Went to visit a scout leader buddy this evening. He heats his home with wood and cuts up wood shipping pallets for kindling. Few cuts and I have my free wood frame for the tanker.
His wonderful wife fed me dinner while I was there! Good times.
Pallets are a wonderful source of wood… especially if you have a planer… but a table saw will give you most everything you need…
Look for a pallet that is used for heavy stuff, like bricks or such, and it often has oak planks, I’ve saved some really nice red oak and white oak too… I got lucky once and found one that had rough cut 5" wide 1" planks of white oak…
But I did have to dig down thru about 20 pallets in a stack to get to that one.
that’s the spirit of MIK!