I have a love of free materials for many reasons, not least of which is that I feel fine having dozens of non-working prototypes when I’m building with garbage. It doesn’t get much “freer” than wooden pallets. Here are a few pallet projects I’ve found:
- Mikey and Wendy’s pallet chair, made in an afternoon and looking ready for an art studio:
And, a few descriptions of pallet recycling:
- Description of how Safe Solutions reclaims wood for furniture from pallets
- Woodworkers discuss building with pallets
- Even Norm from the New Yankee Workshop gets in on pallet building!
Please comment below and let me know what other uses for old pallets I’m missing!
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Pallets burn really well in large bonfires. A stack of them will make a creditable tower of roaring flame if properly arranged and set alight.
I built a fort in my backyard made of pallets, complete with deck, power and a vaulted ceiling…we like to call it redneck recycling…cool links in your post, gives me ideas….
http://www.studiomama.com has a range of pallet furniture and lights
Aren’t these things made of pressure treated wood? I.e treat them as TOXIC? No burning, wash hands, keep away from food e.t.c e.t.c…
I’ve used pallets as impromptu ladders–just cut every other slat out.
To Winston–I rarely see pressure treated pallets.
I’m so glad somebody is doing something decent with these god awful things.
Wood pallets are such a drain on our environment, and we can easily replace them!
You can learn more about the risks here:
http://bit.ly/bLDGL1
http://pallettruth.com/
Why people still make use of to read news papers when in this technological world everything is
existing on net?