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Wooden Stringer Pallet Nailed from Pine
A pallet keeps stored goods off the ground: deck boards nailed across three or more parallel timbers, the stringers. Skids like it go back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Cut three pine stringers and a set of boards, and nail the boards across.
The picture: a wooden pallet 1.2 m by 1.0 m by 13 cm, with a work glove for scale.
Beginner
Two hours
Instructions
1
1
Cut the stringers
Cut the stringers
Saw three stringers 1.2 m long from pine about 75 by 100 mm, ends square.
Materials for this step:
Pine Lumber3 piecesTools needed:
Hand Saw
Ruler
Try Square2
2
Cut the deck boards
Cut the deck boards
Saw the boards to 1.0 m, enough to cover the top with gaps (step 5), and three or four for the bottom.
Materials for this step:
Pine Board12 piecesTools needed:
Hand SawRulerTry Square3
3
Nail the top
Nail the top
Lay the stringers on edge, one at each side and one in the middle. Nail the end boards first, check the frame is square, then fill in with even gaps, two nails into each stringer.
Materials for this step:
Iron Nails0.3 kgTools needed:
Cross Peen HammerTry SquareRuler4
4
Nail the bottom
Nail the bottom
Turn it over and nail three or four boards across the bottom, one at each end and one or two between.
Tools needed:
Cross Peen Hammer5
5
Deck boards and nails
Deck boards and nails
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Materials
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