Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

[fuzzi]

Wow everyone, all of you are just so inspiring to me. I'm also going to work on building a chicken coop for my chickens and I also want to give them a really long and large run. Where the roof is I want to plant a couple of bushes for them to play in. They also smell good too so I believe that they will enjoy those. The coop though that is what's really going to be big. I'm going to try to incorporate the metal greenhouse frame so it will be a hoop coop lean-to. Yes I will post lots of pictures.

If you want to check out my initial build go here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/fuzzis-chicken-journal.1550586/page-9

It starts getting serious about page 9, 10.

 

[gtaus]

...she had all her apple trees hacked down cos she said the apples in the supermarket looked much nicer

I appreciate good looking food. I really do. But as a home gardener, I suspect that the stores toss out a lot of good eating food that does not present well. I wonder how much food like that is wasted? No way would I toss a tomato, pepper, or anything else I grew in my garden because it had a spot or two on it. Heck, I even salvage cucumbers and squash that a rabbit might have taken a nibble on here and there. You would never see that in a store, but I'm OK with eating 99% of the food that is not blemished and cutting out a bad spot as needed.

 

[Molpet]

I appreciate good looking food. I really do. But as a home gardener, I suspect that the stores toss out a lot of good eating food that does not present well. I wonder how much food like that is wasted? No way would I toss a tomato, pepper, or anything else I grew in my garden because it had a spot or two on it. Heck, I even salvage cucumbers and squash that a rabbit might have taken a nibble on here and there. You would never see that in a store, but I'm OK with eating 99% of the food that is not blemished and cutting out a bad spot as needed.

There's enough at the farm that a company started selling it. Fresh Produce Delivery Nationwide | Misfits Market https://share.google/oWXIDtXcXZdtuQsna

 

[BDutch]

I wonder how much food like that is wasted?

It’s sold cheaper to the food industry to make soup, sauces and salads.

 

[gtaus]

Pallet Run Salvage Report

I was able to get my old utility trailer out of winter storage, hook it up to the car, and made a quick run to our local Bobcat dealership to pick through some pallets. As I mentioned, they had some long pallets made up of all 2X4's and screwed together with those nice T25 Torx Head screws.

Long story short, I disassembled two pallets on site and tossed the 2X4's into my trailer. Mostly 4-foot long 2X4's, but I managed to get about three good 7-foot long 2X4's. I only had a short hour at the site before I had to head home, but I managed to disassemble those two full long pallets and pick up a few other special shipping boxes as well.

I looked up the current price of 2X4's at Menards and did a quick estimate of how much wood I salvaged this afternoon. Turns out, I probably salvaged $85 worth of 2X4's and maybe another $15 in the T25 Torx Head screws I salvaged. That's about $100 for a short hour of work. Not too bad.

There was at least one more huge pallet with Torx Head screws there that I am interested in getting, but it was on the bottom of a pile, and I just did not have the time today to work down to it. I might try to pick it up this weekend if the weather is good.

One of the benefits of these special long 2X4 pallets is that the screws come out clean and then the 2X4's are ready to use. No broken or bent nails in them to worry about.

 

[Mads505]

Pallet Run Salvage Report

I was able to get my old utility trailer out of winter storage, hook it up to the car, and made a quick run to our local Bobcat dealership to pick through some pallets. As I mentioned, they had some long pallets made up of all 2X4's and screwed together with those nice T25 Torx Head screws.

Long story short, I disassembled two pallets on site and tossed the 2X4's into my trailer. Mostly 4-foot long 2X4's, but I managed to get about three good 7-foot long 2X4's. I only had a short hour at the site before I had to head home, but I managed to disassemble those two full long pallets and pick up a few other special shipping boxes as well.

I looked up the current price of 2X4's at Menards and did a quick estimate of how much wood I salvaged this afternoon. Turns out, I probably salvaged $85 worth of 2X4's and maybe another $15 in the T25 Torx Head screws I salvaged. That's about $100 for a short hour of work. Not too bad.

There was at least one more huge pallet with Torx Head screws there that I am interested in getting, but it was on the bottom of a pile, and I just did not have the time today to work down to it. I might try to pick it up this weekend if the weather is good.

One of the benefits of these special long 2X4 pallets is that the screws come out clean and then the 2X4's are ready to use. No broken or bent nails in them to worry about.

I can get pallets free at work sometimes but man, pallets with proper clean screws sound like a dream. Great find!