I work at a vocational school. The first few weeks of school several teachers had the kids dismantle pallets to get used to the tools. They even cut them up and boxed them for me.
I lived in Woodstock for 17 years...northwest of Atlanta...only time I been near you is going to my SIL's house in Jacksonville. I am in Chattooga County which is north of Rome, and we are less than a mile from the western border of Alabama...GOD and GUNS country!
My sister and BIL lived in Kennesaw for years before retirement and moving bto Destin FLA. We were over in your neck of the woods the later part of October, we have a friend that we visited that lives in Mentone, ALA. He took us up to Cloudland Canyon State Park. Pretty country.
When i was working in construction, we were building a coal fired power plant, all the big machinery came in on huge pallets. I'm guessing a lot of it was oak, but, not sure. One of the single guys, he was an engineer on the plant, rented a house and built all of his own furniture on the weekends. He would take a length of chain and beat the table tops, brand it, do all kinds of things, and it turned out really looking good. Later on i went to work on a new freeway bridge. When we were about finished 10 months later, the boss said, ''separate every board 12 ft and longer, we'll band it up and take it back with us'', then he was down to 10 ft, then 8, finally he told me, "if you have any use for any of this lumber, 6 ft or less its yours''. I burned nothing but lumber all that winter in our stove. I got a bunch of it, stacked it all and it did me all winter.
Well since my adult supervisor, safety enforcer (hunny bunny) was working at the polls (not pole...lol) today doing her Civic duty for the run off election, I decided to go down to my old woodshop and whack up some of the pallet wood that has accumulated. Had a productive couple hours before I came to work. Maybe I can get back to burning the 2 stroke by the end of the week.
