Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[Hedgeland Farms]

I just wanna say I am enjoying this thread as well!!! Useful info, inspiring projects!!
Aside from the Pig Palace and Goat Garage Hubby surprisingly started talking abt turkeys after I had given up the idea...so we will also be building the Turkey Tavern or Tower (haven't decided any votes on that one?)
@gtaus I am planning on making a raised bed of sorts for my chicken run, cover the top in hardware cloth and plant some type of grass or weeds in it...(so they have access to green but can't obliterate it! We can't free range bc of our dogs, cats and other preditors)

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

A little more done this morning while the 4 minors attacked their school assignments.

Minor 11 made the sign

The galvanized corner is not attached but all corners will look like so...

 

[Iluveggers]

Garage Hubby surprisingly started talking abt turkeys after I had given up the idea...so we will also be building the Turkey Tavern or Tower

Went from chicken math to barnyard math lol.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

Went from chicken math to barnyard math lol.

Bahahaha...
You have no idea! And so much research! It's definetly been fun trying to figure out if we can even fit all of these animals...

And everyone at work...well they just think we are nuts! Lol

 

[ChicksnMore]

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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I'm so glad you did interior pics! That looks amazing

I just wanna say I am enjoying this thread as well!!! Useful info, inspiring projects!!
Aside from the Pig Palace and Goat Garage Hubby surprisingly started talking abt turkeys after I had given up the idea...so we will also be building the Turkey Tavern or Tower (haven't decided any votes on that one?)
@gtaus I am planning on making a raised bed of sorts for my chicken run, cover the top in hardware cloth and plant some type of grass or weeds in it...(so they have access to green but can't obliterate it! We can't free range bc of our dogs, cats and other preditors)

Turkey Tavern gets my vote

 

[gtaus]

The things I've made out of pallet and scrap wood have been for the chickens. I painted them so that they'd hold up to the weather and chicken dust better. Ok, to be honest, to cover my inexperience too.

What's that old saying? Something like "The difference between an amateur and a professional builder is that the professional knows how to cover up his mistakes!" I think that is mostly true.

 

[gtaus]

Those look fantastic!

Thanks. Dear Wife approves, so we are just moving them (empty) around the yard until we find the perfect place for them. Next spring we will fill them with potting soil and they will be full of flowers.

 

[gtaus]

Turkey Tavern gets my vote

Names can be fun. I was thinking "Turkey Taj Mahal." And thinking of goats, I might suggest "Goatel California" which would be especially funny if you lived in California. Well, at least I think it's funny.

 

[gtaus]

I am planning on making a raised bed of sorts for my chicken run, cover the top in hardware cloth and plant some type of grass or weeds in it...(so they have access to green but can't obliterate it! We can't free range bc of our dogs, cats and other preditors)

In part of my chicken run, I put down a grazing frame. A grazing frame is simply some 2X4's or 2X6's framed up to hold hardware cloth on top. The grass grows up and through the hardware cloth and the chickens can eat the top parts of the grass without being able to dig or pull up the grass by the roots. It's very simple to build. In theory, it works really well.

Google picture of a grazing frame - not my chicken run...

OK, so my grazing frames has not worked out so well for me, and here is why. First of all, I used standard 2X4's for the frame and hardware cloth on top. At first, everything was working well for me. But I have also turned my chicken run into a chicken run composting system, and the litter (grass clippings, leaves, wood chips, organic weeds from garden, etc...) is about 18 inches deep in most parts of the chicken run. Well, over time, the chickens have started to scratch the compost litter on top of the grazing frame, blocking the sunlight, and the grass does not grow like it used to.

Now that I'm into pallet projects, I think I will pull out that old grazing frame and add another 2X4 (3-1/2 inches tall) to the bottom of the frame. That should make the grazing frame 7 inches tall which would prevent the chickens from covering the top of the wire from their scratching the compost litter around the run.

Here is another pallet project idea I just thought of. Why not take a pallet, remove all the inner planks both top and bottom, put some hardware cloth on the top of the pallet, and plop it down on the ground as an instant grazing frame! How simple is that?!

You could certainly build a raised bed, as you mentioned, with a hardware top, and there would be advantages to that as well. I'm all into raised beds for my gardening.

Bonus idea... Why not just take 2 or three pallets, add some 2X4's (or planks of the same size) to the ends to close them off, remove all the planks top and bottom, stack the pallet frames, and call that a raised bed? If you wanted to make it look better, cut the planks to your height and then use the planks to dress up the outside of the frames.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

I was thinking "Turkey Taj Mahal."

Oooo that's a good one too!!!!