Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[Molpet]

If I told Dear Wife that she had to park her car outside because my sawhorses needed the room in the garage... well, you can imagine how that would work out for me!

That might work to help convince her you need to build a shop

 

[gtaus]

That might work to help convince her you need to build a shop

I can't tell if you are really joking or just trying to deliberately get me in trouble? In any case, your suggestion would only be viable if I built a sleeping loft in the shop - because that is where I would be sleeping!

Happy wife, happy life!

For what I do out in the garage, I probably don't need a separate shop. Last winter I got the floor heat out in the garage fixed. I keep the heat at about 45F, so the cars are easy to start even in the dead of winter. If I want, I can back out my car for the day, hook up my little propane heater on high for about 15 minutes, and it's a nice and toasty 65F in the garage.

I'll probably do that when it gets a bit warmer outside. Right now, we have a cold weather advisory with temps down to -24F tonight. What pallet projects I have in mind can wait until it warms up a bit outside. I'm thinking later in March...

In the meantime, I have been doing lots of little things to make more room in the garage. Dear Wife says I keep too much "junk" and that I should get rid of more of it. Of course, it's not junk to me and no doubt I would throw something out and a week or two later have to go to the store and buy it new!

That always seems to happen to me. It does not matter if I saved an item for 10 years without using it, if I got rid of it today, I would need it in the next 10 days! Just about guaranteed.

Having said that I have been looking through stuff and donating some boxes of used stuff to the local church charity thrift shop this winter. Maybe someone else has a more immediate need for that stuff. If the thrift shop can make a little money for charity, all the better.

 

[Molpet]

I can't tell if you are really joking or just trying to deliberately get me in trouble? In any case, your suggestion would only be viable if I built a sleeping loft in the shop - because that is where I would be sleeping!

Well you never know until you ask her. Is there something she likes to do so part could be for her stuff?

no doubt I would throw something out and a week or two later have to go to the store and buy it new!

This is so true. My mom moved back after my dad died. I gave my niece a double animal feed and waterer. Literally the day she went back to Omaha, a stray cat showed up and my mom had to buy another.

 

[AGeese]

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Mine get use more by my chickens.

 

[gtaus]

Mine [sawhorses] get use more by my chickens.

I guess that storing the unused sawhorses in the chicken run is a great way to get use out of them, at least by the chickens.

 

[chickengr]

That always seems to happen to me. It does not matter if I saved an item for 10 years without using it, if I got rid of it today, I would need it in the next 10 days! Just about guaranteed.

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[chickengr]

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Mine get use more by my chickens.

I need to make some roosts and didn't know how. thank you for the idea.

 

[chickengr]

I guess that storing the unused sawhorses in the chicken run is a great way to get use out of them, at least by the chickens.

that is the only use of my sawhorse now.

 

[AGeese]

I did add 2x4s to the top of the sawhorses so they would be a little smoother for the ladies, and I could preserve the integrity of the saw horse the day I use them again.

This one looks a little silly since I stacked a few 2x4s on it, but I wanted to raise it a little:

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[gtaus]

and I could preserve the integrity of the saw horse the day I use them again.

Yeah, if you mean scraping chicken poo off the sawhorse and washing it down before you can use it again. I don't do a lot of fine woodworking on my sawhorses, but I still don't want to put down boards on a chicken poo sawhorse.

Like you, I use 2X4's laid flat as roosts inside the chicken coop. If/when I need to replace them, the old 2X4's go directly into a burn pit. I won't waste my time trying to clean them up.

I enlarged your last picture to get a better look at your sawhorse. I am assuming that is one that you probably made yourself? In any case, that is a really nice sawhorse, and it looks plenty strong. If you did make it, would it be possible to post either some more detailed pictures and/or instructions on how to make it? Mainly, do you have to make any mitered angle cuts on that build or is everything a straight cut? I have lots of reclaimed and pallet wood lumber that I think I could make a pair of those sawhorses. Any help appreciated, I would like to try to make a pair of them.