What do you do with old pallets?

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DneprDave

DneprDave

Minister of Fire
Nov 19, 2011
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Western WA
This is my third year of heating with a pellet stove. Each new ton of pellets comes with a wooden pallet, they are kind of building up! I have stacked cordwood on some of them to get it off the ground, but I still have a bunch of old pallets.

What do you do with them?

Dave
 
I burn mine in the fire pit.
last year I stacked two on top of each other after removing the slats and left the center ones and filled them with soil and my four tomato plants had a nice home of their own
 
You could ship them across country to your friend in Maryland;lol...
Seriously, I used to use them to make compost bins. Just stand four on end and wire together.
If you are ambitious, and get lots of pellets, there is someone on this board who used the lumber to build a shed, I think.
 
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firebroad said:
You could ship them across country to your friend in Maryland;lol...
Seriously, I used to use them to make compost bins. Just stand four on end and wire together.
If you are ambitious, and get lots of pellets, there is someone on this board who used the lumber to build a shed, I think.
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Being a newbie, I'm hoarding my 1st 6 pallets and putting them in my basement for future stash..
Our trash truck takes them so that's where they will go. right now, Stove chows and Energex premiums...[/quote]
 
Give to my father-in-law. He uses them to stack hay and wood.
 
My wife being a hobbyist and a craft minded girl she just gave me this web page and told me to stop burning them in the fire pit
http://www.1001pallets.com/
 
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You could join your local Freecycle.org group and list them or list them on Craigslist to let someone come and take them off your hands.
 
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If you live near a pellet production facility you could bring them there. I think vt wood pellet gives a bag of pellets for 2 returned pallets.
 
I give the untreated ones to my neighbor, he burns them in his woodstove. I guess he likes splitting and stacking.
 
Winter skating and snowmobile party blazes here in Pellet County N.H.
 
I work for a precast concrete company. We go through quite a few pallets. The company actually buys them from a pallet recycling company for ~$9 each. I bring mine in and the boss will pay me the same price each. Maybe you can find a local company that will pay you for them?
 
I also stack fire pit firewood on them. Any overages go into the pit. Of course, I take any prime ones and keep em for pellet stacking. Hate it when my stash is on ugly, patched up pallets...that I can't really see anyway..but ya, I still do it. Keeps the pellets fresher ;)
 
i like the compost bin idea. i believe i will try that. I bolted some old hand truck wheels to mine, and a 4x4 tongue and made an amazingly strong cart for my rider mower. I can now drive 20 bags of pellets around at a time from the garage to the house. mostly I just take in 12 at a time tho unless snow is coming.
 
Nice tahoostas very creative..made this for my Honey.


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The place we get our pellets from pays $2 for them. Or even exchange when getting another ton

My better half had a long skinny pallet from work and we still use it as a ladder into the barn mow after 17 years
 
Very cool John Fortier! If you google or Pinterest pallet art there are all sorts of cool things to be done. :)
 
Thank you. All kinds of things to build.
 
I'm thinking of making a fence of them!
 
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