Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

Pictures?



I am not a technology person. I use laptop and have no pics here.

not my pic but this style, only closed with door.
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finally making goat shelter. I put 3 pallets x 4 pallets, on one 4 pallets side I put 1 foot (cut) pallet piece to make sloped roof. I used metal rafters and put wooden boards on top to connect them and keep tin roof tight.

Sounds great. Keep us posted on your progress.

Pictures?

:idunno IIRC, @chickengr was not able to post pictures in the past. Although it would be great to see some pictures of a pallet wood goat shelter being built, I do hope that @chickengr posts whatever is possible, even if text for now. I always enjoy the text comments posted by @chickengr and would encourage anyone to share by whatever means they can.
 
:thumbsup That would make a nice shelter for your goat(s). Looks not too hard to build. What are you going to use for the roofing?



super easy to build. I screw pallets to each other. I always use coloured tin for roof. it does not get too hot as galvanized one. my coops are in full sun all day long and chickens stay cool under the roof. I also put the same tin on the south side of the walls.
 
⚠️ More Storage Options for Winter Leaves

Turning the clock backwards, some of you may remember the conversation about making a pallet wood stackable tiers compost bin. They are very easy to take apart and move, as compared to say a full sized pallet wood compost bin screwed together. I liked the idea of the tiered system so much that I built my own stackable tiered compost bin even though I had no use for it at that time.

Mainly, it was a good exercise for me to learn how to build stackable tiers out of pallet wood that had different thicknesses, and would therefore throw off the measurements for the tiers to stack one into another.

Normally, we measure our stuff on the outside dimensions, because when we use standard wood, the wood is all the same thickness, and it will all be the same inside dimensions as well. However, when working with pallet wood planks, you might have boards anywhere from 3/8 an inch to 3/4 inch in width. When you only measure the outside dimensions, you will discover that the inside dimensions change depending on the boards you use. In other words, the tiers will not stack.

Anyways, I figured out how to measure the inside dimensions so all the tiers would fit one into another no matter what the thickness of the pallet wood planks I used was.

Here is a picture of my completed pallet wood stackable tiered compost bin sitting out back not being used for anything...

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Each one of those ~4-inch tiers can be lifted off and put aside. It is not one connected pallet 4 feet tall.

I thought to myself that bin system would be great to hold leaves for the winter right next to my chicken run. I could fill it up with leaves this fall. In the winter, I would take out leaves as needed to toss into the chicken run. I could easily remove one tier at a time as the level of leaves inside the bin goes down. That way, I won't have to go dumpster diving late in the winter or early spring when the leaves might be almost all used up.

This evening, I moved that stackable compost bin over to the chicken run fence...

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I will start filling that bin up this weekend. With my grass collection bins on my riding mowers, it won't take very long to fill it up. But I expect the stackable compost bin by itself will hold more than enough leaves for my winter use.

:clap So, I think I found a good use for that stackable pallet wood compost bin. The best thing is that if I do not like it there for any reason, it will be easy to relocate somewhere else.

A few days ago, I mentioned that I was going to use my pallet wood chicken wire protective cages for my raised beds as leaf storage for the winter. I will still do that as well as I already filled one of them with leaves. But now I think those protective cages will be more or less considered my secondary storage option. I have lots of leaves, so I will be able to fill all of them up if I want...

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As a chicken owner and a gardener, I have learned that you can never have too many leaves for use for something, somewhere, at some time in the future. Nature's gift to me!
 
⚠️ More Storage Options for Winter Leaves

Turning the clock backwards, some of you may remember the conversation about making a pallet wood stackable tiers compost bin. They are very easy to take apart and move, as compared to say a full sized pallet wood compost bin screwed together. I liked the idea of the tiered system so much that I built my own stackable tiered compost bin even though I had no use for it at that time.

Mainly, it was a good exercise for me to learn how to build stackable tiers out of pallet wood that had different thicknesses, and would therefore throw off the measurements for the tiers to stack one into another.

Normally, we measure our stuff on the outside dimensions, because when we use standard wood, the wood is all the same thickness, and it will all be the same inside dimensions as well. However, when working with pallet wood planks, you might have boards anywhere from 3/8 an inch to 3/4 inch in width. When you only measure the outside dimensions, you will discover that the inside dimensions change depending on the boards you use. In other words, the tiers will not stack.

Anyways, I figured out how to measure the inside dimensions so all the tiers would fit one into another no matter what the thickness of the pallet wood planks I used was.

Here is a picture of my completed pallet wood stackable tiered compost bin sitting out back not being used for anything...

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Each one of those ~4-inch tiers can be lifted off and put aside. It is not one connected pallet 4 feet tall.

I thought to myself that bin system would be great to hold leaves for the winter right next to my chicken run. I could fill it up with leaves this fall. In the winter, I would take out leaves as needed to toss into the chicken run. I could easily remove one tier at a time as the level of leaves inside the bin goes down. That way, I won't have to go dumpster diving late in the winter or early spring when the leaves might be almost all used up.

This evening, I moved that stackable compost bin over to the chicken run fence...

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I will start filling that bin up this weekend. With my grass collection bins on my riding mowers, it won't take very long to fill it up. But I expect the stackable compost bin by itself will hold more than enough leaves for my winter use.

:clap So, I think I found a good use for that stackable pallet wood compost bin. The best thing is that if I do not like it there for any reason, it will be easy to relocate somewhere else.

A few days ago, I mentioned that I was going to use my pallet wood chicken wire protective cages for my raised beds as leaf storage for the winter. I will still do that as well as I already filled one of them with leaves. But now I think those protective cages will be more or less considered my secondary storage option. I have lots of leaves, so I will be able to fill all of them up if I want...

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As a chicken owner and a gardener, I have learned that you can never have too many leaves for use for something, somewhere, at some time in the future. Nature's gift to me!
I like your new leaf bin idea!
 
⚠️ Update on Long Wood Pallets Salvaged from our local Bobcat Dealership

Just want to share a few pictures of some of the long shipping pallets/flats that I picked up at our local Bobcat Dealership this past weekend.

Here is a picture of an ~8-foot long flat sitting on top of a ~10-foot long flat underneath. The trailer itself was filled with mostly 2X4's that were 4-, 6-, and 7-feet long. That was a nice haul for me...

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Those boards are in pretty good shape. I plan on ripping them down to size to make more trellis framing for my raised bed gardens. Also, some of them will be ripped down to make more frames for my chicken wire protective cages to keep the deer out. Those planks are a full 1-inch thick. Not as heavy, or strong, as a 2X4, but probably great for the trellis system and frames for the chicken wire.

A couple of pallets used those Torx head screws. The ones I took apart this time had a smaller Torx head size. I easily removed them and saved them for a future project...

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I tossed those screws into one of my storage cases. I now have a nice collection of both Torx #15 and Torx #10 screws.

I also salvaged some 4-inch-long lag screws with heavy duty washers on one of the pallets...

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I have used a few of them for projects that needed heavier screws. I still have about 6 or seven of those lag screws and washers in a storage case. Both these lag screws were bent a bit on the pallets, so I had to straighten them out with a hammer and/or clamping them in my bench vise. You can see that they are almost straight now. Good enough for any of my DIY projects. I just predrill a hole for the lag screw and then use my impact drive to drive the lag screw into the wood. When you have a straight hole to drill into, the slightly bent lag screw goes in without a problem.

I always look for boards with those lag screws because they a good pickup if you can find them...

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I have no idea how much those heavy-duty washers would cost, but they are about 1/4-inch thick and 2-1/2 inches round. They must be used to tie down and hold machinery during shipping.

I had hoped to clear out that trailer this week, but we had really high heat and humidity for a number of days followed by rain. So, I only have half the trailer processed now. I want to empty it out and go on another salvage run at the Bobcat Dealership before winter comes. They still have a number of long pallets there that I would like to pick up before someone else does.
 
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