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Re-cycling wooden pallets in summer

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  • Willpower?
    Willpower? Posts: 75 Forumite
    whitevanwoman wrote: »
    I live rurally and people are always looking for wood for making rabbit hutches, fixing fencing, etc.

    Hope I'm not stating the obvious here...

    Not all all! I'm grateful for all suggestions. I does really bug me that it's a good resource going to waste.

    Not sure about the teenager with an axe :) and we did try to sell them back to the people we buy our from but they are not interested. Our surpless ones are not an appropriate size apparently :rolleyes:

    Sorry, but we are the other end of the country or you'd be very welcome to a non stop supply!

    Thanks Poppy cat I did ask on freecycle and got no response - having said that I've advertised things on there before and got no response the first time and 6 replies the second time. I'll try again and sell it a bit more by including the suggestions here!
  • Willpower?
    Willpower? Posts: 75 Forumite
    BungleGirl wrote: »
    Do you live in East Anglia? There is a group here that is a bit like freecycle but for businesses.

    Sadly not, I am in the South West, who quite frankly should be more into this kind of thing if you ask me :rolleyes:

    I can't see anything similar locally having googled, which is a shame as it looks like a brilliant scheme even HM prisons are getting in on the act :)
  • BungleGirl
    BungleGirl Posts: 578 Forumite
    Yes!! I got an old wooden gym horse from the prison - the kind that is in sections that stack on top of each other. It is now six raised beds down at my allotment!
  • Willpower?
    Willpower? Posts: 75 Forumite
    BungleGirl wrote: »
    Yes!! I got an old wooden gym horse from the prison - the kind that is in sections that stack on top of each other. It is now six raised beds down at my allotment!

    Wow! That brilliant. Did you manage to resist having a go on it first?
  • HugoSP
    HugoSP Posts: 2,467 Forumite
    Willpower? wrote: »
    Sadly not, I am in the South West, who quite frankly should be more into this kind of thing if you ask me :rolleyes:

    Whereabouts in the South West??

    PM me if you don't want to post your location here. I know loads of people who would probably have them for firewood.

    In fact I have given them to our local scrap yard for stacking copper/aluminium bales on.
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  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    I would think that freecycle could get rid of the lot easily.
    Wish I was near you, I'd have loads :)
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  • geordie_joe
    geordie_joe Posts: 9,112 Forumite
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    BungleGirl wrote: »
    Yes!! I got an old wooden gym horse from the prison - the kind that is in sections that stack on top of each other. It is now six raised beds down at my allotment!

    What? They let you out and didn't notice you had a wooden horse under your coat! :D
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
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    geordie_joe wrote: »
    What? They let you out and didn't notice you had a wooden horse under your coat! :D
    Don't be silly, she built a tunnel and then some raised beds to take the earth, so they wouldn't notice what was going on. Then used the tunnel to secret the horse away! Easy :rotfl:
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,314 Forumite
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    have you been in touch with the Bristol Wood Recycling Project? Don't know how far from Bristol you are, but if they're not interested they may know someone who is.
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  • jfdi
    jfdi Posts: 1,031 Forumite
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    Our deck has a pallet base (laid them out like a jigsaw!) with seasoned timber on top! Lasting fine so far.

    Had a 'proper' one before but it rotted after a good few years, so we've gone for the free pallett one this time. Can't be bad!

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