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Smallholding => Equipment => Topic started by: NorthEssexsmallholding on February 19, 2011, 07:55:45 pm

Title: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: NorthEssexsmallholding on February 19, 2011, 07:55:45 pm
Any ideas?, I've asked at a couple of places now and they both get theirs collected by a recycling company, but these were smaller firms.  I just wondered if anyone knows any of the bigger companies that let you have them for free, like B&Q, or supermarkets, or whatever.

Funny all those years there seemed to be an abundance of them left laying around and now I actually want some I can't fin any.  Will have to just keep looking I suppose.

Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: garden cottage on February 19, 2011, 08:16:41 pm
try some of the smaller industrial units, most of the big businesses have them collected by contract.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: NorthEssexsmallholding on February 19, 2011, 08:19:42 pm
I will try a couple of smaller industrial estates, they might have some.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: dyedinthewool on February 19, 2011, 08:46:24 pm
You could try builders merchants - ours is run by local people  they always seem to have pallets going spare (not like a Jewsons the're to tight to let you have any)
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: hughesy on February 19, 2011, 08:57:21 pm
Where I work we sell the standard sized ones but the odd sizes or any broken ones we give away to anybody who wants them. Try your local agri feed place they will certainly have pallets they can't get rid of.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: bloomer on February 19, 2011, 10:49:24 pm
i get mine from a local garden centre as many as i need as she struggles to get rid of them and the only other person who ever asks for them only uses them for kindling so i get first choice as she considers composters and animal houses a better use for them.

Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Hatty on February 24, 2011, 07:49:41 pm
try local hauliers that's where i get ours from they cant use broken ones but i can :goat:
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Le Recoignot on March 09, 2011, 11:03:07 am
Hi

Look for a local building project, building contractors can get penalised for landfill waste and therefore are often grateful for someone removing timber waste inc pallets.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: ambriel on March 09, 2011, 12:21:03 pm

Our local harbour gets through hundreds of them and there's always a few broken ones in the skips.

They make good duck boards if you've got muddy ground.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: kaz on March 09, 2011, 06:02:04 pm
We get ours from ou local feed supplier. The smaller companies are the ones to aim for.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Beewyched on March 09, 2011, 07:01:26 pm
Yep, we'd love to get hold of some too. 

We're 18 miles west of Glasgow & we've been quoted £7 upwards (per pallet) plus delivery, by a firm that advertises them for sale - as they obviously don't trust a woman driver with a trailer going into their yard to collect them  :P

We've tried local feed suppliers that we buy from, but they are surcharged £6 per pallet by the hauliers for non-return.  Apparently too many people around here have been using them in their log-burners  ::)
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: doganjo on March 09, 2011, 07:36:22 pm
My son came to visit on Sunday and on way over picked up 6 pallets and took them here (in Glasgow/Paisley area) - because he knew we could make something with them. ::)  So far I have a log store awaiting a tarp cover (that's my job apparently), and the beginnings of a dog shed in the big run he made for them.  He said he passed loads of them just lying about on the way over here, and obviously discarded amongst other bits and bobs of rubbish..  He did say he checked there were no security cameras on the go first. ::)
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Beewyched on March 09, 2011, 07:44:16 pm
We're after some for keeping pig arcs off the ground.

Oh & i got a couple of servicable tarps from Morrissons for £2 each last week  :)
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: doganjo on March 09, 2011, 07:45:53 pm
Yes, that's the ones I've got - they're not huge but they'll do nicely
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Beewyched on March 09, 2011, 08:08:28 pm
Just make sure you weigh them down/affix them strongly - nearly lost one of mine last night & by the sounds of things outside at the mo may well be hunting one down tomorrow  ::)

Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Treacle_01 on March 07, 2012, 04:52:33 pm
I have about 60 wooden pallets, If anyone wants them?
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Bill Mills on April 16, 2012, 02:37:26 pm
I've just picked some up for free from Travis Perkins at our local depot in New Milton Hants.
Title: Re: where to get wooden pallets for free?
Post by: Bangbang on April 17, 2012, 09:05:58 pm
We get our pallets from a food processing place in Ellon - we pay 50p each the
money goes to a local charity. good quality - not free - but all the same size well
made and gives the OH something to be constructive with. She's now taken a liking
to my Paslode gun.  :-\