Lots of this had rotten out so replaced that with some pallets.
About 50 of the olive trees were pruned, and this is that. Blade snapped on the bandsaw else it’d be brimming.
Still enough for a couple of winters though.
Here’s the snapped blade, I know you’re all dying to see…
You’re solving the local homeless rodent situation too!
Eh, I don’t think there can be stacked firewood without mice nests. Sometimes I almost feel bad when I go and get a crate and I tear down what looks like elaborate living room arrangements, nutshell leftovers, floor from moss and all.
I had a hollow dead tree I took down, a small one, this winter, and getting it back to the house a mouse crawled out of it all groggy from the fall. Probably died they don’t do well relocating in the winter I hear. I stopped taking any old dead wood that the woodpeckers could use though, I’ve the big pileated woodpeckers then smaller ones.
Interestingly something killed all my squirrels last year, 2 dozen maybe from them stealing years of my bird seed, all seemingly raptured, except for what might have been a dismembered corpse I found.
Stocking the larder for the barn cat
Pallets are not made to last outside, so they’ll rot in about three years. Espicially the ones that touch the ground. You could paint it with some treatment (or petrolium, as my parents used to do) to make it last longer.
To be honest, it looks like a structure that’s only meant to last as long as the woodpile lasts. But since you’ve repaired it, that might not be your actual intention.
Pallets are free.
Plus this place is trying to be organic so doesn’t use any chemicals for the general day farm life.
No fertilisers, pesticides or owt like that.
Doubt they’ll start painting pallets with nasty chemicals when they’re so readily available and easily replaceable.
Pallets are usually stuffed full of chemicals so the presence of the pallets in and of themselves likely negates that desire
A lot are heat treated instead, and marked with HT, due to an international standard ISPM-15
These are heat treated pallets.
Then it looks like a perfectly permanent temporary fix
It’s great because when it needs to be replaced - free kindling!
It looks like you’re in a fairly dry area … could the pallets be filled with dirt and done up in almost an adobe style?
Drive some posts through that and put a metal roof on it and baby you got a stew going
Aha, that context makes a lot of sense now.
Some pallets aren’t…there are a lot that are packed with chemicals to make them not rot… it’s why you shouldn’t burn them if you don’t know.
Some people use motor oil mixed mixed with diesal to treat them I think. Or creosote if you have it.