Pallets-R-Us...

There's a big house being built just down the road, and we noticed that they were leaving a few pallets outside for anyone to take, so the Growstermobile shot into action...

The collection started with just a few, which were sawn up and stacked as in the first pic, but then the builder promised us a few more, (few...)?

So far we're up to well over ninety, and several bags of kindling, and he's promised us some more too!

And to cap it all, I chatted with the site owner yesterday, and he asked me what I was doing with them because if they were for firewood (they are), he had a huge load of logs from the site which he wanted to give away, so that's even more now!

This'll save us around £250.00 this year, which will be very welcome, as I had to pay a large wodge of notes for new glasses only yesterday...

you can't beat a few pallets for kindling and logs for the fire Growster I often get a phone call from a friend of ours saying there's some pallets to collect from the farm and then what I do is I methodically take apart the pallets save all the good planks any broken planks and the blocks go for kindling the good planks  are stacked in a dry place for another day should I need to make anything 

but apart from that we have a good stock of tree wood cut up and stacked in the shed ready for winter use and  still have plenty of tree wood to cut up probably enough to keep us going for many years to come the wife bought me a new battery chainsaw last year and boy did that come in handy much easier to use than my petrol one so Growster you never have enough wood never refuse what your offered

Well done you, Rowland!

The problem I have is de-nailing the pallets, as they've been left out in the weather and the nails are damned difficult to get out!

A couple of the pallets were made from beech, which to me is sacrilege, but I just couldn't free them up, sadly!

I'm using a B and D electric reciprocating saw, with the jigsaw blade, as the wood is quite wet, and the fat blades shudder a bit! I'm sure a chainsaw would be quicker though...

That looks a great bit of kit, SS! Thank you for the link!

I hated cutting up the beech slats as they make fabulous shelves etc., after a bit of TLC!

A local cafe has clad all their interior with similar slats, and they look great! Nail holes and all!