No. No no no no nooooo.

[stephm0188]

[prazenjc]

yeah, my kids would have had all sorts of splinters with a gate like that (they are big chewers).

[sarahbear]

LOL. Please make it stop. This love of all things pallete is driving me crazy.

[susieq]

In a rustic house, maybe. In that house I am pretty sure it is out of place.

I dont get the pallet love either. I once brought a pallet home from work thinking we would take it apart and use it to make a chicken coop. Everyone online was doing it and it looked sooooo easy. I could not get the thing apart! DH said I would have to cut between the boards to get it apart. I figured it was not worth the tiny bit of wood I would get so I took it back to work.

[jayhawkbecca]

don't they have like lead or arsenic or something in them? yikes!

[april37]

Sept 28, 2013 21:24:04 GMT -5 susieq said:

In a rustic house, maybe. In that house I am pretty sure it is out of place.

I dont get the pallet love either. I once brought a pallet home from work thinking we would take it apart and use it to make a chicken coop. Everyone online was doing it and it looked sooooo easy. I could not get the thing apart! DH said I would have to cut between the boards to get it apart. I figured it was not worth the tiny bit of wood I would get so I took it back to work.

The fact that you took it back to work made me lol   

[ktzmoh]

For the love of sweet baby Jesus!!

[IIOY]

This was created by someone who either has never actually encountered young children or who really, really hates children.

[Deleted]

Oh my, that is so bad! And yes, enough with the pallet love already.

[315]

Have you ever seen one? Pallets are filthy. That alone makes me never want to use one in my home.

That baby gate is just begging for a visit from CPS.

[pitterwoo]

well, I won't be adding that to my list of Pinterest projects. I can even appreciate some of the pallet projects for outdoor benches or something, but this is way, way too insane. Pallets are not for babies.

susieq, that's a good point about how difficult they are to take apart. I read a blog post once that went into great detail about cutting through all the pallets and how nails are everywhere and you have to be really careful. It sounded brutal. Unless that was just her technique to throw everyone off so she could have all the pallets to herself.

[stellarose]

Sept 29, 2013 10:10:22 GMT -5 315 said:

Have you ever seen one? Pallets are filthy. That alone makes me never want to use one in my home.

That baby gate is just begging for a visit from CPS.

CPS is exactly what I was thinking!!! I just imagine bugs crawling out of the pallets and mold. Ugh, disgusting!

[Deleted]

I am not the safety police at all and a pallet baby gate makes me cringe, big time.

We get a ton of pallets on our farm and they're rarely filthy. Some are actual wood. As a result, pallet projects while dumb don't get me too worked in that regard.

[315]

Sept 29, 2013 12:42:06 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

I am not the safety police at all and a pallet baby gate makes me cringe, big time.

We get a ton of pallets on our farm and they're rarely filthy. Some are actual wood. As a result, pallet projects while dumb don't get me too worked in that regard.

Maybe out where you are. All the pallets I've ever seen here looked they were dragged through the LES on rainy Friday night, swallowed by a mangy street dog, and then regurgitated.

[Deleted]

Sept 29, 2013 13:11:23 GMT -5 315 said:

Sept 29, 2013 12:42:06 GMT -5 @justdairy said:

I am not the safety police at all and a pallet baby gate makes me cringe, big time.

We get a ton of pallets on our farm and they're rarely filthy. Some are actual wood. As a result, pallet projects while dumb don't get me too worked in that regard.

Maybe out where you are. All the pallets I've ever seen here looked they were dragged through the LES on rainy Friday night, swallowed by a mangy street dog, and then regurgitated.

LOL. We get things like seed corn, milk replacer for baby calves and soap products for the barn on ours, so yes, there's definitely some level of sanitary involved. Not to say that I haven't seen some gross ones either, but 9 out of 10 times here they're pretty good.

I do think ripping them apart for "art" and "projects" is stupid and a waste of time for the most part. I've only seen a monogram one (Like cut down to 1/4s) and an outside bench that I thought were worthwhile in pallet land.

[treedimensional]

Sept 28, 2013 20:13:15 GMT -5 prazenjc said:

yeah, my kids would have had all sorts of splinters with a gate like that (they are big chewers).

YES. The first thing I thought was 'splinter city'. OMG what a bad, bad idea this is.

[IndiaInk]

I have piles of pallets on my farm and they are made out of the absolute cheapest wood. Occasionally we get a few somewhat nicer ones, but they're still cheap and splintery. They don't have regular nails in them - you'd have to work so hard to get them to come apart without breaking. It would be such a waste of time.

I remember YHL did a post about trying to make something from pallets. I think they spent hours crowbarring those things apart before they decided it was an absolutely useless project. I laugh when I see the Pinterest pallet projects - people are delusional. Just buy some regular wood! It's not that expensive!

[TBM]

It looks interesting, adds texture and has that shabby chic thing going on, but is pretty stupid.

I wouldn't have it as a gate in my yard for my dogs, much less inside the house...especially not for use around children.

There are some pallets that don't have yucky chemicals, but there are plenty with pesticides...pretty scary.

[msmerymac]

Those slats look waaaaay too far apart to be safe for a baby. And I don't even have kids, but isn't that the problem with older cribs? Getting heads stuck?

[prazenjc]

Sept 29, 2013 10:10:22 GMT -5 315 said:

Have you ever seen one? Pallets are filthy. That alone makes me never want to use one in my home.

That baby gate is just begging for a visit from CPS.

the used ones with all the "character" that everyone uses, yes, are disgusting. however, virgin pallets can be or are very clean, as clean as wood can be, as they are likely kiln dried....at least the ones used in the food ingredients industry are.