Use PALLETWOOD to make MONEY and learn woodworking.

g'day my name is mark and i do not have  thirty thousand dollars worth of tools   i work with recycled timber and i mostly use  pallet i use lots and lots and lots of pallets   i'm over here one day i decided i wanted to give  woodworking a bit of a go i was about five years   ago i decided i'll go find some pallets i'll pull  them apart and i'll see if i actually like this   the reason i use pallets is because they are free  and they're literally laying around everywhere   so free i think is the most accessible type of  timber to get in and have a go all i had in this   shed was a couple of basic power tools couple of  ryobi's 20 years old so i kicked it off with a pry   bar and a mallet and went to work pulling apart  pallets pulling apart pallets is time consuming   getting all the nails out if you're approaching  this as a hobby or thinking about a side hustle   if you're happy to put in the time to learn  with pallets and not expect to get that time   back in profit initially palettes are the way to  get as a thumbnail suggests i want to give you my   back story um and how i built up this shed let's  go back five years i decided i'm just gonna try   and build a basic workbench that'll let me know  if i sort of like this before i start spending   any money obviously working with pallet wood there  is only so much you can do with the stock that you   get a lot of thin strip pilings and some thicker  stretches straight if you're lucky now because i   wanted to build a chunky workbench i'm going to  need to join all this timber together somehow to   make up a nice chunky beam i de-nailed hand-planed  off some of the timber glued it together with very   ordinary pva glue clamped it up and then i planed  off that side and then fell in love with pallet   wood side grain furniture my very early builds i  thought i'm gonna i'm gonna make a basic coffee   table learn a few things when i finished this  coffee table i decided someone might wanna buy   that i threw that thing on facebook marketplace  for 90 dollars and it sold in the first hour   i better build something else went through  that same routine again roughly cleaning up   the timber gluing it together flattening it off  with a electric hand plane to come up with those   sort of unique pallet wood slabs i then knocked  up a hallway table this again i threw that one on   marketplace 120 bucks i had about 20 people send  me a message is this still available yes it is   and then 19 uh no sorry it's not so what i then  did was i made two more hallway tables i then   messaged all those people who were interested  i sold those two tables again for just 120   i then messaged the rest of the people and  said i'm happy to make these this is a hobby   it will take me some time if you'd like one let  me know and we went from there so i started making   lots of hallway tables i slowly increased the  price it was starting to feel like i was working   a lot for not much money but at the time that was  fine i was learning woodworking and i was making   cash which i could then buy the next thing to help  me make that table a little bit more efficient   now why hallway tables it's that one piece of  furniture that doesn't have to be structurally   amazing it is literally going to sit there at the  end of the hallway or somewhere else in the house   it'll have a few ornaments photo frames that sort  of stuff people just want something to fill the   space these hallway table occasional tables were  very very popular so from there i started to treat   this thing more like a side hustle i was very  much selling cheap furniture new to woodworking   still learning trying to get better on each table  each time i'd make something i'd sell something   i would save the cash i'd spend some of it  on whatever save the cash buy a new tool   start to make things easier for me in the shed  for almost pumping as many of these things out   i definitely don't have thirty thousand  dollars worth of tools i've now built up   a decent selection of good tools that helped  me get the job done i was about 80 pieces of   furniture in before i bought the thicknesser  so all of those slabs i would hand flatten   with a router and a basic sled that i knocked  up out of pallets and it let me use those slabs   sand them off clean them up stick them into the  piece of furniture sell them go again working with   pallets one of the biggest issues when you don't  have many tools is getting things square hence   the slogan early on i had a lot of shockers most  stuff i did was eyeball square the timber that is   um looking down and thinking that piece is  probably going to be okay to make some framework   all the other stuff that went into the  slabs that didn't matter it was going to be   clamped together and cleaned off so the  clamps would sort out all those wonky donkeys   making all that furniture going through literally  hundreds of pallets i pretty much knew early on i   need to save up first to get a table saw table  saw was going to be the most versatile piece   of kit and allow me to rip and resaw as much  of this timber in the shortest amount of time   again because all this pallet wood is always wonky  as a donkey you then need to start making yourself   some jigs so you've got yourself a straight edge  so you can start putting your first straight edge   on your pallet slats there's a million ways you  can do that these are just a couple of my my sleds   that i've had over the years if you do stick  around till the end of the video i'm just going   to tack on a very simple jig i don't actually have  one yet i'm going to make it out of these pallets   this jig will get you started without a table saw  without a thickness up it'll at least let you get   your first straight edge you can start gluing  pallets together cleaning them off and getting   into the game so the plan for all this pallet wood  for the next few videos will be to start to do   another few big projects and i want to show  as much as i can again now and hopefully with   some more skills and knowledge to pass on of the  six palettes i've got here this is the only pine   palette probably the biggest comment i've got over  the years i can only find pine pellets the simple   answer is you just need to keep driving past  now i don't have a magical stockpile of pallets   during my peak of picking up hundreds  of pallets i would literally drive past   two bunnings nearly every day on the way to  work and just have a quick look through the pile   and start the hand select anything that had nice  color don't discount these pines pellets look at   the thickness of these there's some 25 mil thick  slats and some very big stretches i use this stuff   heaps especially to make up basic frames and legs  for those hallway tables this stuff will still   clean up nicely but what you can also do is clean  it up and paint it save the feature for the top   or whatever you want to do the other great thing  about time is it is not rough on your tools it's   easy to cut it's easy to clean up you're not going  to go through blades there's thousands of these   things lying around if you make an error you just  go and get another one everyone's favorite part   banging out nails we're going to save these do you  want to know the easiest way to get the nails out   should we give him the gun so this is what my first slabs look like this  would be the underside as you can see all the   different widths of timber and then we'd have the  good side this is the side that i would flatten   off with the router now initially all i had was  a heap of cheap and nasty little f-clamps i could   only clamp together about four or five slats of  pallet wood i would clean those off i'll then join   them together before i even have a router slip  that was very much the hard way i would hand plane   off that first edge to get my very first piece of  timber so to get in the game of flattening find   yourself a piece of scrap board find yourself a  pine pallet and try and get two perfectly straight   pieces screw those on and you've got yourself  your base frame for your router sleeve i made   a few of these um router sleds initially  but what i found is just getting some   angled steel keeps this profile as low as possible  you'll probably find that getting the depth you   need to get through some of those uneven surfaces  will be one of those stumbling blocks so reducing   that thickness there rather than a thick piece  of ply uh you can save yourself a little bit of   depth this angle steel is very cheap from a steel  store and very easy to make i did a lot of hours   with this thing my advice there are thousands  of paths lying around there is not thousands of   nice colored timber pellets flying around doing  it this way will get you started however we can   double our stock from this pole here you should  be able to get two slats out of each pallet board   maybe even three depending on how thick you're  going to go so i would suggest making the jig that   i'm going to put together at the end of this video  start ripping every beautiful piece of pallet wood   into two w stock save falling apart an extra  couple hundred pounds when i got started i did   not do much to the pallet wood at all if it was a  little bit rough i would just hit it with the belt   sander just to clean it up a little bit i would  then just rely on lots of glue and i would clamp   the life out of it yeah i knew the pva glue wasn't  that great and i knew my gluing surfaces and bonds   were not that great either however i would not  rely on this gluing as any sort of structural   this was all about making a big chunk of wood  making it look cool with all the beautiful colours   however i would build the structure into the  project some other way to support the slab okay   so from here i've got six pallets busted apart i'm  gonna put a straight edge on every single piece   i'm going to use my straightening jigs that work  with the table saw and then going to clean all the   timber up i now use a thicknesser and every every  piece goes through the thicknesser both sides   i get a beautifully planed surface a beautiful  gluing surface check this out although i've just   mocked this up for the thumbnail this looks very  much like day one gluing palettes together i had   old broken clamps ratchet straps pretty much  two dollar f clamps from the cheapy store and   craft pva glue pissing out everywhere that helps  you get you started that helps you sell your first   piece of furniture make some cash start to upgrade  do things a little bit smarter a little bit better   with some better quality stuff so in essence  this is what this video is all about just   get started get addicted you'll love it you'll  make some cash you can build your little workshop   build your little side hustle and the pacer itself  so good for the brain so good for the inside   alrighty quick channel shout out to jesper makes  now jesper mentioned me in one of his videos video   went bananas lots of people came over subscribed  to me thank you very much so i just want to return   the favor to you so go find his video where the  thumbnail looks a little something like this   check it out 1.5 million people can't be wrong so  stick with me we'll do a little sped up montage check out all this cool color all these palette  slats are now 40 millimeters wide i've got color   variation i've got thickness variation i've got  reasonably usable timber clamp those together   you've got yourself a nice beautiful slab top  this is as far as i'm going to take this tip but   in this video the next series of videos is going  to be using all of this timber to start to make   some furniture and other bits and pieces so if  you want to stay tuned see what i do with this   please subscribe like this video help it get going  um but the biggest thing you can do to help me out   is actually watch the video it is the number  one thing that helps any channel grow so uh   thank you very much for watching thanks very  much everyone has been with me from the start   so hopefully you'll get some tips out of  this but the biggest message i've got is   just get started it is so much fun and these  will pay for your workshop in no time at all okay  

Channel: Dainer Made

Views: 2,370,664

Keywords: Palletwood furniture, Woodworking, Make money woodworking

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Length: 13min 32sec (812 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 03 2022