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Yard notes
In short
What actually happens on the grading floor, the repair bench and the dismantling line.
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- 01A short history of the 48×40, and why it is still herePeople assume the 48×40 is a committee decision. It is closer to an archaeological record of three separate constraints that happened to agree.14 October 2025
- 02Wet cores: what rain actually costs you per palletA pallet that spends a week in Ohio spring weather is a different commodity from the one that went outside.23 September 2025
- 03Why we stopped using metal plates in 2011It takes eleven seconds to plate a cracked stringer and it makes the pallet somebody else’s problem for years.3 September 2024
- 04Reading a pallet's history from its nail holesEvery repair leaves a record in the wood. Once you know what to look for, a stringer will tell you roughly how many lives it has already had.19 March 2024
- 05What a grader actually looks at in four secondsPeople assume grading is a judgement call. It is closer to a decision tree, and the order of the checks is the part that takes six weeks to learn.27 February 2024