the_soon_to_be Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 could someone tell me where i can get some pallets (for little cash or free), i live near Portsmouth any help is helpful thanks gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janson Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 back of tesco, sainsburys etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiltop Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 industrial estates are your best bet. there will be loads especially near haulage companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHolmes Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Check at the back of the loading bits of any supermarkets or big stores like Wilkos,esc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr ailsbury Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Don't keep nicking them from the same place or they'll notice and get security guards out and about checking that none have gone :deej: nick one or two from wilco's and stash emm somewhere then try tesco, then sainsburys etc etc until u have enough :bunny: ToM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe b Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 If i were you id go to an industrial estate because most of the people working theyre wont really give a rats arsewhat you do! :bunny: Cheers, Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHolmes Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Don't keep nicking them from the same place or they'll notice and get security guards out and about checking that none have gone :deej: nick one or two from wilco's and stash emm somewhere then try tesco, then sainsburys etc etc until u have enough :bunny: ToM ← The back of our sainsburys/halfords/wilkos/pound strecher didnt seem to mind us taking pallets - We had around 50 in the end, they saw where we had them so 1 day after about 4 months they sent the pallet company round to collect them :deej: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Geary Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 your nearest industrail estate there will be millions just sitting around, thats were all of our's is anyway. ben :bunny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_soon_to_be Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 cheers guys so i will go on a little trek round the industial estates "borrowing" a few each time, and about these blue ones, i heard you get a fine if you are caught with them is this true thanks gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 and about these blue ones, i heard you get a fine if you are caught with them ← Not really. If the company loose or brake any they have to pay the pallet company for replacements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Elding Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I'm guessing that the company will mind if you take the blue ones as they get money back for returning them. they shouldn't care about the plain wooden ones as they are worthless. Also these are usually lighter and easier to carry around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Also these are usually lighter and easier to carry around. ← But usually get destoryed in half the time :bunny: elce are all different sizes and do not stack well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Pearson Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 The other day we were cruising around an industrial estate in Taunton looking for pallets, and the easiest thing is when you see a great big stack, go and ask whoever owns them. About half the people we asked were more than happy to give us a dozen or so, some for reasons like they couldn't use EU standard pallets, or a few had the odd broken slat which they needed to get rid of. One guy said for every broken and buggered one we took, we could have two good condition blue pallets. Its just a case of, "see massive stack, go ask bloke with clipboard and hardhat." :bunny: Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 How about the 500 pallets that are next to your house in the builders site? Go ask them!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Sorry for Off Topic-ness, but wtf is Wilko's? A northern supermarket chain? :shifty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Nah, wilkinsons are all over. Google it to find more about it :shifty: Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamHolmes Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Sorry for Off Topic-ness, but wtf is Wilko's? A northern supermarket chain? :shifty: ← Surly theres a Wilkos in London B) Its a shop that sells most things, stationary, DIY, any other random crap :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I have never seen a Wilkinsons in my life. Maybe they don't have them in London, or anywhere else i've been in my life ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomN Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 The skate park where us lot ride, there's a fruit shop like side of the road and they get blue pallets then they dump them to their dumping area so we just get them and take em in to the skate area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishayton Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Sorry for Off Topic-ness, but wtf is Wilko's? A northern supermarket chain? :shifty: ← Wilkinsons. cheap general shoping place, sells everything, especially innertubes for 1. 50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Yeh, so after looking at the webshite and looking at the stores, there are about 10 in the outskirts of London. However, they're mostly in Essex (somewhere i don't tend to go often), or around Esher. None near me, or in central London. They're definatly a Northern based company, looking at the store distrubution over the UK. They all seem to be in retail parks and the like, and there arn't many of those where i live. I'm suprised Croydon doesn't have one though, it's super cheap/downmarket in Croydon. Anyways, sorry if you just read that, it has about zero relevance to anything. Sorry for the off topic-ness once again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_soon_to_be Posted August 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Sam, the builders use a small brick company that have to collect there pallets again so all i can have from there is the crappy bust one thanks gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forum mum Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 You could always go to a local builders merchants..we found that as long as you took them away and didnt return them when they were broken they were only too happy to help. Good Luck Love Sue xxxx :D :shifty: B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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