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People have made buildings out of pallets, others just burn them. You have deconstructed a pallet. That is very contemporary. A deconstructed salad or sandwich is at least twice as expensive as a constructed one. Now you have to decide if this is going to be sold for a profit, burned as kindling, or reconstructed into something useful.

I will only be impressed when you pick it up.

opus37 wrote:.... or reconstructed into something useful.

Repurposing it would be even more trendy!!

I have to say that a few years ago, when BoB Taylor made a guitar out of salvaged pallets that it cause a lot of head turning and reevaluation as to what was a "tone wood"!

Careful, Joe. There are people (unnamed) on this board who will flame you for a post like that.
Ace

bloke wrote:

Ace wrote:Careful, Joe. There are people (unnamed) on this board who will flame you for a post like that.
Ace

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Not to diminish your accomplishment, Joe, but I worked for almost a full week back in my college days operating a huge pneumatic machine whose sole purpose on earth was to break up pallets, hundreds of them per day. Load 'em in, position all the little pawls, pull the lever and watch them come out looking like your pile. Of course, it also leaked pneumatic oil by the quart, squirting all over the operator in 95 degree heat and humidity, under the broiling sun or in the rain. Loved that job!

scottw wrote:Not to diminish your accomplishment, Joe, but I worked for almost a full week back in my college days operating a huge pneumatic machine whose sole purpose on earth was to break up pallets, hundreds of them per day.

That's hardly comparable to Bloke's artisanal deconstruction.

Three Valves wrote:

scottw wrote:Not to diminish your accomplishment, Joe, but I worked for almost a full week back in my college days operating a huge pneumatic machine whose sole purpose on earth was to break up pallets, hundreds of them per day.

That's hardly comparable to Bloke's artisanal deconstruction.

Okay, you got me on the "artisanal" part of it. I did it for the $1.65/hr, not for anything vaguely artistic.

scottw wrote:Okay, you got me on the "artisanal" part of it. I did it for the $1.65/hr, not for anything vaguely artistic.

Careful there, you are very close to divulging your age.

bloke wrote:

tbn.al wrote:

scottw wrote:Okay, you got me on the "artisanal" part of it. I did it for the $1.65/hr, not for anything vaguely artistic.

Careful there, you are very close to divulging your age.

I remember the big jump to $2.00/hr. in 1974.
(SEARS hired me at $2.25 for whatever reason...??)



That does date me, you are correct.
Mind you, I went to the pallet job after 2 weeks of following along behind a tractor with a rake attachment, picking up rocks in preparation for planting grass on a new golf course. With a peach basket. In July. In S.Jersey, where the humidity is in direct competition with the temperature. When I got home, I had to take 2 showers to get the dust off every day. Ah, the good old days!

When it went to $1.40 in 67 I was working the night shift at a gas station to pay for tuition. I suddenly had enough money to afford cigarettes. Boy was I young and stupid. It was so much easier to start smoking than it was to stop 25 years later.