There are numerous number of container options available to you through which you can ship your motorcycle but the easiest and the cost effective method would be making shipping pallet for you. There are different thoughts set by different people that making a motorcycle pallet will be difficult but they don’t understand that it is the easiest thing that they could do and they will not have to make extra efforts for that. It is a normal fact that people think that many things are difficult to do and due to which they take a step back before doing such things and instead of that they would be ready to pay extra money for such things.
The motorcycle pallet is the easiest DIY that you can quickly
do without wasting much of time and the only thing that you would have to do is
investing a little time from your busy schedule to make it in the easiest way.
If needed you can also ask your friends or family member to help you out in the
process so that you can complete the task in time in the most easiest manner.
With the following points you can make the motorcycle pallet
easily.
Materials required
There are not much of the materials that are required for the
process. The main thing that you have to care is regarding the utilization of
the materials that even if you are going to spend less amount of money on the
materials but you should utilize it to its full capacity so that your things
will be properly manufactured.
If you are thinking that that by buying expensive
things it will be easy for you to make the pallet then your perception is
absolutely wrong and you should buying little things and that will directly
help you in making the pallet. The things that would be required to make the
motorcycle pallet are hammer, nails and eyelet screws and it will be
easily available in the local market and it will not create a problem to
collect all those things and will not cost you much. In your free time you can
go the market and collect all those things and get back to your home within a
short span of time.
The purchasing can be done within a short span of time
without much hurdle and you can do it according to your experience and for
further help you can also contact any of your friend or family member to guide
you in purchasing those things.
Steps to be followed while making the pallet
1. The longer 2X4s has to
brought together which should be higher than the width of the wheel. At any of
the end of the pair, you should lay down any shorter 2x4s and to keep them in
the intact place then you can hammer it properly.
2. After completing the
above step you have “gutter” along with you and now you have to take three more
2x4s should be lied down near the longer ones and now you have to
complete adding on the 8 footer at the bottom line so that the wheel can rest.
3. After the above 2 steps
your major part has been completed in the finest way and now you have to flip
into two more of 2x4s which should be spaced out at approx 32 inches so
that the other shorter pieces would attach to them easily without any
difficulty. To keep all those things in place it will be important for you to
hammer entire things properly and after completing this you would have to add
another two 2x4s on the above and you would have to keep the shorter
pieces in between the longer ones.
4. In the end you would
have to hammer the entire things and when you have eyelet screws then you can
place them to tie down on the pallet. With this the DIY motorcycle pallet is
completed without much efforts and money. If you are going to pay the amount to
someone outside then it will cost you very much therefore to cut the cost and
do it in the easiest way then you can follow the above mentioned steps.
Enclosing pallet
It is possible that you would decide to enclose the
bike lately and it can be easily done when your shipping pallet is in
place and you can also built a crate around it. To make the crate you will only
need to have screws, bolts and six pieces of plywood to easily complete the
task.
With the help of above mentioned steps and procedures it will
be really helpful for you to make the motorcycle pallet without taking much of
your time and effort which will eventually help in transporting
your bike in a much better way.