Today we built the first shelter for the coming winter, and totally out of pallets! It was a lot of fun to design.
We picked up over a hundred free pallets from a local business and put them to use as portable animal shelters. This is the first design. Worked out pretty well!
It measures about 10 x 14 by 4 feet tall. The materials are 20 pallets, a little scrap wood, and 2 lbs of torx screws. That's it! Total cost about 5$.
It has a slanted roof and 4 doors, one in each corner. The floor is a set of close rung pallets. There are no supports in the center.
And fortunately it works to move this on our little tractor! With a chain to hold it on the forks, the while unit picks up for easy relocating.
For rain protection we will cover the roofs with canvas, old tarps, whatever we can scrape together.
We plan on building 5 more before the next rain.
We picked up over a hundred free pallets from a local business and put them to use as portable animal shelters. This is the first design. Worked out pretty well!
It measures about 10 x 14 by 4 feet tall. The materials are 20 pallets, a little scrap wood, and 2 lbs of torx screws. That's it! Total cost about 5$.
It has a slanted roof and 4 doors, one in each corner. The floor is a set of close rung pallets. There are no supports in the center.
And fortunately it works to move this on our little tractor! With a chain to hold it on the forks, the while unit picks up for easy relocating.
For rain protection we will cover the roofs with canvas, old tarps, whatever we can scrape together.
We plan on building 5 more before the next rain.
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