101 uses for a pallet

Millymollymandy · Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:28 am

1. Make into giant compost bins for horse manure

2. Use as base for your new 1000 litre industrial water butts (

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3. Gates for the chicken run and veg patch

I'd better stop NOW and pass over to you guys.......

digger · Post: # 13169Post **digger** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:16 am

Floor in the wood shed. The air flow helps dry the wood.

Andy Hamilton · Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:35 pm

5. As a makeshift stage for pefroming in a shopping centre. (I thought I would be obsure to start off with

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6. Five stuck together and made into a den for kids.

Goodlife1970 · Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:04 pm

Knock the back bits off and use for fencing. Ramps for getting heavy wheelbarrows up steps.

Hepsibah · Post: # 13269Post **Hepsibah** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:00 pm

8. Lay them over incredibly muddy allotment (mudslides) paths to keep your boots (and bottom) clean.

ina · Post: # 13462Post **ina** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:35 pm

(I think 7 was actually two)

10. Under-bedding floor for goat shed - keeps the bedding a bit drier.
11. Heating/cooking/hot water - in other words, run a wood-burning stove with it.

shiney · Post: # 13468Post **shiney** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:42 pm

This is totally rediculous but absolutely true...

A rather dysfunctional family in our neighbourhood used a pallet as a stairgate for the kids. Not cut down, as it is! Just wedged against the wall.

I couldn't believe my eyes as I drove past. (the door was open and they were all sitting in deckchairs on the footpath)

ina · Post: # 13482Post **ina** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:31 pm

They obviously never had a health and safety audit...

13. Shelter for goats (tied together with baling twine - see that thread!!!

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Shirley · Post: # 13505Post **Shirley** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:06 pm

give them back?? http://www.nispregion.org.uk/scotland/u ... let_03.pdf

Muddypause · Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:11 pm

shiney wrote:A rather dysfunctional family in our neighbourhood used a pallet as a stairgate for the kids.

Is it only me that doesn't think that's a bad idea?

Wombat · Post: # 13532Post **Wombat** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:49 am

Use 'em to make a Malawi hand cart.

I suppose they just look a bit tatty Stew!

Nev

Millymollymandy · Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:25 am

Not to mention the splinters!!!

(Ina how do you make a goat shelter from them - the rain would just come in the gaps!)

shiney · Post: # 13559Post **shiney** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:40 am

Muddypause wrote:
shiney wrote:A rather dysfunctional family in our neighbourhood used a pallet as a stairgate for the kids.
Is it only me that doesn't think that's a bad idea?

Well Stew, it's quite a good idea, but if a child held onto the 'stairgate' as they do, it would have fallen on them and then who knows what?! Stairgates are great, but not made out of a crate.

shiney · Post: # 13671Post **shiney** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:24 pm

How about making a mahoosive swing out of one tied to a tree. Now that sounds like fun. Pity I don't have....

a) a tree
b) a pallet

ina · Post: # 13869Post **ina** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:47 pm

Millymollymandy wrote:(Ina how do you make a goat shelter from them - the rain would just come in the gaps!)

Tie them back to back, with the slats on one pallet covering the gaps in the other! They need a lot of ventilation anyway, so you only need to double them up against the main wind/rain direction.