Thread: Recycled Pallets

Mik,

If you get some red oak that you could spare, I wouldn't mind taking it off your hands.

Himzo.

Gooday, Himzo.
Good looking table. Well done.

If your interested in looking at some inspirational creations built from crates, then I can recomend that you chase up issue number 42 of the Australian Wood Review, which came out in March 2004. It has several pages of peoples good work with crate wood.

And i've been throwing my pallets in the dumpster

Gotta watch some of the pallets from overseas as they are sometimes treated for bugs etc, the green tinge mentioned could have been just that.

Machining that could be bad for your health, probably worth it for a good bit of timber tho in my opinion

Cheers

Dave

Hey we got some really great plastic pallets from the states this year! we won't be throwing these ones out. You can pick em up from any side and they take a good beating.....now the timber ones we have we throw them out by the stack....Kinda feel guilty now...

hi all,
bela , yep i do them all with a thickness sander. takes a lot of time but its worth it and saves the pocket.
hizmo , if i get some red oak spare ill be throwing it my way!
knowing my luck ill knock myself out with it.
dave ,i thought that green tinge was just that , any ways the thickness sander has a dust extracter on it so not much dust escapes.
seeyasoon mik.

Hi ,mik ,thanks for repply .What sort of thickness sander do you have ?Is it home built?Please tell all about it.
Regards ,Bela.

Looks like i'll have to start lurking arund the carpark of woolies to try and get some pallets... ha ha.

I imagine you might get some interesting timber from imported pallets but I think I would be careful using it coz it gets fumigated with some pretty nasty stuff as a matter of SOP. :confused:
Green timber - as in colour - could it be like our green treated pine? :eek:
Careful boys some things cheap can often be dangerous

PS Seems I might have picked up this thread late - still I'd watch that I wasn't using it to make cutting boards at the local market if you get my drift :eek:

just got some timber pallets from work they are from india and have been fumeagated but very nice timber, pink hardwood with a tight grain some of it's pink going to pale yellow and a dark stain thru it ,like black heart sass i was wondering how safe it would be to saw, plane ect.

Hi goat

The intent behind my post was that in using imported timbers such as shipping timbers - you don't know how it came to be there, was it borer prone? was it treated with the stuff they treat pine with here?, what was it treated with when it got here? They are all variables that are unknown. :confused: and any of them could be quite nasty

That is why I made the comment that if you are to use it you need to think about the application and work out whether it is likely to be used in food preparation or to be sucked by an infant :eek: Etc.

Having said all that it is a known fact that most timbers can have noxious if not toxic effects if you breathe the dust when working with them. So at the very least you should be protecting your respiratory system with the appropriate equipment.

Maybe I'm being a bit cautious but I worked in distribution for a number of years - I've seen guys feel crook after entering a recently fumigated container - Guess it's each to his own

That is why I made the comment that if you are to use it you need to think about the application and work out whether it is likely to be used in food preparation or to be sucked by an infant Etc.

Can't agree with highly enough,

Having said all that it is a known fact that most timbers can have noxious if not toxic effects if you breathe the dust when working with them. So at the very least you should be protecting your respiratory system with the appropriate equipment.

I have my thicknesser on a mobile stand and wheel it outside where there is more air movement, If you have a DC and respirator I would use them.

Himzo.