Where do you find free pallets?

[schlot]

I found some under the neighbors wood pile...boy he as mad. LOL.

Golf courses, contractors, building supply, churches...well ok, maybe not churches, unless they got a REALLY big shipment in of communion wine.

 

[CT-Mike]

Check out your local hot tub dealer. The store where I bought my hot tub is always looking for someone to take them, and they are big, like 8' x 8' or so.

 

[Paulywalnut]

"Standard" pallets are 40 x 48 but there are other sizes too depending on what you want... 42x42 is used for paint, 48x48 holds four 55 gallon drums, 40 x 40 milk crates and 36 x 36 beer and other case beverages. Anything put on pallets for the military has to be 35 x 45 to fit in doors and almost every from Asia would be on 43 x 43. Whtever you don't use to stack, just cut 'em up and burn

Wow! Competition for Pallet Pete

 

[Hearth Mistress]

Wow! Competition for Pallet Pete

No, just full of useless information and being in printing all my life, had to know where to get pallets to meet commercial/consumer/military specs. They all burn the same to me

 

[Paulywalnut]

No, just full of useless information and being in printing all my life, had to know where to get pallets to meet commercial/consumer/military specs. They all burn the same to me

Oh ok. Its actually good info not many know about.

 

[raybonz]

There are NO pallets left in the USA because Pallet Pete has all of them

Ray

 

[Pallet Pete]

Pallet Pete pursues pallets procured for free at produce / hardware product stores procuring pallets without pay. Proceed to pester produce / hardeware managers periodically and procure pallets providing pallet piles per plan. Pallets Pete's place of employment practically throws pallets at his posterior as well !

Pete

 

[Pallet Pete]

Wow! Competition for Pallet Pete

Pishaw Pallet Pete proceeds per plan pouncing on pallets persistently & painting 49 * 73 pallets pointlessly proving his prominence !

Pete

 

[Pallet Pete]

Pallets Are Us, Pete's Pallet Emporium, and Palletmart.

 

[raybonz]

Pallet Pete pursues pallets procured for free at produce / hardware product stores procuring pallets without pay. Proceed to pester produce / hardeware managers periodically and procure pallets providing pallet piles per plan. Pallets Pete's place of employment practically throws pallets at his posterior as well !

Pete

Pfft you pallet pilfering punk!

 

[Pallet Pete]

Pfft you pallet pilfering punk!

Ray really rubs reality in !

Pete

 

[Pallet Pete]

I am constantly looking for free wood pallets on Craigslist but have not had much luck. Where do you get your pallets?

Sorry Pallet Pete + Raybonz = Perfectly retarded !

I am done now

Seriously check out all the local factories and stores ! Factories give away tons of pallets around here you have to pay to get rid of them so we put them by a road with a free sign or I take them.

Pete

 

[Hearth Mistress]

Pallet Pete painstakingly pacifies his procurement of pallets profusely.

I can't compete with Pete

 

[WeldrDave]

I can arrange for at least 100 of my pallets to go away if someone wants to drive to South Jersey!

 

[ScotO]

My neighbor out the road owns a sign company....he does some really big signs and such for businesses and what-not. Anyway, years back, he was contracted to help install the jumbotrons/scoreboard at Penn State's Beaver Stadium. I was coming home from work one day and passed his business and there was a MOUNTAIN of 'pallet' wood.......all 2x4's......stacked in his business driveway. So I said what the heck, I stopped in and asked what he was doing with them. He said if I wanted them, they were mine....but I had to take more that he had to remove from the jobsite. All or nothing, so to speak. I literally got several tractor-trailer loads of 'pallets' (when I say pallets, I'm talking each pallet was built out of 2x4's, literally dozens of them each pallet, some 8' long, some 12 and 14' and longer)! I paid for fuel to haul them back from Beaver Stadium, and I spent over a MONTH pulling spiral nails and staples out of those boards. I stacked and banded them in my basement and the following summer, I framed my entire 28' x 24' barn out of them! I also studded the entire upstairs of my addition with them! All top-grade lumber, too!

My point is, do like the others said and ask around, I'm sure you'll find some for free, heck maybe even enough to build a barn!!

 

[happycamper]

My husband gets them from his work as they have to pay people to take them otherwise. Also, we have gotten them from local feed and hardware stores as big bags of animal food, pellets, ice melt, etc come on pallets and they welcome people to take them. Call around where you live, I'm sure someone will have stuff for you.

im looking for free oak pallets
to be cut up for firewood
im in lebanon,pa 17042 area
[email protected]

 

[kborndale]

im looking for free oak pallets
to be cut up for firewood
im in lebanon,pa 17042 area
[email protected]

Go drive thru any industrial area near you, you will find pallets all over the place free for the taking. Drive behind strip malls and supermarkets as well, pallets are thrown away all over the place, you just have to look in the right spots.

 

[Woody5506]

Yeah, industrial areas especially. Many machine shops who do sheet metal will get the nice 8ft long pallets with the 4x4 oak or cherry runners on them. They have served me well for firewood and for using as a base to stack firewood on. I have found the cherry ones aren't always as dry as you'd think.

 

[peakbagger]

Tractor Supply seems to have a pretty endless supply.

Back when a lot of expensive machine tool equipment was coming over from Japan in the 1980s the pallets were usually made from tropical hardwoods. My friend scrounged the wood from the pallets and got some real nice varieties of clear usually old growth exotic hardwood. Lots of Philippine mahogany (which is actually a mix of various hard to pronounce tropical woods). Sadly he really doesn't have use for it so when he runs into it in his attic it goes in the stove.

 

[Chippy Chaser]

My local Tractor Supply has a sign on the door encouraging people to take the pallets behind the store.