re: Does anyone use pallets?

When I first started working I got excited by all the posts I saw online about people using pallets and having a seemingly endless free source of wood…and being hip and eco-friendly and saving the forests at the same time. Fast forward to the day that I actually got a pallet and spent an afternoon disassembling it and realizing that a)there was not a lot of usable wood except for small projects and b)I could have spent the afternoon woodworking instead of trying to pull nails out of boards. Today I still use pallets…as firewood; they burn great and give me an excuse to use my chainsaw to cut them.