What is a "pallet"?

Freeman · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:42

Known since i was about 4, it's just one of those things you know.

Doosht · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:47

Freeman said:
Known since i was about 4, it's just one of those things you know.

yeah, thats what i thought.

Droolinggimp · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:48

I work with them everyday. So yes I know what they are, I didnt untill 6 years ago .....

Jonny ///M · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:49

Known what it was for......forever? I use the pallet truck at work all the time and always take it from the front of the shop to the back warehouse. Destroyed a full profile once when i crashed. Oh how i was proud of all the stock on the floor and the alloy wheel display tipped over.

ste_bla · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:51

Jonny ///M said:
Known what it was for......forever? I use the pallet truck at work all the time and always take it from the front of the shop to the back warehouse. Destroyed a full profile once when i crashed. Oh how i was proud of all the stock on the floor and the alloy wheel display tipped over.

If you think thats good.. stocktake at work.. move a budwiser pallet and whoever loaded it put it on one side.. i went to turn it.. it tipped over.. out of 12 cases (20 pack minis) we saved 200 odd bottles but as they are multipack bottles we couldn't *possibly* sell them so you can guess the rest..

neocon · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:52

she replied she didnt even know what a pallet was!

May be she should get a job as a psychologist.

Mujja · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:52

Doosht said:
yeah, it made me smile too. Wonder if he realised what he was saying lol

I knew it would sound sexist but I'm just trying to use it as an example.

Killerkebab · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:23

Doosht said:
I went to a 1st day induction for a new job the other day. There was about 20 of us. The subject of pallets came up and how they could be dangerous.

The person doing the induction asked this one young girl (about 17) a question and she replied she didnt even know what a pallet was!

Now, i admit it was for a nobrain job (which im only doing on the weekends for pin money) but i thought everyone would know what a pallet is!

What with all these record exam results (sarcastic snigger) i couldnt help but think this was abit shocking.

Is there anyone who will admit on here that they dont know what a pallet is???

That is quite clearly the most unsubtle way of paraphrasing: "I don't know what a pallet is, please explain."

Dave M · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:26

I've known since I walked past one as a wee nipper and said 'whats that?' and 'why do they put things on them?'

If you walk through life not caring what things are or what they do then no, you'd have no reason to know what one was unless you worked in distribution.

SiriusB · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:54

Andr3w said:
I work with pallets at least once a week.

I hate the blue evil pallets, they weigh LOADS

Full of bloody splinters as long as your arm too!

SiriusB

Van Hellseek · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:58

SiriusB said:
Full of bloody splinters as long as your arm too!

SiriusB

i used to work in a place that used pallets, and some guy kicked one and broke his foot.

Parmesan · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:03

Andr3w said:
I hate the blue evil pallets, they weigh LOADS

Forklift tbh...

Evil Evil things though lol, had one of those pallets fall on my wrist the other week, with a load of flatpacked boxes on it, hurt a bit to say the least.

BigBoy · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:05

I have known waht a pallet was since time began, think it must be a boy thing.

Made my first tree house from pallets.

and having driven a forklift for nearly 6 years i have seen a few!

and yep the Chep pallets are heavy especialy when stacked 11 high and sat on the forklift whilst working in a -40oC freezer :eek:

wheels spinning in all directions

233 · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:09

try loading a chep lorry with blues going back

now thats a bit high and scary lol

we used to hand stack 8 high and yard stack 24 with the forky

as for pallet truck racing pfft

what you want is a roady

kinetic747 · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:11

The blue chep pallets are hired not bought I think, thats why they are much more robust.

cheets64 · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:11

I work in a warehouse and there is 1000s of these there, I hate working with them, they are heavy and akward to lift plus the are splinter heaven.

manic_man · 2 Oct 2006 at 20:33

ah i used to chuck those blue ones round during my summer job at homebase

(couldnt when i started, could when i finished! must have done some good)

Luckily i didnt put my back out over the three months...

geeza · 2 Oct 2006 at 21:14

i used to have to stack the white and blue ones at my work. I used to em as high as possible for a challenge (thats how boring it was) I think i got to about 20 white and 15 or so blue. damn their heavy and very painfull when ones falls down your shin (also taking a line of skin with it)