Wooden Pallets

Hello! Does anyone know where to get free wooden pallets in Dunedin area? Mitre 10 had them today but only managed to get 1. I saw a few at Spotlight/PGG Wrightson parking area and other businesses but I am not sure if they are free to take. I am looking into making an outside furniture out of them as a recycling project.

Pallet wood isnt treated so wont last long outside.

Thanks for the info. I am still keen to do it and if they didn't last long, will just throw them in the fire place.

Try all sorts of places - Plumbers merchants, Farm shops like Farmlands, Electrical outlets - anyone who is likely to have bulk stuff delivered.

Approx a year and a half ago I made a pallet deck that sits on concrete (as advised). It's not under cover so it??

Freight companies,they often have signs up saying Free Firewood.
I have had heaps from Peter Baker Transport .
The more you take ,the less they have to dump.

Nigh on 30 years ago when I got my first Saint, I needed to properly fence my whole quarter acre section with a solid, tall fence. I didn't have a lot of money so had to think a bit laterally! At that stage, car or vehicle parts were still being brought into the country and someone in Petone, I think it was, was selling off these crates, broken down into panels. They were slatted, but much closer spaced than pallets. They had a frame round the outer edge and a support beam in the middle. We had a couple of truck loads of these things delivered and I remember my mum dilligently working for hours at a time pulling out all these bent and rusty nails with a crowbar and claw hammer. She had tins and tins of old nails! I was at work while she did all this! Eventually, the panels looked half pie tidy minus all the myriad of nails and a local builder got set to, putting in the posts and a concrete nib. We hoped that it would last us long enough to be able to save up for a decent fence. At least it would keep the dog safe and give us privacy. I invested in a paint sprayer and set to creosoting the whole thing. I think I gave it two good coats. Here we are all these years later - we have long since moved on, but I drove past the old place not a couple of months ago. That fence is still there, there is no sign of rot, it has been obviously either stained or creosoted again and still looks as good as it did when we put it up. Which only goes to prove that if you keep these things off the ground and well protected with stain or whatever - it will reward you with longevity. Once it was treated (and almost black in colour) you could not tell it apart from an expensive build. It was also a lovely fence to grow things up against - we had a row of silver birches in front of it and the white trunks looked stunning against it.

Heaps of pallets outside businesses around the wharf area almost every day you just need to drive around.

We made a pallet fence to keep the dogs contained, got more or less new pallets from a feed merchant, good strong ones, would be perfect to make furniture from. We stained ours, took all day as every part of them was stained, but it looks good, and on the outside I have small plant pots nestled on the shelf bits ( hard to explain), couldnt have the underside of the pallet on the inside of the dog garden as the dogs would just climb it and get out!

@groovie wow that looks awesome! mine will be at the deck but with plastic roof covering and yeah hubby suggested should paint it with weather proof paint and maybe add another coat. not sure how to start but i will get there.

Will look onto that too. Thanks

Try tractor places also

Slowly building a shed out of pallets, will stain with old engine oil & diesel mix. Not sure how suitable this is for furniture though.

thank you ezyfizzy, it was fiddly but fun. I painted the underside with a left behind colour I didn't like. A painter with 30/40 years experience said in here some time ago to thoroughly wet the timber to saturation then paint with any paint without thinning it. Apparently the timber soaks up the paint and the paint binds itself into the timber while it dries. Seems to be working for me second time round.

There is a heap outside the new Wendys in DN.