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RE: DIY: Making a Workbench out of Pallet.
Oh yeah! Nice!! Are wooden pallets still a "thing" in the so-called first world? Here they're mostly now made from recycled plastics. The wooden ones are EXPENSIVE and we need to pay for them, even second hand. They're super easily attacked by termites so generally we head to the local welding shop who will knock up a frame for under $20. Life is soooo different in the different corners of the globe, no?
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Oh yeah, they're a thing here. Plastic ones are EXPENSIVE, but I pick up stacks of wood ones from the Methodist church across town all the time. They're always throwing away a half dozen or so every couple weeks.
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Yeah same thing with that spot by us!
Here there's something like a pallet mafia. People that gather thrown away pallets for free and then sell them super expensive. We have the pallet furniture fashion to blame for that. And Pinterest.
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haha excellent... blaming pinterest! You guys are known for a bit of a mafia thing!
Yeah, we have the same stuff here. Some folks make a good living off of pallets. I heard a guy on a podcast once that did that for $4k a month! Not a whole super fortune, but it worked well for him, and he didn't have a boss and didn't work full time hours.
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Yep it's still a thing here... My cousins in England would collect specific palettes, the ones with large cubes holding it all together. They were scraping them for £5 each.
I wish we could get welding done like that for 20 bucks. Big difference for sure, I remember having a piece of our brakes machined in Chile one time when we broke down... took the guy about two hours to fabricate the part and it was cheap.