The pallet gate

I was cruising the parking lot at Lowe's last Saturday looking for a parking spot when I spied an unusually small pallet. We had just finished the fence around our garden and needed a gate to close it up. We spent a morning looking at the salvage yard looking for the perfect "gate" but found nothing. I tried to find someplace to get a basic picket fence style gate and was out of luck. As I sized this pallet up in the parking lot I thought it might make a great gate. 

A quick phone call to Mr. Ramon and I squeezed it in the back of the mini cooper and hauled it home. 

Mr. Ramon was pretty stoked and got right to work on the pallet. He cut off about 6 inches of it to match out 4 foot fence post height and then reinforced it in a couple of places with some scrap wood so it would hang sturdily.

I had picked up hinges, a closure and a handle at Lowe's.

About an hour later we had a gate. Not bad for picking up someone elses garbage.