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Step 5Bundle Covers and Pallets
This company in southern Maine makes wine racks. They buy 20 foot long bundles of plantation-grown tropical hardwood from Malaysia. Supposedly it's "rainforest-safe" The bundles come wrapped top and bottom with same-species boards with odd dimensions to protect the rest. The pallets included straight-grained boards 20 feet long.
I stopped and asked about the pile. The manager was delighted. He couldn't use this in his factory because it was too thin or a slightly different color etc. He'd been wishing someone would use it for something. He was going to have to pay someone to cut it up and burn it. Then he showed me more piles where he'd saved the best boards from previous burns and gave me that too.
I piled my truck (the previous "Ugly Truckling") with enough wood to almost do a wheelie.
A lot of my instructables projects were made using that wood.
I stopped and asked about the pile. The manager was delighted. He couldn't use this in his factory because it was too thin or a slightly different color etc. He'd been wishing someone would use it for something. He was going to have to pay someone to cut it up and burn it. Then he showed me more piles where he'd saved the best boards from previous burns and gave me that too.
I piled my truck (the previous "Ugly Truckling") with enough wood to almost do a wheelie.
A lot of my instructables projects were made using that wood.
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