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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2010, 19:01 »
There's usually lots around that are free, and using them for fencing sounds a great idea

(and sheds, and compost bins, and greenhouse staging and chairs and benches and shuttering around concrete being layed... etc ect etc  :lol: :lol: :lol: )

and our wood chip on the plot is, yes you've guessed: chipped pallets  :D :D :D :D
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2010, 20:04 »
we went down to the local small family run builders and brought back 6 :D they were delighted to get rid of them and they're putting 10 out for us tomorrow :D they're in great condition and we can have as many as we want any time :D when we've finished making runs any broken ones will be used for compost bins and raised beds :D

Thanks everyone for suggesting places to find free pallets :D :D :D
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2010, 08:15 »
That sounds excellent  :D :D :D

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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2010, 10:23 »
we went down to the local small family run builders and brought back 6 :D they were delighted to get rid of them and they're putting 10 out for us tomorrow :D they're in great condition and we can have as many as we want any time :D when we've finished making runs any broken ones will be used for compost bins and raised beds :D

Thanks everyone for suggesting places to find free pallets :D :D :D

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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2010, 22:26 »
This is a subject that is currently bugging me! I have asked every garden centre, DIY store, even a local building site to see if the pallets lying around, usually in some kind of heap that looks like they are awaiting Guy Fawkes night, and I have had the same answer, NO!, even the pallets that are not painted blue apparently have a deposit on them, at least where I live, I desperately need to construct a compost bin, or bins, seriously thinking about taking the roof off my 60 year old shed and using that, Any ideas anyone? please? 

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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2010, 22:44 »
This is a subject that is currently bugging me! I have asked every garden centre, DIY store, even a local building site to see if the pallets lying around, usually in some kind of heap that looks like they are awaiting Guy Fawkes night, and I have had the same answer, NO!, even the pallets that are not painted blue apparently have a deposit on them, at least where I live, I desperately need to construct a compost bin, or bins, seriously thinking about taking the roof off my 60 year old shed and using that, Any ideas anyone? please? 

I use a local wood recycling company for all my bits, did a bit of a search and found http://www.oxfordwoodrecycling.org.uk/

Might be worth giving them a call?

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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2010, 23:26 »
Freecycle/Freegle is always a good source of pallets. Alternatively, try your local hospital (I work for one). If they have their own stores, there will inevitably be a large supply of unwanted pallets lying around. A polite request is usually all it takes........ A lot of hospitals are allegedly refusing to accept deliveries on wooden pallets in the name of environmental friendliness, but it ain't working!
« Last Edit: August 25, 2010, 12:47 by yamandmole »
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #22 on: August 19, 2010, 09:37 »
We go to a skip yard sometimes to get bits of wood (last year we got some old gardening tools too) but when OH and son went on Tues they said there was a lot less wood than usual, the chap told them loads of people come for wood for their wood burners.

I've also been told there's a place round here that is buying pallets at £8 each :( I'm glad I've found my supplier  : :D

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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #23 on: August 19, 2010, 09:48 »
Plumbers merchants are a good source of big pallets
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #24 on: August 19, 2010, 15:22 »
This is a subject that is currently bugging me! I have asked every garden centre, DIY store, even a local building site to see if the pallets lying around, usually in some kind of heap that looks like they are awaiting Guy Fawkes night, and I have had the same answer, NO!, even the pallets that are not painted blue apparently have a deposit on them, at least where I live, I desperately need to construct a compost bin, or bins, seriously thinking about taking the roof off my 60 year old shed and using that, Any ideas anyone? please? 

Try the trading estates - and ask for broken pallets.  They usually only have one bar broken - not a problem for a compost heap - but they cant get the deposit back on them, so are much happier to give them away.

We go to a skip yard sometimes to get bits of wood (last year we got some old gardening tools too) but when OH and son went on Tues they said there was a lot less wood than usual, the chap told them loads of people come for wood for their wood burners.

I heard that during the week from a guy involved with a skip company ... they don't get anything like as much waste wood in now as they did a year or two back.
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #25 on: August 24, 2010, 14:52 »
I got hold of 3 large crates (1 metre cubed) from Wyevale free of charge and then cut them down into shallow raised beds which gave me 9 in total and then i fixed pallets to the bottomsand then i made apex lids covered in polythene and i have done all my growing in them this year. No weeding or bugs and i managed to start very early in the year and everything has been very successful.
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #26 on: August 31, 2010, 20:48 »
We always find them in skips!!
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #27 on: August 31, 2010, 20:57 »
We always find them in skips!!
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Just make sure you ask the skip owner's permission before you remove them, or you are committing theft  :(
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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #28 on: August 31, 2010, 21:16 »
we've used our pallets to fence the chooks in the old veg plot, make a mini run for the poots, a stand for the rabbit hutch, compost bins, raised beds and a fence :D


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Re: wooden pallets
« Reply #29 on: September 01, 2010, 15:06 »
I saw one house in the country who decided to make a pallet fence - he literally stood whole pallets on end, side by side, all around his property. Junky barely describes the effect  ::) It had to be a he as no woman would allow such an eyesore, at least, not one that wasn't taken apart, pieced neatly and painted.



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