How to build EASY outdoor furniture with a pallet!

For this project, we're going to grab us an old palette and cut a section of the palette out making sure to be careful we don't cut where there's any nails or screws. For these cuts we use one of our saws. This is a skill saw, it makes good straight cuts. What we need to do is look at the side of the pallet and make sure we measure that we have the same overhang; it's two inches so we're going to mark it on one side. We're going to take it over to the other side and mark the same two inches.

Let's go ahead and grab a board and make a nice straight edge. This is going to be the line we cut on. Use the skill saw for this one because it cuts straight. We're going to go right down the line, don't forget to use some eye and ear protection anytime you're using a saw. Once we get it all the way cut through, we want to make sure that we get our area nice and clean but we got to separate these units. Turn them over and we've got four more boards on the back side to cut.

We're going to use the same two inches and mark a straight line. Again, just matching with the one underneath, and this one.

Let's use a jigsaw, because I want to demonstrate both different types of cutting tools. This jigsaw is easy for small projects and it goes right through. Separate it, but don't throw it away, we'll need those boards. Take the section that we cut and we need to find the middle that is how we're going to get our two ends perfectly aligned.

Then we use a jigsaw to get it cut through and separate those. These are going to be our sides, now what we're going to do is take that part that we cut off earlier and separate it and remove some of the boards with the nails in them, they're very easy to do I can just pull up on them and they come right off.

Now you've got some nails in there, though we need to remove those. It's easy to do, just go ahead and grab a hammer and you're just going to start tapping on the back side of the nail. Just keep going and eventually it's going to give and push right through. Do that with both of the nails. Some of them might have three on them. Once you get them pushed through, grab the back of that hammer which is called the claw and give it a yank. You're going to pull that nail right out, easy squeezy, save those boards and we're going to place them across the top of the two pieces we cut. Line them up, and as you can see, I alternated the boards with the nails so they're not all lined up together. This one took different boards put it all on there.

Then, I used a nail gun just to put it in place you can use a screw if you want but this one works perfectly with a nail gun. I just lined them all up get them nice perfectly straight after putting the first and last board in and then just use one and a half inch little nails. Put them right in and it makes a wonderful top for our furniture.

This thing is going to be so strong it doesn't take much to hold it together and also because it's Hometalk we've got to make something really nice and neat for this. So take a little bit extra the boards that we have left over and we're going to build a little bit of a shelf and that's going to be for our bottom just line these little nine inch boards up all along. Again using the same nail gun that we have and we're going to put it all together.

This one is easy to do, I measured it just nice for the bottom and look at this, it slides right in. We're not going to secure it because it's time to show you this final project. This is great for outdoors It looks rustic and it's great for cooking s'mores and making some hot chocolate especially with that sliding shelf.

I hope you guys enjoyed this project as much as I did making it I hope this inspired you to build your own palette or scrap wood furniture.

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