Thread: 50 cubes of timber to the crusher

Visited pallet recyclers yard here in Brisbane. The guy gets these huge pallets from steel merchants. They come in from Asia with massive coils of steel on them and discarded straight afterwards. There are two types of pallets.
One is heat treated pine. Bearers are 4@140x140x1800 or thereabouts and the top pieces are 150x50 sections. A lot of the timber is free of heart and I saw quite a few old growth with very tight rings.
The second type is three hardwood bearers with three bits of hardwood ply over the top. The bearers are exotics of some description. One looks a lot like american oak or similar another one resembles tassie myrtle color-wise, with straight grain. There is a couple of dozen of those.
12 pallets make up a cube. There are about 600 pallets in the yard. There were 600 more last week all went to the crasher to be smashed into wood chip (He gets $6 dollars a tonne for that). The guy tries to recycle them as much as he can but the supply is just to high.

I am thinking a competition is in order.
Entry fee, you get a pallet and make something worthwhile. Turn it, slice it, smash it into dust and re-glue it into statue of David. Judging by the forum folk. All the finished pieces exhibited here in Brisbane somewhere, auctioned off before Christmas and money given for a good cause of some sort. The winner and the runners up will be rewarded accordingly. We'll hook up forum sponsors or whoever is interested in supporting.

At this stage would like to find out if anyone is interested. The pallets are quite big for interstate delivery, but I am sure if there is a few going in the same depot we can dig up a good rate.

Any other thought and ideas would be appreciated.

Alex