April 20th 2015 - Free Wood

April 20th 2015 - Free Wood

Who ever says you get nothing for free obviously hasn't asked the right people or places!!!  A friend of mine told us that she got some free wood in the form of pallets from a local building firm, so me and hubby went down there and asked the lady.  Whose answer was "how many do you want?"  Me, looking rather silly replied I don't know!

I asked hubby and he said however many we can fit in the car, so the man told us to reverse the car up to where they were and we would see what we could fit in - we got 5, and the people from building firm said we know where they are if we need more!  BONUS!

Well we had dinner and then spent the next half hour trying to take 1 apart - easier said than done.  We tried hitting the pallets with a hammer, using the claw of the hammer, using a crowbar, using a chisel and all these succeeded in doing was splitting the wood, not so good.  So I did what I always do and went to pinterest to see if I could find a pin on how to demolish a pallet.  I  found quite alot actually, some said the ways we had tried but the most useful and easy way was with a metal saw and cut through the nails.

We ummed and arrred and said we didn't think we had a metal saw and then hubby disapeared inside.  I went to see what he was doing and he was reading the instructions for the electric saw we bought to cut down trees - it had a metal saw attatchment.  He fixed it to the saw and off he went cutting the nails from the pallets.  It's not quite the 2minutes per pallet as the pin says but it is working much quicker than what we tried and  the wood is not breaking.

Free wood and a helpful hint on how to break it!