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04/05/14, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Manton, MI
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What can I do with these? (Recycling)
Picked up some free pallets yesterday for my pigpen project and to stack firewood on. They always have a constant supply coming in, and also said the have metal and plastic 55 gallon drums. These seem too good to pass up for free. Any ideas on things I could use them for?
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04/05/14, 10:49 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Dayton ohio
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If they are clean, the first things that come to mind are rain barrels and grain storage.
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04/05/14, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Bartow County, GA
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Paint metal barrels black. Fill them with water and use them in your greenhouse for heat radiation at night.
Cut the plastic ones in half & use them to water livestock livestock.
I have some plastic ones (white & blue) that were used for water catchment - they seem to get brittle with the weather fluctuations (snow & heat) after a few years.
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04/05/14, 11:33 AM
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If you do a google search, there are so many uses for wood pallets. People turn them into furniture, shelving, sheds, greenhouses, and more. Dh was talking about getting some pallets and turning them into a chicken coop for meat birds.
For the barrels.. You can store feed, water, etc. in them if they are clean. Cut them in half, paint them, and turn them into planters.
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04/05/14, 11:36 AM
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04/05/14, 06:49 PM
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aka RamblinRoseRanc :)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Morristown, TN
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The plastic barrels are also great feed bunks, the metal can be used for burn barrel.
Pallets.....oh boy...I'm known as the pallet queen around here!
I've build:
decking subfloor
pool deck
Pork Knox (pigpen)
pig shelter
goat housing
rabbit cages
chicken houses
seat a hall tree
raised beds
headboard
fencing
I think that's it....but there are SO many more things I wanna do with 'em!
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04/05/14, 06:55 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Northern Wisconsin
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You can make a compost bin out of the pallets. Just fasten together and maybe attach some additional slats as needed. See http://www.google.com/search?q=pallet+compost+bin for all kinds of different plans.
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04/06/14, 06:24 AM
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Location: VA
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Sell them on Craigslist.
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04/06/14, 07:27 AM
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I wish a had a source for free or very cheap plastic barrels. I am wanting to build two, 6 or 8 barrel water holding systems for rain water and my sump pump discharge.
Also a couple feed and or water troughs.
Metal barrels with removeable lids are great for animal feed storage.
Metal can also be used to build a wood stove.
Plastic barrel, cut top and bottom out, plant potatoes in it, filling it throughout the season. At harvest time, knock it over. No dig potatoes harvest.
Cut in half they make good planters or aquaponics grow beds.
Oh, so many uses......
Pallets....
I was given two 6.5 foot by 3 foot skids. Made from 3, 3by4's and several 1by8's. Those are the side walls of my pig house.
I have firewood stacked on several regular pallets.
Pallet wood is good for kindling, sometime just good fire wood.
Done right, you can make a good wood fence. Contain compost, bird houses, goat huts, nest boxes, you name it.
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04/06/14, 07:46 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Manton, MI
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Thank you! My husband is thinking flooring, but I'm clueless as to all that would entail. I just had an ingenious chicken coop idea too. Raised beds for our strawberry gardens. Maybe pig feed trough with a barrel.
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04/07/14, 04:19 PM
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aka RamblinRoseRanc :)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Morristown, TN
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Yep, my pigs eat out of a plastic barrel trough too 
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08/03/14, 11:58 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Oregon
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There's always a compost tumbler from plastic barrels. I get mine from a guy who gets them from the fruit juice plant.
I'm using mine for water storage.
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08/03/14, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: So. WI
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I've got pallets and a source for more. I have stacked some of the pine to use for kindling. In the past I have used pallets in the hoop house to get the wood off of the ground, 3 pallets deep. I don't do that anymore because I am afraid of turning my ankle or have having a pallet give way. Can't afford an ankle injury.
I wish folks here on the forum would post some pictures of their pallet projects.
We have a planner and I think that would really come in handy on some of the smaller projects.
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08/03/14, 12:23 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: So. WI
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I have seen very functional and attractive planters made out of half barrels on their side with drain holes and elevated with a wooden support(pallet materials?) to make it waist high and easily accessible. I bet a person could make a hinged cover with clear plastic and fencing to stretch the growing season for cool weather crops.
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08/03/14, 02:18 PM
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Location: Michigan
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We use plastic barrels out in the barn as bins.
Cut the top off.
We keep rags in one (with 5 farm kids...lots of ruined clothes!)
My husband hauls in scrap on the side when he gets enough. He has copper in one, aluminum in another.
I use them in the barn to store canning jars. I line the bottom with cardboard and put a layer of jars (all the same size) open side down. Then a layer of cardboard, then another layer of jars repeat until the barrel is full. I keep 2 quart jars in one, wide mouth quarts in one, small mouth quarts in one, and then pints in another.
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08/03/14, 02:23 PM
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08/03/14, 05:07 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Carolina
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When I started increasing my Chicken Numbers I needed more coops. I took 6 40x48 pallets and have made several coops. It takes less than 30 minutes to make a coop with angles top. I use 2 pieces of regular 5V barn tin. Then it takes me about another 30 minutes to walk into the woods and cut 4 roost poles and 2 side poles to attach them to.
A renter gave me a load of longer pallets. Some 4ft x 8ft and some 5ft x 8ft. I built a bigger coop the same way but 8ft long. I then used a 4ftx8ft and 2 smaller pallets, 2 pieces of 8ft long used tin and made a couple(looks like a table) of shades for the chickens to get under---even got some roost under them. I also put their feeders under them. My chickens are happy!!
I have a tractor with a front end loader/pallet fork----everything is set on pallets. I floored the back end of my dirt floor tractor with pallets. When I go buy alot of feed/fertilizer I throw a pallet in the truck to stack it on so when I get home I can unload it with the tractor. I got LOTS of Pallets!!
I use plastic barrels like in the pic----removable tops with locking rings to store Loads of feed/corn.
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08/04/14, 01:43 AM
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We use reclaimed pallet wood to build custom gun cases and product displays for our shop.
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