Hi buddy my name is Ryan and I really appreciate your stopping by and to be honest I have a lot to show you in such a short time so we 'll dive straight into the build let's go! Sorry for that sound, I had a mic and it broke so now I need a new mic and if you didn't notice those stains on my shirt that's fine because I didn't either. You don't need to go back for a second look, let's get on with the show. I'm not going to talk about this whole video just a few quick things to cover now and then in about 21 minutes after all those pallets are a table I'm going to go over how long those 21 minutes took hours actual time and all the other costs associated with building a free wood table .
Just for fun and humor here, I'm really curious how long you think this took me to build. Grab yourself a pen and jot down your guess in a matter of hours and after you finally go over all the numbers, I'd love to hear from you in the comments about how close you came to hitting the nail in the head. Now, it all started with a simple request from my wife for a table on the patio. Nothing fancy, just something to be able to sit outside. For some reason I got the idea to make the table out of half a dozen pallets I had been kicking around my shop.
I could have kept it simple, stuck with only 6 pads, tossed it up, moved on with life but then I had a vision. I decided if I was going to put together a table out of pallet wood that I could push things to the limit so I started picking up pallets and quickly turned a half dozen into about 4 dozen. I tried a few new things with this build and I will now warn you that the end result is far from perfect. I'm piecing things together based on a vision I had in my head and a picture of an installed table base that I saw online. In other words, you made it up as you went and it's usually never a good idea. I really hope you enjoy what you're about to watch and I'll catch you up at the end.
So like I said, far from perfect but honestly, it's a huge influence on the vision I had in my head. This table top was an absolute beast to build, and I would say my biggest area that "needs improvement" is the hand cut joinery section. Allow me to speak for myself in saying that all this oppressive work and language could have been tighter. In the introduction I mentioned that I've tried some new things and that was one of them and usually anytime I do anything for the first time it sucks. Honestly, I could do a whole video about lessons learned and things I could do better, but I was dying to share with you how long the whole thing took , so get that number I wrote, hold on to your hat, and here we go. Collecting pallets: 4 hours Moving them: 1 hour Shredding them: 25 hours Sorting everything: 8 hours Loading all the scrap and taking it to the landfill: 4 hours Removing all the nails: 6 hours Cleaning and organizing: 2 hours Attaching each pallet : 15 hours Layout per board: 18 hours Saw each table: 12 hours Assemble boards: 3 hours Glue boards: 10 hours Plan board sections: 4 hours Glue back on: 4 hours Cut end grain strips and make Repairs: 10 hours, Glue top to end table: 1 hour, Assemble parts for base: 6 hours, Glue: 4 hours, Flatten the top: 6 hours, Trim sides and cut edges: 2 hours, Mill all base pieces: 11 hours, All bore work : 14 hours, Manual cutting of all pitches: 16 hours, Edge profiling: 1 hour, Base gluing: 3 hours, All sanding: 16 hours, Several coats of oil: 4 hours, Making clamps to attach base to top: 3 hours, Creating fangs : 2 hours, i.e.
B contact us for a grand total of 215 hours. Of course there are probably a few hours that didn't factor in, not to mention the 60 or so hours it took to edit the 215 hours of construction into less than half an hour of video. Here are some of the things I needed to buy to build a free wood table. Joining Knives: $60, 3 Sets of Planer Knives: $250, Actually New Planer: $350, Table Saw Blade: $90, Circular Saw Blade: $15, 5 Gallons of Glue: $300, California Glue: $25 , sandpaper: $40, pure tung oil: $90, landfill fees: $45 for a total of $1,295. Not to mention driving with my gas to collect all those pallets that at the time this video was made in 2022 were expensive stuff.
And finally, just some final stats on this build. I took 52 planks and turned them into 782 planks with an average length of 30'. I ran each board at least 4 times through the jointer, 4 times through the planer and twice through the saw which equals 19,550 linear feet of milled pallet wood and 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 , 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19 , 20 bags of sawdust and if you care about weight the base weighs 71 lbs and the top weighs 115 lbs for combined weight 186 lbs or 84 kg if This is your preferred scale. That's it my friend, we've come to the end of this project. I ran out of all the stuff to show you, so I'm going to leave you with some final pics and a request to share this video with everyone you know, and if you haven't done so yet, get a subscription to the channel. There should be more of my videos onscreen here any second now, and I look forward to seeing you in the next one.
Until then, thanks a lot for watching this video. Take care of yourself and those around you. See you soon..