I spent a couple of hours yesterday cutting up some of these old pallets, it would have been better to have used a hand saw instead of a power circular saw. The wood would have warmed me twice then according to Thoreau!
The pallets are nailed together with spiral nails which makes it difficult to pull the nails, and many of them are rusted in place anyway. A good number of these do get recycled and a very large number of these pallets wind up in landfills around the country. A society that thinks it is economical to make pallets that often get used only a couple of times then gets rid of them often wastefully, needs to rethink what is truly economical. When time becomes more important than resources that are part of the ecology of our planet we need to rethink what the longer time implications are.
I will use these pallets to help me keep warm and to help keep my use of propane lower. Now I have to rethink how i deal with the ashes because there will be nails in them. Now I will need to make a sieve.
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