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pallet furniture? - BubbaGus - 09-24-2016
With all the folks out there making furniture from used pallets I saw this and realized this guy "nailed" it!
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RE: pallet furniture? - Cecil - 09-24-2016
I love it !
RE: pallet furniture? - Steve N - 09-25-2016
Awesome
RE: pallet furniture? - Cooler - 09-30-2016
It has been a family joke for 60+ years. My aunt, who made truly awful arts and crafts projects was described as being able to "turn perfectly good lamps into old wood crates".
Sort of similar.
We have spacers between horizontal coils of steel in our factory. They come that way from the mill to make it easier to pick up individual coils from the stack.
These are rough cut strips of 3/4" x 2" x 12" pine. We have hundreds of these around the shop, usually in a stack which gets taken to the dumpster once of week.
When no one was paying attention I used some Woodworker's II to glue a bunch of these in a random pattern. So when the guy came to carry out the pieces they mostly went in a single assembly. It caused a bit of a ruckus in the factory. I though it was amusing.
RE: pallet furniture? - Edwin Hackleman - 09-30-2016
Good pallets are made form seasoned cottonwood and might last 2 to 3 years outdoors. Lousy furniture is made from particleboard. Lousy pallets are also made from particleboard and might last 3 to 4 months outdoors.
RE: pallet furniture? - Steve N - 09-30-2016
Interesting they would so specialize the wood they use for a pallet over there. Around here they only use AOW to make pallets out of. AOW being any old wood.
I have seen a few of those particle board specials though, Many of them don't survive the initial loading.
RE: pallet furniture? - tomsteve - 10-02-2016
(09-30-2016, 11:33 PM)Steve N Wrote: Interesting they would so specialize the wood they use for a pallet over there. Around here they only use AOW to make pallets out of. AOW being any old wood.
having worked in a pallet mill, i can say its WTCS, being what the customer specified.
RE: pallet furniture? - Cecil - 10-02-2016
(10-02-2016, 06:15 AM)tomsteve Wrote: having worked in a pallet mill, i can say its WTCS, being what the customer specified.
Pallets which are shipping over seas cannot contain any critters, cannot have voids for critters to hide in. For that reason, we use pallets made of much better quality ply than you can find at the BORG.