How to make a Plant Pot Stand from Pallet Wood | TAOutdoors

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In this DIY video Graeme shows you how he makes a simple plant pot stand from free, reclaimed pallet wood. A simple diy project that you can do at home and save yourself some money. Graeme goes through the step-by-step process of how to build it. Be sure to watch more of our DIY videos on the DIY video playlist below.

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and the way to get those plants off off the ground is to make yourself a nice place like this how do you do that very easily boy deconstruction II what are these yes good old-fashioned pallet you can't beat them for using a cheap method of finding

finding wood timber I got myself a workbench I've got my ear defenders I'm gonna be using quite largely a JIT salt with a fresh blade and the rest is spicy let me show you how I'm gonna do it this is so easy it's unbelievable what I did was a pallet with some white boards my goodness clean wood white boards I've never had a pallet like this in years it's the first one I've stripped down like that but I tell you what gonna make the best use of it I can let's get cracking okay first what we're gonna do is I'm gonna make a cut along here as you can see these are the nail holes 5.now horse where the gum was holding the nails that drive through here into the base of the pallet I don't really want those so I'm going to cut those out what I do is I just go mark anywhere just randomly in a line just like this but and then use a square obviously so then when I cut on that line it is a straight edge so use a set square I wanna do is when the set square head like this isn't long enough that you can see that reverse it like this and you should follow it providing this H is straight as well of those two actually lowing up there we go I could draw my straight line that gives me our first straight edge for work form and then we're going to make a square of that although predetermined size which I'll tell you in a moment now I'm going to be human only were they're dead she never got this one wouldn't believe it he got it from the dumb fuck I was throwing away now they're not expensive to buy in the first place they said Hannity because we don't sell these ops we don't sell it cheap we get about twenty thirty pounds over thirty forty dollars but they got these blockages for a spacer blocks I give up with like that now these are clamps and the whole top of the workbench has different holes in it and people who reach some people don't know what they're for but they're for putting these these spaces in these these clamps or they little legs a rough area to either advance or reduce that gap so you can put pieces of women like this and he grips it by sawing it's dead easy and I'll tell you why the thing is or you don't really get what's called a hop up but this way I can actually save me bending down basically here's my bars are really marked up here they're here on this piece of scrap wood there's any piece of scrap when I'm locked up in my set square I could cut that straight away with this but I'll show you what happens generally trying to get the star to the cup like this see now one something here I'm a wave because you'll just mess up the edge with the blades trying to catch so to get around that what I do is I just put a groove in this with that handsaw just at the top that's all it takes it gets it started and then this time I'll put the earphones on when I line the blade up obviously not going through the chair at the bench or any won't work top it should go straight through much cleaner now Milotic

it can be very tempting to go through vertically like that but what will happen is this blade will wander all over the place and you'll end up with what we call in England a donkey's hind back like that a curve so the way I do it is I start on the tip there but then I lower it down gently just the weight of the blade on there so the blade gives me a straight cut there and that follows itself all the way down I'm going to put the earphones on the defenders and show you what I mean there you can see I've already got a nice straight line and I can follow that all the way through keeping the blade not vertical but slightly lower and drawing it towards me don't force it that you can see is a quick way of doing it it's a little tip but I've got another one for you if you can see I've laid my wood here there's my mark I'm just gonna warn these uptight and if I do this it pinches the wood in between those black clamps this one's a no boy no wonder I threw it away there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever as we will find out in a moment get it nice and flat sit nicked up we're gonna start on making an initial cut just drawing a blade back across here like this by hand someone okay that's fine now we're going to use the reciprocal saw to cut them on there put the end of headers on okay well that's got rid of the nail ridden piece there that goes away of the big heat for the log burning now what I make this square for these take to raise these plants up and at the present time this is 24 centimeters that way so obviously going to come 24 here but with a nice thick fat marking carpenter's pencil use your square once more to get that line dead straight and you're sure you're doing the X square which is so easy is ridiculous man once you get system going to make quite a few of these I'm sliding it along in the workbench now gonna cut that end off I'm going to do is make the expert of straw cut again just to start it with a handsaw

it gives it a groove I just gotta sand the edges off and that's the top done it's got a nice knot there as well when you're sending off they just take the same let me get a scrap of wood and this saves your fingers and splinters and you can work away getting those rough edges off a little bit of shavings along the side now I want to make the next minute I'm again going to be using pallet wood for the legs I'm going to be using a nice piece of public wood there's quite clean doesn't really matter they're going to stain it anyway now we're going to cut this I want four pieces the same age same size this edge here see so I'm going to be putting full pieces right back cutting it here along cutting here four pieces full run yet do that first simply but one end up against the edge I'll just do a small mark there bring it round onto the water side just here both sides you get it nice and square that's it you need to use a piece of wood which we don't swear if you've already cut it or you do it that weighs probably the best way that's one side just there that's one side gonna cut that one the same principle even with a bit bigger wood I'm just going to do a pre cut then I puts all that all the way through with this saw but I'm not going to really use the reciprocal sort of save time then let's have previously been doing a wide piece of wood here how do you think oh my god it's not going to close enough you could put it in that gap there but you're not supposed to what you're supposed to do is pull these blocks out realign them closer in to narrow it right down you've got jittery on these workmates too tall great things you've got four blocks that way as you can see those gripping blocks are a lot closer together the wind them up tight and you just you know it just keeps everything nice and snug and a little bit of safety doesn't go amiss put on the face of it a whistle

okay here's my for support legs brackets Colin what you could join them just mail them together man that looked pretty buggy I wanna cut a sham for 45-degree angles down there now I suppose you could put it in advice to do it with a handsaw like this it's more than likely gonna be wavy you can also do it with your jigsaw but I canis you can crank it over aside and of course this face plate there is meant there for a reason is to lay flat and give you a vertical plane to cut with the blade that's why it's flat but what a lot of you might not know how people will do and I apologize for those that do know everything but it might be sturdy I worry that I'm either don't realize that it's got one of these saw the jig saw us in a box somewhere don't realize you can actually alter they've got screws underneath and if you slack and those screws off you can alter the angle of the base plate now some of the tools you're mentioning this mate because they don't do me any favors I paid for it like everybody else make sure you note with your father's right hand or left hand it on the right hand I'm gonna crank it over from there flat 90 degrees 45 degrees some of them will have marks on them this one I don't think there's any marks on them I've use it made toys on the angle and you re tighten the screws up that will give you your 45 degree angle better just let me click then so I figure that's on the 45 degree angle so maybe there's a little notch or something that goes into it I have unplugged this before I even start messing around with it I have to tell you that always if you're gonna start messing around changing planes and looking at things please unplug the tool first and then plug it back in in ring this

right let's put all this to a side this is more time-consuming than technical I wanna cut an angle across this I'm going to put it in P at my little voice call amp it down as best possible and then I've got a mark with a pencil the exact width of another piece that it has to marry up to let me show you I'm doing is I want to cut an angle across here but I also want to get the angle as the outside leading edge of that color just there where that pencil is so it's gonna be matching up with this one so in there for place this one on the edge exactly like that

and I'm gonna mark it the width pull the other leg like that okay there you can see that hopefully on the camera now this Lake here the cutting leg needs to be in line with that all the way along there and that's why I just hold it like that you start with a blade over at the angle and then I'm going to work on a tiny little angle there there might be a gap of a few millimeters and that's what you want to follow so you don't do a wavy cut trying to keep it as straight as you can because don't forget at this angle you don't get a real shot at the blade viewing that it's more once you made the first cut you should be on that line and follow that gap there and fingers crossed it all works out now the other thing is I could have not been I'm about to go through so just make sure you don't push it too hard because nothing good is always harder to cut just let the teeth of the blade do the cutting for you and on halfway through the cut and I'm noticing is about two mil three mil difference between the edge of that and the line I could follow that all the way up and hopefully retain a straight cut hopefully there you can see there's a nice angle all I have to do is sign it off we're going to turn it around place it back lock it with the blocks and the little vise bit get my other block get the exact width there and I want to marry up to mark on the side quite well with a fat pencil nice big fat pencil right this one and then do my other cut has to be the same size just let me go through and push it at an even pressure okay I've now got my four cups as you can see like this you can now see mr. Sandin down business you can see the four cuts like this I go now those joints will butt up like this really nice and neat and square you could drill that and screw it you could glue it you could glue it screw it name it everything it but it's only gonna take the weight of a pot so the actual weight is coming on the top of here where that service plate is you know the piece of wood on the top so it's never gonna break I personally I'm going to use a couple of panel pins in here to hold it or I think honestly that'll be enough so these are paddle pins see you know that sort of size panel pinned maybe three thousand eight something like that or if you want it that's for inside if you're going outside but want something a bit longer what's called a lost head nail there I lost head nail that's maybe injured three soldiers so I did one for inside and one for outside use the panel pins inside they're not gonna rust there and the outside pins may be something a little bit stronger so I'm now going to nail this base box together like that now that's a standard box shape and that's fine but I want to do something a little bit more artistic because sometimes you don't actually want to put those class supports outside you might something you might want something a little bit better on the inside of the house maybe you're a patio maybe on some decking you want something looks a bit better than just a plain well block base and this is what I do there as the angle cuts so it's gonna be stunning that way can go either way obviously that way there's the base I cannot make it a little bit more tease you're going to come in one and a half inches hold still from the end there okay just put a mark there

turn it around one of the half inches from the end there that's just there about one inch up yes it's gonna make two little feet here that's what I'm gonna be doing but I'm making a bit of shape to the bottom but we'd almost called a breath and some years ago okay doesn't look much there but that's gonna be a straight line of fence I've talked so much about using the square I should in fact use it so it's coming down there that's gonna be the start come they're just in the inch and a half and there's a start there now I'm wondering here somehow incorporate a sweeping curve so first I'm gonna point at the central point there is twenty three and a half inches of 11 or three-quarter centimeters on doing there I'm gonna find just a central point of that base base make their floor very light line that's a center now can I get that street sweeping curve up here back over there and back down again I'm using any proper with a circular basis that I can't so I'm gonna line up just imagine that line comes along here the bottom of the bottle in the middle there and do I sweep up this way see that Marvel are hoping you can see this and the same bit so I can see what I'm doing just there so I get you got to measure equidistant there we don't the measure you can do by always this okay I've marked there so I've got my two upper curse what am I gonna do about the other one well I'm gonna use a larger faced fly because that gives me a softer curve and then probably come in somewhere around about there you look at it this way I want to come in so it joins those two somehow let's see it might be a bit thin but it gives me a God I've joined that up there's the bottom I'm in the center here's my centerline if I come around just spaced a pencil here we go is is join it up joining up it's doing that my god rocket science

don't you block it now you see I've got the curve coming around like that I'm gonna leave this bracket this here it's gonna be cut out and that leaves me a nice shape but a little tip on cutting this out with a jigsaw because we tight angles you need to put some circles in there with the drill to get the blade in because you can imagine the blade can all come all the way down here and suddenly make a right angle you got to snap the blade you don't want to start the curve too much I'm gonna drill a big hole here here on the most acute places of the angles and here right let's get that done first we're going to be using a drill bit here this is wider than the blade of the saw so therefore this will go through the hole I've made with the drill

hang it up there I'm just going to put a drill through there and allow the top of the drill circle cutting the edge there and there don't go right on the corner it'll be too deep you got to come so the circle is just cut whether it is just touching that line and that line away we go

right now that gives me scoped put the blade in there I can cut up to that circle and they'll just turn the blade without any pressure and start along there as well I'll put these other holes in there just inside the tight curves okay you can see there I've got a nice artistic curve and shape by using those two problems curves tying them up together and I still got the bracket feet there and there's my angle cuts but listen you don't have to put the bottom bar each piece of wood simply take your next piece of wood turn this over tell anybody so you can see that way line the edges up get it dead level and then just run your pencil around get the same using it as a template get the same outline that's the stuff that's coming out that's what's going to be cut out through your holes in your cute angles here where the blade can turn easier then and you can do these quite quickly cut them all out it makes life a whole lot easier got them all cut out now piece of wood or scrap of the wood piece of sandpaper clean it well time-consuming moldy boring but necessary you can see there it's all nail to get them as a base I simply place the top on make sure it's nice and neat there you can't screw it I see no reason not to glue it should be so with maybe an outside one on the glue as well but for inside oh yeah I really don't think you need to do it try to avoid not so if you can just making sure it's all square around the edge first it's one in each corner or thereabout nice and straight if I leave them like this and of course I can leave them out and relocate it and readjust it if I want to and lovely bracket feet they're really nice I'm going to give these to I've made a pair of these I'm going to give them both a nice stain of decking and we'll see what they look like in the morning with a plant pot on them really goes all finished that's pretty cool I'm very pleased of the staining and this is what they look like outside you

Written on 29 September 2016.

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