Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[Sally PB]

Looking forward to your next builds. Post those pics if you get a chance. Also, would love to see pics of your goats and pigs in their pallet palaces.

Me too!

 

[gtaus]

I built my mobile pallet wood storage bin for pallet wood today. Took longer than I thought it would, but I think I over engineered it. For your consideration, here are a few pics...

The overall base dimensions are 16 inches wide by 48 inches long. You can see the Harbor Freight wheels I took off the dolly and put on this storage bin to make it mobile. Works really good in the garage on a concrete floor.

Nothing special about the size of the mobile storage bin other than that I had to make it so it would fit between a workbench and a tall tool cart out of the way when not used. That lets us get our car parked in the garage for the night.

I made it three tiers, one at 14 inches, one at 20 inches, and the tallest compartment is 32 inches. My idea is to store the wood in the compartments more or less the length of the board. Each compartment is 16X18 inches on the base.

As you can see, at the time of this photo, I had the storage bin about half filled. I filled it up full a few minutes later. The good news is that it holds more wood than I thought it would.

The bad news is that I still have more wood to store. I guess it's one of those problems you like to have.

The only cost I had into this project was some screws, brad nails, and the Harbor Freight dolly wheels for $10.00. I won't even count the cost of the screws because I used a "reclaimed" batch of rusty screws that worked fine, just nasty rusty looking. Good enough for this project. I saved those screws from the dumpster a few years ago, so I felt good about using them on this build.

I know this is more functional than pretty looking, but, after all, it's just a storage bin. I was able to use those 2X4 stretchers that have the cutouts for the forklift tines. Just cut them to size and screwed them together. And lots of the planks I used on this project were rejected for use in my raised bed and planter box builds. In short, I used a lot of my pallet wood that I would not use in other projects.

I'll have to start on my next pallet project to thin out my pallet wood stock. Time to make that second pallet raised bed... Might be looking at using some pallet wood to make shelves or organizers for my tools. I have too many tools not to be better organized. Would be nice to have the tools out in the open and easy access whenever I wanted to use one. Currently, about half my tools are in boxes on storage shelves and I have to take them out of the box every time I want to use one. I think I need something better.

 

[gtaus]

Just a quick mention on using proper safety equipment when building pallet wood projects. Protect those eyes and ears, everybody. Also, I find a good pair of gloves improves life.

My current pair of work gloves are getting wore out and I have a few holes in them in the fingers. You might think that old worn out gloves seem to be just what you would expect while working on a pallet project. But no. Although I almost always wear gloves when I work, at one point, I took off my gloves because the tears and rips in the gloves were getting in my way with the task I was working on. As you might expect, it only took about one minute before I managed to get a nasty sliver in my finger from the pallet wood.

...And yes, it still hurts hours later.

So, I'm going to get a new pair of tight fitting gloves before the next project.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

It looks great!!

 

[gtaus]

Update on the mobile pallet wood storage bin: I filled everything up in the bin and was moving it around to put it away when I noticed that one of the bottom boards had come loose.

Must have been a senior moment because I fastened all the boards in the bottom with brad nails and was going to go back and add reinforcing screws to the wood. I knew I needed screws in the bottom boards to hold all that weight. Evidently, I forgot to put the screws in the bottom boards. My bad.

So, I'll have to empty everything out to turn the storage bin over to get to those bottom boards. Not a big deal but I should have done it right the first time. On the plus side, this time when I refill it, I will be more selective of the wood I put in the bin because I could not get all my pallet wood in it. I will only be putting my best wood in the bin this time and the other stuff will end up one step closer to the burn pile. I have enough good pallet wood that I don't feel any pressure to keep the broken or cracked pieces. I have a bad habit of saving too much stuff and sometimes I just have to clean house.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Here's some pics of the inside of my pallet coop, so you can see the pallets more clearly. I tried to keep them intact as much as possible to save work, but I did remove the planks from one side (the inside) of each pallet to fill in the outside gaps. Where the size wasn't correct, I cut the whole pallet to fit. And I used lots of additional reclaimed pieces to reinforce the structure.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

I built my mobile pallet wood storage bin for pallet wood today. Took longer than I thought it would, but I think I over engineered it. For your consideration, here are a few pics...

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The overall base dimensions are 16 inches wide by 48 inches long. You can see the Harbor Freight wheels I took off the dolly and put on this storage bin to make it mobile. Works really good in the garage on a concrete floor.

Nothing special about the size of the mobile storage bin other than that I had to make it so it would fit between a workbench and a tall tool cart out of the way when not used. That lets us get our car parked in the garage for the night.

I made it three tiers, one at 14 inches, one at 20 inches, and the tallest compartment is 32 inches. My idea is to store the wood in the compartments more or less the length of the board. Each compartment is 16X18 inches on the base.

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As you can see, at the time of this photo, I had the storage bin about half filled. I filled it up full a few minutes later. The good news is that it holds more wood than I thought it would.

The bad news is that I still have more wood to store. I guess it's one of those problems you like to have.

The only cost I had into this project was some screws, brad nails, and the Harbor Freight dolly wheels for $10.00. I won't even count the cost of the screws because I used a "reclaimed" batch of rusty screws that worked fine, just nasty rusty looking. Good enough for this project. I saved those screws from the dumpster a few years ago, so I felt good about using them on this build.

I know this is more functional than pretty looking, but, after all, it's just a storage bin. I was able to use those 2X4 stretchers that have the cutouts for the forklift tines. Just cut them to size and screwed them together. And lots of the planks I used on this project were rejected for use in my raised bed and planter box builds. In short, I used a lot of my pallet wood that I would not use in other projects.

I'll have to start on my next pallet project to thin out my pallet wood stock. Time to make that second pallet raised bed... Might be looking at using some pallet wood to make shelves or organizers for my tools. I have too many tools not to be better organized. Would be nice to have the tools out in the open and easy access whenever I wanted to use one. Currently, about half my tools are in boxes on storage shelves and I have to take them out of the box every time I want to use one. I think I need something better.

Your cart looks amazing!!

Sorry abt your finger!!!


connected the pallets today and started going over gaps on the outside. I want to keep the inside with the pallet wood to hang feeders and such on

 

[gtaus]

Here's some pics of the inside of my pallet coop, so you can see the pallets more clearly. I tried to keep them intact as much as possible to save work, but I did remove the planks from one side (the inside) of each pallet to fill in the outside gaps. Where the size wasn't correct, I cut the whole pallet to fit. And I used lots of additional reclaimed pieces to reinforce the structure.

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Thanks for the pics. Love it. I'm thinking of maybe building a pallet shed. Your pics will help a lot. Studying them now...

 

[gtaus]

Your cart looks amazing!!

Sorry abt your finger!!!

I"m happy with the storage cart. Thanks for the thumbs up.

Speaking of fingers, I stopped crying the next day from the sliver in my finger, so life is back to normal.... Should have known better than to take off my gloves.

connected the pallets today and started going over gaps on the outside. I want to keep the inside with the pallet wood to hang feeders and such on

It looks like you framed up the structure with the pallets and now are using some kind of siding to finish it off. What siding are you using? If I build a pallet shed, I'm thinking of either covering it with siding to match the house, or overlapping the outside with more pallet boards to cover the gaps and then just painting everything. Advantages to both methods, but I do like the look of your siding.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

It looks like you framed up the structure with the pallets and now are using some kind of siding to finish it off. What siding are you using? If I build a pallet shed, I'm thinking of either covering it with siding to match the house, or overlapping the outside with more pallet boards to cover the gaps and then just painting everything. Advantages to both methods, but I do like the look of your siding.

So, i connected the pallets (frame? walls? lol)
And I am using treated plywood I had laying around to cover the gaps outside, which also helps brace the structure.

The back is a mogde podge of wood we had laying around, some thicker OSB and some left over treated plywood.

I have some treated plywood for the other side

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Basically whatever we had laying around..thats my siding lol


Eta if this was an actual shed type structure that'll be out front on the property...id cover it with siding to match the house as well, but goats don't mind and I am not trying to spend more money bahaha