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by Doug Calderone

I have been a follower for many years now and wanted to take the next step and contribute. Around the same time I stumbled across your blog, I began experimenting with shipping pallets. Being a carpenter by trade, I already possessed the skills to build, but pallets are a whole different ball game. When building with pallets, one cannot just draw up plans and expect everything to work. Pallets need to be looked at as building blocks, like Legos for example. Drawing up plans is still a good idea, but the dimensions and structural integrity of pallets needs to be the main factor in design.

Before, I started building; I needed to find sources to obtain my pallets. The most common pallet can be found behind almost every store and it measures 4ft by 45 inches. It consists of 3 parallel 2x4s with 1x planks running perpendicular. These pallets are normally reused over and over and are riddled with nails. The wood is grade “d” lumber at best and is hard to drive a nail into. However, there are treasures out there; I have found many mahogany pallets and oak pallets. With some dedication, the wood can be reclaimed.

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Just a quick post this morning, I’m needing a little break today…

If you think old wood pallets are garbage, think again.

The Canadian Wood Pallet & Container Association has launched a campaign to encourage people to recycle and reuse wood packaging material.

Visit their website: CanadianPallets.com

I made my first videos of Bill Brooks tiny house recently and all I can say is I am very impressed with Deek’s ability to produce his fantastic videos. The flow, the humor, the professionalism just is fantastic.

Deek just shared with me his most recent release of the Tiny Yellow House series about making a pallet chair. Watch and enjoy. I laughed almost all the way through this one.

Keep them coming Deek! (relaxshax.com)

Michael spent the last two days working in the Tiny Free House and got the other window lowered about 8 inches to clear the eaves and finished adding pallet boards to the roof.

It was very slow going screwing all those boards to the trusses. Michael used an extension ladder from the outside for the lower boards and did the peak from the inside by coming up through the framing.

See more pictures and read his complete post here. Michael is hoping to get the tiny free house inclosed before the rains start so stay tuned with his blog for updates.

by Kent Griswold (Tiny House Blog)

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