Chopping kindling from pallets - the safer way

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• 2 Feb 2016

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...Just posted this on youtube a couple of days ago. It's not my original idea but felt like making a film clip whilst carrying out the otherwise tedious task of chopping wood!

 

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• 2 Feb 2016

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Mister Paul UK said:

...Just posted this on youtube a couple of days ago. It's not my original idea but felt like making a film clip whilst carrying out the otherwise tedious task of chopping wood!

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That brought back memories! When I was very young, my dad who had a Bradford pick-up, travelled around the new housing estates, selling all sorts of things including 'bunches of sticks' for kindling. And just as on your video, we would chop up wood with an axe but the wood I might add, was just about half of the lengths shown in your video. It was never tedious! The 'sticks' would then be packed into what had been a dried milk tin around 5" in diameter, tied with string and then sold from the back of the pick up. Happy days.

 

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• 3 Feb 2016

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bolo said:

my dad who had a Bradford pick-up,

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And possibly a Bedford pick-up as well!

 

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• 3 Feb 2016

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No, he got the Bradford pick-up in the Bedford pick-up...

No offence intended, bolo!

 

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• 7 Feb 2016

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Nicely done. Liked.

 

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• 7 Feb 2016

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Nice idea and safer than a billhook and block like I used to do for my Mum - for the coke fire ( started with coal )

 

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• 7 Feb 2016

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Just watch for preservatives in the wood that you burn - some pallets have arsenic in them, among other nasties

 

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• 7 Feb 2016

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tony1851 said:

bolo said:

my dad who had a Bradford pick-up,

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And possibly a Bedford pick-up as well!

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Nope, we weren't that well off at that time and the Jowett Bradford pick-up was all that my dad could afford.

 

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• 7 Feb 2016

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The Bedford

The Bradford

 

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• 8 Feb 2016

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securespark said:

No, he got the Bradford pick-up in the Bedford pick-up...

No offence intended, bolo!

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None taken because you're not that far out. As you can see from the pics in my previous post, the Bradford pick-up was simply a modification of the Bradford van whereas the Bedford was really a Bedford lorry pick-up.

Going off at a tangent, I used to think that it was the Bedfords which were used in the film 'Hell Drivers' but found out later that it was the Dodge Kew(?).

 

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• 8 Feb 2016

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Thanks, bolo!

I had no idea there was a vehicle called Bradford!