Chopping kindling from pallets - the safer way

[Mister Paul UK]

...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!

 

[Shutpa]

...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!

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.

 

[tony1851]

my dad who had a Bradford pick-up,

And possibly a Bedford pick-up as well!

 

[securespark]

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

No offence intended, bolo!

 

[HawkEye244]

Nicely done. Liked.

 

[Nige F]

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

 

[Brigadier]

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

 

[Shutpa]

my dad who had a Bradford pick-up,

And possibly a Bedford pick-up as well!

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

 

[Shutpa]

The Bedford

The Bradford

 

[Shutpa]

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

No offence intended, bolo!

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(?).

 

[securespark]

Thanks, bolo!

I had no idea there was a vehicle called Bradford!