If you dug a hole and dropped them in wouldn’t they rot quicker? Weeds would also grow up and through them unless you put some sort of membrane down first, then the need for chicken wire for grip. There are endless uses for repurposed pallets but making a path from them doesn’t strike me as the best use, but your allotment your pallets!
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My sod-in-law ( no, that isn’t a typo) laid a path in his back garden with pallets. The children were forever getting splinters in their knees, but worse, the local vermin, ( no, not him) set up home under them and it took me months to get rid of the pallets and vermin after he left the family home.
I agree with @Nollie. Unless you get the trench deep enough to line with some weed fabric and a good layer of grit for drainage the pallet path will rot in no time and I also think it will be really difficult to get it level enough to be safe and not wobble or be a trip hazard.
Here are some much better ideas for the pallets:-
Plenty more on Pinterest I'm sure.
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@Obelixx and @Nollie are right. You'd have to line the trench to mitigate the water ingress, and to prevent it all falling apart. It's just more expense too. Wood laid directly on soil won't last very well. You could use it as edging for a more conventional path - gravel, bark etc. Many pallets are good quality timber, which is why they can be re used for all sorts of things, but it would be getting a lot of wear and tear as a path, so they'd deteriorate more rapidly.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
again.thankyou for all of this amazing advice and kind words of encouragement!!! having gone on YouTube there s a great video of how to take them apart and use the planks. which is just what I need.
Blue pallets are owned by chep. They will pick them up and they reuse them.
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I think technically they are only rented and companies have to pay to use them. Our local businesses sell their other pallets back to the trade but give these ones away to avoid paying for them.
As they are supposed to reused they are very hard to get apart easily.
finished them last weekend!really pleased.he cut them and dug small trenches either side to drop in the heavy ends.can someone make it not upside down please?!thankyou!!
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Here are some much better ideas for the pallets:-
Plenty more on Pinterest I'm sure.
It's just more expense too. Wood laid directly on soil won't last very well. You could use it as edging for a more conventional path - gravel, bark etc.
Many pallets are good quality timber, which is why they can be re used for all sorts of things, but it would be getting a lot of wear and tear as a path, so they'd deteriorate more rapidly.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think technically they are only rented and companies have to pay to use them. Our local businesses sell their other pallets back to the trade but give these ones away to avoid paying for them.
As they are supposed to reused they are very hard to get apart easily.