Pallet repair (Chep block)

[Warden474]

I do this as well but we only get 45-55 cents a pallet depending on how well our pallets are repaired, but damn this guy isn't hardly moving, he could be making some great money at 80 cents a pallet! lol

[mets23q]

you look like your having alot of fun :)

[BatmansArse]

Strange, where I worked we had air tools and I wore a vest in freezing temps because I worked so hard. By the way, to change any leaderboard just smash it between each stringer, belt the nails in and re-nail. I doubt you fix 280 a shift like I did at this rate, I'd like to watch you change a couple of stringers, must take you half an hour!

[VileMisanthropy]

@BatmansArse Are leader boards are the only hardwood on the block skids, trying to smash one with a 28 oz hammer would take all night, so we just use the saws-all and cut all the nails between the boards on each side of the stringer. This was in December it was freezing until the first ten stack then its coats off until we cool down at break.

[VVhoIsMikeJones]

@BatmansArse hahaha imagine him changing middle stringer his way LOL

[BatmansArse]

@VVhoIsMikeJones That's an hours job at this rate hahahaha

[turbo72stang]

where do you work? i want to apply haha i do the same kind of work but get paid only 25 cents...

[VileMisanthropy]

@turbo72stang Whitby Ontario.

[turbo72stang]

why do you get paided so much? i work at a pallet repair shop and only get paid 25 cents per pallet or 8 dollars an hour what every is higher at the end of the day. we have to repair and stack 250 minimum or we will get written up. 2 write ups you are out. minimum wage for this kind of work sucks.

[emeekis]

@turbo72stang this kind of jobs its good cuz when i was working there i get $120 at day :)

[VileMisanthropy]

@turbo72stang They are just generous enough to pay us what its worth. I wish i could still work here a few nights out of the week but i got a career job in tool and die and machining.

[medeirosjoe1]

no wonder PECO pallets are much better quality.

[MrShanoz]

rough as guts on the old tools there ole mate . did that work at rocklea many many years ago and was paid alil more than 1000 buks a week but we crewed two to a bench pumping out 685 -722 pallets a day but never was stuck with shit piles af wastewood. thank god i got out of that, then again the boys were funny pricks and fun to work with.

[VileMisanthropy]

@MrShanoz Yeah the guys were fun to work with there, it was a new midnight shift they started up and it was just me and 3 other guys including the super and we were all new, i think my super was there for 2 weeks before the new shift started. My bench was on the end of the line so i got all the shit skids that no one wanted, they got to pick and choose, i had no where to send the shit ones so i had to repair em. :( but i enjoyed it none the less.

[LeandroMuntendam]

man i want a job at a pallet repair plant, i can make like 11 or 12 euro's an hour then instead of the 9 i have now in the warehouse DAMNIT

[VileMisanthropy]

@LeandroMuntendam it does pay well.

[elusivemite]

did this for a year too, Though we had hydrolic hacksaws and nailguns suspened on wires averaged 300-350 a 8 hour shift on a front bench

150 -200 with all the crappy pallets (read stringers galore) coming my way

[VileMisanthropy]

@elusivemite i here yeah, i was on the end of the line so i got all the garbage skids too and averaged about the same.

[tevian1986]

i do this in the uk its hard graft! this job seperates the men from the boys, i do around 200 to 250 for the 30p a pallet.

[jebbam311lax]

haha i see doug in the back ground lol

[kevin649liveca]

hey do u actualy work for chep or just repair them and were abouts do u work at

[VileMisanthropy]

@kevin649liveca Durham pallet in whitby ontario, they repair them for CHEP, i don't work there anymore.