pallets

Yes I know we have made civilisation up. I’m very aware that we have gradually made sense of everything and then put in systems that help us all do what we’ve got used to doing in more efficient ways.

Pallets are a good example of how we are moving to consensus. Semi-Universal wooden things. There’s a whole structure of machines designed to move pallets. There is a whole economy of pallets that most of us are not aware of.

A pallet is a plate of wood. It looks like the pictures below.

You need literally millions of them for an event like this. They go in, they go out. I sometimes take an empty one these days when I collect an order from Brico as then they are less likely to make me strip it.

This photo is just for me to locate some lost wayfinding. But the wooden thing is a very standard pallet. That’s the size they usually are. Put things on them. Then you can move the things. Too many things? Wrap them up with giant rolls of film. You can put so much stuff on one of them.

Then you can either haul them with a manual pallet truck, you can nibble them around with that electric yellow thing which is jerky and less efficient than it looks, or you can go get stuck in with a forklift providing there’s room. Having experienced all options, I am now very much of the opinion that if there’s a truck available it’s the best option. Sadly they aren’t available that often, particularly for the likes of me. I’m just trying to solve problems.

Today I sent a team on a milk run. They had a bunch of venues, I wasn’t able to generate the contacts or drop offs, they did it all through Kieran and I didn’t even know their progress. I am trying to delegate. But if I’m gonna be managerial I need more info.

I’m just a cog though. The machine is huge but I literally don’t matter other than the fact they are asking me to buy loads of stuff. I could buy it on my credit card.