My pallet breaker and I visited one of the shops I make deliveries at to take apart some pallets.
This is what I got out of 3 large pallets.
I do need to pull the nails yet.
Some 1" pine and 5/4" cherry. The cherry has a lot of sapwood but will work fine for the project I have it in mind for.
A bug eaten oak board.
Once I cut the buggy part out I'll still have a decent board.
A couple of them really had some width to them. The wide ones are cupped pretty good so ill just rip them down on the table saw before running them through the planer. They are 5/4" I'm shooting for 1" finished thickness.
This one was 15" wide.
All the boards are 60" long.
A bucket of spiral ardox nails. I account for every nail I pull so they dont end up in the tires of our vehicles.
The only 3 boards I rejected. When the shop owners give me permission to take apart pallets I take everything I dismantle so as not to leave a mess. If I cant use some of the boards I throw them out at work. If I had a wood stove I'd burn them.
Wood is everywhere and it's free, you just have to learn where to look for it. I could have filled my truck with stuff like this.