doesn't mean I don't have money just loads of fucking time.

>>1812794
based retard

>>1812285
Finally finished the second frame. Getting ready to actually put the slats on next.

>>1816994
Not being a dick, but what are they?I've seen the pics earlier in the thread, I've not seen anything like these before.

>>1817007
These are cornhole boards and they are for playing a game called cornhole. It’s a four player game with teams of two. So you and a buddy on one team vs. the other two guys. Basically you try to throw your beanbags into the hole from a distance. There’s a scoring system where if your beanbag lands on the board you get 1 point, and if it goes in the hole you get 3 points. The first to 21 points wins. If you go over 21 points, you reset to 15 points and keep going until you get a perfect 21 points. The boards usually look like this, with some kind of storage underneath to hold the beanbags.

>>1817301
Ha, cool. Sounds like fun with a few drinks thrown in. Thanks for sharing your project.

>>1815334
Was this that guy that stained his shed with old diesel and motor oil? I had never heard of that before but it's actually a pretty good idea as long as you're careful.

>>1818425

We oil trailer decks with used engine oil cut with diesel. Spray it on with a cheap weed sprayer and go on with life. Sure helps keep the wood from drying out and splintering.

>>1818477
I've never done this but how long does it take before you can set something on it and it won't smell like diesel when you take it off? Like if i wanted to sit on the trailer I wouldn't want oil all over my butt

>>1819524

It does take a while to fully soak in... maybe a few weeks? Also heavily depends on how dry the boards are to start with and how heavily you coat them.

>sitting down

Who has time for that?

>>1804358
People need plans for that?
Thats literally just slats screwed to posts

>>1816994
Didn’t get anything done tonight. My new 12” x 18” lathe came in and I wanted to make sure it worked incase I need to return it. I picked up the harbor freight turning set and tried some different designs on a shitty piece of scrap 2x2. Came out ok for my first time, even though the crap wood was very prone to splintering. Actually had a lot of fun doing it. Definitely want to turn a bowl on it when I get some free time

>>1819775
You should have gotten the $20 set. It's cheap so you don't cry like a baby when you drop one and chip the edge. Soft as butter too. Easy to sharpen, which you will have to do often, so you will learn how to do it right without fucking up a real set.

I have heard decent things about their HSS set, which you have. The first thing you should turn is a few handles, as I have heard the handles use a very cheap wood that splits. That said, they should put the "high-speed steel" bit in quotes. I have seen these chisels bend under load. You can't bend real high-speed steel without heating it first. It too hard so it cracks. They are faux high-speed steel chisels.

>>1819786
Thanks for the tips, if these handles ever break I’ll look into making some new ones. Might be kinda weird but I just sat on the ground when I was doing this so I’m not too worried about dropping anything from up high. Hopefully these last for a while. I guess if any one breaks I’ll know to buy a better one. I’m a little worried about turning a bowl, I hear it’s much more dangerous than a spindle. desu I’m not even sure which one of the tools to use, I’ll have to look it up I guess.

>>1805049
Bullshit. When I worked in the grocery biz, we had some very strong and heavy pallets made to hold the pallets of milk cartons.

>>1820324
When I worked in the retard factory we had some very strong and heavy pallets made to hold the mother of OP

>>1812592
It's a bunch of chemicals anon.

>>1817301
Nice.

>>1796868
We build an outdoors sofa out of those things

>>1816994
Got some epoxy poured into the holes on the slats of one cornhole board. I put tape on the side that will be facing up to help it be flush with the rest of the board. Note the 2 slats with tape on them. I turned them upside down for the pic just to show that side, and flipped them back over after taking the pic so the epoxy can gravity fill the hole. This one board used up about a tube worth of gorilla glue epoxy

>>1820497
After about 30 mins I peeled the tape back on what will be the top side and it came out great. The hole is filled nice and flush, but you can still see the hole. I think it’s kinda neet because the wood has been cleaned up, but it still has remnants of it’s pallet wood days. Gonna let this set over night and fully harden, then I’ll take off the tape

>>1805053
lmao

>>1820499
Should have mixed the glue with fine sawdust. The hole would be barely visible.

>>1796868
Only if you are a poor.. Then you can build a holiday home for your parents in the woods.

all the reddit spacing on this thread reminds me of a pallet board

>>1820499
You're not done with that project yet ?

>>1820499
Putting some of the slats on finally. I drew some lines and used the caliper to mark where to drill pilot holes for the nails to go. It’s not perfect but I’m trying to keep everything reasonably lined up

>>1822235
I’m putting the slats in one at a time. I put a little glue on the frame where it will sit, and put some glue on the edges to join the boards together. I clamp them together to squish the edges together perfect, and then nail it all down. I’m leaving the clamps on for a while so the glue can dry so it’s gonna take a while to do this part. One slat at a time, letting the glue dry one at a time. Hopefully will give a seamless finish when it’s done

>>1822034
Nah, been working on it a little at a time. Still have things in the real world to tend do. It’s just a side project, I work on it here and there

Made from pallet wood

>>1796871
Ahh i remember doing that with the guys years ago. Good memories

>>1797791
>>1797795
>>1797799
Based and truthpilled

>>1822352
I did it fairly recently. it's fun but it's not the essential experience fudds make it out to be

>>1822273
Is that a cuckshed for midgets?

>>1822788

It says Coffee... maybe a coffeehouse cuckshack for midgets?

>>1822244
Didn’t make much progress today. The waifu said she needed a planter for some flower seedlings she’s growing so today I made her a box. Took about 8 hours from starting with tearing up the pallet to finishing blowing sawdust off everything and putting all the tools away. It’s pretty generic but it works. Made a frame from the leftover crate wood 2x4s. Used screws to hold them together. Planned some slats, jointed the sides, cut to length. I shot brad nails to put the slats on, hope they hold. I used screws for the bottom slats so you can pick it up without it falling apart. Gonna use a free Harbor Freight tarp as a liner, fill the bottom half with sawdust, then the top half with potting soul for her flowers. Probably gonna stain it brown with some leftover fence stain to hopefully make it last a little while. It was a rush job but for pallet wood it’s good enough

>>1797104
Those look really good, I bet you could sell them.

>>1822791
Star Bucks for little cucks

>>1823506
looks good anon

>>1823506

I'm sure you were trying to hit some overall dimensions for the area you needed it to fit, but instead of a HF tarp as a liner, a person could build planter boxes to fit your standard rubbermaid or sterlite containers so that you have a nice waterproof liner to keep the rot away from the wood... Of course you'll have to add some drainage holes at the bottom, but at least the sides would be high and dry.

>>1822008
>complains about reddit spacing
>has a Reddit space before text
keke

>>1822273
Covfefe?

>>1824635
That's actually a really good idea. I didn't have any set dimensions for this one, but the waifu wanted around 3 foot x 1 foot planting area. If I need a planter in the future I might look into that, but for this one I was just shooting for a free price using what I had laying around. But that's a good idea, a Rubbermaid liner would last forever

>>1796994
This keke

Holy moly she’s a thick bitch

>>1825596
aaand not great. A lot of the slats were full of sections with too many cracks and holes. This was pretty much all that was good after cutting out the bad parts. Lesson learned, if the wood looks really bad it probably is. Not a great yield but still, beats being lazy and watching tv or something unproductive. Got a little free wood I guess so whatever

>>1796871
WTF are you and your buds gonna do with a 6 pack of beer idiot?

>>1818425
sounds like a fire hazard

Paint it white and stack em up for a bed or a living room table. Or just hang it on a wall. That's what stupid 40 year old women think is fashionable in my country. What retarded shit. The plant growers in this thread go in the same category.

>>1814042
uset that you can't just buy anything you want whenever you want it? pathetic.

>>1825698

Yeah linseed oil definitely isn't a fire hazard though right?

>>1823506
Got the free harbor freight tarp installed today. I used a staple gun to secure it in place. Decided to fill the box half way with sawdust because dirt is heavy and too much will press hard on the slats. Should help with drainage and it beats throwing it out. I heated up a large nail head and pressed it into the tarp to make 4 holes for drainage. I’ll post some pics of it fully finished once the waifu puts potting soil and her seedlings in there.

I for one am enjoying seeing anon work his cornhole

>>1796868

Make beer caddies. Gussy it up a little. Sell it to brew hipsters.

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/241587153/reclaimed-wood-beer-caddy?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_ca_en_ca_b-home_and_living-kitchen_and_dining-drink_and_barware-barware-other&utm_custom1=44d07cc4-d9f8-49d4-8ada-676045bc19d2&utm_content=go_319636005_49821702913_230594228086_aud-310388264614:pla-371219662077_m__241587153enca&utm_custom2=319636005&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI04GI9rbH6QIVBYbICh3h8gDDEAkYDCABEgLLavD_BwE

>>1826353
Put the last of the planks on one board. Gotta let the glue dry overnight and then I’ll start working on the second board

>>1827738
Jumping the gun a little but I was playing with some stain designs. Might do something like this

>>1796868
Wasn't there some Canadian handyman show where the final round was to build entire houses out of pallets?

>>1827786
Added some epoxy to the other board’s slats, same as the above picture. I’m waiting for it to dry so I decided to try my hand at a little bowl using some scrap pallet wood. This cube normally separates the slates of a pallet so that the forks can get in there. It’s my first bowl ever and it was actually pretty fun to make. I wanna make a much larger one in the future

In the process of building a fire wood shed. Just need like a 2x4 for horizontal support, maybe a small shelf for kindling, and some shingles for the roof. I have some tar paper and tar shingles sheets I could technically use. But /diy/ probably wouldn't approve and it wouldn't be as aesthetic.

Located in SoCal, so not really worried about rain. I have bark and kindling in bucket, and ash in the popcorn bucket. Want to do something with the ash. Soap, fire suppressor, I don't know.

>>1828575
Picture for bigger ants.

>>1796868
I grabbed some free pallets with the intent of doing something cook with them or at least using the wood for projects
the wood is crap, and prepping it for any thing that you want to at least look a little nice and not give you splinters is way more prep work than it's worth

>>1828575
>>1828576
Okay, I gotta know since so many fucknuts do this; where did you even get the thumbnail? Like, what camera or process produced it? Maybe if I know what you fucked up I can tell other morons how to fix it.

>>1796868
stack them up, put hardened glass ontop of it and sell it as a design coffee table.
if you're upfront about being a hack, nobody can call you a scammer

>>1828336
I planed some pallet wood slats and glued them together. Gonna wait until it dries and try to turn a vase or something on the lathe. We’ll see how it goes

>>1829121
Working on the second board now. Gotta get the first slat night and straight because the rest will piggyback off that one. I clamped it all down and I’m not gonna be able to mess with it again until tomorrow when the glue is fully dry

>>1822273
What is this thing?

>>1813603
Lmao really whats their beef?

>>1829121
I started cleaning this up today, but then it started raining outside so I had to stop. I don’t like to work with the garage door closed because I prefer to occasionally clean up/blow some sawdust outside. It looks ok but I need some ideas for what to make. Maybe a longer skinny vase or something?

>>1812079
Well said

>>1804356
This anon put it well
>1812079
But I respect your informative contribution. Useful information is always appreciated

>>1797513
I have 4 pallets unused laying around and this is what I was planning to do, I'm gathering ideas and design.
Would you post yours?

>>1805027
Is that a milking table?

>>1796868
Very ghetto squat rack. Just pile enough to get close to shoulder level.

>>1797406
What’s that tool called?

>>1805049
>How to spot an ignorant person

>>1831659
That's actually not a tool, it's a real life upvote. That guy just doesn't know how to crop his stuff.

>>1831691
btw not many people realize this, but if you ever get in a pinch you can use it as a downvote. Just rotate it 180 degrees and you're set. Little life hack for ya ;-)

>>1831659

I suppose a pallet dismantler or pallet wrecker. There are a ton of different designs. I'm sure you can even purchase them. I just threw that one together with leftover steel I had lying around.

One set of teeth will fit around a single 2x4 on edge with a bit of wiggle room and the other set of teeth will fit around two 2x4's or one 4x4 on edge with some wiggle room. That way you can tackle most pallet configurations with it.

>>1830822
Whelp.. not great. But I learned some stuff so, that’s something I guess

>>1831713
Does that work by itself or do you still need a hammer and crowbar and stuff?

>>1808933
Im just picturing a 4chan neckboard showing up to a familys house like an old time door to door salesman after seeing an obituary and trying to explain why coffins from a funeral home is a waste of money.

>>1796871
>I also just carry a bag full of nails and will drop them by the dozen while hiking because leaving piles of nails in nature is cool and fun
>the cool and fun part is you don't know if someone is going to put a nail in their foot tomorrow, 10 days from now or 10 years! maybe never!

Stay inside white trash.

>>1833882
I usually drop a few nails on the way to work. I wait until I get on the highway, then I roll down my window and casually drop them one by one. I buy them by the box of 160 or so and drop about 10 each day. Five bucks gets me about three weeks of fun, and it's a small price to pay for something that brings me joy. I've never been caught, but every time I see someone pulled over on the shoulder I wonder if it's because they found one of my little gifts

>>1833625

It will do 90% of pallet disassembly, but you'll still need a hammer and crowbar to get some of the ends and whatnot that are being stubborn. Also of course you still have to drive the nails out of each board. They do make an air powered nail remover that works damn well for that though.

>>1796925
This is the worst kind of stuff you can make from pallet wood. They just hung up a pallet and put some plants in there. Jesus they didn't even take the pallet apart. There is zero craftsmanship in this and it looks awful. Also, growing edible food in a dirty chemical filled pallet, wtf were they thinking?! No one do this.

>>1826353
The waifu finally got her plants in the planter. I’m still working on the second cornhole board, I’ll try to post more pics soon

>>1804356
It's pretty volatile, unless you live in Antarctica, none will stay in your pellet.

>>1796945
>>1834630
>ewww omg the leaf is near the wood that has chemicals in it

This is woman logic. The plant is growing in a pot/liner. Stop worrying needlessly over inconsequential things.

>>1811969
As far as the so-feared methylbromide is concerned: yes, you'd need to hear it to about 4 degrees Celsius or around 40 degrees hamburger.

>>1834843
>around 40 degrees hamburger.
It's warmer than that most of the year most places in America.

>>1834843
Think you got your measurements wrong buck-o. 40 degrees cheeseburger is cold as hell. You need a thick jacket to be out in that. For comparison the average room temperature is 72 freedom degrees

>>1834866
>need a thick jacket to be out in that
Southerner detected.

And I don't think that poster has his numbers mixed up. You'll observe that 5 degrees C is also just above freezing. I'm pretty sure he knows that 40F is chilly as well. But it is worth noting that if his information is correct, all you need to do if it's summer time is literally nothing.

P.S. In Vermont for short trips to the car to the store we usually just wear like a hooded sweatshirt down to -10F or so. If you're gonna be out in that weather for more than ten minutes or so at a time you do need more clothes.

>>1825753
I seen winos do this

>>1796868
I built a pig pen with 20 of them and a few 2×4 blocks ama

>>1796868
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HA4zY8xCyY

>>1796868
I used them to store things dry in my storage shed. Putting things directly on the floor leads to them sucking up moisture from the stone. Otherwise I just break them up using a sledgehammer and burn them in my horseshoe fire brazier. Loads of people offering them for free on lpcal ebay so I always have plenty firewood.

>>1833875
Yeah, it's a hard sale. Funeral homes lean heavy onto the "dignity" of the burial, and you'll have a hard time outplaying them by saying it's cheaper. My parents said put them in whatever meets zoning guidelines and pray for their souls instead of remembering them by the burial bills.

>>1831221
>Is that a milking table?
Is this bait or are you retarded?

Its a cornhole board

>>1834870
I hate it when posturing nu male tuff guyz do this “haha you don’t know what REAL COLD is like lemme tell you somethin brah” act. It’s rooted in the same tryhard pathology as the whole hot sauce obsession phenomenon.

I made a brooder for quail chicks to fit in between our bed and the wall.

Its 3 pieces. The legs, the box, and the floor. Makes it easier to get in and out of the small space.

Roughly 18w x 40l in

>>1835109
>inb4 phoneposter

>>1835093
I hate that attitude too. Actually, if you'll read my post again, you'll see that it contains none of that: I called the other poster no names, made no accusations, no hyperbole, no inflation of my own ego, no grand overtures drawing wild conclusions. I spoke of numbers and need and fact and regional differences. He made a statement, I explained that it is not always true.

My intent was to draw attention to relativity, not bravado.

>>1834634
>Wed
All most done with the slats of the second board

>>1796868
You can make a base for a bed

>>1820497
>he fell for the gorilla meme

>>1835119
Taking a break from the boards to build a squirrel chair out of some extra pallet wood. It’s not done, but the pieces have been cut out. I just need to nail/glue it all together and maybe stain it or something idk

>>1834960
More pics

>>1835729
Not bad anon

>>1834960
How many pigs ?

>>1797521
A fellow banjo player. Welcome

>>1796871
Based

>>1825614
Your friends bring their own beverages, dumbass.

>>1835119
>>what is expansion?

>>1837635
It's glued together so expansion won't matter. It will all move together as one piece. Wood glue is like welding, it's so strong that the board will fail in another place before it snaps on the glue line. It's exactly the same as a large table made from slats that's glued together. Also, it's made from pallet wood so it's not meant to be fancy. If this thread dies, should I keep going with the progress in another thread?..

>>1805022
>>1805021
>>1805015
>>1805017
anon, im not much of a woodworker, but holy fuck that looks great. you have taken some nasty shitty pallets and turned them into nice wooden planks. 10\10

>>1800114
Fuck he's not there anymore!

>>1838700
It is a LOT of effort but I guess when you are belly down on your milking table you do not want splinters. Hole could have been smaller.

>>1817305
imagine being a europoor who does not know the joy of tailgating on a summer day with some cold beers, brats, and some cornhole with southern thots in daisy dukes

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>>1839158
>>1839158
>>1839158

Cornhole anon here, just wanna say I appreciate all the replies and encouragement. I’m having fun with it. I’ll keep updating the progress in the new thread