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Thinking about my composting this spring, I wanted to make some kind of more steady platform to put my cement mixer compost sifter on this year. As you can see in the following picture, I have been putting the cement mixer up on cinder blocks to get it to the height I need to get my 4-wheels wagons underneath.
Using the cinder blocks works, but it is not the steadiest way to elevate a rotating cement mixer that is sifting out compost. Now that I'm into pallet projects, I was thinking of just stacking a few pallets on top of each other and then securing the feet/wheels of the cement mixer to the top pallet platform.
However, it seems to me that the top pallet should be completely covered with wood because that would prevent any sifted compost from falling into the pallet, between the pallet slats, and losing all that sifted compost. Any sifted compost that blows back underneath the compost sifter can be brushed off into a bucket and not wasted.
Guess what I just picked up? Yep, a pallet with the top pallet slats covering the entire top! Exactly what I was thinking I would need for the platform. Pallet looks like this...
Sure was a nice find because I was going to disassemble a few pallets with the same thickness slats so that I could rebuild a platform that was even. Now I have a ready-made pallet for the top. Done and done!
I guess this one will fall into the easiest ever pallet projects! It is just surprising how a person can pick up a one-off type pallet and immediately think of a use for that special build.
Using the cinder blocks works, but it is not the steadiest way to elevate a rotating cement mixer that is sifting out compost. Now that I'm into pallet projects, I was thinking of just stacking a few pallets on top of each other and then securing the feet/wheels of the cement mixer to the top pallet platform.
However, it seems to me that the top pallet should be completely covered with wood because that would prevent any sifted compost from falling into the pallet, between the pallet slats, and losing all that sifted compost. Any sifted compost that blows back underneath the compost sifter can be brushed off into a bucket and not wasted.
Guess what I just picked up? Yep, a pallet with the top pallet slats covering the entire top! Exactly what I was thinking I would need for the platform. Pallet looks like this...
Sure was a nice find because I was going to disassemble a few pallets with the same thickness slats so that I could rebuild a platform that was even. Now I have a ready-made pallet for the top. Done and done!
I guess this one will fall into the easiest ever pallet projects! It is just surprising how a person can pick up a one-off type pallet and immediately think of a use for that special build.