Pallets

josephsoap

Have piles of pallets laying about the place, what do you do with yours ?

I was stacking them in the hay shed but they are very dirty looking, would it be better stacking them outside or with it be worth it cutting them for firewood with the chainsaw ?

Diarmuid B

I’ve chopped most of ours up for firewood, great for kindling to start it.

Take some of the best ones and make a crate out of them for storing silage wrap maybe? 4 around the side and 1 on the base. Handy to keep the wrap tidy and not blowing around the yard.

Doctors room ghost

I burn a lot of them in the stove.only trouble is all the nails left in the ashes and they get caught in the grate aswell.its unreal the amount of nails in them.
Mind would you catch them with the saw cutting them aswell.they are great for lighting a fire though and there’s good heat off the blocks on the corners

patsy_mccabe

There a pain. I cut them up and use them for kindling. keep the heavy timbers with nails for firing. I use the base of the electric magnetic drill to lift the nails out of the burnt ash.

I'd say half the punctures on farms are caused by nails from pallets.

3 the square

I keep mine clean and the fertiliser delivery guy takes them back when he deliveries

_Brian

I’d say if you offered them free on DD or Facebook you would easily get rid.

wrangler

_Brian wrote: »

I’d say if you offered them free on DD or Facebook you would easily get rid.

A neighbour burns hundreds of them in his big central heating boiler, .....only disadvantage is that he can't put the ashes in the dung heap because of the nails, he has to go to the council dump with them

PoorFarmer

Gates, fences, crushes etc. etc. Any other myriad of uses here with the auld lad.
I have a shot of them used up as composting area in the garden and under hay bales in one of the barns. They are a bloody scourge around the place mostly though.
Seen a machine for breaking them up at some sort of show once. Took all the lats off it in a minute or less. Mighty job if you have a constant supply. Feed them through a kindling machine and it's a handy sideline

josephsoap

josephsoap wrote: »

Have piles of pallets laying about the place, what do you do with yours ?

I was stacking them in the hay shed but they are very dirty looking, would it be better stacking them outside or with it be worth it cutting them for firewood with the chainsaw ?

Where are you based?
I can't get enough of them for the garden

49801

Handy for under hay or straw bales to stop bottom blackening
Garden compost bay another handy one
Mighty kindling for starting fires otherwise

Say my name

Anyone use those pallet bars or jacks to take the lats off before cutting or do ye just cut as is?

https://m.ebay.ie/itm/Pallet-buster-skid-buster-Dismantling-Breaking-Tool-pallet-bar-MADE-IN-U-S-A-/193474668898

Don't mind the price and postage of that. Anyone handy with a welder would put it together.
Looks cool though.

49801

Say my name wrote: »

Anyone use those pallet bars or jacks to take the lats off before cutting or do ye just cut as is?

https://m.ebay.ie/itm/Pallet-buster-skid-buster-Dismantling-Breaking-Tool-pallet-bar-MADE-IN-U-S-A-/193474668898

Don't mind the price and postage of that. Anyone handy with a welder would put it together.
Looks cool though.

Chainsaw as is just leaving the bits with nails still on the strong timber.

Say my name

Say my name wrote: »

Anyone use those pallet bars or jacks to take the lats off before cutting or do ye just cut as is?

https://m.ebay.ie/itm/Pallet-buster-skid-buster-Dismantling-Breaking-Tool-pallet-bar-MADE-IN-U-S-A-/193474668898

Don't mind the price and postage of that. Anyone handy with a welder would put it together.
Looks cool though.

Got one of these recently from a supplier in the UK

Gods Gift

I put them into the diet feeder and after a few hours I’ve kindling.

NcdJd

Friend of mine had an idea of cutting up pallets for firewood last year. He asked me if I could store the up at my place so he could cut them up. Up came two small lorry loads of them. This was in July. Months passed by no sign if the fccker so decided if he hadnt got them cut by October there would be a big bonfire. Brought them all out to the middle of the field the week and sent him a WhatsApp photo of them burning away Halloween morning. Had to rake up all the fecking nails never again.

The black plastic pallets are handy though. Got 350 of them for nothing, don't take up too much space as they slot into each other and don't rot.

_Brian

Gods Gift wrote: »

I put them into the diet feeder and after a few hours I’ve kindling.

Not worried about any nails left behind ??
Sounds very risky.

KatyMac

Kindling is the best use for the old ones. Use them under bales to keep them clean until they start to fall apart. Have an electric saw bought in Argos that cuts them up. As said before the nails are a nuisance, but I rake through them. A magnet is a good idea that I hadn't thought of! The ashes are kept separate to put in garden anyway

zetecescort

Diarmuid B wrote: »

I’ve chopped most of ours up for firewood, great for kindling to start it.

Take some of the best ones and make a crate out of them for storing silage wrap maybe? 4 around the side and 1 on the base. Handy to keep the wrap tidy and not blowing around the yard.

Have made similar crates for storing firewood too. Lets the breeze blow through the timber