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<blockquote data-quote="gandydancer" data-source="post: 425951" data-attributes="member: 9310"><p>I do the same thing when I do retapes as a sweeper on the load wall. Too damn many clueless customers try to ship things rattling around in nearly empty boxes that simply won't hold together. A good on-belt box is an overstuffed box...and gobs of pallet wrap is even better than folded cardboard in making a container that will hold a tape job. (Plastic dog fewmet -"peanuts"- is worse than useless.)</p><p> </p><p>We're supposed to have a feeder carwash guy who cleans pallets and pallet wrap out of our CPU trailers on a 3am-12 noon shift, and our feeder manager claims he doesn't need more manpower to get that done. Except it ain't gettin' done and when I come in at 6pm I'm finding trailers with a dozen or more pallets, plus gobs of palletwap, set up on the load walls. And they also run out of clean trailers during the Twi and Night Hub and have to transfer CPU trailers directly from the unload to the load walls whether they want to or not. As the new Twi safety co-chair I'm emailing the feeder manager daily over that (I think he needs to put his carwash guy on a Twi-Night shift, and maybe needs to add hours instead of stealing the guy away from his supposed job to do yard work...) and hope to eventually embarass him into not putting up dirty trailers.</p><p> </p><p>$10@ sounds a bit pricy, but I know there's a standard "two-way" pallet design and size that fetches the best price. I think there's only one big account that gets its pallets back, but whether we sell or give away the other ones I don't know.</p><p> </p><p>And I'm pretty sure creosote is only for railroad ties and docks. More usually ground-contact wood is pressure trated with a poisonous gas in a process that leaves a green tinge and lots of little cuts in the surface of the wood. Pallet wood is perfectly safe to burn if it's not painted, and I use it in my fireplace all the time. Not from UPS, tho. Plenty thrown out by UCSF across the street, inluding purpose-built machinery pallets with lots of 4 x 4's and 4 x 6's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gandydancer, post: 425951, member: 9310"] I do the same thing when I do retapes as a sweeper on the load wall. Too damn many clueless customers try to ship things rattling around in nearly empty boxes that simply won't hold together. A good on-belt box is an overstuffed box...and gobs of pallet wrap is even better than folded cardboard in making a container that will hold a tape job. (Plastic dog fewmet -"peanuts"- is worse than useless.) We're supposed to have a feeder carwash guy who cleans pallets and pallet wrap out of our CPU trailers on a 3am-12 noon shift, and our feeder manager claims he doesn't need more manpower to get that done. Except it ain't gettin' done and when I come in at 6pm I'm finding trailers with a dozen or more pallets, plus gobs of palletwap, set up on the load walls. And they also run out of clean trailers during the Twi and Night Hub and have to transfer CPU trailers directly from the unload to the load walls whether they want to or not. As the new Twi safety co-chair I'm emailing the feeder manager daily over that (I think he needs to put his carwash guy on a Twi-Night shift, and maybe needs to add hours instead of stealing the guy away from his supposed job to do yard work...) and hope to eventually embarass him into not putting up dirty trailers. $10@ sounds a bit pricy, but I know there's a standard "two-way" pallet design and size that fetches the best price. I think there's only one big account that gets its pallets back, but whether we sell or give away the other ones I don't know. And I'm pretty sure creosote is only for railroad ties and docks. More usually ground-contact wood is pressure trated with a poisonous gas in a process that leaves a green tinge and lots of little cuts in the surface of the wood. Pallet wood is perfectly safe to burn if it's not painted, and I use it in my fireplace all the time. Not from UPS, tho. Plenty thrown out by UCSF across the street, inluding purpose-built machinery pallets with lots of 4 x 4's and 4 x 6's. [/QUOTE]
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