Ignore the haters - Why I still use PALLETS? 

Now that turned out great mate, that nice authentic HUON PINE, from the little island of Tasmania that I have had for 25 years….. was the icing on the cake. Did you burn the live edge? Cheers ⚓️🫡🇦🇺

Hello from Montreal Canada. Every time you speak of woodworking and pallets I feel the exact same. Seeing trashy free wood become something beautiful is truly satisfying. Makes you feel good... on the inside!

If you get lumber - well, they CALL it "lumber" - from *Home Depot* you have to "take home, and flatten it, joint it, rip it, thickness it, and sand it" and in some cases, just scrap it!! Seriously! Some of that crap is about as useful as fire wood!

Thanks for what you do and post Mark. I started with wall shelves and moved on to shoe racks, a plate rack, pirate chest (with a coopered top). So far, the last project was a bathroom sink vanity. You have been a big influencer in my hobby. Carry on M8. Take care & stay safe.

Nothing fancy to say but….. thanks for the time and effort you put into your videos and the encouragement you give to us all to give it a go. Cheers….. Pete

Love the 3 bonus tips 💚make me fell good on the inside ..

Just found a local warehouse giving away thousands of pallets every day. I haven't bought wood in weeks lol

Just about everything I've learned about woodworking I've learned using pallet wood and I have always given exactly zero f's what others think. I have a productive shop now filled with benches, cabinets, drawers, jigs and just about anything you can think of all made of free pallet wood. It has been all free and taught me so much. I would advise anyone to get into pallet wood even if to get a new perspective on it.

Haters gonna hate, no matter what you make. I have never used a pallet but obviously enjoy the methods, humor, and projects. Your no waste attitude is the way to be. The sliding door cabinet is really cool project.

Just get started!? I'm just *going* to get started! Excellent video. Learned a lot! Thank you

So glad I watched this. I wasn't going to. It popped up and I'm at work and thought, I'm just too busy. Almost swiped it off my screen... Then ...by some weird chance in the chaos of space time. I managed to get a bit of time to scratch myself and saw your upload. I've been a subscriber for ages. I have some tools and wanted to get into it. But just have no time. After watching this mate. I'm going to make time. So I guess that means. I've just started. Crazy thing, I even live in the same town as you.

I get all the free pallets I could ever want from my work. Some of it is trash but a lot of it is really pretty. The guys have started saving the pretty ones for me!! Love your builds!!

Much Love, thank you for being the stand up builder you are.

Thank you mark. I have made hallway tables, floating shelves and coffee tables and more! All because of you. Now I have something to do during these long Alaska winters.

It's not a bug, it's a feature! Pop some magnets in the accidental upside down trays and hide your 'special' check squares there 😂. What an awesome little unit, and great video mate. Looking forward to the chatty unofficial version

Hey Mark I just want to say thank you, between you and Jasper i have learned soooo much and am taking the first step in just getting started. I've already started collecting and breaking down pallets. I have watched just about all of your videos and many of which i have watched over and over again. I love all the work you do with pallets and i honestly love seeing you mess up on projects. It helped me realized how its okay to mess up on projects and has helped me realize that i can work on my own projects as well. I just glued up my first small slab this weekend about 1 3/4" thick. Need to make a few adjustments but it was very satisfying to do. So thank you for everything you do and hopefully here soon ill be starting a channel as well showing off some of the unique ideas i have for pallet projects.

Thank you for making me feel, "normal." I just recently started my woodworking journey, and all I can swing, right now is pallet wood. You're 100 % correct that it's WAY too easy to let the sensationalized elitism of some social media presences, make you feel bad or "less than" by using pallets. But I've already tapped into something new, in my heart, with woodworking, and I truly appreciate your positivity and words of encouragement. Thank you, again.

You are a inspiration promoting good mental health mate thank you 😅

❤ thật là tuyệt tôi sinh ra ở Việt Nam một quốc gia nằm ở châu á cũng rất gần Australia quê hương của bạn. Tôi cũng rất thích sử dụng những sản phẩm gỗ tốt lâu năm đã qua sử dụng để tái sử dụng biến chúng thành những sản phẩm diy có ích và góp phần bảo vệ môi trường vì nếu chúng bị đốt hoặc bỏ mặc cho hư hỏng ngoài thiên nhiên. Trong khi đó chúng ta lại phải mua một số lượng gỗ mới giá thành cao chỉ để đóng một chiếc kệ để giầy dép ô che mưa ☔ thì thật lãng phí và.

Great video as always. Thankyou for passing on your motivation and passion for making. Not sure I would have started without you giving me the confidence to just get started. As someone who genuinely has no idea what he's doing, cheer mate. Hopefully you can make it down to the makers meetup so I can shout you a few beers ;)

I have 4 old growth pine 2x4s from pallets. Uncommonly nice stuff. I've also found cherry, oak, ash, and hackberry pallet boards. 100% worth it.

Alright Dainsey. Hopefully you see this. Quick Off Topic question. So I see you have a day job like myself. Do the people at work know who you are on RU-vid?

I'm doing it wrong. I love pine wood and pallets. But even more exotic pallet wood or "just" wood. And, instead of soon moving to a big farm from 1770 with a huge and isolated workshop the former owner, a pro woodworker with 2-3 full-time employees, built by and for himself, which my amazing neighbors just have bought, up north, on a 45 square miles big windy island in the middle of the ocean, I should have won the lottery and bought a farm for us in a more sunny place, where it's easier to find pallets, and certainly more exotic wood (than pine). Fx. on a slightly bigger island, 3 MIO square miles, down south! Another bummer. Even the smaller island only is only 7 hours in a car and 90 minutes on a ferry away, it costs me a fortune to move almost all my things up there. Almost, because I'll have to leave 99,9 percent of all the (free) pallet wood and all other pieces of (free) wood, incl. several solid tabletops, I've collected over the last 4-5 years for future woodworking projects. The last 0,1 percent I've planned to hide in boxes under my books, clothes, etc, and take with me! But, luckily, I'm moving up there in less than 2 months, 3 months before my neighbors are coming, and I'll try to find some good spots to place my new pallet and other (free) wood I hope I'll be able to find there. And pine will be fine. When Jesper can make amazing things of pallets found here, I too can try and eventually make a few things I like, and I can use in my private rooms ... Down under, I failed this time, and with a spine, I've broken, little by little, by lifting too much and in the worst way over the last 40 + years, I might not come to Australia to improve my woodworking skills, even if I win the lottery, but perhaps in my next life, if I'm born as a free human ... And I can and will also use the inspiration I've found in a few, but very talented, very creative Australian woodworkers videos. And I just realized, I DID win the lottery!! More than once. In fact, many times!! And some HUGE prizes! The biggest ones of all. First of all, I had the most amazing family, parents and siblings, sadly all gone by now. And I have an amazing daughter, and 3 amazing kids from my siblings. AND, within the last 6 months, my neighbors decided to make their dream come true 10 years sooner than planned, and buy a farm on this island with enough space also for me and my cats, when they were told I had to move. And 2 other neighbors have tried to buy the house I live in, and have rented for almost 13 years, but because the owner now is forced to sell and I to move, because they also didn't want me to move away... But the owner of "my" house has sat the price WAY to high for them, because she bought it in 2008, a few months before everything changed, and houses overnight only were worth half or less... And therefore, Læsø, (Laesoe) here we come! (PS: Save a few pallets for me!) From a very thankful sub, who can't wait to unpack all my woodworking tools and make some shop furniture, as the shop is empty, and even the dust collector is gone ... But that's fine. More than fine. It's PERFECT!! Everything is PERFECT (once I'm done packing!!) All my best wishes to all of you! ❤❤❤ /Pia

Somewhere near you there will be a company selling/installing doors and windows... all the doors they take out go to waste. Beautiful straight grained, tropical, stable, planed square TEAK. I can't use what I get, fast enough, yard is full of it. Great recycling, You will never be sorry for knocking on that door (!)

Love your videos! Will say though, recycling wood (not pallets but reclaimed and such) has many times cost me more than purchased wood in saw, bandsaw, planer and jointer blade from hitting the nails and junk the metal detector miss! As a note, heavily rusted, 100+ year old nails don’t set off many metal detectors but toast blades

Did just that, I got started...! Collected pallets, started to break them down, it's tough at first as each new step is just that, new, never done by you before. Pallet buster makes it so much easier, and while I had a table saw, the thicknesser was a welcome birthday present. Latest addition was a cyclone dust extractor I made, and I'm into the first hall table. I have other things in my head to make, and I see new projects in every day settings. But the focus it to make and sell, aim to cover my costs, then carry on. Thanks for the motivation 👍

Gawdamighty, but I love watching your videos. I love scavenging crap and turning it into something new and useable. You have taken that skillset to a whole 'nother level, and I am grateful. I'm an American living in Portugal re-starting my shop from absolute scratch. Thank you for reminding me I don't have to start with store-bought. Question: what are you using to blow the nails out? Thanks.

Fantastic!!!! And love your personality!!!! You seem like a great guy!

Hello from Las Vegas Nevada.. just wanted to say I love your videos.. don't stop doing what you're doing brother.. you are an inspiration mate 💯🍻

Another enjoyable and informative video, Mark. I especially enjoy #10, the problem solving. I try to remember it when I a project frustrates me. By the way, my Mrs. is coming around to the palletwood aesthetic. She'd been skeptical for a while but after I made a computer monitor shelf for my desk, a shoe storage/bench for the mud room and a raised dog bowl holder, she actually requested a window table for her indoor herb garden. Anyway, thanks as usual for the great content and keep well.

I made a bar height table from “horrible” free pallet wood, some discarded metal, had a great time doing it and sold it for $525 CDN. The stop using pallets people can’t ruin my fun.

Pro tip: if you don't want to endanger your router/jointer/etc. blades with bits of stone and metal buried in the wood (7:35), pre-process each face with a demo blade in a circular saw set in your router sled. Once you've seen that a particular face is clear, you can process it further with confidence. ...or spend a lot of time regrinding/replacing your bits and blades. You do you. :shrug:

Marvelous piece, Mark! Having the end trays in the "top", allows you to use it in either configuration. Some will like the live edge as the bottom, and some will like the live edge as the top. always give the people options. I know it's for your personal use, but now you have the option to change the look and still have the function! Keep on "Doing You" and let the haters take a long walk off a short pier(jetty)!

Definitely started a few weeks back, watching your videos and a couple other content creators. Love the way you approach woodworking. Great content !

I love free but the major for me is the environmental saving. I belong to lots of wood working groups on FB. Every time I see a group post on MB = bad I post and link your MB facts video. Good feedback. No answer for the ones who then post you don’t know what has been on the pallets so you shouldn’t use any.

Lovely build. Is there any way of adding some kind of hinged or magnet-ed door/flap to the recesses you cut in the top section? Flush finished so you can keep stuff in there too? Just for maximum storage?

Very cool video. And very will said, especially the last few points. Excercise being the highest when I also use hand plainers to processnthe boards. So keep them videos coming

Been waiting for another video. Great job as always. Glad you’re well, and thanks for being you.

Your best video I've seen. And I think I watched them all. Great stuff.

That was cool! I’m working on putting my shop together and I’m drawing inspiration from your videos. Soon I want to show you some of the things I’ve done. I thought about what I wanted, then I got started. Thank you.

Love your work mate, I'd love to see you do a comparison video of a pallet wood Vs store bought wood build, exact project with a price Vs time and finished product

you are so right, I stopped watching malecki, bourbon dude etc; they clearly dont give a F about the environment

Nice project Mark. And thanks for the reminder that free really is free. It might cost some time, but that time is well used. Cheers.

You are awesome! Thanks for your content attitude and advice!

I am in the process of accumulating more workshop tools both honed and power… I am new to woodworking and love your philosophy in regards to reusing wood and pallets… love the tips and tricks and out side the box ideas.

Can't go wrong with hardious fuckarious, it's my favourite hardwood

Pallets in the south US are frail, thin, and you're lucky if they are in good shape. I gave up.

Really enjoyed that fella, thanks

Hey Dainer - seeing the Minecraft pattern - could you make a QR-code detail out of pallets?

Love what you did what that. I'm not too keen on taking pallets apart but I do like free wood. I live close to quite a few stores that have pallets around and can probably get some for free. Might have to pay a couple bucks for some. My daughter knows a place where they take the pallets apart and just sell you the lumber for cheap.

Turn this over so your catch trays will be woodside and particularly will be your top. Whoops just watched the end 👍

I love your technique of slice it all. The result is amazing.Could explain the advantages instead of just joint the board together?

Been wood working for a few years now. I find pallet wood to be a little easier to work with, and yes, its free! I still dabble into the hard wood for cutting boards. Theres a soft in me for free wood lol. Great build! Cheers from West Texas

I don't think you made a mistake with those pockets on the top Mark. Its an opportunity to allow you to store taller things! You can thread in and stand up a can or a bottle or something that is slightly taller than what the inside would have otherwise allowed, and it will fit now whereas before it wouldn't have :) Nice work again, thanks for the Video

I wish pallets were still free in south Africa 🤣we paying upwards of 50 ZAR for one pallet

Great video Dainer I have a workshop myself but haven’t been in their for months due to my mental health and not having any ideas or motivation to make anything have tried before and nothing really sells. Might sell my gear tbh as I just don’t use it

Awesome job Mark. You are my second favourite woodworking channel (Woodshop Junkies😁) . Definitely my favourite pallet timbertreewoodlumber channel. I have only made some pine boxes for the missus to paint, so far, from the stacks of pallets I collect from solar panels. I'm off to the garage now to start stripping some pallets I've been saving. Sunday morning thicknessing seems a good payback for the neighbour's dogs keeping me awake

I don’t know how you do it but every new video is more entertaining and heartwarming than the last one. Congratulations on another amazing project! Love the result!

It's been awesome seeing your journey, glad I could go along for the ride with you!

Just getting started and I enjoyed your video, remodeling a house and need as much free stuff as I can along with ideas.

I love the piece you made. Well done! And as always a deep message within. Best regards 😊

I was truly waiting for #14, what now🤣 great video thanks.

Well done Dainzey! i just got started (on youtube) and am having a blast! wood turning and basic wood projects. you are an inspiration to many including my self JUST.... GET... STARTED

I like the attitude as much as the many projects you have made . This is a cool channel ! . Thank you .

I get some awesome pallets from work, they are 4'x8' and solid oak. Laminate sheets come on them. Out of those I get 3 - 2×4s, 2 - 1x6s, and 4 - 1x4s. I also pallets from Corian counter top material. Those pallets are 31"×12'. Out of those I GET 2 - 12' 2 1/2"×3 1/4" white oak or cherry and 18 - 31"×1"×3 1/2" white oak, red oak or cherry. All beautiful free hardwood.

I get some nice oak pallets from my local tractor supply all the time the cherry never looks good

I built my shop cabinets years ago from a huge Motorola pallet box back when I worked for them. It felt amazing when my Dad told me how impressed he was with what I built. I still use pallets when I find a good one. Love the tambour doors!

Mark, as always a great build, put together in a ‘top’ video. I just love your sense of humour and presenting style. Keep going and thanks!

Hey Dainsy, shout-out from Pukerua Bay, NZ. I found some Hardius F'ckairius today! Very happy. I think it's even rarer here than in Aussie. Cheers for the inspiration!

True where free but in south Africa we must pay for it R40 a pallet

I knew that I needed to reWATCH this video. I have a little router, and needed to create flat stuff... I also have 2 pieces of angle iron which you just demonstrated how to make them into a rail system. PERFECT for me!

you have great ideas and up cycling, I've made picture frames and watch boxes from pallet wood myself, and the effort is satisfying I've had luck in finding redwood. I love your attitude.

Thankyou, you're such a kind man. 😇 ✨️🙌

Just came across your channel today and I've already subbed. I love watching woodworking... creation of new items, restoration of old items, modern twists on pieces, even woodturning into bowls and vases, etc. I loved woodshop in 8th grade (I'm a woman, btw) and am just at the time in my life when I may be able to start playing with working on projects myself. I've done a few minor things over the years, but now that I'm just about done raising my family, I may carve out a workshop in our shed and see what I can do. ;) Thanks for the great idea of starting with free wood and all the reasons I should.

You have no idea! I recently started my journey. Where’s my life is at this moment, I was breaking down to my fiancée. Lost and overwhelmed with myself. I was explaining to her how everything I am doing is so over saturated and it seems like there’s no point at times. I just gotta do me! Forget about Brian making the super resin epoxy table out of driftwood, forget John killing it with his artwork and tattoo talent, forget about all of the music artists of today. We all hold value in all we do somewhere! Just do you! I can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and get after it and forget the noise in my brain, just do me and spend time with my daughter while I finish my workbench up💪🏼 cheers for the words that weren’t necessary to come out of your mouth in this video but did more for me than you know brotha!!❤️‍🔥

Love the video, as always! But mate, when you were handling those tiny pieces on your flippy-uppy router - it sent shivers down my spine. That looked a lot like the finger eater 3000. Be safe!

Hi Mark I am an Aussie just like you .Ive retied from working for other people & Im venturing into my pashion of woodworking . Ive tinkered over the years making things with wood from pallets as i had easy access to then through my work. Ive looked at many youtube videos on Funiture made from pallets & found that your vidoes explaining how you started have been a Insparation keep up the good work & i for one Em looking forword to watching many more.

At least we know who the culprit is for the global pallet shortage now

Stumbled on your videos about a month ago mate. No idea how they came up, I've never done wood working in my life. Have been looking for a hobby other than video games and thought I'd just get started. I built my work bench out of pallets, then on to a mallet, hot wheels track for the lad, and now I'm making my second bench for the thickneser i just purchased. It's been such an amazing adventure so far, and i'm learning something new every day. and fuck me it really does, feel good in here.

Subscribed to your channel after watching this video (the first time I've seen you) solely because of how positive you are. Keep up the good work.

One of the first videos I saw was Jasper Makes, which after a few videos led me to you. I started woodworking about 8 to 9 months ago and it was the two of you that made me start my whole woodworking journey using pallet wood. Thank you for showing me an easy way to get wood without paying for it, if it wasn't for that tidbit of information I wouldn't have been able to build the things I have due to the lack of funds to buy wood. I do however, use a mixture of pallet wood and store bought wood for my projects but it's nice to know that if I don't have the money to buy it then I can still create with pallet wood that I might not be able to purchase. Like you said, you do you! I also hope to be on RU-vid soon! I still have to figure out how to get good sound and I can't use my phone because it's full and would take days if not weeks to clear off to use, maybe eventually. I'm also waiting on a laptop that's being given to me but I'm so close to being online! You guys are amazing and I just wanted to say thank you for showing me a viable way to keep doing what I love! Stay safe and Happy Building 💯😁

I just got started... Thanks to you 😊 Cheers

Thanks Mark for your inspiration. Just starting out. Started with a skanky pallet & turning it into a multi strip cutting board. It’s actually starting to look like something. Cheers

Ive been saving pallets for years using them only sparingly while trying to find direction on how to utilize them to the best. Your videos have been truly inspiring for me. Ive made a few pieces over the years but have always felt over my head. I always seem to over complicate things, your videos bring me back down to the simplification of it all. I love your videos mate!!!!

Love your videos, I spent 2hours stripping a blue pallet for a lemonade stand with just a hammer 😂 but completely forgot about that pry bar tool!

Thank you for what you do as a new woodworker just trying to get started you have become my favorite channel to watch because of all the amazing inspiration you give and the beautiful and amazing things you make a true artist and craftsmen. Keep up the amazing work and Thank you for sharing your passion

Brilliant episode again Dainsy. You are an inspiration sir, thank you for continuing to create the content for us. Love the attitude and humour, the attention to detail and determination. The motivational suport and encouragement to just have a go. Cheers for it all ........ Nice one 👍👍

I liked the first version better. Maybe you could just flip it upside down? So that partical board would be on top?

Seeing the amount of glue ups you obviously do, you may consider a glue roller, they come with a built in refillable glue caddy. Save time and glue.

Awesome thanks for such a great video

Does the free slab have nails?… Love ya work!

Small tip. Could be helpful if it suits you. When using the pneumatic denailer (I use the same one you have) I use a bucket to catch nails too and I find it useful to have it partially filled with water so the nails don't hit the other nails or debris and bounce back out. Water slows the down enough to stay in the bucket.

Lessons in pallet wood and life. Nice message throughout, you are an upbeat breath of fresh air. New sub.

I just got started too!! I’ll be keeping an eye out for pallets on my drive home from work today! 😜

As a pallet wood creator myself, and one who has been in a bit of a slump as of late, I thank you once again for being an inspiration!

palletwood furniture - junk furniture

USE A MAGNET ON EVERY SINGLE PIECE BEFORE PUTTING IN A MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cannot stress this enough

How to you prevent glue being present glue showing on the surface of a slab and having it affect the any protective coating and the final aesthetic?

Awesome vid - check square.

"I don't know why I cut out the cubbies on the top piece" you just did that to make it lighter 👍