I went on a drive around town the other day, looking for pallets. I finally found a couple, but I was unsure how to go about *getting them. This was just a recon mission, to find out where they generally are. Do you just drive up and take them if they're by a dumpster behind a buisiness? Do you go around the front and ask first? What is pallet-etiquette..palletiquette?
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m4marya
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 05:14
I have gotten mine from two places. The first is Home Depot. I asked and they said that I could take as many as I wanted. The second place is a local lumber yard. They had them stacked next to a bin marked "Free Scrap wood." I always ask if it is not marked because I worked for a small company that had to pay for their pallets and when would take them, it cost the small company money.
darlintxmomma
Mon, 10/18/2010 - 16:53
Oh my goodness, my hubby hit the jackpot for me. He works in a fabrication shop on an air force base and they get pallets in all the time....some of which are 9 or 10 feet long. He's already snatched 3 of them for me and brought them home. He just won't let me have them until I finish my current project.
As for finding them at businesses, I am the type of person to ask before taking.
tnslb
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 03:27
Thanks! I was leaning towards the asking first, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to get the 'gawd, you're so DUMB..people just TAKE those!' stare by the people inside :)
Michelle - so jealous!
zoebird
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 15:54
our organic grocery store sets them out for people to grab; most are food grade pallets at least, but not guarantees. there's also a shop near us where they stack them outside for removal, i just asked them if i could take them. i often see them on the side of the road here, too, and so i just snag them if they look like they are for the trash.
i actually have a massive collection of them now, sitting at the workshop, labelled "free to use for any purpose! please!" i can easily collect more. ;)
witz1987
Sun, 02/02/2014 - 11:44
I work in a
I work in a warehouse/distribution center. I pretty much get to decide which pallets are "trash" and which ones we"ll send out orders on. I'm currently using lumber from the hardware store, but since frequenting this site, I tend to be finding myself eyeing up the pallets at work a little more often for a few different projects around the house!
Pam the Goatherd
Wed, 02/05/2014 - 13:35
My hubby owns an appliance
My hubby owns an appliance store. Appliances come from the manufacturer with a square pallet underneath them. These pallets are usually just four boards - two 1"x2" and two 1"x4". I've got a huge stack of them aging in a corner of my property and I'm planning on using them to build smaller items like crates and the Adirondack side table/stool.
I've picked up bigger pallets from behind the local shopping plaza. The biggest/best that I've scored came packed around some tanning beds for a new tanning salon.
I always ask first before taking pallets from anywhere because sometimes the businesses are signed up with a recycling company that pays them a little bit of money to take them to someone who will re-use them. I'd rather risk getting the "'gawd, you're so DUMB..people just TAKE those!' stare, than risk taking something I shouldn't have.