Ordered up some stuff from Home Depot and had it delivered yesterday. Look at this absolutely beautiful pallet they put the order on! I don't even know what to do with it, it's so perfect. Normally I would disassemble a pallet and keep the good boards for other projects, but this one is so pristine I don't even want to leave it outdoors to weather. Help me bros. What do I do?
idk, cofee table?
Cool pallet, bro.
damn, Who are they paying to make that? Maybe make a card table out of it?
American GMAs are made by everything from factories to meth heads. The pallets are traded in after use, the user pays for loss or quality loss. But pretty much anyone can get a stack of ‘loss’ ones, fix them up in their back yard, trade them back in as ‘repaired’ and make some money. Usually it’s the other way around, ive seen them repaired with too thick/thin boards, wrong stringers, misaligned holes, holes clearly sawn off the line with a jigsaw etc. But sometimes they have planed boards and are nailed perfectly
>But pretty much anyone can get a stack of ‘loss’ ones, fix them up in their back yard, trade them back in as ‘repaired’ and make some money
Frequently at my job we get pallets that looked like some drunk hobo reused old nails and the thinnest wood they could find, is that really what's been happening this whole time?
How much do you give for recycled pallets?
Normally pallets can be traded in with the suppliers. But if they are too broken then the factories (or the suppliers) sell them to usually a pallet contractor. The contractor buys all their broken pallets and sells them back repaired ones. These contractors in turn hire people to do the actual repairs, but anyone with a hammer can do it and they find cheapest bidder. The margins are already pretty low (maybe $4/pal) so in the end the work is done by people willing to repair pallets all day for $2 per pallet.
The pallet that my air compressor came il on was shoddily put together, but was all hard wood.
Probably seal it and use it as a table, I'd guess. I'd think cutting it down the middle to make a counter top would look nice in the garage or something, but if you don't want to divide it up at all, there aren't a ton of options for a big wooden rectangle.
You could also paint Live, Laugh, Love and hang it on your living room wall.
>there aren't a ton of options for a big wooden rectangle.
I know what you mean but this is probably one of the most incorrect assessments you could have possibly stated outside of the context. I mean, what CAN'T you do with a big wooden rectangle?
Make an efficient wheel, fend off a mountain lion attack, or teach a bitter old man how to love again. A couple of those, at least.
>Make an efficient wheel
Cut into circle
>fend off a mountain lion attack
Make shield
>teach a bitter old man how to love again
Make table and have a heart to heart over a warm beverage
I got some stuff from work that came on 3/4 AB grade plywood. I was like dammmmn that's a nice pallet
Anything made from a pallet shows alot of class
And its all low
you are on the PrepHole board
Nothing gets by you Fenwick
Amish pallet.
I will use this thread to ask my own autistic question
How do you actually get pallets? I see people driving around with pallets stacked in their truck to the heavens. Do you like just ask a store? Whats the process here? I have autism.
> my own autistic question
not autistic, just stupid
> I have autism.
No you don't. You're stupid or lazy or stupid and lazy.
Buy stuff on pallets. End up with lots of pallets, have to dispose of pallets somehow. I end up breaking them down, keeping the good boards, and burning the rest.
Go to your local industrial district and ask. Your best bet would be the smaller shops with a bunch stacked at the back since they probably don't have someone who takes them.
fricking hate pallet resellers
worse than crack head scrappers
they don't even ask if they can take pallets most of the time, they just trespass with their shitty home made trailer and start taking them
my company returns our pallets to our shipper for credit, but they only want full trailers at a time so we have to stack them up till we get enough. i've had to chase multiple idiots off and almost called the cops on one that wouldn't give back the stack he loaded on his trailer before I caught him.
>but they only want full trailers at a time so we have to stack them up till we get enough
Same here.
I understand the reasoning, but it still sucks.
How much credit you get for a truckload?
Son, you clearly did not receive the wood hygiene “talk” when you hit puberty
our supplier charges us ~$10 a pallet, and we get reimbursed plus a couple bucks per pallet (incase pallets break while we have them) when we send them all back. this started when the 'rona started. before that, they wouldn't charge us at all, and we used the pallets for our own shipments.
it's not a big issue, because the extra spiff per pallet is enough that we can still use the pallets for our own shipments and customers usually don't want to keep the pallets so they come back to us.
Craigslist
We hoard them at work
Work somewhere with freight.
Pallets are not always returned in cycles, sometimes they go places they shouldn’t and end up piling in corners.
For example, I manage a cross dock, it’s like a sorting center but on a pallet scale, no small parcels. So in turn in the cycle of freight moving from part manufacturers, to us, to assembly plants, there’s a whole return system of empty containers that come back to us, and we send back to the part manufacturers.
Well, that’s for plastic returnable containers. But sometimes the plants don’t recycle their pallets or don’t use them all for assembled items, so we get the occasional stack of wooden pallets.
The suppliers don’t want them all the time, some of them only use new pallets, or have other stores of pallets. So we have this growing pile of used pallets.
Most go off when we have a trailers worth to be recycled, but they’re undesirable, you can just bring them home whenever you want.
Most of my rear deck is made of the choice pallets I took home from work.
Cut in half. Get 4x4 legs. Make workbench.
Pallets are toxic due to the fact they are shipping material not wood intended/treated for building purposes, they contain shit that will give you cancer and frick your body up, don't use it to make furniture.
So my guitars are going to kill me?
No, but the shapes look a little goofy
The guitars may give you a sense that you can make money by being a musician and thus you'll eventually starve to death in dellusion by not letting go of that dream like millions before you so...maybe.
>Pallets are toxic due to the fact they are shipping material not wood intended/treated for building purposes, they contain shit that will give you cancer and frick your body up, don't use it to make furniture.
Yes some of them have chemicals on them to treat them. A lot of them do not. Some building materials also have chemicals on them. Pressure treated lumber for example. They are treated to prevent rot from ground contact. Probably best not to carve a wooden plate out of some and eat a meal off of it every day.
Saying all pallets are toxic is a truly moronic take.
It is usually marked in the pallet if it's treated somehow. I don't use pallets in projects as I can't know what other users have done whit them. They could've been used to transport God-knows-what materials and chemicals that may have been spilled all over the pallet.
>Saying all pallets are toxic is a truly moronic take.
Go eat soup with a random wooden spoon you found in a landfill.
Not such a good idea is it
So why frick around with pallets that absolutely likely shipped carcinogenic, poisonous chemicals.
>absolutely likely
That in no way means they were soaked in same. How paranoid are you?
You must be a bigger fricking moron than I thought if you honestly expect "just trust me bro" would convince me to handle potentially carcinogenic wood.
You realise people get fricked up and die at work from chemical spills all the time? You don't know what pallets haven't been in contact with hazardous chemicals, but you don't know what ones have either.
Most pallets are visibly single use. What third-world hell hole do you live in?
So you want cheap wood, ok, you also clearly value recycling, and avoiding waste, which is admirable
but you know, wood itself is renewable, you should build things out of high quality material when possible
Lol. Everything is "potentially carcinogenic" You should just stop doing everything including breathing.
You're taking his posts out of context, you b***hing mongoloid.
>Go eat soup with a random wooden spoon you found in a landfill. Not such a good idea is it
Do you normally eat food off of surfaces your fat sweaty ass smeared itself across? Get a grip before you get an insulin pump.
its common knowledge that pallets are a health risk if they've been used to transport shit thats harmful to personal health
its also common knowledge that humans are fricking idiots and incompetent and don't read labels or signs of danger
so frick you i guess
>its common knowledge that pallets are a health risk if they've been used to transport shit thats harmful to personal health
I don't think they're as unusable as you think they are. Not huffing wood dust and avoiding anything painted is a given, and you could pick up pallets from companies with tighter safety requirements for shipping to be safe. They're not radioactive and no sane person is going to make a wooden kitchen spoon out of them. Your whataboutisms are non-issues.
Disassemble it and keep the wood in a dry place for future use
My bed nightstands were made from reclaimed pallets and with a nice finish put on them. Am I gonna die bros?
You already have teh cancer. You just don't know it yet.
Fricking finally, been waiting for a way out of this bullshit without capping myself for years. Based palletfren
>Fricking finally, been waiting for a way out of this bullshit without capping myself for years. Based palletfren
Oh you still have plenty of years of torture left before the cancer takes you.
People like
Are so worried about living a long time they don't even live the life they already have. Imagine going around thinking, "better not touch this board, it might kill me" All day every day. The fool probably doesn't have anyone that likes him in real life, no wife, no kids, no reasons to really live at all, yet wants to live to be a centenarian for some insane reason...
Go build a chair out of the biohazard building materials, rebuild your house out of asbestos too while you're at it, see if I fricking care, stupid homosexual.
I would b***h slap an eyebrow right off your fat face
>Bro why aren't you turning wood used to transport corrosive/carcinogenic liquids into living room furniture
Potentially carcinogenic like, MDF, Plywood, Polyurethane coatings, Epoxy coatings, Phenolic resin paints, PFAS textile waterproofing stuff and the yellow foam used for upholstery. Oh and any and all plastics
You’re not going to make me believe all your chairs are bare wood with a natural beeswax finish
You just proved my point, but hey, you're allowed to say MDF is potentially cancerous but I'm not allowed to say fricking shipping containers aren't?
Frick you, hypocrite
*are
Why am I even arguing this, Im not interested in building anything out of this shit
Camcer gets everyone
This whole planet is a shithole
You never live when you spend your whole life worrying about dying
Sandpaper it
Put some nice wood oil on it
Sells as custom electric table desk $777 on ebay
Stack of pallets are good for one thing
Bonfires….<./thread>
I bought a pallet of lumber cutoffs today and the pallet was disintegrating and the top was made of the really cheap shitty chipboard
looks like Jupiter
cool pallet bro
>looks like Jupiter
>cool pallet bro
Thanks man!
>that is one beautiful pallet you have there anon. care to sell it?
$300. Don't lowball me, I know what I got...
that is one beautiful pallet you have there anon. care to sell it?
I will say, that's a pretty cool pallet anon.
Awesome pallet, anon. I thought the one I got last year that I used to build a little planter was the best it gets, but god damn, they gave you a miniature deck there.
I'd build a coffee table out of it.
Avoid painted, partially painted, stamped or branded pallets. They have poison so that insects eat the wood.
I hate these particle standoffs, they dont burn for shit
Totally don't worry about what might have been spilled on the pallet during its service life. It will be fine. Its not like it is unsealed wood that will soak up everything it touches. Sure, it may have sit in the alley between a Chinese restaurant and dive bar for a month before it was reused and set to wherever you got it from, but that doesn't matter. You don't know where its been and that means nothing weird/bad happened to it.
If I lick it will it be bacon flavored?
FYI the pallet is from china and is only heat treated. If you're not afraid it will turn into an escalator and eat you have fun with it.
> china
> only heat treated
America is wild, the pallets we ship from overseas down here are treated with enough shit to give you cancer just being around them too long