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    Pallets - daft question!

    Imagine you are not at all practical - but you have several pallets, all different shapes and sizes, and you want to make mini raised beds from them.
    Should you (that is Me),
    1. leave them as they are and not try to dismantle them,
    2. try to saw through the middle of the blocks to separate them into 2 halves (
    3. if its a 6 plank pallet, try to saw it into 2 x 3 plank sections.

    and even if I got that far, should I join them up again with nails or screws (bearing in mind that I've never used an electric drill )

    I'm looking for the simplest way - if I could use clothes pegs, paper clips and elastic bands it would be within my capabilities........
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    I saw them banging in posts alongside pallets on Beechgrove and then they screwed through the pallet into the post. One at each corner.
    I wouldn't try to dismantle. Can't you hire some muscle? I'm all for women doing it for themselves but haven't you enough on?!
    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

    Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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    • #3
      I would dismantle them completely then rearrange thwm into the size raised bed I wanted, using the square(ish) block on the inside corners to fix em together, or posts. I used screws on mine but I am sure nails would do? My idea of diy is usualy paying someone else to do it. It's only since being made redundant lst year I really got into doing more than just the decorating myself!
      Last edited by KittyColdNose; 27-04-2013, 10:01 PM.
      When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
      If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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      • #4
        If I paid to have raised beds built I'd want it done with proper wood - not a botch job with old pallets. I'd like to try it myself because .......well, just because.......
        If they're a mess and fall apart it doesn't really matter! Looking at them tonight though, they're all completely different in size and construction so I thought that if I could cut one pallet into 2 horizontally, that would give me 2 matching sides, and do the same to another pallet, for the opposite 2 sides. I know what I mean..............

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        • #5
          Dunno VC, wouldn't cutting them be harder than dismantling? The thing is, ifyou try it and it does't work out how you wanted it then nothing lost other than your time (and maybe a temper)
          When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
          If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
            If I paid to have raised beds built I'd want it done with proper wood - not a botch job with old pallets. I'd like to try it myself because .......well, just because.......
            If they're a mess and fall apart it doesn't really matter! Looking at them tonight though, they're all completely different in size and construction so I thought that if I could cut one pallet into 2 horizontally, that would give me 2 matching sides, and do the same to another pallet, for the opposite 2 sides. I know what I mean..............
            Sounds logical. Mr VVG has just built me two beds at home. He bangs four pegs in and screws board to the pegs. He buys them from Harlows Timber I think. We need a trip to Wales. Look at my Twitter - I will stick a pic up.
            Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

            Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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            • #7
              Good luck Chicken. Have you got a saw to saw through them to make them into two the same. It sounds very hard work. I wouldn't try it but i've got arthritic shoulders and sawing hurts them. I like giving things a good bashing with a hammer though.
              Anyway, good luck x
              Lynne x

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              • #8
                I'm more concerned about the reassembly than the dismantling. If I can cut through the blocks, horizontally and between the inner and outer "sides" of a pallet , I could make a 3 plank high square bed from one pallet
                I'm sure there must be a circular saw here - wonder if that would do it?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                  Sounds logical. Mr VVG has just built me two beds at home. He bangs four pegs in and screws board to the pegs. He buys them from Harlows Timber I think. We need a trip to Wales. Look at my Twitter - I will stick a pic up.
                  I've lots of timber planks here, just waiting for a good use. BUT I picked up this beautiful pallet from a skip today and its just crying out to me...........use me, use me...........

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    I've lots of timber planks here, just waiting for a good use. BUT I picked up this beautiful pallet from a skip today and its just crying out to me...........use me, use me...........
                    Why don't you make a salad wall with it?
                    Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                    Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by wizzbang View Post
                      Good luck Chicken. Have you got a saw to saw through them to make them into two the same. It sounds very hard work. I wouldn't try it but i've got arthritic shoulders and sawing hurts them. I like giving things a good bashing with a hammer though.
                      Anyway, good luck x
                      Lynne x
                      I have weak arms/shoulders too, Lynne. I was virtually paralysed a few years ago and lost a lot of strength. I needed physio for months before I could lift my arms above shoulder level. Its just like a bad dream now, When my arms tire, I stop

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by VirginVegGrower View Post
                        Why don't you make a salad wall with it?
                        I''d have to attach that to something, wouldn't I?

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                        • #13
                          Not necessarily - I think they can stand pretty well or bang posts infront of and behind. You could grow both sides then.
                          Last edited by VirginVegGrower; 27-04-2013, 10:38 PM.
                          Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better...Albert Einstein

                          Blog - @Twotheridge: For The Record - Sowing and Growing with a Virgin Veg Grower: Spring Has Now Sprung...Boing! http://vvgsowingandgrowing2012.blogs....html?spref=tw

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                          • #14
                            What about watering though? I don't want anything that is needy

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                            • #15
                              Bu@@er raised beds! Use the wood for a bonfire, chuck a couple of spuds in while its burning, wrap some fish in foil and throw that in too. Get the wine out with some olives while you wait and ta da- The wood is not wasted and you've got yourself dinner!

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