How to make a Picket Gate from Pallet Wood | TAOutdoors

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Graeme is back and in this DIY video he shows you how to make a Picket Gate from Pallet Wood. Our popular how to make a picket fence with pallet wood video is another great pallet wood creation, be sure to check that one out on our DIY video playlist. Graeme takes you through a simple step-by-step process of how he builds his pallet wood gate.

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welcome to the totally awesome outdoor show now you'll probably gather by my college attire I wonder why I'm wearing this clothing inside my garage that's because in Britain we have something called the British winter it's wonderful no it's not four feet of snow and ice it's just horrible visible cold wet windy weather and it stops me going fishing and it drives me in here forces me to work for my son on the outdoor show do the DIY section now a few years back we put up a film on well what a monster heads turned it's a several hundred thousand views you can see out it's called how to make picket fence out of pallet wood oh yes I love a surfer you don't you well anyway a lot of people contact this same but we've got a cap and a picket fence if you want to walk down a pathway can you show us how to make peepee fence wow that's pretty easy but let me show you how to do it I've got some nice thick a pallet wood now probably comes in different grades obviously different countries check out your own country I can't give you thick pallet wood I happen to have some thick back so there are one two supports are the solid that's what we use in there quite thick probably have no call for a just think the most pallets is really nice strong pedicle for you for face that's the two side panels all you do is make it a square frame across the top yeah just roughly like this business pics here the top fix it at the bottom too sure it's square and then you're going to fill that out with slats on the preset distance now I'm gonna guess it so you have what the average footpath would it be 30 inches and we'd be three fries 38 inches is there maybe that cleverly why nothing you might be under man you could make it for whatever you want look I'm going to call it I think three feet I think I might be out doing three four which is quite a big one

no in fact you know I think that's too big I think 30 inches when I look at my dog hair and there are lot of doorways on average about 30 inches set in the UK so let's go on the door with I'm making the overall outside 30 inches they're going to start with these two outside edges and the two cross bars at the top and they're going to put a little dab of glue and are going to screw them what else no I see no point in making fancy joints on it is a garden picket fence dead easy to make and all I do after I've made the frame like that I filled out the path I'm going to put a set bark on it said by baby's x-ray which really boosts the support let's get cracking anyway and see if we can get this screw together alright first thing I'm going to do is my workbench I'm going to square off the end here with a set square run it off with the jigsaw just so I've got a straight edge to start with

turn that around and measure off my 30 inches and we're gonna use the second one I'll cut this as a sort of measuring so I got off the measure 30 inches twice and this end off and that gives me my outside measurements this one is so easy to make I should be doing it for a little

now using this one to lay over the top of the other one so that if you are making it's a load of fence panels just be aware although you put your hand on here to living it up you're going to have to here keep measuring cut that one okay so imagine that's off this is a bit you keep in you cut that off then you do the same again the same again the same again the same again we'll just be aware that every time you're getting this end here the edge lined up straight that you've got to allow for the thickness of the pencil because each pieces are thickness if I give you one millimeter but after you do it about 15 of those you're gonna be up here so do allow for that and if anything just get getting both edges at the back here they're dead level and then just tease it back a millimeter to allow for the thickness of the pencil for marking it again that way you know all your legs should be the same of course the proper way to do it is to measure like this and as you can see on bang on there 30 inches tip this one off and we can put the actual main square frame together the other thing you should take into consideration is the high how high do you want your physic fence I'm gonna go to there it tells me roughly waist height three feet nice easy one make it as high as you want to make up here if you want but you're governed by the size of the palace so I'm gonna go for three feet high now if you imagine that's my two uprisings normally ordinarily with piggy fence they they generally have a pointer they have the tops and Roth you could also do it round of course it depends whether you want the gate to stand out as a feature no go if you have a picket fence with a point to them and the gate is round or you want to cut all your picket fence around it and match it with this I'll go do these as a rounding Thomas this by to just square though that's pretty boring so I look around or my vast shelf of rubbish and find something that is about the same diameter across the greased tin is a little bit short the extra heavy-duty greased end user life fishing boat looks pretty well bang on so I'm gonna use that to mark up a little ground bit if I make me I'll get bit closer to some of these I mean it's just a question of code and I will finding something that really catches your eye gives you that round edge turn this upside down the grease falls out turn it up the right way just come when you do cut this about a millimeter or two in for the top so you're gonna mark this one use one of those nice carpentry pencils and you can see what you're cutting with the jigsaw and then you could do the same with the actual panels of picket fence if you do this now when you put it together I found it's easy to do them individually just come back about a minute minimize roll or so from the top always again is the thing

the potential so the potential goes right around the age of the woman doesn't actually run off and slip off that's difficult to trim off you were a nice smooth cut when you do the jigsaw we're just hungry in the workbench noise and fur and then using all your health and safety stuff your ear defenders your dust mask your glasses your goggles clean Underpants whatever else you're going to put on use all the health and safety to keep everybody happy I've got it clap nice and tight and saw it which is the fun part just remember when you're doing curves with a jig clear like this don't cause you don't push the blade keep that that transfer plate I call it that it travels across smoothly

the blades vertical and you can go around in a nice curve okay I've got my two base plates here at the bottom the supports one at the top I've made you swing that - what do you do is unlike to screw really the bottom one in first and then just check your measurements you can get everything square you can do these millimeters might be a bit better than inches bit easier to see and what I'm going to do is now I've got that at the bottom I'm just going to mark the bottom turn it over just gonna put a dab of glue now you could name this people you know I do know that people do name them but other words feel will son this moveable probably some white picket fence because it's spelling opposition but the gate is always going to get moved so I'm going to put a little dab of look at the center there there's regular wood adhesive to help bind it together and should the movement of the gate be an open and closed actually loosen it a bit you know the nails then the screws and the wood will hold all together so well number two in each side stinky where they do next away from behind the corner there and obviously cranes was a strong so them next to each other just put the cross on the diet in the screws this one is going nowhere with blue and four screws right so no water food a to the bottom it's nice and square but this could be like that or like this and it's going to look really bad once you start putting the other slaps on I don't wake up here it doesn't look right or what about we can do a five and a half inches what do we call that you could not allow for the mate so I'd say five inches we'll probably about right so for five inches and I come up for the bottom which is effect fixed point there at 25 inches there and then I'll make sure on 25 inches this side bang on there's a checkered square you can measure across the diagonals yeah some way to do it so good just mark up here gain this one is a really easy way to make a gate wide by one you can make one yourself from pallet wood or three now I don't see a good reason to screw all these slats in I mean it's the basic framework here the gate that needs to be nice and strong then we turn it over again up against the pencil mark just be aware when you do use blue there's a bit of a slight movement in there till it actually bends in then we'll find Sarah move then when I'm kneeling like that's one of those pencil marks here so no exact me where to put them that sounds fine I used to bed screw they're not through of course I've gained something rather than throwing screw where I've got almost a three screw if your screws and the tip of you're working on the carrots raw might pay to put a saucer put all your screws in but consumer later you want to put the car in there and having had plenty of punctures and firmware and screws in them and they'll it's best not to put them on the floor in the garage doing it thank you this yeah now how easy was that you see about the rounded tops I've got my two supports top and bottom it's nice and square I'm now gonna put a spark across there to give it some form of rigid point that I can actually put the other spans to and it stops it pushing off corner okay look why cross sorry now it would be easy just to put it across the outside but I went the same depth the same thickness here I can't cut it on the inside so I'm gonna have to cut one angle off and an angle off at the bottom there the best way to do this on phone is just overlap the whole thing right to the outside edge like this that way you know you're going to get the maximum support from it it's up to you because their mark across there where that flat edge is gonna be because that is the end where you want a mark on they'll come up the edge here over the edge of the wood there and then forget by sets set square in a minute and I'm gonna walk across there which will make sure everything is square I don't want those other bits sticking outside I join those two up and that will give me and this is the inside on your gonna put my anus inside otherwise I might get the anguish mixed up right I've got my angle cut so you can see it's a slant I'm going to put a little dab of glue there don't take much it's just over these little small things that I think any moving objects or potentially moving objects might don't have a dab of glue and why not indeed it goes on the end perfectly make sure that you keep it inside the edge of the gate fire a couple of screws in and they all set up once it buried buried and gone to heaven I'm over took this cornice so that it grows the screw and buries it right in there how is potentially a softwood so you can you don't have to countersink everything will find that they do bury pretty well there as you can see is the costal support had no it you don't turn it over I'm ready to start making the slats

there we go that is the actual pretty tense panels they're gonna go like this Oh for they're making about four you just add them down and then make sure that you fit them equal distance between the sub uprights and I'm going to nail these in because the main structure is screwed and glued and nails then Benton ruff I feel is fine for doing the rest of the panel's let's get it together okay what remains now is to put the brackets on I'm simulating this for you I'm not doing it outside here's the post use of ball post that's the bracket make sure you get a bracket with a nice big long span like that put your screws in make sure the hinge butts here nice and neat and flat flush with the gate and that basically is it pretty well done I'm just gonna show you how it works and then I'm gonna well probably do it the green this time it's in keeping with nature

and it's also the only can I've got left that's left over there for free there you go there is the gate part with the hinge on to simulate his post me down on the floor you should be able to see I push back and so that was a post in the ground that it does indeed he swings nice and free on that bracket there is a nice picket gate well not take me Ward a couple of hours and then not even that but with filming as well let's go paint agree and he's ready to go you

Written on 23 October 2016.

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