Free compost bins / raised plant beds

[Feltwell]

I have a number of pallet rings, that I've no use for now that seem a shame to just throw in the wood recycling skip.

Pallet rings are used to build packing cases - they are 4 pieces of timber, hinged at the corners, that sit on a pallet. Each ring is about 7" high and you build them up to whatever height you want, they interlock. Their original use was for transporting industrial machine parts.

They're ideal for building compost bins, as when you want to empty them you just lift the rings off. Not pretty but functional! Similarly they'd be good for raised beds on a vegetable patch.

I've about 30 rings, which was 7 packing cases and is enough for at least 4 compost bins - each are euro-pallet sizes (800 x 1200mm, or roughly 2'7" x 4' if you prefer proper measurements!) - plus 7 pallets if you wanted them.

Free to anyone who wants them, downside is you'd have to collect them from near Telford next weekend - or speak to me very nicely and if you're local I'll drop them off with my trailer for the petrol money.

 

[LadyArowana]

I have a number of pallet rings, that I've no use for now that seem a shame to just throw in the wood recycling skip.

Pallet rings are used to build packing cases - they are 4 pieces of timber, hinged at the corners, that sit on a pallet. Each ring is about 7" high and you build them up to whatever height you want, they interlock. Their original use was for transporting industrial machine parts.

They're ideal for building compost bins, as when you want to empty them you just lift the rings off. Not pretty but functional! Similarly they'd be good for raised beds on a vegetable patch.

I've about 30 rings, which was 7 packing cases and is enough for at least 4 compost bins - each are euro-pallet sizes (800 x 1200mm, or roughly 2'7" x 4' if you prefer proper measurements!) - plus 7 pallets if you wanted them.

Free to anyone who wants them, downside is you'd have to collect them from near Telford next weekend - or speak to me very nicely and if you're local I'll drop them off with my trailer for the petrol money.

How much are you charging to make them into a duck house ? :lol:

 

[Penners]

If I was closer, I'd snap them up, thanks Feltwell. But a 400-mile round trip...

 

[LadyArowana]

If you don't get any takers here ( and decide not to make a glorious duck house ) then maybe http://www.uk.freecycle.org/ .

 

[MdB]

If I was closer, I'd snap them up, thanks Feltwell. But a 400-mile round trip...

Ditto but Telford is 550 mile round trip for me....

 

[Feltwell]

How much are you charging to make them into a duck house ? :lol:

Oooooo, that depends. If you're an MP then at last £3k (I might do a small discount for the Lib Dems, they need the money!) :wink:

Freecycle is an option, but I want to get rid of them quickly! I'll stop off at the local allotments on the way home, see if there's anyone there and if they want them.

Distance is a bit of a problem for many of you! Not sure anyone's local to me - except possibly Graham (skier-hughes) - not sure though - or whoever it was that posted up that lovely timber-framed place for the first time the other day, which was somewhere near Shrewsbury.

 

[skier-hughes]

He's got too nice a house to have them
I'm not pushed for them, so if the allotments want them, let them have them.

 

[Feltwell]

Sold to Mr Skier-Hughes in exchange for eggs & jam! I don't know anyone at the local allotments anyway.

 

[LadyArowana]

in exchange for eggs & jam!

That sounds like an interesting recipe, is it one of Joce's ? I would like to apply for the "I am not an MP" discount, and only want a bird feeder rather than a duck house :lol:

 

[skier-hughes]

I have damson, plum, strawberry, raspberry, plum and apple, gooseberry and greengage.........
You can have a pot of blackcurrant ice cream as well, I'm afraid I've eaten all the mint, lemon, mint choc chip, strawberry, raspberry and cider ice cream and drunk all the cider as well

 

[Flyfisher]

Shame you're no longer in Feltwell, Feltwell - I'd have had them if you were.

May I ask where you got them? I've been looking for something similar for storing split firewood as my logpile is getting out of control and it would be a good way of keeping logs in some sort of 'age order' plus I could easily move them around with the tractor.

I've seen similar 'pallet crates' whizzing along on the back of agricultural-looking lorries but have not been able to find an actual source. I suppose I could make some, but they look like the sort of thing that companies throw away and it would be nice to be able to 'rescue' half a dozen or so.

 

[Moo]

They sound like just the thing I need for my allotment but I, too, am too far away.
I'd love to know where to get some, though.

 

[Feltwell]

I'm a long way from Feltwell these days!

I got them from my father's company - they come in from Denmark with military and marine pumps inside. Usually they get thrown away, it's not worth the cost of returning them. Not much use to you I'm afraid as the company is in Stoke-on-Trent.

They are a fairly common thing though - they're flexible as you can build them as high as you want and they fit on a standard "Euro" pallet (which is different to a UK pallet). When they're all placed on the whole lot is strapped with metal banding to hold it together.

Have you tried a roofing company? All my roof tiles turned up in quite sturdy crates that would be good for firewood.

 

[Flyfisher]

Thanks for the tip - I'll ask around.

 

[skier-hughes]

I'm a few jars of jam, some eggs and rhubarb lighter and have now got to spend the afternoon building raised beds and filling with sieved soil, hopefully will have some nice carrots later in the year, cheers Feltwell.

 

[Penners]

nice carrots

Presumably you'll construct a fleece fence around them, to keep the dreaded carrot-fly out?

 

[skier-hughes]

won't need to with the raised bed, carrot fly don't get too high so a 12" raised bed does the job nicely!!

 

[Feltwell]

I'm a few jars of jam, some eggs and rhubarb lighter and have now got to spend the afternoon building raised beds and filling with sieved soil, hopefully will have some nice carrots later in the year, cheers Feltwell.

No bother - fair exchange and all that! I can safely confirm that Sunday breakfast will be far more pleasureable with that little lot (well, maybe the Rhubarb can wait for later!) than it would be with a load of pallet rings.