[gavinjconway]

If your stripping pallets drill the nail heads out first with a 5mm bit, they come apart much easier then, pull the rest of the nail with Mole Grips.Hope that helps. Cheers Tony!!

Good idea!!

[bluepeterwoman]

If your stripping pallets drill the nail heads out first with a 5mm bit, they come apart much easier then, pull the rest of the nail with Mole Grips.Hope that helps. Cheers Tony!!

Good idea!!

Yep that is what I had to do when taking up a chipboard floor with those ring shanked pneumatically injected ( I called them "terrier") nails.

[Daamoot]

Good call, I'll keep that in mind when I collect some pallets.  Our local country store has piles outside so I asked if I could buy a few.  He responded saying I'm welcome to take several at a time so long as I avoid the blue or double sized ones.  Excellent!

[Pauline01UK]

If you look it up on the internet where they sell pallets in your area, ring them up and ask them about their damaged pallets you will find that they usually give away as many of those ones as you want for free I am sure you would get enough wood that you need from several those I found out because I rang to ask how much they would be, they told me they was free but they don't deliver any of the damaged ones so I would have to collect, I couldn't get any myself because unfortunately I don't have transport, Its worth a try if they are free 

[ThatsNice]

I put a wanted ad couple of days ago on my local freegle and I've had a reply from a local'ish guy who has (at least 20-30 he says) scrap pallets I can have Some are damaged but he has a guy collects those for his wood burner. He giving them away because they're non-standard sizes and he can't sell them. Happy days for me though

[Sweetpea C]

This site is fantastic! I just went to our post room / reprographics and asked if we had any 'yes', what do we do with them 'they go in the skip' (WHAT!!! and we call ourself a sustainable company - I won't say who I work for!).

So I am having all of them for the forseeable future in preparation for the wasteland :-) and the nice boys have even offered to put them in my car for me. Thanks all for the tips 

[Sweetpea C]

I put a wanted ad couple of days ago on my local freegle and I've had a reply from a local'ish guy who has (at least 20-30 he says) scrap pallets I can have Some are damaged but he has a guy collects those for his wood burner. He giving them away because they're non-standard sizes and he can't sell them. Happy days for me though

Good idea that's nice, I'm usually giving stuff away on frecycle so hopefully ill get lucky 

[stuart curran]

no need to pay just go to a trading estate there are always good pallets to have for free just ask neat piles of pallets are normally being returned to whence they came but scruffy piles are normally the throw aways  good hunting

[Sweetpea C]

Hurrah - got my first loads of pallets today and he even took me in the van to the allotment and unloaded it for me (well, I was in work clothes of dress and heels!).

They are all different sizes (and colours) but that won't deter me :-). 

[Dantheman]

What i did is printed off small flyers 4 to an A4 piece of paper with a little note and my contact details on it, went down the trading estates and gave them to the local business asking for all there spare pallets, within a week i was getting so many emails and texts saying come collect our pallets.  Now have arranged a van from a kind allotment holder now we collect as many as possible and put them in the allotment car parks for all to share. works out quite good because we now get offer loads of freebie plants etc for doing so (i would do it anyway without the freebies).

[Jake]

What i did is printed off small flyers 4 to an A4 piece of paper with a little note and my contact details on it, went down the trading estates and gave them to the local business asking for all there spare pallets, within a week i was getting so many emails and texts saying come collect our pallets.  Now have arranged a van from a kind allotment holder now we collect as many as possible and put them in the allotment car parks for all to share. works out quite good because we now get offer loads of freebie plants etc for doing so (i would do it anyway without the freebies).

Your altruism makes me feel like a ferengi (off Star Trek).  I've just got permission to take as many pallets as I want from a local business near work, on viewing them there's an almost limitless supply (for my needs).  My second thought was perhaps I could make money from them, shame on me

[Madame Cholet]

What i did is printed off small flyers 4 to an A4 piece of paper with a little note and my contact details on it, went down the trading estates and gave them to the local business asking for all there spare pallets, within a week i was getting so many emails and texts saying come collect our pallets.  Now have arranged a van from a kind allotment holder now we collect as many as possible and put them in the allotment car parks for all to share. works out quite good because we now get offer loads of freebie plants etc for doing so (i would do it anyway without the freebies).

Your altruism makes me feel like a ferengi (off Star Trek).  I've just got permission to take as many pallets as I want from a local business near work, on viewing them there's an almost limitless supply (for my needs).  My second thought was perhaps I could make money from them, shame on me

Free wood for the log burner saves ££££s



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[Taff the Welder]

We have to pay £70 per ton to get rid of waste wood (primarily broken pallets)....  Company encourages people with log burners (and Allotments), etc. to help themselves.  You'd do the garden centre a favour if you took them FoC... 

[DaveJNeal]

If your stripping pallets drill the nail heads out first with a 5mm bit, they come apart much easier then, pull the rest of the nail with Mole Grips.Hope that helps. Cheers Tony!!

Good idea!!

Yep that is what I had to do when taking up a chipboard floor with those ring shanked pneumatically injected ( I called them "terrier") nails.

I've got a small flat crowbar type of thing which is just top notch for taking these apart, I think the technical/correct use is as a floorboard lifter or something - couple of quid from B&Q, takes the nails out and leaves the boards unsplit too.

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[stickmeup]

I've just bought one of these and it's awesome



Got a couple opf projects Im looking to make quite soon aswell