Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[gtaus]

This is the greenhouse, but red, built out of pallets and scrap windows. I tried to get a sort of close up of the siding that I made. Not sure if you can tell how it works or not from the picture.

Fantastic job! Love it! What do you do for the roof? Can't really see how that was put on.

 

[Theurbanhomestead]

I had to run into town today, so I drove past the Bobcat dealership to checkout any new pallets in the back. I found three long pallets with good wood that looked interesting. If it's not raining tomorrow, I think I'll take the utility trailer into town and picture them up. I love salvaging those long 2X4's.

I love it when you can get 2x4 size boards from pallets.

I live out in the country, and don't know any contractors. But it sure sounds like you have the good connections. Although I save lots of money by building my garden projects with pallet wood instead of buying it at the local big box stores, I get just as much satisfaction taking a landfill product and giving it another life.

I live in the middle of the city which is somewhat unfortunate in some ways, but it does give me access to many things that I otherwise would not have. Pallets and lots of contractors are one of the bonuses. I also get a lot of food for our animals from places that are getting rid of it for one reason or another. The chickens don't care if there is a brown spot on their apple or if the pumpkin they are eating was cracked .

I posted some really good YouTube videos about using pallet wood for Shake style shingles and siding. I think that it looks fantastic. I would like to build a greenhouse using pallet wood boards as Shake siding.

That's really cool do you have the link to the videos. I would love to see other ideas on ways to do stuff with pallets.

 

[Theurbanhomestead]

Fantastic job! Love it! What do you do for the roof? Can't really see how that was put on.

I will need to find or take a better picture of the roof but it is 4x4s (or close enough to 4x4s because the pallets came from Germany so they are metric) with a groove routed in two of the sides. I then took glass from the windows and slid them in and caulked it really well. The biggest problem with the roof so far has been that I didn't pitch it very steep and leaves and stuff get stuck on it unless I remember to hose it off.

Edit: I found some pictures of when I was building it.