Dovetail Pallette Lounge Chairs

On certain dates each year, in the part of the world where I live, thousands of wooden shipping pallettes are stacked up and burnt in the form of massive bonefires in celebration of bygone events. As these bonefires are controlled by powerful paramilitary gangs there is zero chance of any kind of deterring enforcement.

These pallettes are perfectly good and are capable of being repurposed to make various furniture items, but this is not going to happen unless something changes to make them become more valuable. The problem is therefore to make them more valuable, but not to cost any more to produce.

My solution to value/cost is to build in some extra features to the standard wooden pallette at the manufacturing stage, that are practically cost free and easily absorbed. These features involve machining the various pieces of wood to include dovetail joints and to print some lines and numbers on the various components that facilitate and encourage new sustainable usage with little effort.

With the new joints in place, the pallettes are capable of being broken apart and the resulting pieces reformed as the component parts of a variety of desireable, well made items. To make this even easier, there are complimentary instructions in the form of some simple diagrams.

A few cuts may need to made to create some of the items, but the dotted lines and numbers ensure there is no confusion. Pallettes will have colour types, with each colour offering a different configuration of lines, numbers and dovetail positioning to ensure a range of items can be generated.

With any luck, the new pallette range will result in reduced bonfire conflagrations and instead the proliferation of a large number of well made durable wooden items.