Anyone recycle pallets?

Junkyard Dog

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I drive by a place going to/from work that has offered me their pallets more than once. they currently pay to discard them i believe. Any way does anyone have any experience with selling them to a recycler? I believe I can grab ~ 5/ day. What are the going rates and for what size pallets?

thanks
 
If they are in good condition you can sell them on CL for a couple bucks a piece, but there's so many free ones to be had its ridiculous. When I build up cycled furniture I just drive around industrial parks and can usually fill my trailer in 1 or 2 stops.
 
The Oak ones are great for bonfires and all woods are good for sawing up and using to start fires in fireplaces or wood stoves. I have a cordless circular saw that cuts them up quick.
 
Fire wood isn't a problem for me. I've heard of places paying $3-5 each for them. @ 100 pallets they would be worth messing with but I'm not sure I can get that much for them. Just seeing if anyone else sells them.
 
Hey man bring them to my house and pile them up I will pay you $2 each for them.












or take them to PalletOne out on 421 just outside of Siler, they are paying $4.75 for good pallets
 
There's a place in Butner that buys them. I see truck loads going up the road all the time. But they have to be a certain size and condition. I've learnt that the different colors represent the load capacity. Red ones are usually oak and you get $4 each. Down through blue, yellow and green down to $1 each.
I did the math once and figured it would only be worth my time to sell them if I had them on hand to begin with. Running around picking them up kinda sucks away the profit to where I'd only resort to this if I was totally out of work.
 
mommucked said:
The Oak ones are great for bonfires and all woods are good for sawing up and using to start fires in fireplaces or wood stoves. I have a cordless circular saw that cuts them up quick.
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DAMN! please don't burn the Oak ones unless they are trashed. talk to any pallet company around, the 48x40 standard size pallets are becoming hard to come by. sure you may think you're seeing a ton of them around, but there's really not that many and they are getting more expensive each day. The Oak and hardwood pallets are FAR superior to the fast growing pine pallets they are making now. I've destroyed Pine pallets in one day shuffleing them around my warehouse.

If it's a good hardwood pallet (meaning no busted/missing boards, no matter how dirty) you can get $2-3/pallet at a pallet supplier. They are looking all over for 48x40's. My small time Pallet supplier in Trinity says he has people calling him from across the country looking them.

and all these Pintrest yahoos out there doing "creative" stuff with the pallets are beginning to piss my off when they take a perfectly good pallet and make a fawking planter out of it so they can look rustic and old in there Manhattan apartment.

sorry, but moving a 500-2000lb load around on a pine pallet really pisses me off when the pallets shreds and the load dumps.

If you're near Trinity, call Keith at Pallets Plus. Tell him I sent you his way. He'll buy your pallets.
 
I used to have a job where I could get them now and then, would take months to get enough to be worth selling them, some were also repaired or in bad shape. I got a few truckloads of the oak ones for pig pickins, now and then. We would use firewood/brush and toss a pallet on about every half hour or so..... good fires and good times. The pine and other light ones are too easy to cut into kindling and quickly w the cordless circ. saw.
 
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mbalbritton said:
you're not helping with the link, piss off from this thread...:flipoff2:
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Yeah well.. :lol:

I'm sure whoever thought of that stuff is probably a lifetime subscriber of Martha Stewart living and has a bumper sticker on the back of their HHR that reads: "inspiration is only a significant head trauma away".
 
@Infamous1 . I think I'll look in to that place. I didn't realize we were in the middle of a national pallet shortage. Lol. Hell about 5-6 a day in the little taco isn't bad and not much wor .
 
FWIW there is a huge pallet recycler down the road. They get $15-$20/ea for oak ones and will buy them for $5-6/ea.
They will pay $3/ea for pine ones.
 
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@RobMcBee that cooler/coffee table is freaking sweet! Excellent work sir.
 
Wife was in the phase of palette crafts for a short bit before I burned the rest of them. Still got our headboard on our bed made of it. There's a brewery in RTP called Gizmo's that did their entire inside with it. Looks cool!
 
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