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[Vamps]

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.

Thanks a lot.

Kate

You can take the girl out of Sunderland but you can't take Sunderland out of the girl......

In Sunderland we didn't have furniture. The bailiffs took it all.

Oofers think you are joking, 

They must be middle class.

 

[paul.lovejoy]

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.

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 setting up a workshop and doing carving woodturning etc, will just have to spend a few weekends in the woods with a chain saw do you think anyone will notice

ever thought of making items out of branches local guy makes all sorts quite popular in the garden

[aaronjb]

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

[Varche]

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.

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 setting up a workshop and doing carving woodturning etc, will just have to spend a few weekends in the woods with a chain saw do you think anyone will notice

ever thought of making items out of branches local guy makes all sorts quite popular in the garden

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.

[Lazydocker]

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

[aaronjb]

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 

[Lazydocker]

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 Scandinavians season their firewood by leaving it in a pile open to the elements so should be OK

[paul.lovejoy]

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.

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

olive wood sounds good Varche shame my job in Potugal has fallen through or i could have made a detor on my way home

seriously i am hoping to set some things up with local tree surgeons