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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Kate on 07 March 2013, 21:09:02
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
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I would guess at about a dozen,but its only a guess.
A guy I know is thinking of starting a business making furniture from old pallets etc. Apparently the rich young things love it.
I think its called pikey chic. ;D
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Are you using ZipVan? Bargin at £9.50 an hour, worth doing as many trips as you can :y
http://www.zipvan.com/london/learn-more?plan_key=zipvan (http://www.zipvan.com/london/learn-more?plan_key=zipvan)
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Yes I would be using a zipvan.
I've already made two wooden planter boxes and they look nice. I found a pallet thrown out in Guildford city centre.
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I would think you'd get closer to 20 or so, if you could manipulate them easily... Should get 2 stacks and then a few stuffed down the sides :y
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I would think you'd get closer to 20 or so, if you could manipulate them easily... Should get 2 stacks and then a few stuffed down the sides :y
I have been offered 19 for free so that would be great.
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I would think you'd get closer to 20 or so, if you could manipulate them easily... Should get 2 stacks and then a few stuffed down the sides :y
I have been offered 19 for free so that would be great.
Can't see that being too much of an issue, although you might have to shuffle them about a bit
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I would guess at about a dozen,but its only a guess.
A guy I know is thinking of starting a business making furniture from old pallets etc. Apparently the rich young things love it.
I think its called pikey chic. ;D
Not many pikeys round here but lots of hooray henrys. ;D
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I would think you'd get closer to 20 or so, if you could manipulate them easily... Should get 2 stacks and then a few stuffed down the sides :y
I have been offered 19 for free so that would be great.
Can't see that being too much of an issue, although you might have to shuffle them about a bit
How many would fit in a mig estate do you think?
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I would think you'd get closer to 20 or so, if you could manipulate them easily... Should get 2 stacks and then a few stuffed down the sides :y
I have been offered 19 for free so that would be great.
Can't see that being too much of an issue, although you might have to shuffle them about a bit
How many would fit in a mig estate do you think?
8-10 if you're lucky (with the seats down)
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl...... :D :D :D :D
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl...... :D :D :D :D
In Sunderland we didn't have furniture. The bailiffs took it all. ;D
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl...... :D :D :D :D
In Sunderland we didn't have furniture. The bailiffs took it all. ;D
Oofers think you are joking, ;) ;)
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How many would fit in a mig estate do you think?
I have a 2000 X reg 2.5 Elite.
I often get stuff delivered on pallets, I stick them in the back of the car and take 'em down the dump. I really don't want them.
Pallets are bigger than you think. In my car 8 absolute maximim maybe only 4 depending on how much rear load area you have with seats down, and carefully loaded.
Furniture. Hmmm be careful. The wood quality is really crap. Loads of splinter potential. Any pallet would need a lot of work to be fit for any kind of furniture, unless it's for beavers. You will need a good sander to smooth things down more than a bit.
However . . . good luck !
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl...... :D :D :D :D
In Sunderland we didn't have furniture. The bailiffs took it all. ;D
Oofers think you are joking, ;) ;)
They must be middle class. ;)
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I was thinking about making some furniture etc out of wooden pallets. Someone has offered me some for free.
Does anyone know how many standard wooden pallets would fit into a VW Transporter? I can hire one for a reasonable price.
Any project ideas would be very useful. :y
Thanks a lot.
Kate
You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl...... :D :D :D :D
In Sunderland we didn't have furniture. The bailiffs took it all. ;D
Oofers think you are joking, ;) ;)
They must be middle class. ;)
:-* :-* ;D ;D ;D
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I would guess at about a dozen,but its only a guess.
A guy I know is thinking of starting a business making furniture from old pallets etc. Apparently the rich young things love it.
I think its called pikey chic. ;D
depends on your pallet ???
shame your so far away we end up with pallets all the time sometimes there is a deposit on them mainly the heavy duty ones for bricks, we now normally dump them at jewsons.
I am after trees not a whole ones wont get it in the van ;D ;D setting up a workshop and doing carving woodturning etc, will just have to spend a few weekends in the woods with a chain saw ;D ;D do you think anyone will notice :D :D
ever thought of making items out of branches local guy makes all sorts quite popular in the garden :y
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I have about a quarter of the trunk of a 40' English Oak chopped up in my back garden .. if it's worth your while to come and get them, you're welcome to 'em, Paul ;)
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I would guess at about a dozen,but its only a guess.
A guy I know is thinking of starting a business making furniture from old pallets etc. Apparently the rich young things love it.
I think its called pikey chic. ;D
depends on your pallet ???
shame your so far away we end up with pallets all the time sometimes there is a deposit on them mainly the heavy duty ones for bricks, we now normally dump them at jewsons.
I am after trees not a whole ones wont get it in the van ;D ;D setting up a workshop and doing carving woodturning etc, will just have to spend a few weekends in the woods with a chain saw ;D ;D do you think anyone will notice :D :D
ever thought of making items out of branches local guy makes all sorts quite popular in the garden :y
Paul, what you need is a load of my olive logs. Beautiful hard wood from trees up to 120 years old , it always seems a shame to burn them but needs must.
I have some trunks that are about 17 inch in diameter that I am going to make some outdoor seats from.
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I have about a quarter of the trunk of a 40' English Oak chopped up in my back garden .. if it's worth your while to come and get them, you're welcome to 'em, Paul ;)
I'm interested in some of it, although only for the fire ::)
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I have about a quarter of the trunk of a 40' English Oak chopped up in my back garden .. if it's worth your while to come and get them, you're welcome to 'em, Paul ;)
I'm interested in some of it, although only for the fire ::)
Same offer to you, then ;) It's been sitting out in the open for 18 months or so - actually some of it might be buried under soil so would probably need some serious drying before it burnt well :-[
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I have about a quarter of the trunk of a 40' English Oak chopped up in my back garden .. if it's worth your while to come and get them, you're welcome to 'em, Paul ;)
I'm interested in some of it, although only for the fire ::)
Same offer to you, then ;) It's been sitting out in the open for 18 months or so - actually some of it might be buried under soil so would probably need some serious drying before it burnt well :-[
If I make it down that way I might grab a boot full then... I can store it without any issues anyway :y Scandinavians season their firewood by leaving it in a pile open to the elements so should be OK :y
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chances are LD will be there before i get a chance to travel to that area at the moment to busy locally unfourtunatley just out of interest in case i can come up witth a plan to get there are they cut into slices of the trunk ie are they round. :y
Acually un kilned or dried out wood is good for turning as it is not so brittel, you just get wet as you turn it :'( :y
olive wood sounds good Varche shame my job in Potugal has fallen through or i could have made a detor on my way home ;) :y
seriously i am hoping to set some things up with local tree surgeons