/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Don't.

>>1262766
why not?

u can heat your room's

make a coffee table

Bond*ge stuff

>>1262777
i live in africa. i dont need to heat my room thanks

>>1262783
hahaha im sure someone would buy that from me!

>>1262789
Burn your local witches?

>>1262791
naha the savages here do that with tyres. call it a necklace... fill tyre with fuel put over head and light on fire. pretty efficient

>>1262764
>what i can make with pallets?
I made these bar stools...

>>1262783
>the lines don't cross over eachother like a pencil stroke would and just kinda intersect randomly
triggered 2bh

>>1262794
hello brazil

>>1262798
...and this matching table.

>>1262764
A shipping container.

>>1262800
Why did you put those horizontal bars on the bottom of the table? Kinda ruin it, plus you can't put a chair under...

I don't pix, but I've made a wine bottle holder, two "antique" beer cases, and used palette wood as part of the new bar for a diy upgrade for a store-bought tiki bar.
Also, I use a screw gun to screw pieces down onto my workbench, then use that for glue-ups, layout, or just holding a piece in place while I sand or plane it.
You can even wedge a work piece into place by leaving a few extra inches on one or two sides, then you put opposing wedges in the gap and hammer them together to clamp the work piece in place.
I did that yesterday to hold a 2" slab of walnut while I hand-planed it.

>>1262808
>Why did you put those horizontal bars on the bottom of the table?
They go with the bar stools above (>>1262798).
In the stools, the foot rails make the stool stronger.
Without them, each leg sticks out about 2' from the body of the stool, 2' 8" for the table.
The foot rail ties the legs together, making the whole table more rigid.
Yeah, you can't put a chair under it, But you could put a shelf under there for more storage.
It was originally meant to be a stand for a guinea-pig cage. They keep all his food and stuff in a big plastic container that would fit under the table.
Now it's probably going on my patio, and I'll use it with bar stools.

Found this. I will make one for my parent's house for Christmas.

>>1262819
It makes sense.

Still, I'm more into your bar stool. Nice work.

>>1262820
Should just buy them an AA membership.

>>1262822
>Nice work.
thanks

>>1262764
You can make 2 7 foot stacks of them and a sturdy pinned together board in the middle. Tie a noose around your neck, jump as high as you can right onto your feminin dick, then hang yiurself forbeing a faggot. FUCK i jate you faggots and sage

>>1262824
>AA
?

>>1262790
>>1262783
Just made this. 4fun with gf

>>1262855
Alcoholics Anonymous

>>1262794
Whinnie Mandella loved that...

>>1262877
Don't worry. I'm french.

>>1262894
So you're just giving up?

>>1262907
Kek, and +1 internets to you Anon.

>>1262907
Nop, it's just that everyone is an more or less alcoholic. We just love wine and beer.

this

>>1262929
>Literal frog in a pot

>>1262764
more pallets

Best place to find cheap pallets? Broken still works.

>>1262799
Brazil isnt in africa

>>1262783
>>1262860
good ideas since i love that stuff too but the mrs expects me to make money from this not just make her orgasm

>>1262798
>>1262800
>>1262820
>>1262934
thanks for your help fellow anons. you are princes amongst mere men

>>1262799

???

>>1262799
>>1263004
ignoramus

>>1262764

>>1262764
Give them back Jamal

>>1262783

>>1263365

>>1263353
something nifty for the kitchen

>>1263357
you more than welcome to fetch them if you think they are yours. idiot.

>>1262997
many have made money by doing just that

>>1263369
Kek

>>1263427
Story?

>>1262764

Is it time for friday bingo already?

>>1262837
not as much as you hate yourself you sad lonely keyboard warrior. btw how does the mould in your grannies basement affect your asthma?

>>1263446

>>1263454
>>1263446
surely you guys must have better ideas than just burning perfectly usable wood?

is this shit like, the new shipping container meme?

>>1262764
use the lumber to build pic related
when your are done, come back here for further instructions

>>1263616
you arent the first anon to suggest hanging myself but gallows arent my style. next time you wanna troll be more original and let your own personality shine through in your sarcasm and wit. and oh ja go fuck yourself you cunt

>>1263626
if many anons suggested you to hang yourself, they are probably on to something
just consider it while building the shit from your pallets

>>1263626
Then let popular vote decide
>Against hanging
You
>For hanging
Myself, >>1263616, and at least one other anon who has told you to do it in the past.

That's 3 to 1 in our favor.

>>1262974
Get a pickup truck and room the industrial district

>>1263672
yeah cause so many times the majority have proven to be the wisest and most amazing stewards of this planet. why not just troll a lolli thread with your free hand you shithead

Firewood

>>1262764
Bigger pallets

>>1262764
Stack them up so you can stand on them when you wrap the noose around your neck.

>>1263849
no. why dont you stick your fingers in a wall socket

>>1262824
The point of anonymity is that there's no membership Anon.
Also AA is free.

>>1263443
Sell BDSM sex furniture on ebay or similar. How hard is it to figure that out?

For a while I was very poor and had the idea of using pallets as a box spring for my bed. Most of the ideas are going to be related to furniture due to the wood sizes. You can do chairs, tables, and if you have a lot maybe a set of drawers or something.

>>1264333
i got like 10 of different size. one pallet has a few blocks of wood that are red. possibly mahogany?

>>1263600
"new"?

You must be new here.

>>1262819
w-what happened to the guinea pig?

>>1263600
>new
if only anon, if only.
posters used to go into great detail why using pallets for fucking anything was/is a bad idea, they don't even bother with that now. tldr, 'proper' wood is probably cheaper than you think, and you don't really wanna know where most pallets have been/shit treated with/cancerous crap carried thereon.

>>1262764
Fuck the furniture go next level
https://www.google.com/search?q=pallet+guitar&num=30&tbm=isch&source=iu&pf=m&ictx=1&fir=riDE_aus82wzHM%253A%252CwElHfEe-ywAKiM%252C_&usg=__Dx0nFPI6pZ6xP0mADLKur6QckKo%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU452WtIrXAhXGa7wKHSZKDmgQ9QEIMDAB#imgrc=_

>>1266084
See >>1263863

>>1262764
fire

>>1262764
use them to make sound insulation for your bedroom

Take them all apart and pull all the bails out. Then you have a pile og lumber all cut to the perfect length to make some pallets

One guy I knew collected pallets for decades and used them to build stuff around his property, like fences. He kept the nails too.
Dude was fucking frugal.

>>1264716
Seriously doubt it's mahogany. Show pics.

>>1262764
take them apart and make them into new pallets. I know a guy who made a million dollars doing it.

>>1262764
make a bridge over your drainage ditch so you can mow the devil strip

>>1264313
If it's free, then you're the product. I paid for an AA pass myself.

>>1262764
Firewood :^)

>>1262764
A shot of black

>>1263353
Those are really cute planters, I'm gonna make some.

>>1263492
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eInkUP8lc30

Buld yourself a new house
https://youtu.be/iuoTk4bm2Xg
https://youtu.be/MgKuRECMiMo
https://youtu.be/xlv1dmC5E8U

>>1270368
My mother is currently building a pallet house near her pigs. It has to weight roughly 2 tons and is held up by cinderblocks because of the sloping hill its built on. I'd say its about as dangerous as the guy who was mking his own submarines from used shit containers. But hey, what do iI know?

>>1262800
Kuntry Krafting

Yeah a casket so you can bury yourself faggot

>>1270368
won't you get turbo cancer even looking at this?

>>1263365

T H I C C

Saw buck

>>1262764
Found this in one of my old magazines
http://boyslife.org/hobbies-projects/projects/137880/build-a-display-table/

>>1263376
Why not stain and put some tru-oil on it?

>>1262798
p. neat

>>1273593
Fuck I bought those 2 by 4 for no reason. I could have just done that.

>>1262764
>pallets
Go look up “Pallets” on Pinterest, there’s plenty of hippies doing stupid shit with them there, it’s as if they’ve never seen a Home Depot or Lowe’s.

Toss in wood chipper (remove nails before) and then burn for fuel

>>1262764
A Wooden Swastika

>>1262798
>>1262800
Say, what tools did you use to make them ?

>>1262994
>>>1262799
>Brazil isnt in africa
Lol
Brazil=Africa

chicken coop

>>1273972
that is magnificent

>>1262764

A sick ass work bench

pallets arent good building materials for anything other than improvised chairs on a job site

>>1275881
What about a dog house?

>>1275880

He actually needed computer designed plans to build that.... That makes me sad.

>>1274087
>Say, what tools did you use to make them ?
I strip the boards off the palette stringers with a sawzall.
Once the boards are loose, I pop out the nail heads with a nail punch and hammer, then do almost all the cuts with a chop saw.
The tapered legs are done with the table saw and a tapering jig.
The rest is all clamps, glue and brads.

>>1273593

that's actually bretty gud, gonna copy

>>1262764
I would not make anything that goes inside my house out of a pallet.

>>1275905
>computer designed plans
Look again at the pad of paper, friend. The top edge, specifically. Ah bleeve those are hand drawn plans -- perfectly acceptable.

>>1275922
fucking this.
every pallet ive seen is nasty as shit looking

>>1263369
Why did this make me laugh so much

>>1275914
This drawer...I am uncomfortable, yes simultaneously very aroused

>>1275905

>computer designed plans

That is something sketched up with a pencil, mostly made it up as I went along

A shipping container. Use it to bury other pallets underground to expand your bunker.

>>1263353
I love chemicals seeping into my plants

>>1273594
pretty cool

>>1269766
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwLWs1hIxg0

>>1262764
Christmas Tree

>>1262837
fuck that, why jump when you're standing atop your own funeral pyre?

climb aboard and light up your ride to valhalla

>>1277333
you only go to valhala on a longboat doofis

>>1277398
i doubt retards go there anyway

you too should climb atop the pyre

>>1262934
this looks really bad desu

>>1263353
this also looks cheap and chitty
>>1263376
>>1263886
I cant believe people put such cheap looking diy chit in their houses. I've seen palletwood floors done well but I would never have use it in my interior. 10% of pallets test positive for ecoli

>>1275922
What afraid of a little pork there Mr. goldstein?

>>1274087
I would need a table saw with a taper jig, a biscuit joiner

Dont use brads if you have a tapered drill bit, counter sink and glue around. Much better

>>1279843
Bacteria would be my guess but hey goyim, have at 'er

>>1262764
Break it into little faggots
Like yourself

>>1275880
>all those fucking screws

i love it, anon

>>1275922
> not make anything that goes inside my house out of a pallet.
How about outside?
Here's a log store...

>>1282674
...and a kindling box.

>>1282675
The "X" firewood holder isn't pallet wood, but obviously you could do it with pallets instead of treated lumber.

>>1282676
:^)

>>1277398
>>1277333
The only way to Valhalla is if you die in battle.
>source: I am Swedish

>>1262764
build a pire and jump into it

>>1283475
>>1282494
>>1277767
>>1277333
you fucking shit for brains inbred pieces of junk can go suck on your tranny mommies fat black dick you are no use so just kill yourselves before an overdose of black semen does it for you

>>1282679
>>1282676
that doesn't look horrible. i've been storing my kindling in 5gallon pails.

i like your idea better

Made this last week after running out of shelf space

>>1284232

nice work HIPSTER

>>1284233
Thanks.
I needed something quick for now so I took a couple hours.
Fight me, you little punk bitch

>>1284232
>that turntable
why not just throw your vinyl out the window? they will last longer and sound better

>>1284259
That's just one that was given to me. I have a better player and speaker system downstairs.
I knew someone would bring that up ha

compost bin
I did

>>1275914
Wow, nice job anon

>>1275960
How many pallets have you seen? You been out in the world son?

>>1275922
>what is cleaning wood, staining it and using varnish?

>>1284424
Wood is porous and wicks liquids into its fibers. Pallets also use rough sawn and unsealed wood. Anything spilled on a pallet is on it forever. Pallets spend a good portion of their lives sitting on loading docks, in the backs of trucks, or on the ground in a parking lot. Hell, where do you even get your pallets from? Probably the loading dock behind a grocery store or something. You know, where they keep the dumpsters, the homeless people go for a piss, and the diesel trucks and forklifts drive around.

"But I got it from..." Bullshit. Pallets are not single-use items. Just because you stole yours from behind Toys R Us and saw then unloading teddy bears off of it doesn't mean it wasn't used for something nasty before that.

"But it says it was treated..." Treated with what? When? HT means heat treated. They put it in a kiln for a bit. KD means they put it in a kiln but for longer. When did they do it? Maybe it was 6 months ago, maybe it was 10 years ago. What has happened to it since? Chemically treated is even worse. If it is old enough or from Asia it might be treated with Methyl Bromide (marked MB), a pesticide. Yeah, that sounds great to make a cutting board or dining room table out of. Also, they only do that shit when they manufacture/remanufacture them. Treating is used to kill insects and sometimes bacteria, not get rid of whatever nasty shit got spilled on it.

"But it doesn't look dirty" So what? What if they spilled industrial cleaners on it? What if the last user was Terminex and they spilled a bunch of clear liquid rat poison on it? What if, after someone spilled a bunch of old milk or whatever on it, it sat outside in the rain for a few days and got 'cleaned'? Wood wicks liquids and whatever is spilled on it can end up INCHES into the wood. As it sits in your house this stuff can leach out and into the air or onto the surface of the wood even if you seal it.

In the end why risk it? To save $20 on lumber costs? Really?

>>1275914
kek mindfuck drawer
once I put in a cabinet that pulls back and forth but the people wanted the handle to match the swinging door

>>1262764
Have you tried making a container home? I heard it takes a crane to get it out

>>1275914
Jealous as fuck about a drawer right now

>>1262820
pinterest/10

>>1284467

You can buy some old tv unit or something for 20 bucks and take it apart to build whatever if you want to make something for inside the house

>>1284232
Very cool, but why the gap in the corner?

>>1285075
>why the gap in the corner?

that has been bothering me too.

I hope hipster OP can stop playing vintage vinyl on that crapassed turntable long enough to explain.

lol senpai

You can make a wall covering out of the planks and paint them different colours. Look up wood effect wall covering, I can't post on my mobile, looks great, going to do it as a feature wall in my study when I get enough pallets.

>>1275880
Which is not made from pallets

>>1285102
Future cannabis plantation?

Beard trimming station?

Pug petter being as the little fucker can't jump on the furniture?

>>1284467
It seeps into the wood not out of it.

Go and spill some industrial rat poison on a piece of wood, wait 6 months and then try and get ill by pressing your tongue on it.

Your a fucking snowflake princess.

>>1285197

It was made from wood which is used to package materials delivered to my warehouse and I jacked about 50' of it when working the night shift and nobody was looking, so for the purposes of the pallet diy ethos I think its ok

>>1284232
>those gaudy as fuck hardbacks
And is that the fucking Aeneid on the left? Roman fanfic of Greek Epics. Not to mention shitty penguin version. Nice doggo though, do you take him for walkies often?

>>1275914
Noiice

>>1262783
Nigga flip yo pentagram

>>1262764
i've made sheds out of them before, basically you brace a couple of them on their side for each wall and the roof using a couple 4x4s or the like, and put tin on top sealing it with iceguard. if not..firewood?

>>1284415
>Wow, nice job anon
>>1286817
>Noiice
Thanks, but I didn't build it, I just downloaded the pic and saved it for a /diy/ reaction image.

>>1262764

>>1276062
Very easy to add plastic foil

>>1262764
In North Americanada almost all pallets are treated with chemicals. This way the absolute shit wood they're made of rots slower and resists insects. Pallets have had a a life of getting dragged in the juicy bottoms of truck beds, soaked in muddy outdoors yards, plus whatever's been carried on them may have leaked or spilled additional contamination into the wood.

Pallet wood is full of dust, dirt and sand, which dulls tools faster

Pallet wood is full of chemicals that are made airborne by cutting/sanding, and will outgas and leech out over time.

Pallets good enough for fourniture building are still good for their sole purpose, transport. Pallets too beaten up for transport are now also pretty useless as material for building.

Also removing all those nails while keeping some material usable, that looks like such a pain!

Unless there are absolutely no other sources of reclaimed wood in your area, don't use perfectly good shipping pallets for building stuff.

Never burn pallet wood unless you can reliably know it's chemical free. Not even outdoors.

If you do build stuff with pallet wood, work outside and/or with a good respirator (and shave your neckbeard to make a good seal).

And especially, anything built with pallets must remain outside, and never come in contact with children, pets, edible plants or your naked ass.

Nothing further, your honour

To the bar stools/table, sawbuck and firewood storage guys, good job. I would never have the dedication myself, but you guys made nice things with total crap!

Didn't want to make a thread just to ask without pics so gonna ask it here
Got 4 square foot, give a few inches for live edges, by 3/4 to 1 inch tiles of red cedar, limited tools but can always makeshift what i need besides heavy machinery, cnc, etc.
have a few ideas but would love to hear others to kinda help get the creativity going
thanks in advance

>>1275922
there's a reason for that.
there's really no point in using pallets. the shittest grades of wood go like this:
paper mill feedstock
pallet grade
fence grade

pallet wood is cheap, you can even buy it at a hardware store. if you want decent cheap wood you can buy pine fencing boards and sort them at the store, just dont grab the ones with giant knots and cracks.

>>1277907
Do you regularly lick your floors?

Fire, thats about it.

Pallets are wonderful, versatile material suitable for any construction man can imagine. Roman forts were built from pallets to withstand barbarian attacks. Most of Rome itself was built from pallets but they were burned when it was sacked leaving stone leftovers which give the wrong impression that stone was a primary material. The Great Wall of China is actually made of pallet mortar. Pallet armor makes the Abrams main battle tank immune to rockets, missiles and main gun projectiles. It is forbidden to photograph the pallets so you never see them, Pallets were the first rafts capable of transoceanic travel. Primitive peoples settled the Americas by sailing pallet rafts from Asia. These were quite luxurious and about the size of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier. England was conquered by the Normans using pallet bridges across the Channel, and castles were stormed by stacking pallets in stair-like arrangement s outside the walls. The palletbuchet was a deadly weapon which flung pallets like frisbees into enemy ranks, slaughtering targets by the hundreds. Pallet gliders were the first aircraft, proven by ancient Sumerian texts. Pallets have incredible crush strength, making them ideal for bathyspheres to descend to the bottom of the Marianas trench. Leakproof and comfy, they are used for classified undersea military research communities holding thousands of sailors and scientists. These are serviced by pallet submarines delivering shipping containers full of imitation crabmeat. Failure to use pallets in modern construction has cost mankind dearly. Earthquakeproof, and fireproof if treated, a World Trade Center made of pallets would easily sustain strikes by up to 90 fully fuelled airliners. No steel beams to melt would have saved thousands of lives. Pallets are also healthy. It's proven that children birthed on a pallet are happier and better adjusted than those birthed in hospital. Pallets can be ground up to produce health tonics, and nails contain useful iron.

>>1288400
You can make a sawmill out of pallets as the ancient Ugandans did when they built pallet skyscrapers. They consumed all the wood in North Africa, hence the desert, and many died transporting it south, but the structures were epic tributes to the Dindu culture.

US cities are replaced every five minutes and suburbs develop even faster, so wood is fine for constant change. Houses are disposable. Why spend money on concrete when a tent would probably do the job? That's why Americans disassemble pallets, denail them, and glue them together into logs for resawing into structural timber. The nails are collected for forging into new saw blades.

Ideally, someone would design an immortal Lego Pallet from which everything could be produced, from nanometer sized pallets up to say the size of Australia, which will need replacing when the Chinese finish buying it out then tow it to make a land bridge to Taiwan.

>>1285102
>>1285198
My girlfriend had a lamp in the corner that she wanted to keep there. She broke it by accident right before I threw this up. And jesus christ, I grabbed two pallets on a whim on my way home because I was bored. I made it in an hour pretty much as a first draft until I can make something more permanent. Dont call me a goddamn hipster. And yeah, I dont really listen to that turntable. It was my grandfathers last gift to me, and Id feel wrong just tucking it away. He came across the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack on vinyl, and bought the only player he could at the time so i could actually listen to it. Goddamn he was cool.
Anyways, I have two more, one's newer with a kick ass speaker setup, and a early 60s desk model where the speakers tuck away behind sliding doors. Shits pretty neato. Found it in the house Im fixing up. Its going to be a beaut when I finish cleaning it up.

>>1286569
the hardcovers are too gaudy.
penguin versions of aeneid, epic of gilgmesh, and song of roland I had for some lit classes are too shitty.
which books are okay with you? ha

>>1283475
>pire

It's spelt "pyre", Tyrone.

>>1288015
>In North Americanada almost all pallets are treated with chemicals.
Nope.
Learn2 IPPC.
I've honestly NEVER SEEN a palette with the "MB" code.
EVERY SINGLE PALETTE I've EVER used had an IPPC logo, and no, NOT ONE of them was chemically treated.

The only thing I make out of pallets is charcoal.

>>1288767
Chem treating disposable trash wood is too much money. The same people terrified of pallets are terrified of the treated wood floors in shipping containers, but either can be safely protected by a thick coating of semen.

>>1262764

Fire.

>>1262764

>>1284758
fucking lol

>>1282676

After seeing this post I made one of these X wood holders for drying cut sticks

>>1283057
So you use pallet wood for cucksheds?

>>1262764
>[
MAX FIRE

>>1288417
Jesus assraping Christ you don't even know you're a hipster. Did Seattle shit you out of its heinous undulating novelty sphincter into a microbrewery?

>>1262798
Those stools remind me of dogs.

>>1285102
For the dog?

Everyone saying not to use pallet wood are Home Depot employees worried about losing their pathetic jobs

>>1262768
wood used is just fucking awful, suitable for pallets and firewood and thats about it

>>1262764
I've been making Christmas trees out of them and selling them

>>1288072
Yes.

>>1262764
Take them to a burning man festival and set yourself on fire

>>1285201
Old post, but if it keeps somebody from using pallets, I'll say it: don't reuse wood pallets. At my work, we spill so much silica dust on them, you don't want it in your house, that shit is carcinogenic.

>>1262764
Smaller pallets

>want to make woodworking with pallets because regular wood is too expensive
>see this thread

No woodworking for me I gues...

>>1262764

Made a simple rod stand

>>1293259
>we spill so much silica dust on them, you don't want it in your house, that shit is carcinogenic.
Spackle is also full of silica dust, I guess you don't want to live in a house with drywall?

I get it, palettes aren't really food-safe. But why the hell are some people so freaked out about using it for furniture, etc?
Is it because it was once garbage, so now it can't be not-garbage?

>>1262764
furniture, I made some benches for a fire pit out of some last year

>>1294617
Don't let angry people on the internet tell you what to do, everyone starts their hobbies somewhere.

>>1294625

>>1294651
They are often somewhat rotten and infested is what I've heard. If you're ok with that for your project or you vet it well, then it probably fine.

>>1284232
How the fuck did you make a dog out of pallets?

>>1282674
I might steal this.

>>1295537
>They are often somewhat rotten and infested is what I've heard.
Jesus, no.
The whole point of heat treating is to kill the bugs and their eggs, before the palette ships off to some foreign land.
IPPC = International Plant Protection Convention

>>1295551
>I might steal this.
Thanks!
It's all yours my friend.
:^)

Computer table without legs yet and bench press

>>1293259
Do you live in industrial China? Why would anyone reuse those pallets for shipping food?