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101 uses for a pallet
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:28 am
by Millymollymandy
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....... 
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:16 am
by digger
Floor in the wood shed. The air flow helps dry the wood.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:35 pm
by Andy Hamilton
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.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:04 pm
by Goodlife1970
Knock the back bits off and use for fencing. Ramps for getting heavy wheelbarrows up steps.
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 10:00 pm
by Hepsibah
8. Lay them over incredibly muddy allotment (mudslides) paths to keep your boots (and bottom) clean.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:35 pm
by ina
(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.
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:42 pm
by shiney
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:31 pm
by ina
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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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:06 pm
by Shirley
Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:11 pm
by Muddypause
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?
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:49 am
by Wombat
Use 'em to make a Malawi hand cart.
I suppose they just look a bit tatty Stew!
Nev
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:25 am
by Millymollymandy
Not to mention the splinters!!!
(Ina how do you make a goat shelter from them - the rain would just come in the gaps!)
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:40 am
by shiney
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:24 pm
by shiney
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
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:47 pm
by ina
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.