Right after work, I had to jet back home for something on my usual route. I check the roofing company that lays out pallets often and sure enough they left them out. There was a period where nothing was out so I had just been waiting patiently. This sucker was the it. The oak pallet. I’d call them oak skids since they are large, heavy and thick wood involved. Lotsa square wood involved here. Usually before when I picked this stuff up, it held up wood then I moved it. Its over 10 feet long and 30 inches wide. Either it’s stack wood on this, or turn it to fire wood. Burning oak this year was ...a little warm. Not complaining but needed some caution on that since oak better for super cold nights or getting the House all warmed up. It would make a great rack I’m not sure though. Help me with that??
Id lay it down on the ground, find another 4x4 too run down the middle and stack two rows with cribbed ends. Put a cover over the top and wait 3 years.
If you put it up on cement blocks and use it for the bottom of a stack, it should stay solid for a long time. Then you could burn it sometime in the future. It would be more valuable to me as a stack component, but I have lots of oak firewood.
I’m rolling with you and Warner via stack idea. This is just one heavy duty thing. The other skids I found had 3 beams underneath. So it was really nice to have the oak to cut up. I have a small rack of the stuff I cut so might be best to keep this and not move it for awhile.
This thing is huge. And I have 8,000 square...feet of land. That’s it. If I could I would! The bottoms just have those “feet” so I’m taking those off then finding level ground. No toys like that...bummer!
I guess I could save this as a dray for later. Never know... if I could find thick oak pallet slats put them on the sides, I’m covered.
Why do you want slats on the sides? It will be a small dray so you don't want too large of a load and besides, then you would have to have a tractor to move it. Keep it like ours and the atv will do fine. Put an eyebolt on each side and ratchet strap the load on and away you go.
I think you should buck it up into 18 inch sections and send it to your buddy in the BC Rockies since hes never even seen oak!
