bam!!! mr. tarrou. in this lesson we are goingto do a little bit of hands on geometry. not our normal math lessons. the wife got on pinterestand she saw some pictures of these ladies taking a simple hammer and a crow bar andpulling apart these pallets and making some christmas trees. she thought wouldn't thatbe neat if everyone along for a couple of blocks in our neighborhood could have theirown christmas tree made out of recycled pallets. then we could all decorate them, have a gathering.i thought how hard could it be, in the famous line from top gear which is one of my favoriteshows. yeah, you get these old pallets and you know... some of these i have found recycledthat were made out of pine. sure those broke down pretty easily. but you get some goodheavy ones that are made out of oak, you are
not going to pry those apart. so we are goingto show you the tarrou way of recycling pallets into christmas trees. now to complete thisproject you are going to want a pencil, some safety goggles for when you are cutting. youare going to need a drill, some screws and nails. you will need a hammer and a crow barto clean up those loose nails when you are done cutting apart these pallets. of courseyou are going to need something to cut with, some drill bits, and a straight edge to markoff your trees. now, this process that we are going to go through is going to give ustwo pallet trees out of one pallet. we are going to start with taking the pallet andlaying it bottom side up and cut the wood out from in between these supports... theoutside support and the inside. now this one
has two, the previous one i showed you hadonly one support in the middle. that is no big deal. you are just going to get two treesthat are differently shaped but still, actually you are going to get a really strong treeout of the one that we make from the middle of this pallet. now, you might have noticedin that previous clip as i was cutting the back boards off occasional the saw wantedto bind up a little bit and it might kick back. it depends on how tight the nails arein these boards and how strong the wood is. so make sure that you have a good handle onthat saw as you are cutting because you don't want loose a finger or something worse asyou are tying to make some recycled pallet trees. now we have our straight edge, we havea pencil, and let's mark off our tree. of
course we want to go diagonally right. treesget skinnier as they go to the top. so we are going to put our straight edge at thebottom of the pallet just on the inside of the support beam and i don't want to go rightto other edge of the support beam because i want to cut the corner of these branchesat an angle. so i am going to open this up a little bit and sort of on the bottom ofthe branch use this board as the marker. then come in a couple of inches and make anothermark that i am going to use to guide me as i cut my branches out. so again on the bottomright against our straight edge. on the top of the branch come in a couple of inches soyou can cut a little bit of an angle. now with my guide marks on my boards, i am justgoing to put my safety goggles back on, get
my saw, and cut along these... connect thedots and in a second we will have a christmas tree. there is your christmas tree. now letme get this out of the way. with the way i showed you, now what you can do is you cantake these two outside halves, turn them over. now is the time to get your screw gun andput these two halves together and there is your second tree. ok. so now with our drillin hand we are going to go ahead and pre-drill a couple of holes in part of this pallet.and i realized double checking my video that, just because i am recording this and got alittle distracted, you don't want to leave your circular saw or whatever you are usingto cut plugged in. what if someone hits the switch and that thing goes off. it is dangerous.so make sure you unplug your saw when are
not using it. now, let's get these sort ofbranches if you will basically lined up the best we can. these pallets were not made tomake christmas trees, so just adds a little bit of character if it is not exactly even.you don't want to go through both board, just the first one. get your screwdriver bit inhere for whatever screws you are using. now that drill bit that i am using is the samediameter as the threads of my screws so that i make sure to pull the boards together. sothis is going to basically slide into the first board, get to the second board and pullthem together. that is your second tree. now really that is all there is to it. as youfinish these, i think one of these boards broke. so now really the most time consumingpart of this project is, you know maybe coming
back through here with some little finishingnails or screws and adding some to these pallets to tighten up the branches if you need to.the last step is either going to stake these into the ground or make a stand. so let'stalk about that. now i am not going to attach this stand to the two trees that i just madebecause, well they are going to get staked up in front of our neighbor's houses as christmasdecorations. but if you do need a stand, you just take two pieces of wood that cut outfrom the bottom of the pallet and criss-cross them. i have predrilled four holes in thetop or bottom board, how ever you are criss crossing these. i used a pointy drill bitthingy for counter sinking screws. i don't know really what this is called, probablycounter sinking drill bit. and what you are
going to do, is you are just going to screwthese together. then you need some feet on the ends of whatever board is going to bethe top board. i made these pieces, i cut them right off this board so they are exactlythe same width and you don't get any wobble. we are going to use some screws. these arereally not the appropriate type of screws. they are dry wall screws. i should be usingwood screws, but i am just recycling and using what i have. so we are just going to comein here and with these screws counter-sunk they are not going to scratch the floor ifyou are putting them inside your home. and they are also not going to make the standwobble. i am having to be very careful because... well... these screws are really too shortwhich is also why i made my counter-sinks
so darn deep. i am trying to get the mostout of my screws. really, as soon as i screw these two little feet on that is going tobe the end of my project and you are going to have a stand that does not wobble. i ammr. tarrou. that is how you make a pallet christmas tree.
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