Here we go again. So I recently bought a car, small. Tiny even. I can fit two palletes in the boot when I lay the seats down.
Normally I grab 6 at a time, but eh.
There's a tool I want to get. A plier. For nails. It's going to help immensely in taking palettes apart.
Not all of them are useful if you have a project bigger than 500unit lengths.
But if you scale down your design and cut accordingly you can make whatever. Currently, to take them apart I just use leverage. It's quick and easy if you pay attention to what you are doing and try not to break any pallets as you go. But a lot of them will break because of wear and tear. Anyway. Slow and steady in this case is the fastest.
Then you are left with nails. Quickest way to tackle the nails is to reverse them out. All you need is a hammer and a plier to straighten the nails.
Make sure you are not bending over for too long. Otherwise use an elevated workstation where you can work as upright as possible.
Cleaning the wood is kinda the best part. I use a grinder with a sanding attachment to quickly get rid of all the dead wood.
And because I wasn't paying attention, was tired and was working with short pieces of wood, bringing hands and tools in close proximity to one another.....anyway. i didn't die. Just scrapped some skin off using said sanding attachment.
Note: do not operate machinery when you are tired, in a hurry, or hungry.
Clamps and sawing straight is key to getting things square.
Over the span of three days i made a couple
I changed the design only slightly, but that is for another post.
These are Finna be strong. I need to interject with the last one that I made.
The one on the left has had direct summer heatwave sun for 3 months straight. I did not treat the wood in anyway and as you can see it dried out and the nails came loose
Also being in regular contact with water did not help. The one of the right was empty for most of the season. It won't be heavy enough to go through the same damage. Hopefully.
But anyway, I treated the new one properly this time
I had some pink primer left, burgundy stain and some oils. Watered them down with some spirits and applied as much as I could in the areas I see needs it most (okay, I tried).
I've gotten faster at making, more deliberate with the design, and accurate with the construction. Haven't used new wood in a while so this is still as straight I can be using pallete wood.
