There is a young man in Colorado who commercially makes fine furniture from pallets. He is so good a chain hotel hired to make over 300 end tables for their hotel in Philadelphia.
If you look at the wood from the pallet as just short lengths of wood, NOT a pallet, I’m sure anyone can come up with a myriad of ideas. Oh yes, don’t forget shipping crates, like those used for motorcycles, they have longer pieces of wood.

Do you have a contact for this colorado person? I have very large oak kilm dried pallets 175 lbs each. I would like to reuse.

Compost bins, prise of the slats make a box for dumping veggie waste, leaves etc.

Raised beds?

http://wists.com/everyone/furniture/499654097f3a8ca7da20e41611a28bba

Most of these pallets are made from really good wood as they have to be super strong. They are woods you’d pay an arm for if you had to buy them.

I have seen patterns in a book on how to make a tool shed, play house, etc out of the wooden pallets. My husband and I heat our house with wood, and stack our wood on the flat pallets. It keeps the wood dry and up off the ground.

We’ve just had a woodburning stove delivered here, and it came on a pallet. We’re chopping it small for kindling - it’s not good enough to burn in larger chunks, but it will be great for kindling as it isn’t planed smooth

Joanna

It’s not a good idea to burn the pallets because most have been treated with toxic chemicals to prevent rot.

really? people trash them?

i work at a grocery store… our pallets look soooo old… like weathered old barn… lol.

i think shelves. or building a shelving unit.

We have some in our cellar to keep our things off the floor as it’s slightly damp. My father in law has a leaf bin in his garden made out of them.

I’ve used them to make monster recycling bins. Painted with wood preserver they look just as good as a commercial bin that would cost 60+ pounds. I use three pallets for the rear and sides, and then build the front so that 9in timbers can be slotted in as the pile builds. We’ve got three bins sat next to each other to enable compost to be cycled as it matures. Thanks, Stephen

I’ve used pallet wood for CD shelving. Used bog standard (cheap) metal brackets, painted them, stuck them on so the shelves are about an inch away from the wall, and the CDs overhang the shelf by about another inch. Looks really good and uncluttered.

Put an ad in one of your local papers. Or on Craigslist. Most offer free come and get it ads.
Here in Rochester, NY I get around 6 per week at our store. We try to save them to return to our distributor. But there are guys that will gladly come and get them to be sold back to pallet reclaimers. Some of the pallets we get we have to pay a deposit on the be sure we send them back.

Take a look at these sites….
I am going to be making the planters for next year….

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pallet_Compost_Bin/

http://www.instructables.com/id/Pallet_Planter/

I just saw this today on tipnut…a how-to turn a pallet into a coffee table!

http://tipnut.com/pallet-coffee-table/

I am building a shed/chicken coop out of pallets for the walls and floor fastened together with 4×4 which fit perfectly with a standard pallet, I got the idea from a design firm which has suggested that refugee housing can be built with the pallets that have brought in supplies.

http://www.i-beamdesign.com/projects/refugee/refugee.html

Here is more pallet shed designs

http://summerville-novascotia.com/PalletShed/

A friend made this box-mattress with space to store stuff
http://vertes-et-mures.blogspot.com/2007/07/des-dchets-pour-un-sommier-avec-un.html

A Spanish blogger whom I love gives four ideas here:
http://elmundodelreciclaje.blogspot.com/2008/06/pal-2-parte.html

And a carpenter’s website for furniture ideas.
http://vertes-et-mures.blogspot.com/2008/10/crateur-de-meubles-en-palettes.html

I built a storage shed with roof - originally thinking I’d use it to store firewood (cracks in the pallet boards good for air circulation.

However, once it was done, it was tall enough I added a shelf about head-high to store scrap lumber and now store my lawn tractor, roto-tiller and edger inside instead.

I had found the same link as Yank posted above and used it as my inspiration.

I also use hardwood oak pallets as firewood for a firepot on our back deck.

Umm… Hardwood floors anyone? You would have to plane the top surface. Then, put a tongue and groove edge on these short boards, match widths, nail them down and you have a very nice floor. Just a thought.

hi you said woodfloors?
my husband and i are trying to find a site where they give directions on how to do this we wanta rustic charm look for the kitchen. can you help with a site or your own directions thank you

AF

Make a home out of them - seriously. Obviously other “waste” materials have to be used as well, but if you go to http://www.campbling.org you will see what can be done with these very useful things.

And if they are broken then they can be burnt - the smell is just sap from the (almost always) spruce timber.

I’ve used pallets for a multitude of projects. I built my wood crib out of a few longer ones (about 6 feet) which I have no idea what they were made for but they had been discarded. This saved me over a $100 in wood alone.

I hate it when people burn them for a camp fire, there’s always alot of nails left on the ground which my tires seem to find.

Make it a chair!

headboard

very good idea

Anyone interested in seting up use for 175 lbs oak kilm dried pallets please contact. Solid, non damaged and 4×4 runners. 6 by 4 ft. We have 220 on-hand and can supply 20 per week, will sasve for truck loads. A waste to make firewood out of unless someone wishes to purchase cheap. 145 new to purchase. looking for something around 25 each.

well, I was thinking possibly ,If you put wheels on the bottom it could be a very nice little cart for wheeling heavy things around.