wood box/crate - PEP BB dimensional.sand.box

This is the wood I started with. I used the wood in the first picture to make the siding and the posts. I used the wood in the second picture to make the base to keep things from falling out of the bottom of the crate.






This is a progress picture.



This is my completed crate.



This is my completed crate fulfilling its intended function. I made this crate 14 inches cubed, because I wanted to use it for storing a bunch of wooden mallets. There were wooden mallets in the Shop lying around, which kind of bugged me, so, I made a crate to store them in. I did not need the crate to be huge, just large enough for the mallets that were cluttering the work space.
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These tiny clothes are not so tiny anymore, and they're out of control!

Time for a box.

I have a ton of these modular ikea shelves, and the cube inside dimension is nominally 13"w x 13"h x 15"d. My hope is to make more than a few of these, and improve the design each time.

Since this is storing clothes, I'm using cedar, some cedar 1x2 for the frame, and some 1x6 tonge & groove for the sides.

In the detail, you can see I deliberately made the rail proud of the post's foot a tiny bit. It's a tiny skiddable structure!

I needed a nesting box, so I made one.

I made a crate.  There is a very specific purpose for it.  I am testing a concept I've designed for an affordable, double-paned earthbag window.  To do this properly I need to situate one side of the window exposed to the outdoors and one side exposed to the indoors as if it were in a real earthbag home.  The only way I can do that is to replace one of the existing windows in my home with this test ADEW.  But the size of the earthbag window and the size of the existing window are not the same.  So I made this crate.  It is the right size to fit into my existing window frame once I remove the window.  Then I can create a mini-earthbag wall inside it, thereby creating what I hope is a realistic test of the window.

The wood is all scrap 2x4 and 4x4 from outside.  There is some fabulous pink ribbon in the picture but I assure you no glue, paint or glitter was used in the construction of this crate.  Just wood and nails.







This last image shows the steel pipe I am embedding in the earthbags, which will be cradled in the center of this crate.  Boot for scale.

Did I admit I'm lousy at following instructions? I'll move this to Oddball if building a box to hold punky wood, dead chickens, biochar, finished compost and plant roots (the plant stems and leaves will stick out the top) doesn't count, but it *is* built out of recycled dimensional lumber, mostly recycled nails, and home made corner brackets.

Step One isn't really shown, but it involved disassembling a bunch of pallets to get flats for infilling other pallets and 2x4's for filling edges. It was a lot of work, and I only chose "HT" for Heat treated pallets.
Step Two was to start infilling gaps in skids:

The gap on the left side was just as big as the one still showing on the right.
I had scored four 6 ft long by ~30 inch tall skids. Two for this crate, and I will make a second matching one.

This shows the first side finished.

This shows the two 6 ft sides and the two 4 ft sides for the width. The four foot sides had to be shortened to 30 inches from the more typical 40 inch pallet size. After cutting them off to size with a skill saw, I fit a salvaged 2x4 into the gap between the existing flats and then filled in any gaps. The ends tended to have a bunch of narrow gaps, so I was going around to my stash of parts looking for a flat that was just the right width. You can also see the 2x4's that I had to fit into the gap between the front and the back of the skid at the "sides". This serves both to keep the dirt from falling out, and to allow me to fasten the edges of the panels together with my brackets.

This shows the aluminum brackets and the tools I used to level and screw around with. The small mattock was strategically place to hold that panel against the end wall while I got the bracket installed. My friend Pythagoras helped me get the box reasonably square and the level helped both vertically and horizontally, however it is *not* fine furniture, so "good enough" was the goal.

Here is an inside view with two chunks of wood already inside. It will take a *lot* of everything mentioned to fill it, but I'd like to to have some time to settle and then get topped up before spring planting!
The long term goal is that I want to be able to plant some annual veggies, or short-lived perennials despite getting older and be able to pick them easily. This bed is solid! I can lean on it, and sit on the edge and the amount of kneeling I can do is decreasing gradually. Things like tomatoes, bush beans, carrots etc. I want lots of wood in the bottom to hold water for our dry summers.

I made a box out of wood

I decided I needed a generic box of holding for the shop. Basically a place to temporarily hold things, or carry things around. 14" x 14" x 14" felt right, so that is what I decided to go with. I had some old bed rails (i ended up using 4 total) that I used for the sides, and an offcut that I used for the corners and bottom. The bed rails had some old existing paint on the edges, but no paint was used during construction, and nails were the only thing used to hold it together. All in all, not the prettiest thing, but it's functional.

So for my Box of Holding Mark II I've sourced all shiny new wood. I made this one 12x12x14 as my other one ended up being just a bit too big to tuck away nice. Once again only nails were used to hold it all together.

The purpose of my crate is to serve as a compost-sifter for our community compost bins.  I use it to return chunky, carbon-rich and unfinished material from the finishing bin to the deposit bin, and remove gick.  I was super happy today walking to the garden, as I saw a neighbor using it!  Success!  I took that as a sign to go ahead and submit this post here on the forum.

Design requirements:

Width: A little wider than shoulder width, so that the average gardener can lift it easily and shake it front to back or side to side (for ergonomics)

Length (depth): Must not exceed about 1/3 the bin size (which is 1mx1m), so that a shovel can dig into and deposit the materials without removing the crate

Height: Enough to hold a couple shovel-fulls of compost, but shallow enough to stand over, inspect materials, and pick out any plastics or inappropriate gick

Materials: All salvaged, nothing purchased; no (or minimal) waste

Tools: Hand saw, Phillips-head screwdriver, hammer and nail for makeshift pilot holes

Materials:

Salvaged HT pallet wood from the dumpster

Scrap wood for corners from cleaning out a community basement

Hardware (screws and screw hooks) from an old picture frame kit

Mesh wire from community garden surplus

I thought I would make a box for carrying farm stuff around. I'm not sure exactly what it will be used for just yet. My idea was to build something that would be good for carrying veggies and/or food from our off site garden. It's 24'' x 16'' and is about 15'' deep.

The wood I used was all stuff that I had lying around from other projects. The tongue and groove is cedar leftover from the tiny house I built two summers ago. It is a bit weathered from being stored semi covered but it's mostly dry and in decent shape, just a bit dirty. I made some 2x2 lumber for the frame out of a piece of 2x8 that I had under the deck.

The main frame of the box is screwed together, and the panelling is attached to the outside with narrow crown staples.

Provide pics or video (less than two minutes long):
- the wood you're starting with
- the construction partially underway
- the finished crate/box
- description of why you made the crate/box the size you did and what it's for

I made a box to hold the used tubes and tires in our ship. My husband works on bikes, so they accumulate quickly. They can be reused for a number of projects.  The box is 24 " x 15" and it fits between the two shelves in the shop.

I built this box so I could store spare lumber instead of having it be ground contact the whole time.

Here is my submission for the Dimensional Lumber Woodworking Aspect - Sand for Straw - Make a Wooden Crate BB.

Wheaton Labs: I built a wooden crate for use in the shop or to take tools/supplies to projects.  The materials came from the shop under the chop saw and under the drill press.  I used 2x2 square pieces for the internal frame then 3/4" for crate bottom and sides.  The frame is screwed together and the bottom boards are screwed to the frame.  I used the brad nailer to affix the side panels to the frame.  Then I sanded the area that would be used as handles to go easy on hands.

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, I have provided the following:

Requirements:
- at least one cubic foot: 11" x 14" x 12.5" tall (these measurements are inside the frame)
- has a bottom (nearly solid)
- sides are at least 50% wood so things don't fall out
- made from untreated wood free of glues
- no paint, stains, or oils
Pictures:
- the wood you're starting with
- the construction partially underway
- the finished crate/box

I've made a crate using scrap lumber at the Wheaton Labs workshop. It's intended purpose is to hold kindling after it's split, so that it can be brought to the wood stove. I gathered the wood as I was building it (which I don't recommend BTW) so there's 3 separate photos of the wood I used. I also included measurements of the box using a tape measure.

Here's my BB submission to create a wooden box-crate. Needed it to store many extra jars of stuff and bits in the shop wich i rarely use. The dimensions of the boxe was based on the extra wood i had on hand and the space it should fit under the shelf in the shop.

My scrappy crappy box. Will be a wool hen.

My thought was that a nice big box/crate would be great to organize our board games and fit them neatly on our book shelf in the living room.  I brought home this crate from the shop and the wife and kids looked at me like I had a three eyes, they did not think my idea was so great.  So, now I have an empty crate!  Oh well, it will still come in handy, I often find myself in need of sturdy bins in the garage, shop, and job site.

I made it out of some scrap redwood from a fence I made for a client last summer.  The sides are a 2x12 ripped in half, and the slats are cut offs from the fence pickets.  It is 10" x 10.5" x 25" just shy of two cubic feet.

I am a carpenter by trade, so I used any/all tools and technology available to me that I darn well felt like which includes, table saw, band saw, RO sander, hand saw, hammer and nails.  This was a skill building exercise because I decided to drive the finish nails by hand, which I do not usually do.  I was humbled by how bad I am at it and how many "roses" and bent nails there are.