What to do with pallets?

[LuFins Dad]

So I’ve got three pallets left over from the paver deliveries. I’m going to use 1 to temporarily stack some firewood until I build a little better setup, and was planning on trashing the other two, but my wife could easily be a hoarder and is insisting that we find another use… she wants to use them in the garden but I think they are likely treated…

Anybody have any ideas…

[Copper]

I have had empty pallets from projects like that.

I understand wanting to keep them because it seems like you should use them for something.

My advise it to trash them, right now, before they start to rot and make a mess when you finally do throw them away because they are full of termites, worms, snakes and mice.

[Jolly]

With 3 of them, you can make a 3-sided compost pile holder. You can break them down and use for small projects. Or cut them with a skilsaw and use the shorter boards for projects.

Etc, etc.,...

[Mik]

What use do you have for the wood? If nothing, trash them.

But… you could always burn them.

[jon-nyc]

Yes, and firewood is a ‘use’

[Doctor Phibes]

Have you considered leaving them in a corner for ages in case they come in handy until one days someday realises they've become so disgusting, along with all the other crap that's accumulated that you need to rent a dumpster?

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes I’ll bet that horse is in the lead…

[89th]

If you have a neighborhood forum (facebook group, whatever) you could post to see if anyone else wants them? That's what I did and someone scooped it up immediately. Plus ours had nails that were difficult, so removing, burning, etc... not fun.

My wife is a "we could use this somehow, someday" person whereas I'm a "get rid of it immediately, we can buy one in the future if we really need something" person.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in What to do with pallets?:

@Doctor-Phibes I’ll bet that horse is in the lead…

Oh yes… I love my wife, but she is a pack rat. She refuses to let anything go if it may be useful or “perfectly good”… We have a sofa in our basement that I don’t like, she doesn’t like, it really doesn’t work for us, but friends were moving and they were just going to throw it away and it’s only a year old and we need some type of seating…

[Catseye3]

Speaking of sofas, was it you who posted about the pink-striped sofa that you were wanting to replace? Were you ever able to find something?

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in What to do with pallets?:

@jon-nyc said in What to do with pallets?:

@Doctor-Phibes I’ll bet that horse is in the lead…

Oh yes… I love my wife, but she is a pack rat. She refuses to let anything go if it may be useful or “perfectly good”… We have a sofa in our basement that I don’t like, she doesn’t like, it really doesn’t work for us, but friends were moving and they were just going to throw it away and it’s only a year old and we need some type of seating…

Slipcover.

[Mik]

Wear it out, use it up, make do.

[Jolly]

If you can get a few more...

[Jolly]

One if the easiest to do...

[mark]

Build a guitar!

Taylor Gallery Series PALLET Guitar 2000 Natural https://reverb.com/item/11715897-taylor-gallery-series-pallet-guitar-2000-natural?utm_source=android-app&utm_medium=android-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=11715897

[jon-nyc]

@LuFins-Dad

Show this to Luke:

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc LOL

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in What to do with pallets?:

One if the easiest to do...

Actually, that’s not a horrible idea. I’m trying to figure out some outdoor storage options…

[89th]

You're trying to force a use. Just get rid of them.

If not, I agree there are creative ways to use it, but again... I have such a visceral reaction to keeping stuff for the sake of keeping it. Maybe because my dad (and my wife too) do this far too often.

Although, funny story, the other day I asked my dad if he had any extra staple gun cartridges and he gave me some. The box was from the 1970s! LOL

[Horace]

I've seen woodworking channels on youtube create beautiful furniture out of old pallets.