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I know I have seen this in other articles and have found some nice wood to work with. It involves taking apart used pallets that are being thrown out and removing all the nails. If they are dirty run a belt sander over them to remove any sand or grit that may be in the wood (it will save your planer knives for sure). Run them though the thickness planner and you may be surprized with what you come out with. Depending on the pallet, you can come out with some nice 3/4 and 2X3 stock. I have found that nursuries and brick yards usually have heavier duty pallets than other places which will yield the thicker stock.