G'day! My name is Mark and I've just collected 20
pallets at the start of cyclone season. My goal is to collect 20 pallets and try and
find as many cool colours as possible. I don't know what the species are on these
pallets, all that I know are the ones that are not Pine, so it's "Not Pine" is what I'm
looking for, there is a couple thrown in. I've spoken to a Timber Guru of 40 years experience
and he's going to clear it all up for us. 19 pallets just 19. and I know promised 20 pallets but this one
is so awesome it deserves its own video. Here is my big secret to finding the good
stuff... I just keep driving past all the time! until I find what I want and I don't take
what I don't want, just leave it there. Sometimes you can simply Drive the streets
in an industrial area spot some pallets near the bins uh or just go in and ask, are these
going to the dump? if the answer is yes! just take it, recycle it, turn that pallet
into something else other than landfill. Oh I think I've just did the jackpot Check this out I was dumping some green waste
at the tip... massive pile of salvageable Timber, I didn't take it but there's wood
everywhere out there! Throughout the video I want to throw in a
heap of old footage and old projects of what I could actually do with these pallet slabs,
one to get the juices flowing and two to get your ideas of what I should do with these
slabs in the near future, so please let me know down below. The ecoflow Delta portable power station! it's a massive battery! there are four AC outlets on the back and
heaps of DC outlets on the front for all you TECH to get you out of trouble when the power
goes out. [Music] it has taken me a bit over two hours
to bust all these pallets down and get them inside the shed. Cyclone crisis averted!! [Music] foreign [Music] To help me keep track of all
these timings for each step of this process I'm going to test out a new app TRADIFY, it
is an all-in-one job management system for tradies or punters like me and this time keeping
feature alone is just the best [Music] two hours 15 minutes to shoot and
pull all the nails out. The Keen Eye would have spotted the blue pallets,
in five years I think I've only picked up about four of these. why? that's because they're NOT for the taking,
these ones were in the bin and if I don't take them they are going in the ground. You've got to ask yourself though are they
worth the effort they are often split rotted full of nails and mostly falling apart short
answer is yes! they are amazing Timber. DO NOT STEAL THEM! first one got a beep it's gonna be a long
day 50 minutes on the metal detector for 188 slats of palletwood It was only one hour and 10 minutes to put
the first straight edge on all of this Timber and that lighting fast speed is all because
of this new straightening jig that I've just made and these quick release clamps, they're
the best solution I've found for working with all the different thicknesses of Timber and
this is the one job that really does feel like it takes forever. [Music] thank you [Music] there is a reason that I've been keeping all
of the individual pallets stacked in their individual piles as I work through each stage
of the process and that is because now they all have to go through the thicknesser and
to save time winding the thicknesser up and down which is very annoying that is probably
the most efficient way to do it. so everything's got to go through the thicknesser
both sides to get a nice clean face ready for gluing. [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] As promised here is the guru with
all the good oil on Timber Aussie timber for now. Tasmanian Oak isn't an oak it's three different
trees, Australia has seven of the ten hardest Timber on the planet according to the Jenke
scale. gum trees are Hardwoods, all eucalyptus are
gum trees but not all gum trees the eclipse. Tasmanian Huon Pine isn't actually a freaking
Pine. so everything else in Australia just gets
called a oak. Australia doesn't actually have any triox
but we get silkyoak sheoak bulloakit's all a big load of oak okay dokie. clear as mud? I've ripped all the pallets into two different
sizes this is to reduce waste and to get the slabs as thick as possible I've gone with
a 50mm batch and an 85 mil batch, this can be whatever you need or whatever the timber
allows here is all the broad pallets and here is all the thinner pallets. this is the save for later pile like the pile
used for this box using up all the scraps and this is the waste, very thin strips I
don't want these they are going to go to the green waste dump and return to Nature. this this massive pile is all the stretches
off the 19 pallets I am not going to use them in this video however it adds to the is it
worth the effort pile of Timber starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel so
it's time to glue this only took about an hour and 15 minutes but just remember I have
had a lot of practice with the glue bottle [Music] I live in a cyclone Zone part of the world,
so picture this the power has gone out the fridge freezer is melting everyone is hot
and sweaty getting frustrated, you can bring this out to the shed and get some woodwork
done (lol) also there is massive Black Friday deals happening right now check out the link
below [Music] okay I've got most of that 50 mil slat Timber
up on the bench here, I'm just going through and randomizing all the different colors and
thicknesses and just looking for any dog's balls on a canary situations and what I mean
by that is any thick Pine with very large knots are and the other one although it's
beautiful Timber there is a couple of pieces of really dark thick red Timber ripping down
the guts make them thin and don't make it so obvious foreign [Music] for the final session I like
to put a straight edge on all the slabs whether they're going to go through the table saw
or just ready for further cut you can do this however you want you need to hand plane circular
saw run them over the jointer if you've got one do whatever you've got to do to clean
up the timber what I like to do for Speed and ease is throw a length of angled steel
onto the slab and run them all through the saw gives me a quick artificial straight edge
and it is super fast I'll setting one side across the jointer to get it nice and flat
then I'll send everything through the thicknesser get everything nice and parallel and flat
and the same thickness foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so busting down 19 pallets and turning them
into glorious slabs of Timber has taken me about 12 hours now if I'm going to pay myself
about 70 bucks an hour plus tax this pile of wood owes me about 924 dollars in labor. now I know the possibilities of all of this
Timber and I'm very confident that I can make that labor money back. just at a glance there is nine slabs suitable
for hallway tables and it does not take much effort to knock up some frame for those and
going back to the Back to Basics video I'm pretty confident I can get at least 300 bucks
for some basic four-way tables. So the big question of the video is this worth
it? my fur coat it is! I've picked up these pallets for free I've
spent enjoyable time, enjoyable woodworking time preparing all the timber now I get to
do more Woodwork and turn these slabs into creative things now this is a hobby slash
side hustle I love to make things also love to sell things so worth it for sure casheola
(money) on the side happy days. I have 15 slabs of varying sizes but basically
this one took me 40 minutes to make, is it worth it yeah nah yeah that means yes yes
it's worth it!!! okay catch you later uh if you wouldn't mind
sharing this video around that would be absolutely unreal [Music] thank you
