pallets!

[willcope]

Been offered a regular supply of pallets FREE! which to me means theyre a pain in the arse?! anybody got any ideas if its worth pursuing any further? theres probably an artic bulk tipper load every month and some are broken and some intact.Cheers

[Goaty]

If you have the time and space take em. Attitude to pallets seems to of gone downhill.

You could probably sell on for reuse and hack up the rest to burn. Somewhere on here are threads, use search in toolbar and type pallets.

[Pooch0151]

I had a pallet yard mate you need to no if they r euros mate then say clean £5 each tom

[Steve999]

= supply of free firewood, would it ok to sell it on as kindling?

[willcope]

Thanks for the replies chaps i'll look in to it further

[Xerxses]

Just a few ideas to get you started!

 

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[gensetsteve]

= supply of free firewood, would it ok to sell it on as kindling?

 

You need to check what they have been treated with. Most people who make kindling from pallets seem to get a visit and the stuff sent to the power station.

[spudulike]

Ive cut up pallets before and used to get a good bed of embers for hard wood logs. They burn fine and are good to get a fire in to life and good heat.

 

They are a PITA to cut up, youn need a couple of old chains and a rough saw but once you have a few large well stacked cardboard boxes full, they last a long time!

[face cord]

Theres some special pallet breaker bars you can get for breaking pallets, I have one its very handy.

 

Looks abit like this:

 

Dock & Truck Equipment | Pallet Pullers & Breakers | Pallet Busters & Skid Breakers - GlobalIndustrial.com.

 

 

As for the wood treatment there are symbols marked on the pallets:

 

Chemical fumigation The wood must be fumigated with methyl bromide. Pallets treated via this method bear the initials MB near the IPPC logo. From 19 March 2010 the use of Methyl Bromide as an acceptable treatment according to ISPM15 [13] has now been phased out.

 

Pallet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Also you are suppose to have a waste licence I think? But maybe thats only if you collect?

 

 

 

One place I asked about with alot of pallets said you can collect pallets but only at the weekend when no one was around?!

 

Sounded dodgy council can fine you etc.

[bigdave]

i keep getting pallets droped off by people who think they are doing me a favour by giving me free firewood.

 

i sort them out into piles of the same size broken ones get cut up for kindling for my own fire when i have enough to fill the truck i take them to the pallet yard i get between £1-£5 each for them depending on what size they are & if they are clean

its not mega money but it`s money i would not have had so i`m happy!!!!!