Pallets!

[katynewbie]

I have had some flag stones/sand and cement delivered and am now the proud owner of two pallets. Just thought I would share that because this is the only place where anyone will understand how excited I am!

;)

[katynewbie]

[saddad]

I'm pleased and jealous...  ;D

[redcoat]

Oh yes!  I just so know what you mean.   ;)

[pansy potter]

Saddo ;D join the club

[manicscousers]

I had to drag Ray back on friday. We went to a bonfire/fireworks 'do' at Haigh hall. They must've burned a hundred pallets  :'( :o

[lisaparkin]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets excited about such things ;D 
We have just been lucky enough to be given lots of drain pipe and all the attachments, about 10 pallets, scaffold netting, chicken wire,wooden posts and 12 breeze blocks!! 
;D It's like Christmas!! ;D

[gp.girl]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets excited about such things ;D 
We have just been lucky enough to be given lots of drain pipe and all the attachments, about 10 pallets, scaffold netting, chicken wire,wooden posts and 12 breeze blocks!! 
;D It's like Christmas!! ;D

But better cos you don't get socks!

[gavinjconway]

I work out and about doing catalogues every day and I collect pallets, cement blocks, flags etc. wherever I can - no harm in asking.. I will have to stop collecting soon as I think I may just have enough... no.. not yet.. still space for more  ;D

[GrannieAnnie]

That IS EXCITING! I took pictures of the truck unloading my pallets of stone.  Enjoy the work and the delayed gratification. (It took me 4 tries to spell that last word correctly ;D)

[macmac]

ooh I love this thread 'love pallets ,slabs etc I agree lisaparkin Christmas without tinsel love it !

[galina]

Love pallets too, but hate asking OH to take them apart for me and OH hates doing it.  Any good tips how?  What techniques, tools do you use? I need to learn to do this for myself.

[lincsyokel2]

Love pallets too, but hate asking OH to take them apart for me and OH hates doing it.  Any good tips how?  What techniques, tools do you use? I need to learn to do this for myself.

theres pallets and theres pallets.

First of all its illegal to use blue pallets, they all numbered  and belong to GKN.

The rest (known as 'white' pallets) vary in the quality of the timber , whether its weather treated or not, and how well its nailed together.

The well made pallets can be taken apart with a four foot wrecking bar and a 2 lb lump hammer. The point to realise is that if you lever one end of a plank up, on a cheap pallet the timber is likely to crack in half. So you have to persuade the entire plank to come away, ie you have to loosen EVERY nailed joint the length of the plank before trying to seperate it.

Cheap pallets are a lot harder to break up in one piece due to the tendancy of the planks to splinter and crack, so i use them whole, eg three nailed together and half a  one one the front  to make a compost bin.

[Mr Smith]

That's why I don't bother with pallets any more to much trouble to take the bloody things apart, :)

[galina]

Thank you Lincs and Mr Smith.  I have seen the blue ones, now I know why they were never available.  Got a couple of really nice ones when we bought roof insulation and that was delivered on pallets.  Yes we have 2 large pallet and old carpet compost bins for when all daleks are full.

[lincsyokel2]

Thank you Lincs and Mr Smith.  I have seen the blue ones, now I know why they were never available.  Got a couple of really nice ones when we bought roof insulation and that was delivered on pallets.  Yes we have 2 large pallet and old carpet compost bins for when all daleks are full.

i like pallet bins, you can fill them up, leave them a couple of years, and then knock them apart, leaving a pile of compost its easy to shovel, and build another bin elsewhere on the plot.

You CAN get blue pallets, but you have to understand how the system works.

A compnay goes toGKN, and rents a specific number of pallets - say 1000, and pays 1p per pallet per day to GKN for them. GKN replace any broken ones after that.

Every day, you add up how many blues you sent out, and how many blues you got in, and pay for the difference (or get a rebate).  Once a year, theres a count, and you settle up based on what you started with. If you have less than what you started with , You pay £10 for each lost one. You get pallets back because you'r customers ring GKN and ask them to collect the used blues they have recieved. If they also have a GKN account, they get a rebate on returned ones based on there rented total.

The way you get blue pallets out the system is to find 'written off' ones.  A white pallet costs £10 to make and buy, and you lose every white pallet you send out, so you have to keep buying more.

Some companies look at it and say 'we are no wors eoff losing blue palletsx than white pallets, and blue pallets are bigger, stronger, and we can get them recovered. So we might as well lose blue pallets and pay for them, rather than faff about trying to recover and replace our own white pallets.'

SO some companies deliberately send out blue pallets to customers with no GKN accounts, fully prepared to lose them and pay £10 each, cos its simpler. GKN then write off thse pallets so technically, there worthless, but these written off bluies are the ones you have to spot. But like I said, in reality all blues are GKN's property.