Hey /diy/ what have you made with pallets recently? i need ideas.
something hideous and toxic.
a crib.
Sold it for €100
>>971969
Congrats, you just killed a babby. You realise pallets are treated with pretty toxic chemicals?
>>971972
It's ok I varnished it.
>>971978
If it has the epal logo it's safe
>>971999
Sure it is, because the only danger of a pallet is what its made out of.
Not what it has hauled, where it was stored, or what it was moved with.
Nothing can contaminate a pallet, even though the vast majority of other pallets are dangerous and in close proximity to them
>>971955
I ship heavy equipment on them. Usually things that ups won't ship.
The only thing I've ever used wood from a pallet from is pic related.
>>971999
>MB is Methyl Bromide
Goddamn! I always thought it was Milton Bradley
>>972000
Shut the fuck up.
Oh boy this thread again.
>>971955
Used some when constructing my very ghetto homegym.
i actually just bought a planer at a garage sale, and will be getting a jointer soon.... my buddy just got a mig so i want to make one of those pallet destroyer tools....
first task i think will actually be to make some tables and shelves for the garage. then i want to cover a wall with it like paneling
Chicken coöp. Nice project. Free eggs . Less garbage
>>972034
Pallet wood planes horribly. It just splints.
>>972040
i doubt it will be perfect but i have seen a lot of evidence of people making it much more workable
>>972004
He's right though, not to mention when pallets are re-used they go through further treatments that may not be the original one they undertook.
>>972048
>workable
>ugly
>>971969
Nice. I hate babies
>>972031
Pics?
Pallets get treated with the shame shit people pay to have pumped into their home and over all of the belongings.
>>972105
>some people smoke, so cancer either does not exist or does not matter because it's free
it's also the same chemicals that are sprayed on every crop you eat.
>>972112
What the fuck? I swear, the Pallet Industrial Complex is in on this shit or something.
PROTIP: DONT EAT PALLETS
There, it's done. All of you shut the fuck up. If someone's dumb enough to sleep on a pallet bed frame that's soaked with chlorine, mentholybestocyanide, or any other shit you list, they deserve to die anyways. I made a fucking door. Some guy made a chicken cook outside. If this was as serious a problem as you say, I would have been dead long, long ago. I've handled thousands upon thousands of PALLETS bare handed from more sources then you could dream of. I breaker them down, reuse them for shipping, or store them in our warehouse. I'm more concerned about my smoking, eating habits, stress levels, work hours, shitty old house, and every other unhealthy thing lower middle class people go through in their lifetime. The chemicals soaked into my skin while I work on industrial equipment far exceed the hazards of PALLETS. Anyone with a blue collar job knows this same feeling. Your constant warnings are an insult to those of us who have actual hazardous jobs, or jobs at all, unlike you.
I found these really pretty blue pallets and built a baby changing station
>still parroting this same shit when there's already a thread full of this same crap
>>971955
Quick and dirty, I made some target stands that break down and go together in the field without tools.
https://youtu.be/h6WjXuSrGaY
When I was around 10(15 years ago) we used to make houses with my friends and play in them. Basically a box from 4 pallets, maybe more if it was bigger. Am I going to die in the near future /diy/?
>>972214
If you can't identify a troll this weak, you don't belong here.
>>972265
>what is a joke
>>971955
>Hey /diy/ what have you made with pallets recently?
Doghouse. 1x1x1 pallets with 4 pallets to make a gable roof and front porch that has a pallet deck. Insulated and lined with plywood. There's a shelf inside for cats to lay on and the attic space is also for cats, the dogs reside in the bottom floor. Pretty cozy actually. It still need the outside finish, there's just plastic sheet of roof tread stuff on the outside so far. Needs metal roofing and vinyl siding still.
>>972000
Completely valid, but you could argue that about anything.
>>973941
I'm sorry, I didn't know I wasn't allowed to tell jokes on the internet anymore, it's all serious all the time.
>>974590
IDK gais pallets is srs bisness
>>971955
A flimsy vertical planter using a mix of screws and nails. And a bench I didn't take a pic of.
>>972070
Seconded!
>>975620
Seconded!
>>972219
Yes you are going to die
![wooden-pallet-of-pig-carcasses-rests-next-to-a-delivery-truck-in-new-picture-id160180284[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5VQH1XA.jpg "wooden-pallet-of-pig-carcasses-rests-next-to-a-delivery-truck-in-new-picture-id160180284[1].jpg")
>>975630
You do realize the pallet in this picture is heat treated also, right?
>>971955
I turned several pallets into firewood. I cooked some wieners over them.
>>975697
Pray tell, what virus survives in wood for, oh, 3 weeks?
>>975980
HIV. Ebola. MRSA. H5N1.
It's all information that is readily available if you look.
>>976003
>HIV
Wrong. At most it survives up to 4 weeks outside of a host but only in a syringe.
Abdala N et al. Survival of HIV-1 in syringes. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol 20(1):73-80, 1999
>Ebola
Wrong.
"Ebola is killed with hospital-grade disinfectants (such as household bleach). Ebola on dry surfaces, such as doorknobs and countertops, can survive for several hours; however, virus in body fluids (such as blood) can survive up to several days at room temperature."
-CDC
>MRSA
Inconclusive but plausible on certain surfaces under very, very specific conditions. Use diluted Dettol (the shit they use to clean slaughterhouses) if you're THAT concerned.
>H5N1
Again, plausible but only under very, very specific conditions like, say, wet shit that is continuously kept wet for, oh, 40 days. If you let it dry out, it loses stability after a day.
Shortridge KF, Zhou NN, Guan Y, Gao P, Ito T, Kawaoka Y, et al. Characterization of avian H5N1 influenza viruses from poultry in Hong Kong. Virology. 1998;252:331-42.
nothing.
CHEPs are not cheap.
>>976882
>cheps
https://youtu.be/VBdTVhQpoCk
>>976016
You must really enjoy scrubbing down pallet wood.
Fences and fence repairs. Drive a post through it into ground and nail some fiberglass scrap onto it, the more rusty half driven in nails in it the better in my opinion. If only I could find some mersa-hiv, bromide methyl whatever contaminated pallets the better. If I could soak them in mercury and gasoline and somehow make them self igniting if touched I would.
>>971959
>the same stuff we bug tent houses with is somehow more toxic when it's used on pallet for storage
Retard.
Converting to glorious nippon futon soon so I'll get a couple of heat treated/debarked ones and make some kind of low profile frame.
The best pallets come from concrete factory's/cement silos..
>white oak for the 2x4s
>cherry for the slats on top
>tfw I've got like 5 different pieces of white oak 2x4s from these pallets that are fucking quarter sawn with no knots
>fucking-quarter-sawn.gif
>>977928
>>977931
>>977931
I appreciate the imagination this took to cook up but it is damn ugly.
>>977932
Actually a good use. Never thought of that.
They make good chicken fences too with some wire added
>>977932
spin the cube in the middle back in place you fuck. Its not suposed to be sideways like that.
>>977931
The cringe, it's real.
>>978342
bar playset?
![portlandia-furnitureguy7[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/jc5WM5m.jpg "portlandia-furnitureguy7[1].jpg")
>>978342
> bar
> No booze
> Nowhere to put booze
Some pallet projects are just ways for someone to feel handy without actually acquiring skills.
>>975697
jesuschrist, the world is full of fucking pansies these days.
So you don't put your sandwich on the thing or rub your balls on it, sheesh. I'm surprised pussies like you even go outside....oh, wait, you ignore all the cancer and electromagnetic radiation that's floating around in the air and in the water, right? Right.
>>971955
There's a shit ton of aderondak chair plans online
Love how the majority of pallet projects posted on DIY are just pallets.
>pallets stack up = a bed
>pallets stack up = decking
>pallets on their side = chicken coop
>pallets stacked up = planter.
You do know you can take them apart, sand them down and build something with them that doesn't look like a pallet.
Try building a tool chest op.
>>976003
>all these viruses that don't last long in the enviroment
Oh /diy/. I bet it's the same people that drink pond water so they can gain resistances to non-viral parasites on /out/. And
>muh bodly fluids
>>978466
You are the type of retard who pulls down asbestos ducting or chips off lead paint without a respirator to not look like a "pussy"
Coincidentally those types are also the poorest, and least educated of people. But im not surprised, you are trying to convince people that shouldnt spend 10$ on cheap wood at the hardware store. Its much cheaper to just steal from the store, who cares if its the worst wood possible and that its potentially harmful. Pussies!
considering constructing a couch out of pallets.
>>978838
Forget pallets and find some old doors.
http://www.designsponge.com/2011/09/before-after-sofa-made-from-old-doors.html
>>977931
Tacky af
>>978812
You do realize that's literally how you gain resistances right? And why animals don't get sick and die when they drink it?
![AFS0262938-Maned-Wolf-Chrysocyon-brachyurus-feeding-on[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ila3ng9.jpg "AFS0262938-Maned-Wolf-Chrysocyon-brachyurus-feeding-on[1].jpg")
>>978963
They do get contaminated and die. The prime example is the maned wolf that has to eat poisonous apples to kill worms in it's kidney.
And parasites have specific vectors and specific hosts. You people never went to school? This is literally things you teach toddlers here so they don't die.
>>97898
And bacteria too. But protozoa and above it's a no go.
Pic is the giant worm that lives in >>978968
