{"id":34485,"date":"2025-10-24T13:54:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34485"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:54:46","slug":"one-of-my-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/one-of-my-tribe\/","title":{"rendered":"One Of My Tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adaptive Curmudgeon does not like what he sees in the mirror:  <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.com\/2025\/10\/24\/am-i-the-pallet-people\/\" target=\"_new\">Am I The Pallet People<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Years ago I started hacking pallets apart. I \u201cmade\u201d nail-free kiln-dried camping firewood. I\u2019d blast through a bunch of pallets in an hour or less. I\u2019d get about 50% useable firewood (in short lengths) and 50% nail ridden health hazards. The firewood went in a new, clean, dry trash can where it stayed dry and readily available. I hauled the junk to the dump before it wound up embedded in my truck\u2019s tires.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I started wondering if I could get good useable \u201cproject\u201d wood out of pallets. I\u2019m not low on funds now but I will be soon. Could all this (free!) wood keep me occupied and off the streets? Lots of people use pallet wood but often they\u2019re making decorative things. I don\u2019t make decorative things. Nor do I have access to really excellent pallets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last summer, after restacking the firewood to a smaller footprint (it rests upon pallets upon cinderblocks to hopefully confuse the termites), we had a number of pallets that were not in very good shape, so I thought I would break them apart for just such decorative creations as AC tut-tuts.  So the youngest and I got to work with crowbars, hammers, and pliers to not only break them apart but also to pull the nails and staples so I could use them for woodburning.<\/p>\n<p>Aw, but, c&#8217;mon, man, we know what I&#8217;m really using them for: To clutter my shed until I get my garage clean enough where I can do anything in it besides park a vehicle and a lawnmower.<\/p>\n<p>Am I the pallet people?  No, I am of the pallet people.  And I have bad news.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/yourenext.gif\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adaptive Curmudgeon does not like what he sees in the mirror: Am I The Pallet People: Years ago I started hacking pallets apart. I \u201cmade\u201d nail-free kiln-dried camping firewood. I\u2019d blast through a bunch of pallets in an hour or less. I\u2019d get about 50% useable firewood (in short lengths) and 50% nail ridden health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34488,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34485\/revisions\/34488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}