Me personally it's not only about the effort that's put into work like this it's also about the hobby you have doing it not everybody likes it or think it's a good idea but some people including myself just do it because we want to it's just something that some people enjoy doing
It’s always worth the effort to me because the pallets are free so if I screw up a project it doesn’t cost me any money. Just the time it takes to pull and dress another piece of wood from another pallet! Makes my mistakes a lot less painful and I get to keep learning. All you really need is a decent metal detector and a planer and let your imagination run free!
I worked at a place that purchased and made large, heavy equipment. The pallets were almost always hardwood. I was able to take and break down a few dozen of these pallets. Lots of work, but fun and worth it in the end. I ended up getting RED OAK, WHITE OAK, POPLAR, some CHERRY, and I grabbed some PINE pallets to use as test cut pieces. I got one pallet where the wood was very very dense. Hard to cut, plane, or sand, but the grain and colors were amazing. I took some of this wood to a local hardwood dealer to see if they could help me identify it, and they didn't know what it was. Oh well. Thanks for creating this series. Some great info.
Yeah I mix mine too, you can smell Pune as you cut it. Have sanded some mine as begin using it we got about same size pile. Am making desk with three part an 15 degree angle about 13 inch deep by 18 wide. Shout up when you using this wood
Been using pallets to build things for a while now, I finished off my shed this year with 100% reclaimed wood(video on my channel). Can’t wait to see what you build.
Looks like you did some of the framing and various other parts with new wood or am I mistaken? Did you find pallets with plywood on them for the floor?
Wanted to learn woodworking as it was only class I failed in high school, so I started watching youtube videos practicing on this old very heavy pallet that got left behind and it was extremely weathered rough as it could get and covered in dirt and the wood was completely destroyed and I could barely lift it as it must have been in the rain. Getting the nails out was brutal and took a full day. The wood was so old and hard it destroyed all my tools and i had to learn how to sharpen them and get decent blades for my saws as they smoking and screaming as I tried to cut the wood. Some boards were so hard I couldn't even sand them. It took me months to be able to learn how to cut and plane the boards square but I was determined to not let this pallet defeat me. Even with the new blades I had trouble cutting through the wood too fast as it would smoke and leave burn marks and had a couple of close calls. One with the router when I tried to free hand the inside of a hole I drilled in one of the boards foolishly taking the guard off a full size router. Luckily I resisted urge to let go with one hand to turn it off when it was bucking and I rode it out. It took almost a year but at the end even though most of the boards were 1x4's only 1 or 2 feet long. They all looked like different types of high quality woods??? I thought I must be losing my mind after all the issues i was having as the videos they made it look easy. I suddenly realized why I was having so much trouble with this wood. It was hardwood. I still thought i must be losing my mind but after a lot of research I found out the boards were hardwood made from cherry, oak, birch and my nemesis walnut. I also got some 2 x 4's about 3 feet long made of maple LOL. I thought I was cursed but actually I was lucky finding a pallet with all the best woods I just didn't have the wits to see it for a year. Walnut grows whiskers when it get weathered and the reason the pallet looked like hell. I couldn't believe the price of the exact same wood at the lumber mart. I made carpenters hammers out of the walnut and some cutting boards from the others and saved the rest for special projects. It's funny to think all the times I thought that hardwoods were junk old wood that gotten weathered and waterlogged and the reason they were so heavy and why I couldn't get a nail in them or cut them. Also after working with all those ultra hard woods using pine, cedar, fir, spruce and even most oak is like a hot knife thru butter. I still have one walnut board I can't get smooth, it is so hard that is sand paper has no effect on it and have sanded it for hours and still the scratches remain. I have machined it square and only need to get the face smooth. Any ideas? Thanks to all the people making the how to videos. No one can see all ends. One thing I learned from this is to have faith and not give up even when it seems there is no hope or all seems lost. In the moment may seem like a curse may actually be a blessing in disguise sent to make you stronger or victory is just around the next corner. I realized that sometimes making mistakes is part of the process and owning up to those mistakes and correcting them is how I learn. I also noticed when I was younger and always found someone or something to blame the errors on I never learned or increased my skill set. RUclips can be good thing but you have to control it don't let it control you. Be warned some older pallets have some insecticide in them they have a certain stamp on them (bromide?)
Just bought a new house and started remodeling the basement with only money that was given to the project or earned through it! Pallet wood has been my main obsession and am actually trying to look for different ways to earn a little bit of a budget for the project using them.
From the looks of the planks you have some oak, possibly ash and mostly poplar. Not sure on the ash, but 100% your lighter stuff is poplar. Great video.
Awe brilliant just as I did but with tennon saw on six pallets so have a beat pile of slats about 12-18 inches long, this video's provin very useful gonna put it in favourite
I tried different ways of retrieving wood from pallets including prying the boards off with multiple board, using nail remover pry bars, and cutting off the ends like you just did. I came to the conclusion that the best way to go is cut the boards off like you just did. I also purchased some fence pickets. They are cheap, about $1.50 for a 1/2 x 5/5 x 6 foot board. Once they have dried, they look a lot like pallet wood when you cut them up. The downside is that I had to dry them for a few weeks before I could mill them well. Otherwise, they gummed up everything and wasted a lot of hard labor. Pallets were easier, LOL. However, once dried, they were great to work with. As for the pallet wood, I still have a bunch left over and was just given the go-ahead to take some pallets to my shop. I am also building a computer desk for my home office and an considering using pallet wood for the top. So, needless to say, I am very interested in the rest of your videos.
Reclaiming the entire pallet slat often gets a bad rap because the method most people think to use, a pry bar, is so difficult where twisted pallet nails are like extracting screws, plus the angled pull can easily split the slat, making it near worthless. The $50 special "pallet buddy" forked pry bars are moderately better because the jaws are closer to a flat and not as much angled pressure on the slat, but who wants to spend part of their wood savings on a special tool they may not get the value out of? This is why a lot of people just cut them free like here. However, they deprive themselves of longer pieces, because they just don't know the secret. Here is that secret: Remove them with a force that pulls them straight up and away from the pallet's 2x4 stringer. How? With some 2x4 scraps, and a big framing or shop hammer. Simply lay the pallet face down so the slats you're trying to extract are on the underneath side, then prop up the pallet under the two end slats with 2 other pallets, or a 4x4, doubled 2x4s, etc. Now stand on the pallet, put a 3 foot 2x4 'driver' with its end flat against a slat near the nails, and hit it with the hammer, driving the slat straight down to the ground. Since the force is straight, and all the way across the slat (the full width of the 2x4 being in contact with the slat), there will be virtually no splitting. And due to the mechanics of how you're applying the force, it's tons easier than using a pry bar! That will work for the slats that don't have an opposite slat on the opposite surface of the pallet. But what about those slats that are opposite another one, so that you cannot put the 2x4 'driver' flat against the slat? For those, simply lay the pallet on the ground, this time with the slat you want to remove on the upper surface, position a short 2x4 chunk under the slat and near the nails, with enough of it extending past the edges of the slat that you can stand two equal vertical chunks of 2x4 under the ends of that bridge to prop it up off the ground about 4 inches. Now simply hit the pallet's 2x4 stringer on either side of the slat, until you drive the pallet down and away from the slat, which stays up and is supported by the 2x4 bridge. Long reclaimed slats for your projects. It's easy when you know how.... 😎
Thank you for this very nice video. Some of the best crates and pallets to keep an eye out for are the ones used to ship fiberglass semi truck hoods. You can find some that have at least 12 10 foot 2x4s.
most hardwood pallets are either oak or maple very few come from cherry and have never seek hickory at least from what I have seen for logs at the 5 actual pallet companies I have been to
I have just begun my hobby and I thought of pallet timber as a great way to practice. Looking on utube though there have been some amazing projects made with pallet wood. Subbed and liked. Keep it up and cheers from down under. Chris.
I use pallets all the time. I make a lot of coffee tables, shop organizers and much more. As far as identifying the wood, I am no help. If it isn't labeled I don't know LOL. I made a coffee table and one of the pallets was a beautiful deep brown wood that I used as an accent. I have no idea what it was. I like Jackman Works because he too uses a lot of pallets, aka free wood.
In my personal experience the majority of pallets (here in the U.S.A.) are made from either a softwood, usually white or yellow pine, or oak. That being said however, I have occasionally come across some more "exotic" wood species, presumably from other countries, but I have no idea what they were. If you can't tell what the wood is by looking at it, you can tell by the smell when cutting them - although of course this requires that you know what they smell like in the first place lol. Oak has a kind of "nutty" smell. Also, oak pallets (assuming most or all of the pallet is oak - sometimes they are mixed wood) will be a lot heavier in weight. Then there are the nails, oak pallets are usually assembled with "spiral" nails, meaning the body of the nail is spiraled and not just a straight shaft - and they are a PITA to pull out.
Today 98% pallets are made in China and they are fumigated or soaked with pestocides,,means is usless for any use except be a pallet,,the ladt thing use this material for any interior finishes
Duck-Bill Deck Wrecker = $80 Pneumatic Nail Kicker = $50 Using this method, you can pry apart and remove nails from about 10x pallets/hour. Not worth the back pain. Don’t even try it. Build a “pallet-buster” machine or sell the pallets to a manufacturer like 48FortySolutions. Quick & easy money.
I've been doing this the last few weeks, but it's been more of a hassle for me as I don't have a jointer or thickness planer. I took some of the wood into tech college with me last night as I study furniture making and was able to get some of it machined but I still have a heck of alot of it to get done. It would be probably be ok if I had the equipment, which one day I hope to have, I just wanted to see if I could get some projects done with free timber as I don't have a job at the moment so it's hard to buy materials to get projects done. In Australia our pallets are mostly Pine, so nothing fancy like you guys seem to have.
I think he meant for the video to be self explanatory. If I would be new to woodworking, what I got out of this video is that using pallets gets you a nice pile of good wood for free or next to nothing, as long as you're willing to put the extra work in
MalHagger Yes but a pile of wood doesn’t mean it’s worth it. The title of the video is, “is pallet wood worth it?” Kinda suggest talking about it, for example if I get a pallet and build a side table spend the 10 bucks on hardware but only sell it for 20 bucks is that worth it? What if it only sells for 15 dollars and your waiting 6 months for the return on your investment does that make it worth it to sell? Now on the flip side of you build a side table same price and sell it for 200 dollars the next day is that worth it? I’d say yes. However if it took me 6 months to sell it and only made 20 bucks that to me isn’t worth it profit sure but the time and effort you put in makes little sense in doing it. Now on the flip side is it worth gathering to build as a hobby or whatever then yes that’s 100% self explanatory even before watching this video it’s free wood lol which again kinda makes the video pointless at that point and still brings very little value. I agree for any beginner free wood is free wood at which point the title should have been “how to get free wood for woodworking” not trying to argue with you because I don’t feel your wrong a simple 5 second video of the pile of wood with you saying yup points that put but this video was 10 minutes (I don’t remember how long it really was) and nothing talked about what to do with the wood or what you could do with it to make it worth it! I mean anything can be worth it if your creative enough to do something with it. That’s what I was more getting at.
Reckon that if I was putting it through the thicknesser that I would've used the whole lengths, then trimmed the ends. You'll be lucky not to have thinned/uneven ends.
@@lastingbuild1373 That's sort of my point. By using the entire length you trim two ends off and are left with a still usable, if shortish board. By cutting them out then trimming again you have now removed seven pieces instead of two, leaving you with two really short pieces.
@@lastingbuild1373 lol fire wood, just shows he has NO imagination. I look at that pile of wood and see so many things, hell you can make anything with that material absolutely anything. Your only limited by YOU.
Buddy, if you cant come up with a good use for those planks, I am not so sure your one of the guys that know how. I could take that stack of "firewood" and turn it into so many beautiful pieces.
@@Hawkeye-ef4xf I could make many things out of that lumber probably more than you can. I just do not give myself limits. I've been a carpenter for 40 years, how about you?
Here is the link to the video i did on creating the pallet wood - book shelf / fire place insert. Note the fire place used in this project is a self contained room model that all heat goes out the front of the unit. No heat goes out on any sides or the top. ruclips.net/video/LeM1ibdKHEI/видео.html
Give me a sawzall I can dismantle a pallet in under four minutes pulling nails and all. As to not waste any wood at all because waste is the enemy. So yes it’s worth it .
be sure and try one of these (air locker AP700) - you'll wonder how you got along without it. ruclips.net/video/UXiGh1LozD8/видео.html I know chopping them up is pretty easy but you can get double the length for more function.
Ok... The "normal non-you tube channel guy" SKINNY....HURRICANE HARVEY, HOUSTON....I made 1100.00 using pallets and roadside discarded furniture to build people emergency shelving for their storage units and garages to get things up off the ground....plus when rain came throughy own roof and collapsed my kitchen wall I built a rustic pallet wall with shelves and the whole nine yards from used pallets...I cut and staggered the slats with different types of wood and it looks like the pallet wall on RUclips...and I did it all on an absolute ZERO BUDGET....so there IS MONEY out there on this...
I came on just to say, IT IS ABSOLUTELY WORTH EVERY EFFORT!!
Me personally it's not only about the effort that's put into work like this it's also about the hobby you have doing it not everybody likes it or think it's a good idea but some people including myself just do it because we want to it's just something that some people enjoy doing
Thanks
It’s always worth the effort to me because the pallets are free so if I screw up a project it doesn’t cost me any money. Just the time it takes to pull and dress another piece of wood from another pallet! Makes my mistakes a lot less painful and I get to keep learning. All you really need is a decent metal detector and a planer and let your imagination run free!
No need for new pieces, bad cut, I use wood glue, mixed with saw dust to pack the gaps, dry then sand to your liking.
I 've constructed end tables, TV stands, Entrance cubby with coat hangers, and a lot more. Recently I completed two end tables for a client.
I worked at a place that purchased and made large, heavy equipment. The pallets were almost always hardwood. I was able to take and break down a few dozen of these pallets. Lots of work, but fun and worth it in the end. I ended up getting RED OAK, WHITE OAK, POPLAR, some CHERRY, and I grabbed some PINE pallets to use as test cut pieces. I got one pallet where the wood was very very dense. Hard to cut, plane, or sand, but the grain and colors were amazing. I took some of this wood to a local hardwood dealer to see if they could help me identify it, and they didn't know what it was. Oh well. Thanks for creating this series. Some great info.
Yeah I mix mine too, you can smell Pune as you cut it. Have sanded some mine as begin using it we got about same size pile. Am making desk with three part an 15 degree angle about 13 inch deep by 18 wide. Shout up when you using this wood
Been using pallets to build things for a while now, I finished off my shed this year with 100% reclaimed wood(video on my channel). Can’t wait to see what you build.
Very cool. Will check that out.
Looks like you did some of the framing and various other parts with new wood or am I mistaken? Did you find pallets with plywood on them for the floor?
After seeing the items that some of the guys create from pallet wood, I say hell yeah it's worth it. Two guys even reused the nails as well.
Wanted to learn woodworking as it was only class I failed in high school, so I started watching youtube videos practicing on this old very heavy pallet that got left behind and it was extremely weathered rough as it could get and covered in dirt and the wood was completely destroyed and I could barely lift it as it must have been in the rain. Getting the nails out was brutal and took a full day. The wood was so old and hard it destroyed all my tools and i had to learn how to sharpen them and get decent blades for my saws as they smoking and screaming as I tried to cut the wood. Some boards were so hard I couldn't even sand them. It took me months to be able to learn how to cut and plane the boards square but I was determined to not let this pallet defeat me. Even with the new blades I had trouble cutting through the wood too fast as it would smoke and leave burn marks and had a couple of close calls. One with the router when I tried to free hand the inside of a hole I drilled in one of the boards foolishly taking the guard off a full size router. Luckily I resisted urge to let go with one hand to turn it off when it was bucking and I rode it out. It took almost a year but at the end even though most of the boards were 1x4's only 1 or 2 feet long. They all looked like different types of high quality woods??? I thought I must be losing my mind after all the issues i was having as the videos they made it look easy. I suddenly realized why I was having so much trouble with this wood. It was hardwood. I still thought i must be losing my mind but after a lot of research I found out the boards were hardwood made from cherry, oak, birch and my nemesis walnut. I also got some 2 x 4's about 3 feet long made of maple LOL. I thought I was cursed but actually I was lucky finding a pallet with all the best woods I just didn't have the wits to see it for a year. Walnut grows whiskers when it get weathered and the reason the pallet looked like hell. I couldn't believe the price of the exact same wood at the lumber mart. I made carpenters hammers out of the walnut and some cutting boards from the others and saved the rest for special projects. It's funny to think all the times I thought that hardwoods were junk old wood that gotten weathered and waterlogged and the reason they were so heavy and why I couldn't get a nail in them or cut them. Also after working with all those ultra hard woods using pine, cedar, fir, spruce and even most oak is like a hot knife thru butter. I still have one walnut board I can't get smooth, it is so hard that is sand paper has no effect on it and have sanded it for hours and still the scratches remain. I have machined it square and only need to get the face smooth. Any ideas? Thanks to all the people making the how to videos. No one can see all ends. One thing I learned from this is to have faith and not give up even when it seems there is no hope or all seems lost. In the moment may seem like a curse may actually be a blessing in disguise sent to make you stronger or victory is just around the next corner. I realized that sometimes making mistakes is part of the process and owning up to those mistakes and correcting them is how I learn. I also noticed when I was younger and always found someone or something to blame the errors on I never learned or increased my skill set. RUclips can be good thing but you have to control it don't let it control you. Be warned some older pallets have some insecticide in them they have a certain stamp on them (bromide?)
Just bought a new house and started remodeling the basement with only money that was given to the project or earned through it! Pallet wood has been my main obsession and am actually trying to look for different ways to earn a little bit of a budget for the project using them.
The sky is the limit for projects with pallet wood!
Hey redoing our floors in pallet wood. We get them free. Would put a pic of our center design on our livingroom if it would let me.
Email me at lastingbuild@gmail.com and I’ll share it
From the looks of the planks you have some oak, possibly ash and mostly poplar. Not sure on the ash, but 100% your lighter stuff is poplar. Great video.
Awe brilliant just as I did but with tennon saw on six pallets so have a beat pile of slats about 12-18 inches long, this video's provin very useful gonna put it in favourite
I tried different ways of retrieving wood from pallets including prying the boards off with multiple board, using nail remover pry bars, and cutting off the ends like you just did.
I came to the conclusion that the best way to go is cut the boards off like you just did.
I also purchased some fence pickets. They are cheap, about $1.50 for a 1/2 x 5/5 x 6 foot board. Once they have dried, they look a lot like pallet wood when you cut them up. The downside is that I had to dry them for a few weeks before I could mill them well. Otherwise, they gummed up everything and wasted a lot of hard labor. Pallets were easier, LOL. However, once dried, they were great to work with.
As for the pallet wood, I still have a bunch left over and was just given the go-ahead to take some pallets to my shop. I am also building a computer desk for my home office and an considering using pallet wood for the top.
So, needless to say, I am very interested in the rest of your videos.
Appreciate you sharing your experience! I’m definitely excited to see what the lumber looks like all milled up.
So i just wasted 7 minutes of my life watching you cut down pallets. SO WAS IT WORTH IT? change the title to your video
Yes, did entire pallet wall floor to ceiling, cost 10 bucks… for the screws
Reclaiming the entire pallet slat often gets a bad rap because the method most people think to use, a pry bar, is so difficult where twisted pallet nails are like extracting screws, plus the angled pull can easily split the slat, making it near worthless. The $50 special "pallet buddy" forked pry bars are moderately better because the jaws are closer to a flat and not as much angled pressure on the slat, but who wants to spend part of their wood savings on a special tool they may not get the value out of? This is why a lot of people just cut them free like here. However, they deprive themselves of longer pieces, because they just don't know the secret.
Here is that secret: Remove them with a force that pulls them straight up and away from the pallet's 2x4 stringer. How? With some 2x4 scraps, and a big framing or shop hammer. Simply lay the pallet face down so the slats you're trying to extract are on the underneath side, then prop up the pallet under the two end slats with 2 other pallets, or a 4x4, doubled 2x4s, etc. Now stand on the pallet, put a 3 foot 2x4 'driver' with its end flat against a slat near the nails, and hit it with the hammer, driving the slat straight down to the ground. Since the force is straight, and all the way across the slat (the full width of the 2x4 being in contact with the slat), there will be virtually no splitting. And due to the mechanics of how you're applying the force, it's tons easier than using a pry bar!
That will work for the slats that don't have an opposite slat on the opposite surface of the pallet. But what about those slats that are opposite another one, so that you cannot put the 2x4 'driver' flat against the slat? For those, simply lay the pallet on the ground, this time with the slat you want to remove on the upper surface, position a short 2x4 chunk under the slat and near the nails, with enough of it extending past the edges of the slat that you can stand two equal vertical chunks of 2x4 under the ends of that bridge to prop it up off the ground about 4 inches. Now simply hit the pallet's 2x4 stringer on either side of the slat, until you drive the pallet down and away from the slat, which stays up and is supported by the 2x4 bridge.
Long reclaimed slats for your projects. It's easy when you know how.... 😎
if you take them apart properly, it makes a huge difference
just because it's free doesn't mean you should throw away so much good material, seriously defeating the purpose. Also wtf 'is it worth it?!'
Thank you for this very nice video. Some of the best crates and pallets to keep an eye out for are the ones used to ship fiberglass semi truck hoods. You can find some that have at least 12 10 foot 2x4s.
Good to know! Thanks!
I'm excited to see what is going to come from all this great lumber!
We will soon find out what it looks like without all the dust and grime
most hardwood pallets are either oak or maple very few come from cherry and have never seek hickory at least from what I have seen for logs at the 5 actual pallet companies I have been to
Sometimes the runners are pine (maybe some poplar). Sometimes they're dead ass construction 2x4s.
I have just begun my hobby and I thought of pallet timber as a great way to practice. Looking on utube though there have been some amazing projects made with pallet wood. Subbed and liked. Keep it up and cheers from down under. Chris.
Great! Welcome Relic!
I use pallets all the time. I make a lot of coffee tables, shop organizers and much more. As far as identifying the wood, I am no help. If it isn't labeled I don't know LOL. I made a coffee table and one of the pallets was a beautiful deep brown wood that I used as an accent. I have no idea what it was. I like Jackman Works because he too uses a lot of pallets, aka free wood.
Send me some project pics at lastingbuild@gmail.com and I’ll share with the community
Can also use a breaker bar to disassemble
In my personal experience the majority of pallets (here in the U.S.A.) are made from either a softwood, usually white or yellow pine, or oak. That being said however, I have occasionally come across some more "exotic" wood species, presumably from other countries, but I have no idea what they were.
If you can't tell what the wood is by looking at it, you can tell by the smell when cutting them - although of course this requires that you know what they smell like in the first place lol. Oak has a kind of "nutty" smell. Also, oak pallets (assuming most or all of the pallet is oak - sometimes they are mixed wood) will be a lot heavier in weight.
Then there are the nails, oak pallets are usually assembled with "spiral" nails, meaning the body of the nail is spiraled and not just a straight shaft - and they are a PITA to pull out.
Great info! Thanks
Today 98% pallets are made in China and they are fumigated or soaked with pestocides,,means is usless for any use except be a pallet,,the ladt thing use this material for any interior finishes
I made a video on this very topic in the pallet wood series!
Pallets are fun, lots of options. Good job bud
Hey Tim!
Duck-Bill Deck Wrecker = $80
Pneumatic Nail Kicker = $50
Using this method, you can pry apart and remove nails from about 10x pallets/hour.
Not worth the back pain. Don’t even try it.
Build a “pallet-buster” machine or sell the pallets to a manufacturer like 48FortySolutions. Quick & easy money.
This video was a great help in us building our own pallet wall. Just wanted to say thanks :)
awesome video - where is the next one in the series?
There is a full playlist! Thanks!
Should be an interesting project.
Thanks I hope you enjoy
I've been doing this the last few weeks, but it's been more of a hassle for me as I don't have a jointer or thickness planer. I took some of the wood into tech college with me last night as I study furniture making and was able to get some of it machined but I still have a heck of alot of it to get done. It would be probably be ok if I had the equipment, which one day I hope to have, I just wanted to see if I could get some projects done with free timber as I don't have a job at the moment so it's hard to buy materials to get projects done. In Australia our pallets are mostly Pine, so nothing fancy like you guys seem to have.
I use pallets it's all I use well large shipping creates as well it's just a hobby for me at the moment but I am considering making a you tube channel
It has been a lot of fun!
I build pallet projects and I’m only 14 I have stacks and stacks of pallets which I have really good video ideas for.
yep , love to see projects from pallets 🤔
Glad to hear! Thanks!
Why are the pallets we get all made out of pine? We get at least 50 pallets a week. Never seen one with something other than pine.
I use a crescent DKB44x bar
Looks like you got some nice wood out of the pallets. Chicken coop video was good too!
Appreciate it! Your shop is looking amazing!
At what point do you talk about if it’s worth it? All this was, was a guy cutting wood.
I think he meant for the video to be self explanatory. If I would be new to woodworking, what I got out of this video is that using pallets gets you a nice pile of good wood for free or next to nothing, as long as you're willing to put the extra work in
MalHagger Yes but a pile of wood doesn’t mean it’s worth it. The title of the video is, “is pallet wood worth it?” Kinda suggest talking about it, for example if I get a pallet and build a side table spend the 10 bucks on hardware but only sell it for 20 bucks is that worth it? What if it only sells for 15 dollars and your waiting 6 months for the return on your investment does that make it worth it to sell? Now on the flip side of you build a side table same price and sell it for 200 dollars the next day is that worth it? I’d say yes. However if it took me 6 months to sell it and only made 20 bucks that to me isn’t worth it profit sure but the time and effort you put in makes little sense in doing it. Now on the flip side is it worth gathering to build as a hobby or whatever then yes that’s 100% self explanatory even before watching this video it’s free wood lol which again kinda makes the video pointless at that point and still brings very little value. I agree for any beginner free wood is free wood at which point the title should have been “how to get free wood for woodworking” not trying to argue with you because I don’t feel your wrong a simple 5 second video of the pile of wood with you saying yup points that put but this video was 10 minutes (I don’t remember how long it really was) and nothing talked about what to do with the wood or what you could do with it to make it worth it! I mean anything can be worth it if your creative enough to do something with it. That’s what I was more getting at.
To make it usable. I have to ask. You do all this planing and no jointer used? Do you do all one side then do the flip side? Great work thank you.
So far, I have not needed to joint the boards
@@lastingbuild1373 I will give that a try
More then anything; I'm curious about how many board feet of lumber you got out of those eleven pallets?
Please let us know...
I build pallet projects and I’m only 14 I have stacks and stacks of pallets which I have really good video ideas for.
Reckon that if I was putting it through the thicknesser that I would've used the whole lengths, then trimmed the ends. You'll be lucky not to have thinned/uneven ends.
I’ll trim the ends to final length once I’m ready for assembly
@@lastingbuild1373 That's sort of my point. By using the entire length you trim two ends off and are left with a still usable, if shortish board. By cutting them out then trimming again you have now removed seven pieces instead of two, leaving you with two really short pieces.
Congratulations you made firewood, just keep using the lumber you alwas use and leave the pallets to those who know how.
Did you see the hand plane till I made from that firewood?
@@lastingbuild1373 lol fire wood, just shows he has NO imagination. I look at that pile of wood and see so many things, hell you can make anything with that material absolutely anything. Your only limited by YOU.
Buddy, if you cant come up with a good use for those planks, I am not so sure your one of the guys that know how. I could take that stack of "firewood" and turn it into so many beautiful pieces.
@@Hawkeye-ef4xf I could make many things out of that lumber probably more than you can. I just do not give myself limits. I've been a carpenter for 40 years, how about you?
@@vargr Telling Hawkeye that you could make lots of things out of that lumber contradicts your original comment that this was just firewood. lol
I recently made a headboard for my bed with pallet wood.
Belt sanded the wood, will be investing in a planer before I do any more. 😂
HaHa! A planer will speed things up for sure! Be sure to wear some respiratory protection when planing and sanding those pallets.
I took a lot of pallet wood and made a Fireplace insert book shelf. I can send you the RUclips link if you want to see it.
Sure! Thanks
Here is the link to the video i did on creating the pallet wood - book shelf / fire place insert. Note the fire place used in this project is a self contained room model that all heat goes out the front of the unit. No heat goes out on any sides or the top. ruclips.net/video/LeM1ibdKHEI/видео.html
Thanks walter white
I think end grain is a waste of wood. Unless you're making your desktop shallow.
Give me a sawzall I can dismantle a pallet in under four minutes pulling nails and all.
As to not waste any wood at all because waste is the enemy. So yes it’s worth it .
Woodworkers crack me up. I see free desks on craigslist all of the time. Do you have any idea what chemicals those pallets are treated with?
They are made cheap as possible - probably no chemicals.
I have a video about that!
Better to reuse them then let them sit outside somewhere getting wet and slowly leaking chemicals into the environment. Or burnt, polluting the air.
LastingBuild
I looked on your channel and couldn’t find any vid about chemicals in pallets. Can you provide link?
ruclips.net/video/AVvlEoW1FJ4/видео.html
be sure and try one of these (air locker AP700) - you'll wonder how you got along without it. ruclips.net/video/UXiGh1LozD8/видео.html I know chopping them up is pretty easy but you can get double the length for more function.
I’ll definitely check that out! Thanks
Aaaaaand we still don't know...
A waste of 6:42 minutes
Thanks for watching and taking your time to comment!
Ok...
The "normal non-you tube channel guy" SKINNY....HURRICANE HARVEY, HOUSTON....I made 1100.00 using pallets and roadside discarded furniture to build people emergency shelving for their storage units and garages to get things up off the ground....plus when rain came throughy own roof and collapsed my kitchen wall I built a rustic pallet wall with shelves and the whole nine yards from used pallets...I cut and staggered the slats with different types of wood and it looks like the pallet wall on RUclips...and I did it all on an absolute ZERO BUDGET....so there IS MONEY out there on this...
if when he was cutting the pallets up that stupid hat swinging round his neck were to cover his vision he could cut his bloody foot off
Did you seriously post a 6+ minute video of yourself cutting pallets?
Check out RUclips vids of the Air Locker nail remover. Once the boards are pried off the pallet I can get the nails out in just over a minute.
That’s awesome! Thanks!
Yep that's a legit tool I have one . Punches out nails fast
Does this video answer the question in the title?