How to create your own 2 tier Planter from recycled timber, just like the one shown below:
This is a great project to undertake if you are confident you won’t cut your fingers off, and have all the ingredients shown below.
The other alternative is to buy one Ready Made from FSC Recycled timber from here with the payment being made direct to TPEG. At just £25 delivered to your door (in Tankersley and Pilley), these little beauties are an absolute steal. Each one is 700mm wide x 500mm tall x 500mm deep, and made from 28mm FSC timber screwed together.
They are made locally to order by a TPEG member, so if you would like one please either call 07718 206942 or send us an email at info@tpegbarnsley.co.uk to get yours.
For those brave enough to make your own, the instructions are below:
Ingredients:
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- 2 wooden boxes donated from a local company to TPEG. These are delivered in Tankersley & Pilley FREE for £5 each.
- about 40 50mm woodscrews.
Tools you will need:
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- 1 big hammer (this is mandatory for such a project, and it is assumed that you know how to use it.
- 1 sharp handsaw – not the one that’s been in your shed for years that you have been meaning to throw away as it’s always been useless. Get a new one.
- 1 box of plasters – for use when you get the new sharp saw
- Screwdriver to fit the screws that you will use. A powered on will be preferable.
- Nail bar – not the thing that you can’t go to just now, the thing for prising nails out of wood made of metal.
- Reciprocating Saw for cutting through the 3000 nails holding the boxes together.
- A circular saw – not really needed, but looks and sounds good to impress the neighbours.
- A Square that’s really a triangle type thing. That’s used for marking where to cut once you have the boxes in bits. It’s not really needed either as you can guess angles and square can’t you? You always have in the past and stuff looks okay – doesn’t it?
- A pair of pliers for removing the staples that are embedded in the boxes everywhere.
- Gloves, safety glasses, plasters, bandages and a working phone to call the ambulance 🙂
Method:
Once your 2 recycled boxes have been delivered to you from TPEG, drag them into the front room, and use the big hammer, sharp saw, nail bar and reciprocating saw to dismantle them into separate pieces.
Wear the gloves and safety specs and have the plasters handy. It is established practice to have the ambulance on standby outside at this stage, but what with everything that’s going on just now, the phone set to call 999 will probably suffice so as not to put any strain on the brilliant NHS.
You will be left with a selection of timber pieces, some with small bloodstains but you can work around those and they will add character, and a talking point at dinner parties for some random date in the future.
There will be:
6 150mm wide by about 1400mm boards
2 100mm wide by about 1400mm boards.
Quite a collection of broken bits, metal straps and some of the 3000 nails that you think you could use in the future. Forget that thought as you will keep them for years and then put them into recycling. Get rid of them now.
Cut 3 of the 150mm boards down to about 680mm each. You can get 2 such pieces out of 1 board. You will need 6 680mm lengths to make 2 planter boxes.
Screw 3 pieces together with the 50mm screws, to form a type of trough without ends, sort of like a gutter.
Cut a piece of timber from the 150mm wide planks you have left, to insert in each end to the trough you have, to make it into a trough with a piece of timber at each end 🙂 Look at the image for how that should look.
Repeat the process for the second trough.
Next, use the square you have to make the angles for the support legs. You should cut one end at 45 degrees, and then use the screws to fasten that end onto the end of one of the troughs.
Just use one screw at this time as this bit is a bit of a guess to get it so the planter looks right on a flat surface. If you don’t really care about that and you want to use it on the side of a hill, just screw the side supports where you like – what can possible go wrong 🙂
When you are happy that it looks something like the image, cut 2 pieces of the 100mm timber to 320mm length. These can then be screwed to the angled side supports and you are done.
If it’s not quite level and square – who cares beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Once it’s got some plants growing in there nobody will even notice.
OR
The other alternative is to buy one Ready Made from FSC Recycled timber from here with the payment being made direct to TPEG. At just £25 delivered to your door (in Tankersley and Pilley), these little beauties are an absolute steal. Each one is 680mm wide x 500mm tall x 600mm deep, and made from 28mm FSC timber screwed together.
They are made locally to order by a TPEG member, so if you would like one please either call 07718 206942 or send us an email at info@tpegbarnsley.co.uk to get yours.