Wood Palletes are free!!!!!!

[KLin]

These ones aren't free.

 

[Squisher]

Most of the pallets with 3"X3" sides are white oak. You can make some nice funiture with it if you have a planer or feel like doing a lot of sanding.

 

[LostWanderer]

As mentioned before, if you can find some made of oak or other hard wood they're a great find and really worth it for wood workers. Ever priced oak at your local lumber store? It's expensive! Pulling a few nails and staples and running the slats through a planar makes it almost impossible to tell where the stuff came from. If you're not a wood worker, find someone who is and I'm sure they'll float you some cash for it.

:thumbsup:

 

[Jeff7]

We use them to keep stacks of bags of wood pellets in the winter, for our wood pellet furnace. Our basement kind of has a flooding problem, so keeping the pallets the wood pellets are delivered and using them for storage just made sense. Other than that, find yourself some illegal immigrants. Some pallet repair place near where I live endured a police bust, in which they discovered that many of the workers there were illegal immigrants.

The pallets I usually see are either some kind of fir tree, or else oak, though those are usually the heavier CHEP pallets, I believe. Just watch for all kinds of fun stuff like nails, staples, reinforcing plates, and chemical treatments. Sometimes plastic slats will be used too when pallets are repaired. Burning plastic will obviously produce toxic fumes, and heating galvanized metal could also do the same.

 

[FoBoT]

burn baby

 

[0roo0roo]

got witches?

 

[0]

Menards charges $5 a piece for used pallets

 

[Kelemvor]

They are great for BonFires. We have a place next to our hosue that has tons of pallets that they said we can take any time we want. Only proble mis you need a chainsaw to cut them up.

 

[MikeMike]

see if any of them have Cedar in them, some do, and they can be sold for a few $ to a woodworker.

cedar isnt cheap.

 

[thespeakerbox]

Sand them down nice by hand.

Dark staining or painting might be an option to cover up the crap.

Attach 4 of these to the bottom IKEA LEGS

Pick up some tempered glass/ plexiglass and slap that right on top

Semi-Instant Modern Furniture.