BAM! Mr. Tarrou your crazy-haired woodworker and math teacher here
not really giving an instructional video video here but just wanting to drop an idea of how you
can keep your eyes open and save things from going into the landfill as we're driving down the road
my wife is constantly telling me to stop the car she sees something a little treasure that needs
to be saved we have here a two bin stainless steel sink we have just a small portion of some two by
four you can see it's kind of all green and brown and got a little bit of mold on it here that used
to be horizontal uh structure for some fencing we've got wood that was not actually going to
the landfill but was going to just simply be burned uh from some pallets we've got
the sort of underneath structure the joists if you will of some pallets and um a combination of wood
that came from the top of the pallets and fencing what did we do with this well we're not done but
we are in the process of making well a potting table and when it's not going to be used for
a putting table it's always also going to be used for an entertainment table where you can plug up
the holes of the sink and fill it with ice and any kind of refreshments that you would like to enjoy
and when you want to turn this old moldy wood or rough sawn lumber into something smooth and free
of splinters that you'll be proud to show your friends you're going to want to use a belt sander
my wife found this belt sander in the state sale for 15 15 are you crazy look at this old craftsman
belt center it kicks butt you get some 60 grit sandpaper on that thing
and it is going to cut your sanding time down to a fraction and i got a lot of muck on there
because some of that wood was pressure treated of course you're going to need a square a drill
or an impact driver if you got it reciprocating saw now this is i just bought this one it's a not
super inexpensive one and a circular saw now you can get a little bit fancier you can use a chop
saw you can use any multitudes of tools that you have at your disposal but really to make something
like this which again isn't completely done this is just dry fitted together for the video
but to turn that trash into a treasure you just need a lot of time some patience creativity and
really some very basic hand tools with that 60 grit sandpaper you can turn that incredibly rough
uh wood into a nice smooth surface that still has some detail you can see the saw marks here here
is the two by four which was covered in mold and green muck which uh again we're not trying to take
this down to pure virgin wood we'd like to have a table here that's still got some character to it
again this this wood that is more likely i'm sure pine that was the top of a pallet we could get the
length long enough on them uh by cutting them off of the with the reciprocating saw and then doing
some sanding we have a table that is made up of basically everything garbage going to the landfill
pallet wood going to the landfill this is four by four pressure treated fencing that yeah it was
rotten on the bottom where it was in the ground but you cut off the rot and here we are making
a 37 38 inch tall potting table again with wood that was discarded as trash now take some pictures
when we're done but this is a rough mock-up of what we're talking about we have a 33-inch long
sink we're gonna have uh basically just under two feet of workspace here on the right look
at the color in that wood it's beautiful we've got a table which is 57 inches long
the frame is 24 inches deep it is going to be about 38 or just a hair under 38 inches tall
to be a nice working height for the friend that we're making this table for so she doesn't have to
lean over while she's working and the shelf at the bottom is about 16 to 17 inches
from the base so this is a nice look you can see here where um i did i cleaned up and squared off
the supports of the pallet so we left a little bit of the shape in there the palette so you can
see that this is all recycled wood and nailed it together with a nail gun i mean this is an
awesome piece of furniture in my mind that you know just with some time it is not time efficient
to use old really rough cuts on uh lumber it takes a lot of sanding and prep to get
something nice out of it but when you're done you realize just with a day or two during the weekend
using up some sandpaper you can have a really nice product to make a piece of furniture to
make for your yard or the interior of your home this of course is going to be outside
in the yard so there you go we'll have some finished product but again just a reminder that
you know we don't need to throw everything into the landfill a lot of what we dispose
of is still useful and has a lot of life to it now with this table being made of wood that some
of which is pressure treated some of which is just heat treated we are definitely going
to need to put a sealer on this wood and my wife is letting me know to remind you that the
pallet some of the pallets we found by the side of the road the fence would we found by the side of
the road but there's a lot of small businesses in your area that are going to have pallets
that they don't have a regular recycling process and they're just trying to get rid of so you know
maybe ask them first but yeah you definitely want to ask them first but you may look into
uh like tile shops flooring um shops we have a place local that
builds and sells cabinetry and a book bindery place all of which are happy to get rid of their
pallets when we find time to use them any use form and that will be the same for you
you