Postby kevmac » Wed Jan 29, 2014 1:48 pm
My first boards where pallets that were used for carrying vegetables. I bought them for $1 a piece and spent two days before Christmas cutting most of them in half with a Skil-saw. Bought a cheap 50x100 blue tarp off eBay and used packed snow inside and under the tarp to make my base. It was still the best backyard rink I ever skated on to that point in my rink making career. I still have a couple of those pallets hanging around the yard to stack my boards and tarps on. The rest found their final destination in my firepit.
For those wondering, pallets that have been used for carrying vegetables never lose that rotten veggie smell even after years of sitting in snow and ice or even when they are burning into ash. Awful smell! Blech. :-)
PS - nice choice of stick, loved the S19s.
Making Backyard Rinks from 1999-2015
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