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Brian H
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« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2012, 09:57:21 PM » |
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Not in the slightest. Make loads of things from pallet wood, fences, dog kennel, rabbit hutches, guinea pig hutch, indoor sheep pens, goat pens, firewood box, vivarium stand, incubator stand, shed, duck houses and runs, chicken coops, goose house, raised beds, trailer floors, general repairs and patching. Some of the items size wise pushing what you can do with timber only 42" long, virtually all are made exclusively from pallet wood. Some pallets are better than others for constructional use, and get put to side but the not so useful ones get burnt along with the offcuts from the other items
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« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2012, 10:33:13 PM » |
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hmmm - kiln dried oak pallets - burn nice  (wheres the devil smiley?) |
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Baz
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« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2012, 11:30:10 PM » |
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a smite for Guy and an applaud for Brian  |
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regen
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« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 06:39:22 AM » |
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Wooden pallets provided ALL my heat and hot water between 1986 and 2001. Took trailer to work in morning. trailer loaded as pallets came out of factory - 16 pallets per load, rope down and take home. Spread them on back lawn and cut in half with chainsaw then run through 3 inch circ saw. Only problem was dustman had trouble lifting the dustbin full of nails! reckon it cost me about £30 per year for chainsaw fuel and electric.
Even I could not bring myself to burn the large numbers of non returnable hardwood pallets from Thailand. Each pallet yielded 3 pc 40 ins x 3 ins x 1.5 ins and 13 pc 36ins x 3ins x 1 ins. They have been used for raised beds, compost bins, fences, gates, planters, attic flooring and i still have a few left in the barn.
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« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 09:52:12 AM » |
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From memory I recall that pallets are made from treated wood that contain a lot of nasty chemicals, so maybe another reason not to burn them?
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Brian H
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2012, 11:04:17 AM » |
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From the markings on many of the pallets they are heat treated (higher than normal kiln drying) which kills of any insects etc. and make than acceptable for international trade. Seems not to be the done thing to chemically treat them. Two to three standard pallets provides a days heating, cooking and hot water.
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regen
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« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2012, 11:43:59 AM » |
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Pallets for use in the food industry are not treated with any nasty chemicals. Similarly the blue (Chep) type rental pallets are untreated for the same reason.
Dont know about pallets for other industries.
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« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2012, 03:35:02 PM » |
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Fair enough, I stand corrected and now Im ready to burn pallets on in my fireplace?
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artful_bodger
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« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2012, 04:59:30 PM » |
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I stopped burning pallets after a friend scared me about his chimney fire. Looked quite nice and festive, apparently.
Dont know if this is true, as he was a B*** S*****r.
I just burn oak and beech now. Clean the chimney every other year and get about a litre of sweepings.
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If a man says something in a forest and a women doesn't hear, is he still wrong?
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« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2012, 09:32:19 PM » |
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Only problem was dustman had trouble lifting the dustbin full of nails!
Surely you saved all the nails up and then weighed them in at the local scrappy!!!! They pay 15.5p per kg at the moment - burn the pallets and then recycle the left overs. Pallets are my stoves staple diet - usually only the broken ones - good ones get reused or stripped for the usable wood. Even though my stove has a boiler it burns really hot and the flue is really clean - no tar at all - in fact its a waste of time sweeping every 2 years I usually only get a handful of "dust" from it. Roger  |
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3.15kWpk (15xSharp ND210)/SB3000. & 3.675kWpk (15 x Suntech 245WD)/SB4000TL, Futurenergy FE1048 turbine/2 x Windmaster 500. Hunter Midi 20 wood burner with boiler driving Wirsbo underfloor heating. 10' x 7' solar wall (experimental)
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« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2012, 10:07:16 PM » |
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Artful_bodger, Wot has "beer swiller" got to do wif chimney fires,???  Biff |
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« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2012, 10:25:43 PM » |
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Blimey Marshman, I used to cut them up neatly like that with a hand-held electric circular saw; 42 cuts per pallet if I remember right. Someone at work said that he just smashed them up with a sledge hammer.
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« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2012, 11:00:20 PM » |
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I use the bandsaw at work for pallets... like a hot knife through butter or put them up against a wall and push against the blocks with a forklift... make a bit of a mess but it's no problem if you're going to burn them straight away I've often thought I should make some kind of jig so I could slide the pallets in and then 'lift' the wood off with the forklift.... but we only need the wood when it's really cold outside (close too or below freezing) so it's not really worth the work  |
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