Pulling Nails from Pallet Slats- the hard way and the easy way.........
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2021
- In this video I demonstrate how to remove nails from pallet boards after the pallets have been disassembled. Using a reciprocating saw to take apart pallets leaves nails in the slats and the stringers of the pallets. I have been using a nail set and hammer to remove the nails from the slats for years…..then I stumbled upon the “Air Locker”. This thing is great for speeding up the process of nail removal. Why hadn’t I been looking for this years ago!?!?!?!?
Air Locker- tinyurl.com/mrzh6tdc
We have been using one of those types of tools for a few years now. We place the boards across the top of a 55 gal drum with the top removed. That way, when we shoot the nails out, they drop into the barrel without us having to pick them up. When we get enough in the drum we take then to recycle.
That is awesome. I tried to do that with a smaller bucket but the nails are really tight in the maple wood that I was using in the video. I wasn't able to get them to shoot out the bottom. I still needed to use a hammer to get them out after they were shot. Thanks for watching!!!
Good boy. I have a drum but don't think of it as a wastebasket for nails. Wow. I just have to get the top off it.
Love love love my air locker. Game changer if you reclaim pallets. Totally worth the investment. It actually makes de nailing pallet wood a very satisfying experience
I am very happy with it. It really make the job tolerable. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the info. You have inspired me to try my air hammer with a ground down tip. I don't do nearly as much as you do. Thanks again.
I like Bourbon Moths method of removing nails from pallets. Light them on fire and the gather the nails after they cool off. Very easy process. Seriously, the major issue of working with pallet woold, is you don't know what the pallets have held. The amount of chemical leakage during shipment would surprise most people. Also, most pallet wood is treated with insecticide to prevent insects from travelling and becoming an invasive species.
I like that video too. Some of the pallets that I got when I first started were great candidates for fire wood. Lately, I have been getting really nice maple pallets and the wood turns out beautiful when it is cleaned up. I love using pallets because I can build whatever I want and I don't have huge lumber costs like I used to.
Beer distributors have loads of one trip pallets from mexico and the use alot of mango wood to build pallets
@@oldguss Mango would be awesome. I use some in my classroom when we turn pens. I would love to find some pallets like that. I do really love the maple ones I have been getting though. Thanks for watching.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 built my wife a book shelf wile i was working as a drivers helper for a distribution company all the tacate modelo and carona always came on really awesome pallets and because they are food going through costoms they are always one trip meaning they're new heat treated pallets
@@oldguss That's awesome. What a great way to use something again. I love giving the pallets a new life. They started out as trees, then pallets and then furniture......turning trash into treasure.
I got an AirLocker and it is awesomely powerful - it often throws a spark when driving out nails!
For those who don't have an air compressor and air gun here's another way.
get a three or four inch long pipe nipple of 5/16" and get a couple barn spikes that will pass freely through the nipple. Use the nipple to straighten up the bent nails that are exposed when prying the slats off the runners. Slip the nipple over the nail and bend it up straight. The nipple should be longer by an inch or so than the pallet nail. Grind the barn spike off to a flat end and insert into the pipe nipple. Hammer the nail back. even bent nails can be removed because there is no space for them to re-bend while driving them out. If your doing many boards you can set boards into your vise and use a short crow-bar to pull the nails out after raising the heads of the nails. Put aa bucket under your work and it will catch most of the nails. If you pre-drill your projects with a small bit to avoid splitting dry wood you can re-use the nails on you more common projects. It can save going to buy nails... Happy re-cycling. Just stop your pilot hole a little short so the nail stays tight.
Thanks for all of the great tips. I wish I had heard of some of these before I found this tool. I worked hard to get a LOT of nails out of a LOT of pallets. I love some of these ideas. Thanks for watching my videos.
Nice! That tool reminds me of the murder weapon in the “movie no country for old men”.
Haha. Thanks for watching!!!!
I adapted another tool to do sort of the same thing. I got a palm nailer, and ground down the back end of a nail punch to fit in the palm nailers nail holder. The punch is held in by a wire wrapped around it and the nail holder shaft. Gonna figure our some other way to hold it in someday.
Big downside is after using the palm nailer for half an hour, your hand is vibrated to death.
That was my first thought as well. Hold the nail punch with pliers and wear padded gloves. In fact, if the punch is a bit smaller diameter than the nails it can drive them completely out. I also like that there is no trigger involved - pretty much automatic.
@@wilhelmtaylor9863, padded gloves or some kind of foam, sponge or something glued onto it might help. For a period of time at least. Might even consider some layers of lead sheathing on top of the foam as being shock resistant and full of mass. Mass is good in some cases.
Good information, done what you've been doing, it's labour intensive
Great video! I'm surprised that you don't have your students help you out with this fun activity. 😄 It's almost like being in your classroom again! Great job! 😊
Thanks!
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I use a small roll punch and clawhammer,works great 👍 👌
Love it. Great video!
Thank you. And, thanks for watching!!!
Wife and I are finalizing purchase of new home that includes a free-standing 750sq ft garage (25' x 30'), all steel construction-- truly a honey of a shop, right? Anyway, looking at building a small bar for inside the house-- and I want to build it with reclaimed hardwood. Pallets seem like a likely source, but was concerned about nail extraction. This video solves that problem for me! Tried years ago to dismantle pallets with just a hammer and a hand saw. I got one pulled apart in two days, and it was brutal (those twist nails don't yield much!). Bookmarked the link for that tool, and I'll buy a compressor and hoses to run the thing! Much thanks, Trophy Hubby! (I subbed, BTW)
AWESOME! Glad my video was able to help. I have a couple other videos about tearing pallets apart and what Sawzall blades to buy. I have been building ANYTHING I WANT because I don't pay for much wood anymore. I also have my own stain mix that I love and it's super cheap too (Check out that video of mine). Now I can spend the money on better hardware and some good varnish. Good luck with the new shop....I'm a bit jealous. I have my 19x20 attached garage and built a temporary shop extension on the back of it. Can't wait to get into a nice stand alone BIG shop.
Thanks for subscribing! I really appreciate it!!!!!
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I very much appreciate your reply, and i WILL be checking out your pertinent videos as I progress on this thing. MANY people I know are jealous of my new digs! Anyway, will be buying more power tools, as I don't have much (drill press and bandsaw built in 1947, along with cordless stuff). The nail extractor thing gives me an excuse to buy a compressor (which I actually want, anyway). I watch many other builder/creator guys and gals and am inspired by all of them-- looks like my day is finally coming around! Thanks for all you do!
@@crustycurmudgeon2182 Good luck with your new shop set up. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I love to help. I have been setting up my current shop a little at a time and I also teach Wood Shop at a middle school so I have set up that shop over the last 15 years too. I have 5 bandsaws, 3 drill presses, multiple spindle and disc sanders, and 15 mini lathes. My students make and sell wooden pens in 8th grade.....we've sold over $40K in pens over the last 10 years. We do A LOT of pens. Best of luck!
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 That's so cool!
If you are pulling slats off nails and all use a 5/16" nipple and grind a barn spike that will freely go inside of it . Make the nipple be a couple inches longer than the nail. Clamp the nipple in a pair of vise-grips and bang on the barn spike. this will raise the nail out the back side. clamp the board in a vise and yank all the nails with a crow-bar. {longer handle less effort] cheap fix. until you can get a compressor and air gun.
Go online they have a wonder bar for breaking down pallets. It a wrecking bar.attached to a crowbar end that perfectly fit to pry apart. Simple and easy.
I got one too and they work great.
I love it. I use a LOT of pallets and it works great for getting out the nails. Thanks for watching!
I just the other day decided to try my pneumatic impact hammer on a few euro pallets, but instead of cutting the boards and then backing the remainder of the nail out, I simply drove the nails all the way through.
The obvious downside is a slightly larger hole left in the boards, but it was not a concern for my application. Plus, many if not all pallet nails are collated. By running the head completely through the board, I have found that the metal is often left behind otherwise is removed fully
What kind of wood were you using? I can see how nails would be able to go through some soft woods like pine or poplar but can the nails go through hard woods like oak or maple. Thanks for watching my videos.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 for special boards try plug cuting around the nails. then fill the holes with plugs
@@victorhopper6774 That's a cool idea. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.
Have you tried pulling the pallets apart which leaves the whole nail, the that de-nailer would slip over the nail, the the 2x4 are clean too?
There's another great item you should look for to prevent blisters. They're called gloves. Pretty handy when working with rough cut wood. You also might want to look into these things called ear plugs when using that tool.
You might want to launch your own UA-cam channel ….you’ve clearly got a lot of advice you’re keen to share.
@@SkyBlueKangaroo Sorry, I meant no disrespect. I was only trying to suggest things I've learned the hard way. Safety first always is better than blisters, splinters, cuts, and a ringing headache.
This guy has been doing this stuff this long he is not gone change . You would think the first blister would of tip him off about glove's it didn't and ear protection ...whats that ?
mind your own business safety sally
@@tedandjennvanderwekken3465 Is a safety sally some one with absolutely no common sense ?
great idea,,, thank you
Thanks for watching!
Wow. If you pull the nails before you take the pallet apart you will save yourself a crap load of time and effort. Not sure why taking a pallet apart would be such a major production, lol. I've been taking them apart and reusing them for years. But, to each his own.
Slick, thank you
Yep- ears need protection along with eyes. I have hearing loss because of working in noisy environments before I found ear muffs. Love 'em.
I typically use ear protection now too. I have been working with tools my whole life and I notice I don't have the hearing I used to...... I use Bluetooth noise canceling headphones and listen to audio books while I work now.
I love my air locker!!!!!!!!
nice job
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the kind comments.
Good one as at 3:22 your using centre punch to pop nail remnant out an pry these out.
So now at 5:34 your about to set up demo which if as fast as nail gun great you saving a few second each plank board which overall may be a half hour spare time to do something an move forward👍
Thanks for the comments and for watching the videos.
good tip... never knew they used hardwood for pallets!
I've been very lucky to have secured my source for these nice pallets. I love building things with them. I can build just about anything I want because the wood is free and therefore the projects are super cheap.
My problem is the thick ones which the nails are deep in the slate and the nails only reached half of the thickness of the wood. The nails heads are gone because the nails are trapped in the hardwood and only a small part of the nails is above the wood. Over 90% of the nails are inside the wood. Do you have a better way to get the nails out of the wood? Thanks
I haven't found anything that works great to get them out when the nail heads are completely below the surface except the nail set and hammer (or the Air Locker). When the nails are buried deep I usually just go about pulling them out as usual and then hope I don't damage the surface of the wood any more than necessary. Once I have all of the nails out of the boards I typically run them through my surface planer to clean up the faces of the boards before building any projects and it takes away a lot of the damage from the nail pulling process. I also get a LOT of high quality pallets and usually have more wood than I need so I don't feel as guilty about damaging a board or two in the process. I hope this helps. Please feel free to ask more questions if you have any. Thanks for watching the videos.
Your pallets, and therefore also the nails you're pulling, are pretty new, so you shouldn't have this problem, but a claw hammer will often break off the head on at least one side, if not both, of an older, rusted nail, in which case the 'V' in the hammer's claw won't have anything to hold onto to pull the nail. That's when a pair of pincer pliers comes in really handy to pull the nail, since it grips onto the shaft and doesn't really need the head of the nail, and the farther you lever it over while pulling, the stronger it grips!
Also, for those who don't have a compressor to connect to an Air Locker - funny, the only air locker I've heard of before watching this video was the kind you'd find in a 4X4's diff! - you might want to consider one of Spring Tools' wonderful little nail setters and/or hole punches. They'd also save you a lot of time because they eliminate the need for a hammer and you only have one tool to concentrate on. They have quite a variety of different ones for different purposes that can be bought in sets or individually, so check them out!
Thanks. I appreciate the information. Thank you for watching!
Love this video, though in truth I saw this technique a long time ago and bought a similar toolfrom another company. Question: Since you are not using the stringers, why not just use the air locker to pund the nails from the slats into the stringers and that eliminates the need for the sawing the nails? If this will not work with hardwood, will it work with softwood? The other video indicated it would, but i would like your opinion. Thanks.
Thanks for checking out the video. I really appreciate it. I love this tool for taking out the nails......but I haven't tried it yet by just pounding the nails through. I will have to try that. I have a truckload of pallets that I want to work on this weekend so I may try to see if I can pound them through. I am not sure if it has enough strength to pound them all the way through but it is a great idea. Thanks!!!!
you might have to grind the nail heads off first. otherwise splitting will occur.
@@claudeirby1561 good point. I didn't consider that.
By the way holding the pipe nipple in a pair of vice grips saves a lot of pinched fingers. I work with one eye and depth perception ain't what it could be. Yipe.
Air hammer with a punch bit is what I use and it cost me $25.
Brilliant
Thanks. This tool saves me hours of work!!!!
I saw thru the nails with a reciprocating saw. (Sawzall type). Never a split or broken board.
Me too. I started doing it that way, and have done it that way for years. I haven't come up with a good project to use the centers for yet so I just find other people who want them and don't mind the nails embedded. I just use the slats on the top and bottom. My current source gets me nice maple pallets that are usually single use so they are really nice and also clean. I get some beautiful wood out of them. I just got a "Pallet Buster" tool yesterday and tried it on a pallet I had laying around. It was more work than the Sawzall and broke 2 of the 3 boards I tried it on. I'll try it again on the next batch of pallets to get a better sense of how it works. Thanks for watching.
Anton Chigurh had one of those, just larger.
That looks really time saving. I'm only wondering how loud that actually is and how close to a gun shot it sounds like. Because I have neighbors that love calling police on everybody in the court that make any type of noise, even when I get back on my motorcycle with some buddies. Maybe it was loud in the video due to the garage being closed either way great idea, thanks for the video and I appreciate your time.
I don’t own one but I imagine it sounds like a nail gun. Your neighbors sound miserable. I love my neighbors. Just last night I was using the table saw in the garage at 11:30 at night. No one cared. Lol.
@@MFTomp09 You are right. It sounds like a nail gun. I also have some pretty great neighbors....I am often out in the shop until about 10 or so....I haven't had anyone complain yet. Thanks for watching!!!!
It sure does speed up the process. The noise is like a nail gun. I often have stacks of pallets in my driveway and work all the time late to get stuff done. I have pretty good neighbors that don't complain about my stuff.
@@MFTomp09 yeah. I use a welder inside my apartment they get alittle annoyed..i guessits the smells
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I can understand.. In hoa's and Karen's it makes life miserable..especially at 3am..
Great video! I am processing a lot of construction waste-2x4s-and was wondering if a product like this existed.
Also, I’m not familiar with pallets, and always assumed they were made from pine. You mentioned that you obtained hardwood pallets. Are those common? I would like to look into hardwood pallets. Without giving away your specific source, can you recommend types of businesses where I could look?
Try Lowe's look for ones that say HT on them means heat treatment no bugs
@@suebarbour9510 Thank you!
@@suebarbour9510 Was wondering the same thing as @retiredatforty. Thanks for the advice!
sometimes pallets come from other parts of the world and are worth taking apart just for the wood. I found a pallet at Home Depot that was made of mahogany. Red Oak makes into pallets in Arkansas areas. happy hunting
@retiredatforty When I first started working with pallets I was finding all kinds of different woods. Most of them were either oak or pine but I did find some that were cherry, sycamore, and poplar too. Pallets are usually made from whatever wood is cheap and accessible near the pallet manufacturing company. I got lucky finding a warehouse near me that was getting pallets from Canada that were made from maple. The problem with these pallets is that they didn't fit the warehouse racks....that was good for me because they were just looking to get rid of them since they didn't fit. This warehouse orders a lot of stuff that comes on these pallets. Again, I just got really lucky with finding my source. Wishing luck to you finding a source to begin your pallet journey..
That's actually some nice looking clean wood I'll buy some off ya if your selling, maybe thirty boards to start or do you need a hand prepin them all🌝
So what do you do with the left over nail parts?
I leave the bottom parts of the nails in the center part of the pallets and the tops go into the trash.
I disassambled one pallet. The drill was handy to get holes under board for lever it off. When cut nail shorter, it is easier get out.
In a few more years this guy is going to discover pallet wreckers and his mind is going to be blown.
So your cutting nails in half makes you extra work you can avoid the first round.
Try split wood off carefully with hammer an crow bar so as not to split wood while a little damage can be glued back together or filled in, use a waste block stop pallet skids to not dent these when hammering skids free.
If you can't pull nails free with claw hammer use strong grips to bend an snap off nails then measure an cut so most nails end up in waste offcuts you throw out.
Use a six inch nail or 70 mm size screw as centre pop to bury nail an fill hole and don't use machines or power tool to cut wood so they don't busy saw blade teeth or potentially shatter blades
The spacer blocks knock off quite easily but only when one side is already taken off. Strip the bottom side away and use as firewood - it usually splits anyway. The top side will be complete with long nails easy to remove. Spacer blocks also go into the wood stove.
use punctuation to fill gaps in open-pored sentences .
Dude! Have you heard of the "parrot beak nail puller?" It has a handle that slides to impact the front of the tool which allows the beak to go below the nail head and then the impact part is pulled back to be a longer lever. Best of luck!
Thanks for the tip. Also, Thanks for watching!!!!
Are there any w/0 the need for air?
I haven't seen any....but I also haven't been looking. You may be able to find one that is battery powered??? It works like a nail gun only without the nails. There is a piston that pops down and hits the nails out. There may be something that isn't run with compressed air but I haven't seen any yet.
When using these boards, what do you do with the holes ?
It depends.....Sometimes I can cut off the boards to get rid of the nail holes and no one is the wiser that it is pallet wood. When I need boards that are longer than the space between nails, I either leave them alone and just go about the project like they aren't there and have that rustic/ reclaimed look or I fill them. If I fill them, I use a wood filler or Starbond thick CA glue with activator.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 - Thanks
When your wife found you, were you on the shelf? Great ideas, thanks from England🌏
On the TOP shelf...…haha. Thanks for watching.
Video diary of a guy's life experiences of trying to productively use pallet wood and the issues of dealing with removing the nails. The video shows him using a tool ostensibly to remove nails but we don't actually see the tool function or whether it removes the nails.
Just had to make it 200 comments. (I am now the 200th comenter)
Hey Mr. P
Get a small tube drill, drill down around the nails in the stringers, then the cut off nails will fall out of the big stringer wood.
Thanks for the tip!!!
Know why old woodworkers have sloped foreheads? It’s from seeing stuff like this! After watching, slapping my forehead, uttering the inevitable “I’ll be danger,” and jumping on Amazon for the obvious - I added another .5 degrees slope to my forehead with a hearty slap. Well done video, excellent presentation and totally useful info. Thanks!
Thank you so much!!! I really appreciate the positive feedback. Check out some of my other videos for projects I have done with the pallets. Thanks for watching.
Buy self assembly pallets - saved time and you get some free nails too
Really like the T-Shirt. Are they for sale? $.
I'd be happy to work together to get you a shirt. Please email me at trophyhusbandwoodworks@gmail.com and we can discuss the possibility further. Thanks for taking an interest in my stuff.
Air locker starts at 4:33. your wellcome, LoL
Hmm. In MY experience it totally takes the nail out and sends it moving pretty darn fast towards the floor. Fast enough that ricochets are a dangerous concern. To solve that I put a home depot bucket with some rags in it to dampen the nails and they collect nicely. I rarely have to use my claw hammer ... maybe 10% of the time.
With these maple pallets the nail rarely comes free. When I started using this (and depending on the pallets) I also was using a bucket set up to capture the nails. It worked well when the nails came out but these tend to stay in the pallet slats.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I am not expert in judging wood, so maybe I've just been getting mostly pine. But my Senco may be set at a higher pressure?
Also, I don't cust through my nails with a reciprocating saw and metal-cutting blade, I use a heavy pallet buster to pry them apart. So I have a fair amount of nail to feed into the barrel of my nailer and this may help push the nails out. (The force is being applied for a longer time rather than just a super-fast jolt.) Try that on a couple of your nails. It will save you a step or two if it works.
Get a pallet buster tool!
Dude go online and look for ways to take pallets apart. The denailer is an old tool for taking nails out of pallet boards. I dont use it because the stringers are super easy to get the nails out by using a 2x4 laid on its side down on the ground and another 1ft length of 2x4 with a hammer. In the same way you handled your nail set punch you will punch the boards off the stringer with the hammer and the 1ft 2x4. It looks like you only work with new pallets so it is even easier to separate the boards from the stringers as time has not had a chance to really set the wood around the nails yet. If you dont want splinters or blisters perhaps a pair of gloves. 🤨
I can pull a hole split apart in 3 min and get the nails all u need is a flat piece of steel with a slot cut in as wide as the bearer walked to a 1.5 meters bar and a hammer easy as
There seems to be a lot ARMS in your presentation, maybe they can help you. Ear protection and gloves would be good. Thank you Wiz
FYI, A tip I recently came across for easy breakdown of pallets is a tool you can make from wood. See Izzy Swans Pallet Pal video on youtube.
He shows how to make a lever type pallet tool from wood that takes most of the nails out with the slats with very minimal damage. He breaks down a pallet in 2 1/2 minutes with one. Very cool. If you do it alot, it's a must have tool.
Just thought I would share a good time and material saving tool and technique from one good Woodworker to another good woodworker from another good Woodworker.
Greg,
Thanks for sharing. I went and checked out the video you were talking about. Looks like a quick, easy build and that it works well. Have you built one? If so, how does it work? Are you happy with the way it takes apart the pallets?
I have been doing a LOT with pallets the last few years. I have a supplier that gives me solid maple and oak pallets when they come into their warehouse because they don't fit onto the racks they have. They have been a great source for free wood. I just had 40 broken down about 2 weeks ago and have another dozen or so waiting for pick up.
Thanks for watching and subscribing to my channel. More videos coming up soon.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I will be building one this weekend. I've got about a dozen to breakdown. The problem I'm having is the pallets I get are primarily yellow pine making the slats easy to break when dismantling.
I wish I could get my hands on some oak or maple ones, but pallet resale and salvage is a thing around here, so there is alot of competition on picking up pallets
Fyi, I let a few...colorful adjectives fly when i saw how many you had broken down. That represents a bit of time right there. You da man.
Thanks for posting. Keep it up. I'd like to see what you do with them...finished product stuff.
Have a great day.
@@MrTurbogreg6969 Please let me know how the Pallet Pal goes for you this weekend. I may have to build one. I have been cutting all of the slats apart with my Sawzall and it works pretty good.
I have 2 videos with blade reviews for doing it. I can get a pallet cut apart in about 3 minutes doing it the way I go at it. Please check them out. I also have a video slide show showing some of the projects I have done with the pallets. In most of the videos I have posted I use pallet wood to build my projects.
I have been fortunate to get some really nice pallets and it helps with my saw dust addiction. I feel like I can build whatever I want when there isn't much of a cost for wood. I also make my own stain and it is super cheap (another video). Basically I pay for varnish, glue and hardware.
Thanks for the great dialog! Good luck with the pallets!!!!
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 most definitely will check em out. When i get it done I'll post a vid and send you a link.
@@MrTurbogreg6969 That would be great!!!!
Sound advice which shows some preparation now saves us all time in that next job and saw blades are safe so want shatter as no nail in way so is safer with some though an planning along with what your saying🤔😉😁
I use them for fire wood to heat our home
ahhh,ahhh,and ahhh.
Pallet nails are a pain in the arse. I use a spare car jack in between the slats to loosen them and then manage to get the whole nail out as opposed to cutting in between the crossbeams and leaving the nail in. It is hard work but hey, it's free timber!
Sounds like a great idea. I cut with the Sawzall because I have a bad shoulder and pulling apart seems to aggravate my shoulder more than the cutting does.....also, I build a lot of cabinets and furniture with the slats and the centers (with large cut outs for the fork lift) don't yield a lot of usable wood for my purposes. But I love the FREE wood. Thanks for watching.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 Hi, it's usually the centers that I aim to get, mostly they don't have forklift cut-outs, I use these to build garden stuff like planter boxes and bird feeding tables. Any gashes or nail holes I will fill in with a sawdust and wood glue mix. This I find much better than wood filler and you can plane it down nice and smooth and just looks like a dowel end.
@@mr.b.w.3146 Thanks for the info. I haven't been able to find many pallets without the fork cutouts. I love the idea of the wood glue and sawdust. Bourbon Moth uses a coffee grinder to chop up the sawdust into a finer powder before mixing with the glue. I want to try that on my next project. Thank you for watching.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 Hi, I'm from England, maybe European pallets are made differently??
@@mr.b.w.3146 Some of them are. I have a European style pallet in the shop that I just broke apart. The centers were just blocks of wood rather than full strips that run through the middle. It was way easier to break down than the others.
biogas bags strange idea
why not use a "Pallet" puller and remove nails along with top board THEN use the locker to drive them nails out of the top piece, SKIP the cutting all together
Because it is a crapshoot. Works with some pellets not others.
"Look at these nails in the stringer."
Stands 30 ft away so we can see NOTHING.
Epic fail
Sorry you were unhappy with my video. It was one of my first videos and I am trying to figure this all out. My camera is pretty cheap and I didn't have anyone to help film. Hopefully that will all change soon. Thanks for watching.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I thought you showed it pretty well. I'm not a pallet reclaimer, but I'm thinking about getting one of those air guns you're using. I can see several things it might be useful for in my shops. I'd like to see some videos of what you're making with the pallets, so I'll be checking back on your channel now and then. I wish you good luck with it!
@@yepiratesworkshop7997 Thank you! Thanks for watching and leaving the positive comments. I have a video that is just stuff I have made with pallets and a bunch of other pallet furniture videos.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I'm gonna' look for it. Keep making the videos, my friend!
The only thing wrong with this video is that you have more "erms" in your conversation than pallet boards behind you.
hearing protection
Too bad there isn't hydraulic method to push the nail out completely.
Looks like something that belongs on ‘No Country for Old Men’
It is with some difficulty that I leave this site but I must, anyone who bitches about free maple is beyond help
Please don't go. I really appreciate you taking a look at my videos. I strive to take constructive criticism and improve myself with it. I also hate when people are rude about it. I wish people would make cool stuff with tools rather than being one..... Some people just can't be nice and that is too bad. I hope you continue to follow my stuff even with the haters out there. I am just trying to get this channel started and figure it all out. I am sure it will get better as I go. Thanks for the support!
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 Ok I just subbed, you are young yet with tons to learn. we all are at one time, it is how we progress. see more when it becomes available, wish you the best of everything getting this going...a hint> show your mistakes, then rectify them, again luck be with you
@@mightyporky Thank you so much. I really appreciate your support!!!
What a waste of money for that tool and the cost of power,
You may have found your niche doing it that way,
When you didn't have to go such a expensive route
Make yourself a simple jig to pry the pallets apart,
You rip them apart on site and don't have to move the whole pallet.
That's done in seconds.
At home or in shop.
With the nails sticking up, You can give one smack with a hammer,
That takes 1/2 the time you spend doing it your way.
much faster and flip the boards over, and you can struggle with a claw hammer, or ~
But use a pry bar with a claw hook, and they all come out easily.
doing it that way is just as fast, if not faster, and you don't use and ruin blades cutting through the nails
I do the big pallets as well, and they are done really fast, even the double 2 x 4 ones.
You use a wedge and drive it between the 2 x 4's with a splitting male or sledge hammer, and then you have them separated
a quick wack with a hammer drives the nails part way out, flip the boards over and only a few seconds and the nails are out
Your way is not fast and it costs, power to run the saw and blades, and then your power tool and a compressor, and the power to run it,
Poor baby's hands hurt. Let's see, decent pair of work gloves.. $7 dollars... single purpose power tool $50... kickback from Airlocker ? "still working hard on that".
Thanks for watching.
Maple pallets? I had no idea. Obviously would hold more weight I guess but wow...talk about precious trash.
Yeah! The pallets have been aweesome. I just cut apart 22 more yesterday. Wood for free is aways great!!!!
Hopefully your using ear protection
Yes, When I am in my shop I have my hearing protection on anytime I make a lot of noise. I didn't put it on for this video because I was just doing a quick demo. Thanks for the concern. I really appreciate it. If you watch some of my other videos you will see me with hearing protection. Thanks for watching! And thanks for subscribing.
Not easier just prying the boards off the stringers and backward hammering the nail tips left in the boards.
I just got a "Pallet Buster" for taking apart the pallets and found it harder to use than just cutting the nails between the stringers and the slats. I am going to try it again on my next batch of pallets but I was not impressed yet. I hope my next attempt is more fruitful.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 I'm not sure what a pallet buster is. I was thinking a pry bar which come in various lengths and shapes. Another option to use a pallet jack but insert a piece of wood or metal that parallels the pallet jack to prevent the wheels from dropping through the bottom and instead press against the metal bars you might be able to use the pressure of the jack to push it apart. You may need to try different wheel locations to get an even force. It might be worth a try.
@@cityguyusa the Pallet Buster is a big prybar type tool designed to get in between the slats of the pallet and pry them away from the center pieces. I don't have a pallet jack yet but if I get one I would be interested in trying your idea. Thanks!
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 Hopefully the Pallet Buster does the job.
Just show us please. Too much talking
Please check out some of my other videos. There are quite a few that have me making things without the talking.
You talked the entire time get on with it man!1
Aren't pallets built with chemically treated wood? Burning them in a wood stove could be hazardous.
The pallets that I have been getting have been heat treated to remove any insects but not chemically treated. Most of them are 1 time use so there hasn't been anything spilled on them as they are transporting white water rafting supplies.
@@trophyhusbandwoodworks643 Thanks. I gotta find some untreated pallets. Thanks for the video.
@@annietaylorsmith3876 Thank you! Thanks for watching.
ahh, and ahh, and ahh, so on and so forth....great info but that constant ahh will drive you nuts! try working on that, it can be stopped.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll work on it. Thanks for watching.
And and and and and and. For goodness’ sake find another conjunction. Alternatively, consider working out in advance what you want to say, maybe even write a script. If that doesn’t work , try just a few prompt notes!
Thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. This was one of my first videos and I am trying to get the hang of this whole thing. I've been nervous in front of the camera. I'll get better. Thanks for watching.
You could have done the video in a couple of minutes and kept it interesting but no you had to drag it out to 8 and a half. I notice a lot of umericans doing this.
Thanks for the feedback. This was one of my first videos. I am still working to refine my channel. I appreciate the constructive criticism.
Umm , uh , and uh , talk about a drawn out process, too much repitition
BORING - BORING - BORING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this guy just likes to hear himself talk - BLAH BLAH BLAH
Am I the only one who finds this guy's voice God-awful annoying? The way he says "uh" in every sentence just grates on my nerves. Could be the room acoustics or the EQ on the mic he is using combined with his high pitched voice. I dunno. Could not finish watching an otherwise interesting video.
Snap, I gave in after a few minutes. Did he ever get to the point?
@@henryroscoe2464 Dunno. I gave up early too.
8.5 min vid on pulling nails form pallets, no thanks.
Umm and removed from you vocabulary would considerably shorten your video.
6 minutes of nothing
Yawn ….
Thanks for the feedback. Have you watched any of my other videos? More videos with all of the talking.
Providing firewood is nothing more than contributing to poor air quality. The smoke from burning wood contains 20X the carcinogenic particulates of tobacco smoke.
No gloves, no ear protection, no eye protection?…. I do hope you are more responsible when off camera, seems a little nasty to me, I’ll stick to the old fashioned way and do my “workout” at the same time,,,,,, thanks for showing though im sure some one will find this helpful