The ones that come out without too much struggle I’ll pull, but if the nail heads break off or if they’ve been bent a few times and hammering them out is a chore, I’ll pound them flat and deal with them when I’m cleaning the ash out of the stove.
I found it to be quite time consuming so I started not bothering. I was just careful where I disposed of ashes. I haven't burned any in a few years, but may have found a source for heavy duty pallets.
I never bothered pulling them. The ashes were dumped in a sinkhole so not an issue. Here from the firepit, they get dumped in the woods.
Not too bad for a being made of scrounged materials (good enough for a work bench). Top dimensions are 30” x 58”. I had the screws on hand, the oak legs are pallet wood, the 30” long front to back oak end pieces are also pallet material. I had the 3/4” plywood top on hand, also the three 2x6’s, and the laminate flooring I found dumped on the power lines a while back. Sometimes it pays off being a hoarder
Nice job Eric. Will that be for outdoor (under the deck) use? Years back I scrounged a pallet made entirely from mahogany. Carefully disassembled it and made an Adirondack chair for my GF at the time. With a little ingenuity and thought pallet wood has lot of potential.
I’ve already got it inside my utility room space where I work on saws. I basically gained 8” in depth and 10” in width compared to the bench I had. Doesn’t sound like a lot but over the entire 58” of bench, it feels like a mile. Plenty of room to wrench on a saw now. The laminate flooring on top will make cleanup a breeze too. I could only dream of finding mahogany wood. Adirondack chairs out of that must be very handsome.
Few inches here and there does make a difference. If I actually cleaned my bench off I'd have a lot more room. The lumberyard in Meriden carried mahogany for many years. I would buy roofing from them from time to time so I would make a point to check out the pallets when I was there. Guessing the mill used scraps to make their own pallets when they shipped units of boards. Most of it was 1/2" stock IIRC.
