Hello. I am new to the forums. I have been using the web site and have read the forums but have never personally posted before.
I have made many projects and just recently started using reclaimed pallets as my wood source. It saves a lot of money and thus increases my projects I get to do!!! (Pallets are available to me by the hundreds for free. I am actually building are deck out of them lol. Well most of it. The underside is still treated). Anyways. My biggest issue I am having right now is trying to convert plans to be able to use them since they of course aren't always going to be the right length. (I have issues with numbers sometimes since it seems the logic part of the brain is what took the most damage after my accident). I can picture how to do it, draw it out then I go to do it and at least one or two of my cuts are off. Especially the miter cuts. I was so frustrated making the bridge the other day I wanted to cry. Lol. I ended up turning it into a platform and building four more platforms and now it is steps going up and steps coming down, no bridge. Lol. But it works. Looks nice and the most important thing is it's safe.
Anyways. If anyone has suggestions I would love to hear them. Because all this free wood is fantastic and it gets thrown away from the business so I have this need to use it. Lol lol. Thank you sooo much. : )
balloongal247
Tue, 07/29/2014 - 12:45
Cut optimizer
When I started, I found this cut optimizer, in which you give it the length of wood you want to use, and how many of that length you have, and what cuts you need to make, and it tells you how to arrange your cuts to minimize scrap. I feel like this would help you, since you can just tell it whatever length of pallet wood you have. Just make sure you only give it the cuts for one width of wood at a time. http://www.online-app.eu.pn/optimization1d.php
If your problem is that the pallets are different widths than the plans, then you'll probably need to download sketchup and create new plans using Ana's as inspiration, using the pallet width.
Lu7997
Wed, 07/30/2014 - 04:35
Thank you very much!!!!
Thank you very much!!!!
That should help me a lot
I can easily cut the boards to the same width either table saw or circular saw
I built a wishing well out of them the other day and as soon as I figure out how to attach the roof securely I will share the plans because I have no clue how I actually figured out these plans on my own Lol This was something I wanted and there was no plans on here (go figure something not on here lol)
I easily got the boards the same size
I can't wait to start using them for the other project lists I have now!!!!!
Thank you so much!!!!!! Free wood and it is very strong
I'm from ohio oak is either very expensive or hard to find Almost everything is pine and it is good but most of the time straight boards are just as expensive as the better wood lol : )
Sorry morning tangent Lol I am just excited for what all I can do now!!!!
Thank you
Angela!
balloongal247
Wed, 07/30/2014 - 05:32
:)
You're welcome! Yeah, the optimizer will also be good for when people actually have enough scrap to try to use some of it up.
Hmm, I thought there were plans for a wishing well, since I've seen several brag posts, but I guess there aren't plans actually on the site.
http://ana-white.com/2011/06/wishing-well-part-2