Pallet Board Potting Bench
Trim down a pallet to fit into the center of your pallet potting bench.
Pallet board potting bench. You may have enough pallet left over after making your top piece. Rustic pallet potting bench beyond the picket fence a diy crafts furniture blog home decor on a budget with reclaimed wood thrift store finds and repurposed materials. It is built using the pallet stringers so that it ll last many years. As the first step on your way to make the potting bench you looking for taking apart the pallets in order to get the good looking boards so you can use them either in shelves or other things you might need.
Pallet potting bench benches made out of pallets although you may live miles apart from the countryside the idea of transforming the backyard into a wilderness space gives you a wonderful private retreat. It took about half a day but then i do have a good chop table saw plus i used outdoor glue and air staples for most of it with wood screwsfor the framework underneath the bench proper. To make the bench top and back i split one pallet in two. How to use pallets to build something useful like a potting bench.
Benches made from pallets. Use that measurement to cut across the pallet 1 for the table top. I used shorter 1 5 8 exterior wood screws for this step. So the legs are 32 to 33 tall.
Build first the work surface of the potting bench take a start by making a primary base frame including the legs and overall three dimensional sketch for all its parts and features. Make sure you remove every possible nail so you can avoid the danger of getting hurt when you use the wood. Cut the legs to the correct height. I made this covered pallet potting bench on the fly but i m happy with the results.
Here the primary skeleton of potting bench has been made by framing up individual slats of pallets resized according to precisely taken measurements. This required adding a 2x4 brace down the middle. If not you will need to use a fourth pallet. A comfortable height for a potting bench is about 37.
Once screwed in place a piece of scrap was used as a straight edge to guide the circular saw while one pallet became two. Unusually there were some some 2 4m long pallets which were perfect to make the long l shaped legs for the back of a potting bench.