How To Make Wooden Crates

Wooden crates are very sturdy and very much simple to make. You have to use 9cm wide pine boards for the slats and 19mm plywood for the sides. 

Timber crates (another name for wooden crates) are made the same way. To make crates you have set up a block on the mitre saw due to same sizes of all the boards. To extend the fence on the saw you have to clamp a board and stop block to it.

wooden crates

The actual measurements of the slat boards are all identical due to its length but not critical. The plywood for the wooden crates is the only other wood to cut to size. You can use a circular saw if you don’t have a table saw. 

A Forstner bit is used to drill two large holes for making long handholds. To make this process easy a drill press is used. The edges of the holes are connected by drawing lines and a jigsaw is used to cut it out.

You have to just draw out the shape of the handheld, drill a small entry hole and cut it out with a jigsaw if you don’t have any Forstner bits.

The sharp edges of the hole have to be sharpened. On the router you have to use 6mm round over bit. With the help of hand sandpaper, you can send them smooth.

The first board is the most difficult part of assembling the crates. You have to clamp it to the bottom edge of the plywood side pieces.

Before inserting screws it is good to drill the holes. When the screws are close to the end of the board then it’s important to drill pilot holes. 

So these are some steps following which you can make wooden crates.

Finding the most appropriate timber supply

There are various operational and manufacturing facilities at the Express pallets and crates which has been built in order to extend the excellent services of the clients with the positive attitude vis a vis their needs for good quality, strong pallets and crates at a reasonable price along the East coast of Australia. This is what the company has been doing for the last quarter of a century (yes, we have been around for 25 years).

wood crates

The company owned sawmill is also engaged in the service of providing the most efficient timber supply to the clients in the form of pallets, boxes, timber crates and various other specialty products. The high quality products are available to the customers at consistent and competitive prices for the upgradation of the industry as well as the clients. The consistent and the reliable timber supply also makes it all the more interesting for the clients and they are more attracted towards the organisation in a positive way. They also have the modern machinery and equipments along with the excellent staff and the better transport services in order to provide the most efficient services to the people.  

There are various other services which are available to the clients along with the supply of wood crates such as the express services including the ordering and delivering of the quotations. There are also large quantities of the standard pallets available to the clients which are in stock and for which the orders can be placed. The onsite heat treatment facility also makes them more reliable and efficient among the competitors. The certified export compliance is also possible if required. Proper care is also taken while designing and producing the pallets and the wooden crates in order to match the products with the requirements of the clients.

Strong Timber Crates For Your Warehouse

A warehouse is meant to keep your raw materials and finished goods safe from damage caused by the elements; rain, sunlight, wind and snow, as well as by humans, rodents and insects. Most manufacturers have a warehouse or two and they usually equip the warehouse with storage racks which can be as high as the warehouse ceiling and can only be accessed by extendable forklifts for loading and offloading purposes. These raw materials and finished products have to be conveyed either to the production floor or to the finished goods delivery loading bay, and they have to be carried by a forklift from the warehouse. The only convenient way that the forklift can lift the products is if they are placed on wooden crates. These crates help to keep the products firmly secure as they are moved about, the crates are not placed at the point of transportation, but rather the raw materials and finished goods are already placed on top of the crates during storage.

Timber crates

This makes it easy to convey the products as they are always properly stacked on the crates or pallets. There is space underneath the crates with which the forklift can have access to, in order to conveniently lift the crates from the ground and move them around. These crates are supplied by companies who specialise in logging, saw milling and the production of both wood and timber crates for use by manufacturing companies that deal in the production of goods for both domestic and export use. These crates are made from very good timber and hard wood that is durable and strong, they are also treated with special chemicals to help protect them from mold, mildew and termite attack. Wood and timber crates are not expensive and companies can easily place an order for them online from a company, their price rates will vary depending on the volume of order.