Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[Smokerbill]

Yeah, my truck is a 2011 and I consider a tool, not a fancy vehicle I need to keep shiny to impress others on the road. I try to give it a good washing and waxing once every year or two. I don't worry about the few dents and scratches in the body because it still does its job.

 

[gtaus]

sorry to hear it.

I wish we had cheap vehicles here. prices for second hand here are awfully high. not cars only, anything.

Used car prices have come down a lot in the last couple of years. They were very high during the COVID and post-COVID period, just like most stuff, but prices came down as inventory started returning to normal. If my old Explorer was worth some money, it would have changed my decision to repair or replace. But it just does not have any value at present, so one major repair job was all it took to end up in retirement.

 

[Molpet]

My truck is a 2008 and has a snow plow on it. Less than 40k miles on it. Has had the break lines, transmission lines, catalytic converter changed the last couple years. A few dents from the ground hog day blizzard in 2011.

 

[gtaus]

My truck is a 2008 and has a snow plow on it. Less than 40k miles on it. Has had the break lines, transmission lines, catalytic converter changed the last couple years. A few dents from the ground hog day blizzard in 2011.

Well, it makes sense to have repairs done on a "newer" car with less than 40K miles. Nothing on my old Ford Explorer was not repairable, but it was an estimated $1,500.00 repair job for a car that 32 years old and had 180,000+ miles on it. My mechanic recommended I not put that much money in it, given the overall state of the car and its low used car value.

For the past couple of years, it was only used for pallet pickups. It was great to take it into town for errands and on the way home pick up maybe 6 pallets to toss in the back. But my backyard is now stocked full of pallets to last me many years of my small projects. And I still have a small 4X8 foot utility trailer if I need to pick up stuff. I can hitch that up to any of my other cars.

Speaking of which, I drove past our local Bobcat dealer in town today and I see that they have a bunch of those pallets made up of only 2X4's. 2X4's for the stretchers, and 2X4's for the planks. Those kinds of pallets are great because the 2X4's tend to be in great shape, no notches, and some pallets are as long as 10 feet. Most are 4X6 feet. They are usually easy to take apart using a crowbar. Sometimes, they use deck screws on those 2X4 pallets and that really makes it easy to take them apart - plus I get a bunch of Torx head screws for reuse.

I might try to hitch up the utility trailer and work up some salvaged wood there one night. Because of the size and weight of those pallets made from 2X4's, I usually spend a few hours there breaking down the pallets and tossing the lumber into the trailer. They are just too heavy for me to lift up and put into the trailer. But they don't mind if I break down the pallets on site after working hours.