A couple days ago, I left the house and drove about 180 miles (one way) to pick up 26 plastic pallets. Now, you may ask yourself, "why would Chipmeister drive so far and need so many plastic pallets?". I'm in the process of putting together another firewood shed. This one will hold 20 +/- cords of wood, and I want to be able to stack wood off the ground. In my other wood shed I used wood frames made from treated 10' - 2" x 4" turned on edge to keep the wood high and dry. With the high price of lumber today, and the fact that I have to go get the lumber and then build those racks, there had to be better way. Thank you Craigslist. $5 each and 38.5" x 44.5". These things are lightweight, cost effective and will last longer than I will. Seems like a win to me! (not my picture) Now I just need to figure out what I am building for this wood shed. I'm considering a metal carport (see the above reference to high wood prices!) and am waiting for a quote. As is usual for me, it's gone from a simple "I just want a roof to keep it dry", to a much more expensive "let's add a storage room with a roll up door, man door, vents etc. to keep the mower, quad, etc. in there".
180 miles one way seems like a pretty fair run, but, they are where you find them. I’m still kicking myself for not getting a bunch more of them when I had a chance I think I gave 2 or 3 dollars each
That is a haul, but lumber prices are out of sight. I scrounged one for free from a supplier and have yet to use it. Looking forward to seeing the pics on how they are put to use Chipmeister
driving 180 on a nice spring day with my dog in the truck made it tolerable and no kicking myself. Sometimes you just bite the bullet and don't look back with regret.
Dog story time, lol Ha ha , the drive, reminds me of the trip I took to get our last dog,Sherman, got up at 3:30 am to catch a flight to Montana, I flew out at 6 am. Landed in Montana about noon, we stopped along the way, met the breeder, it was a tough choice, between a beautiful bitch dog and Sherman, I chose him, left for home , caught a return flight with him in a soft puppy carrier inside the pane with me. Every time the stewardesses would come by, she would tell me, “sir, you are going to have to put him under the seat in front of you” . I would, until she waked off, then, I’d put him back on the seat with me, lol lt was a long day I got back to the airport that I had left from around 6 that evening. The pup survived the trip, and a couple of other airport stops along the way back. We headed home after I tried to coax him into going to the bathroom at the home airport outside, no dice, but, on the way home he had a accident on the seat of the pickup, lol I couldn’t stop, too much traffic, that’s fine, I got it out of the cab, got home, gave the pup to the kids, crashed in bed. He’s going on 5 now, great dog! Would I do it again, for him,YOU BET! He’s quite the companion!
I drove 50 miles one way twice to grab 20 pallets each time at $5 a piece also. I bet I have 55 total plastic/fiberglass pallets now. They don't show up for sale very often at a fair price so picked them up while they were available. I think I'm good for life now as far as pallets go.
That sounds like a pretty fair price, i'd love to get some, but, around here, they are non existent at least for now.
Just looked around on CL that's a pretty good price, the one's i found around here are 9 and 10 bucks each, 43''x43'' and i'd have to drive about 80 miles one way to get them.
Am I crazy for not wanting any of these in my stacks? I have a source nearby and free, but just can’t warm up to the idea of all that chicom plastic laying around and it doesn’t help that they’re orange.
I use logs or saplings. It is easier to stack on and there is no cost. Plus I don't like putting my feet on them or walking on them and most pallets make the place look bad.
I have seen your technique and you have some damm sharp looking stacks there. Guess you’ve learned a few tricks over 60 years of doing this. I could throw down some BL runners and give that a go but I have precious little flat ground here so the advantage of pallets is the ability to make bookends.
