PALLETS

I get mine from the back of a K-Mart - with permission. Also, ,check stone masons - they have oak pallets...

Go to the "materials management" dept. of ANY hospital. I work in a hospital, and we receive more than 20 pallets a day. I can bring them home,with permission, but we sell them to a 'pallet guy' for $1.25 to $2.00 each. You could ask for some, or offer to pay for some. Did you want to stack on them ,or burn 'em?

Occo370 said:

does anyone from NJ know of a place near the shore that I can get free or very cheap pallets...? THANKS

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Two words-"Industrial Park." Go ride around an industrial park and before long you'll see a pile of them laying around. Go inside and ask permission-chances are they'll say "take all you can carry." You can also do what I did and put a post up on Craigslist saying "pallets wanted." I had a guy contact me who I pick up pallets from about once every two months now. Don't ever pay for pallets-you can always find them for free somewhere.

Auto parts stores, smaller non-chain hardware stores, feed stores, the list goes on and on and on.... BUT ASK PERMISSION

+1 with regard to Industrial complexes. Most businesses don't give a rats $^&$ about the pallets they "throw out back." Watch for nails, and don't burn painted or treated wood.

There's a steel place near me that has lots of them- many with 4x4 oak posts in them. Serious chunks of wood.

Don't burn the plastic ones either :bug: (No, I didn't!) Lawn tactor stores (John Deere, etc.) also have lots of odd sizes that are not normally recycled.

I almost started a thread 2 days ago about burning pallets but as a newbie didn't know if people would be receptive to it. I do know some pallets are chemically treated and thus should be avioded but I imagine most aren't. i imagine most are thrown together for the purpose of being used once then discarded. Not sure if wife likes the idea of burning pallets but since I live in the Puget Sound Area theres literally tons of place I could get pallets for free.

pugetsoundwa said:

I almost started a thread 2 days ago about burning pallets but as a newbie didn't know if people would be receptive to it. I do know some pallets are chemically treated and thus should be avioded but I imagine most aren't. i imagine most are thrown together for the purpose of being used once then discarded. Not sure if wife likes the idea of burning pallets but since I live in the Puget Sound Area theres literally tons of place I could get pallets for free.

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A lot of us got through our first winter of burning by using pallets . . . providing they're not covered in some funky chemical or pressure treated they're usually pretty good for helping to burn marginal wood . . . or for use in the shoulder season . . . or for use as kindling. We're all about being practical here . . . safe and practicing good burning practices yes . . . but "recycling" this wood is most definitely a good thing . . . only disadvantages as I see it is it can take a bit to process this wood and you can't throw the ashes out in your driveway or garden all willy-nilly like unless you happen to have the last name of Goodyear or Goodrich.