making a pallet compost bin

**SarzWix** · 08-03-2008, 03:50 PM

Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post

Wish I'd seen this first:
Digitalseed: Wooden Pallet Bin

I'm glad I haven't started building mine yet, obviously I'd have got it completely wrong without those instructions

I was wondering whether to buy a few tree stakes to put inside the pallet corners to hold them up (does that make sense? can't think how else to explain it). Now you've said how easy it is, I definately am!!

**bubblewrap** · 08-03-2008, 07:24 PM

Just a word of warning don't use any blue "CHEP" pallets Chep will prosecute anybody they catch using(who is not a registered)/damaging their pallets.

Select your region

**Flummery** · 08-03-2008, 07:45 PM

Thought of stakes at the corner myself Sarah. Might only need 2 sides as there is a corner there already. - fence type of thing.

**pigletwillie** · 09-03-2008, 04:23 PM

I always use tree stakes for the corners as it makes for a very strong structure and also allows you to have slats for the front that build up as you fill the bin.

**gardenplot** · 09-03-2008, 04:51 PM

Hay thanks Two Sheds for finding Digitalseed: Wooden Pallet Bin
will need to make one myself for the lotties, hope you hand is ok

**NOG** · 09-03-2008, 05:27 PM

Go to Sainsburys and buy a cordless drill...they are knocking the Draper 12v out at
�11....go to the Diy shop and buy a bag of 8 x 2 1/2 posidrive screws.

Go to plot and put your pallelts togather this way:

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The screw them togater with the screws...to get your compst out just take the screws out of the front.

I line my pallets with plastic first, I use emply compost bags. It keeps the heat in.

You could use posts in the corner but you will have some fun banging them in.

**Farmer_Gyles** · 09-03-2008, 06:29 PM

i'm gonna go pallet hunting soon - 3 daleks just not enough!
saw somewhere that someone had built a "toolbox" out of old pallets - i fancy doing that too - and was wondering if i could use pallets to make a new shed .... hmmmm .... anyone done that?

**ConstantGardener** · 09-03-2008, 08:17 PM

I now have three pallet compost bins and have learned through trial and error what works best (for me, anyway!)

- the ones with the slats closer together are better - others let the compost fall through
- I never tried the bolts idea, that sounds interesting, but the way I've done it is to nail on two lines of 2x2 timber, about 1cm apart, inside the front edges. This makes a "slider" and you can cut bits of gravel board/planks to fit and just slide them in as you need them. Then just slide out again to get the compost out

- I found 2" round fenceposts work best to support the back of the bin: just drive into the ground through the gap in the "legs" of the pallet (hard to describe what I mean here!) They do give it some stability, especially if you then nail the pallet to them as well
- another tip: if you get some more wood, at least 6" square, and lay it flat across the corners where two pallets meet, then nail it in wherever you can, it makes them a lot more stable and they don't wobble around so much.

Pallet composting is fab!

**Snadger** · 09-03-2008, 08:30 PM

I have a no-nails approach!

Position you pallets then get a couple of fencing pins per pallet. You know the ones I mean, I stole mine from the council, they have a shepherds crook on the top and are used for temporary fencing etc.

Wack them in (Sounds a bit like a Jamie Oliver moment!

) using the back of your shovel if you aint got a mash hammer. The crook sits over the top edge of the pallet and keeps them in place. Three sides, six pegs knocked in in about 3 minutes and jobs a guddon!

**Matt.** · 10-03-2008, 07:34 AM

The easiest method in terms of no lifting, hammering, drilling, nails, screws or bolts is to use heavy duty cable ties. The more you use the stronger it will be. Personally I've used spare stakes hammered into the ground but lifting pallets is heavy going.

**whigger** · 12-03-2008, 08:48 PM

My compost bin is a stack of old tyres that i was able to get from the local dump.

**kirsty b** · 12-03-2008, 09:05 PM

Originally posted by Farmer_Gyles View Post

i'm gonna go pallet hunting soon - 3 daleks just not enough!
saw somewhere that someone had built a "toolbox" out of old pallets - i fancy doing that too - and was wondering if i could use pallets to make a new shed .... hmmmm .... anyone done that?

Theres a bloke round here that does it. He collects some of the oversize and well as normal sized pallets from local factories and take them off to make sheds with them.

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