On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:14:37 -0400, John McGaw
wrote:

On 3/10/2020 2:13 AM, pyotr filipivich wrote:
I've been taking advantage of the Wuhan Virus shutdown, by
cleaning up the yard and stuff, today was break down the pile of
pallets.

Again I realized that pallets come in three kinds of wood.
- Hard wood
- Soft wood
- Fire wood.

Now to see what I'm going to do with all this.


When I was in the USAF in Alaska my unit received a shipment of electronic
equipment that had been pulled from a decommissioned operation in Thailand
(Vietnam war period). All of it was packed on several oversized beefy
pallets. One of the crew unpacking things took notice that the skids
supporting the pallets were made of teak -- probably over 4-inches square
and six feet long. Those disappeared almost instantly.

My father jot a lot of WWII surplus "junk" for the university where he
taught. Many of the pallets and cases for electronic equipment was
made out of black walnut - all painted green. Strip the paint off
and it was some beautiful stuff.