How To Dismantle A Wooden Pallet

[@sjbis11]

That is the best way to do it and you don't waste any wood whatsoever. Thank you.

[@mogbaba]

I watched the video until 02:30 and I thought it's a great idea. I just got out of the house and took one of the thirty pallets I have for dismantling/cutting. Perfect. This is so far the easiest way to clean dismantling a pallet I have learned about. You don't need special tools for this. Thank you.

[@pastore0506]

I have dismantled a number of pallets for projects and the easiest and less destructive way I found was cutting through the nails with a hacksaw but your method is better and quicker. I wish I'd found this video sooner. Never mind, I will do my next lot your way. Thanks for posting the video.

[@nakikim]

It is the video file that I was looking for. I can't believe I can find the answer from another side of the globe. I thank the one upload this video.

[@StamosTee]

The fastest and easiest way to do the job ! No need for special or hi-tech designed tools. (Greetings from Greece :) )

[@Randomoter]

Most therapeutic thing I have watched all day. gots me a pallet project this weekend. looking forward to it now.

[@SavvasPapasavva]

Brandon Bradley Palletes...

[@brendanmurphy350]

Most useful of the videos that I’ve seen. Tried this approach and got the things apart without damaging the planks.

[@GutterpressFerret]

Fantastic! I knew there had to be a simple way of dismantling them without buying special tools. Thank you!

[@Hechicera1973]

Thank you very much. I'm enthusiastic to start projects with wooden pallets, but did not have any idea of how would be the easiest way to dismantle it. Your video is very useful. :-)

[@Cupcake_223]

I was pulling my hair out trying to dismantle one old pallet and gave up after an HOUR!! Thank you sooooo much for making this video! I am going to go tackle all 6 now! WOOHOO!

[@alexrvideos1200]

This is a fantastic help and does work, I've just done one in about 25 minutes and all the wood is intact!!! Brilliant.

[@CarolineGerardo]

Detailed view of how to keep the nails out of my feet, staples out of fingers and those lovely blood blisters from slamming the hammer on my thumb. The video is quietly beautiful. I'm using pallets for a number of projects and this was better than a book :)

[@Fly4aWhiteGuy]

When I was a kid, I used to even reuse the nails - I built all sorts of forts and stuff with parts from pallets. Kids these days are missing out on learning homesteading style skills.

[@WifeOfAHero86]

I've seen a few videos on how to do this, but this video is the best one. Thanks!

[@nickbrunsdon965]

Wow, this technique really works. Saved me so much time compared to my old method (drilling out the nails) and less splits make much more of the timber is re-usable. Thanks!

[@passangtamang7174]

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[@l31007]

This is the absolute best way to take apart a pallet. No special tools like a sawzall, chisels, etc. No fiddling with scraps of wood between each slate. Imagine though if you had the Airlocker Nail Remover!

[@Delta10666]

Nice one mate, just used your video to finally break up one stubborn git in the garden for shelves in the shed! Cheers pal!

[@Squattingtiger9]

Thanks for this vid. I've done it with this method once a very long time ago. Then I got myself a reciprocating saw, which I found easier to take the pallets apart with. Just a couple of months ago though, my reciprocating saw died, crank shaft must be munted. So, I'm back to doing it the good old fashioned manual labor way!

[@nocojest]

you just saved my life, I was trying to do the same but in a different way -> dismantling one pallet took me one day LOL.

[@b34rh34d]

Thanks! This is one of the manliest things I've seen in my life. Was very captivating

[@terrybake]

A nail bar is a very handy tool for this kind of task...instead of pecking those nails through. And you can pry the boards apart with it as well. If you're worried about marking the boards, use a small board under the nail bar. There are any number of good ways of doing this task, but working on a table or something else that's stable and not on the ground can sure make it easier on your back.

[@zaydakebede3785]

Can't wait to get down to the allotment and dismantle all my pallets now, and use the wood. thanks so much. great for a grannie like me with no special tools !!!

[@danniekavanagh]

Simplicity and genius often go hand in hand, brilliant video..

[@hodagibreelosman5133]

When get annoyed of a good thing, they say anything...why good things usually make the uninterested people annoyed, and i like your reply......very much.... laugh and ignore. you teach us something good about pallet dismantling, I made my garden pot box out of pallet, there is no pallet free here....but cost is less.

[@PolygonmanTV]

I don't know why but this video makes me feel awesome to be a human.

[@dentonjordan6992]

You’re like lightning with that hammer...you don’t strike the same place twice. 🤪

[@snocamo154]

If busting pallets becomes an Olympic event, this guy should sign up to participate in the games. 5 star video.

[@LuLuSLipstickParty]

Thank you so much for this video, I have been trying to figure out how to take them apart without damaging the wood as much as possible.

[@DianeVautier]

I totally needed to see this! I kept breaking the boards when I tried to pry them up. This looks like it works much better!! I'll give it a try this weekend. Thanks.

[@TacoPreacher]

I just spend 6:51 minutes... actually learning a skill, that maybe i will use some day. not bad, one more for the skill set. thanks

[@Feedthebeastfit]

Brilliant work! I've struggled with this for 3 days! Now you've given me the solution! Many thanks.

[@suzbone]

"The nails are ribbed and not for your pleasure." Lol, great instructional vid and great sense of humor. Thanks for that!

[@svblofeld]

very helpful thanks. loved how you straightened the bent nails. I'm gonna try and build a storage unit for some kids toys.

[@SavvasPapasavva]

That's a nice idea. Good luck with the project. Just a word of advice, always wear a dust mask when cutting pallet wood as some are treated with harmful preservative chemicals, and any furniture made should be sealed with a good quality varnish.

[@jazzguyman]

Thanks!! 2 ideas: 1 of yours - using a thin piece of wood to place alongside the pallet so as not to damage the pallet wood. Awesome! I will use this technique now! 1 of mine - from watching this I thought as to how you could speed up the process by not mis-hitting the nails. Use a tool/device/some scrap wood for instance that can SURROUND the nail you're about to hit. Imagine, say, a musical tuning fork, but thicker and reaching close to the height of the nail. Support the nail with this

[@eusebiomartinez8275]

La primera persona que sabe desmontar un palet sin romperlo, excelente.

[@kooskansloos4834]

Nice tutorial dude. Great angles. Very usefull.

[@alexrvideos1200]

Great...When he knocks the square blocks out at the start is he using a piece of metal as the cushion or is it wood?? This has been really helpful, I've been taking hours over these small type pallets and ending up with just a couple of pieces intact.

[@miloandotisfan]

I am really impressed by this. I knew there had to be a better way than I was doing it.

[@Cheguebuddha]

This is a well made video. Good man. I will need to dismantle some pallets to make a few Kenya Top Bar Hives. I will have great benefit from this video. Thanks

[@teresabesidas4348]

i've seen my father dismantle some wood and he does it same way you do..this is good advice

[@abusaleh2800]

Nice, but I have seen a video did it with jig saw for metal. The idea is to go right away for any gap between the two wood and cut the nail, so the wood will come out easily. It will take less time to do so and it will not hurt the wood.

[@TheRealXesc]

I've been dismantling pallets intensely the last few days, and I tried exactly the same way as you are doing here, but it just doesn't work with EUR pallets. The pallet you were dismantling looked brand new, and quite thin/flimsy. I wish our pallets were like that :) Add to the difficulty, when the pallets are wet, have been lying in the snow or water, expanding and grab on to the nails harder, and are heavy as fook :) Good job there, miscpro, the result you produced was phenomenal! :)

[@Gryphyn3]

Thanks for the vid. I was wondering how it was done. I got some pallets I want to make into some raised garden boxes and was trying to figure out how to dismantle it. Good vid!

[@brendahodgins]

Are you ever good with those hammers!!!!!! I have used the two bar trick I saw on another video. I sure will try this method. Great video, Thank you... Are you ever good with those hammers!!!!!

[@kidritalin1]

Thanks! Now I know why I should just spend $5 bucks on some cheap hardwood at Home Depot.And this video makes it look easy.He's very efficiently working using just enough whacks and taps.Must suck to step on a nail !

[@therealdunketh]

Cheers. I tried using a hydraulic jack on some really big ones; the wood gave out before the nails. lol.. Cheers for the vid. As for the time taken - I'm not worried about that - my own time is free and new wood is expensive!

[@lovestory952]

great video iv seen a few good ideas when pulling out nails i use bull nose pliers and a scrap piece of wood less damage to the wood serface and i give all the nails to my bosses son so he can sell it for scrap metal and when i pull the nails out i throw them straight into a container less hassles of having to pick them up later 2 thumbs up great video mate

[@ZingQueen]

Lots of useful tips in this approach. Need to get me a lump mallet! Great video job, too! TFS

[@edward1960hotmail]

You may want to invest in an air hammer, the kind that fits in the palm of your hand. It will drive the nails back in seconds and do a better job than anyone can with a hammer. Trust me on this one, I spent ten years teaching construction methods at a community college and prefer to swing a hammer to using an air nailer, but the palm air hammer is a tool I like.

[@DEXTER941]

Very good, I like your method for straightening the nails with the lump hammer. One other tool will make the job a bit easier and I learned this from a good carpenter when I was working with him. I used to pull out the nails with a claw hammer just like you but he told me to use a medium size crow bar that has the curved head with the nail pulling V in it. I bought a couple of Gorilla bars that have this nail pulling head (after the curve). The crow bar is much easier to pull out the nails with (due to its sweeping curve and leverage) and its easier on your wrist and you don't have to bend over as much or kneel down when removing the nails.

[@МихаилРосликов-ы9э]

50 поддонов за 3 часа где то! Долго Savvas долго ;)

[@ΜιχαληςΛιαπης-υ2ρ]

The greek way... Smart. Mpravo sou savva

[@The_man_himself_67]

Thanks for that little nail straightening technique!

[@lanajacknichols8397]

i clean up my pallets with my pressure washer 1st and they become very easy to take apart but i have never had a pallet that was so clean and new looking to take apart

[@eva9980]

It looks so easy ，is it really？

[@VistarCreative]

A man of few words. Thanks for the video!

[@hansdegroot8549]

Nice video. I only wonder if it should by done with the pallet lying on the floor. I think I would prefer it on a table. Very instructive also how you straightened the nails after bowing them. Old nails can be used for many things. Don't throw them away.

[@flippermac]

Great video, very detailed and love all the close ups. I especially would of never thought to use a mallet against a hammer to straighten a nail. I will be making tons of yard furniture this year from pallet material as I live in Michigan and the big three and all their suppliers give away tons of these a year. Most people don't know that most pallets are made of grade A wood, once sanded and stained is some of the most beautiful oak you can't afford these days. I usually buy grade C Mary

[@Kelmorcellus]

Amazing. I'm combining this with a hollow screw extractor followed by tapping dowels into the holes with wood glue. I can tear a pallet in under 10 minutes nails, dowels and all. I do however have a work station set up to facilitate the process

[@Agnieszka3333]

Struggled to dismantle a pallet today, will try your way!

[@colin8670]

Extra tip: Holding the nails straight with a pair pliers while you hit them with the hammer on the ends stops problems with nails bending on you.

[@LeandroMuntendam]

i had some old pallets at my house. took a recip saw and got the job done very quickly. i love my recip saw. only € 99.95 :D

[@AndrewMorgan666]

Thanks for the help, I tried knocking the nails through with a nail punch, that didn't work so I started sawing the things up. So I'm very glad to see this video...Cheers.

[@Reesfun]

Thanks for sharing. Going to try this technique as soon as my hands have recovered from the old pry bar method. :)

[@livehealthyberich3160]

Well done mate. Thank you for your help. This afternoon I have about 4 pallets - the bulky ones - to take care off...I will let u know what happened.

[@MrChopsta]

What happened?

[@rosatula4007]

Gracias por subir el video, siempre quise saber como desmantelar los pallets. Saludos desde Perú.

[@SavvasPapasavva]

Everyone's from amazing places!

[@andreaely1899]

What a great video! Thank you so much!! Really enjoyed it!!

[@wkitcreation]

the way you did it seems so easy, it took me ages to dismantle it...

[@smoovetipp]

I discovered that a palm nailer works absolute wonders for driving nails out. Seriously, you have a good technique in this video, but I think it would go way easier if you tried a palm nailer to knock those nails out instead of the hammer. Try it sometime! :-)

[@matthewcarlrose]

I'm lazy, I deconstructed a pallet on sunday and just used a old steel bolster, went stright thru most of the nails. I'm using it as some tempory landscaping to retain some shingle to enable us to use a section of garden and so its not just a pile of weeds mud. Your method definitely better if you want really use it. Ever worked on the ones that are stapled together!? comeplete PITA! :)

[@lelechim]

Awesome! Now I need to get some cheap or free pallets and be able to transport them to my house.

[@4palmtrees]

So awesome especially since I don’t t have all the other electric tools.

[@username132]

You can get wood preservative including separate preservative formulated for the end-grain which I think is more vulnerable. Apply these. They are not harmful to plants after drying.

[@Tableaux15]

since you will not reuse the nails, have you considered using bolt cutters to cut them shorter before you start trying to drive them back through the board. you only need to drive them enough to capture the head with the hammer.

[@lewandlo]

Gotta get up off the floor dude. Man your back would be killing you after all that hammering. Great video . I remember my dad taking apart a lot of pallets when I was a kid. Looks like A great way to use up some unused energy too.I think I will try to do the same and save some money. Thanks.

[@zpkpk]

I found watching the nails being hit down was most exciting. Very Odd. Great method!

[@CLK50000]

This video would be useful if the pallets that you have are similar to the pallets that I have which are the most common type. Mine don't have the block type legs like yours. My pallets are more like a thin rectangular box that is harder to disassemble. Do you have videos of other type of pallet deconstruction?

[@damopower]

really nice dude, learnt a couple of things there

[@onemouse1]

A "cats paw" tool makes pulling nails easy! Good source of wood, cause lots of places need to get rid of pallets!

[@hdrjunkie]

the home depot i go to sells 4 foot cut offs from damagen wood for .51 cents each... i get 4x4s, 2x4s plywood, shelfing boards... all sorts of stuff. I love raiding that bin!

[@ΜαριΛαζα]

Μπράβο φίλε ο καλύτερος τρόπος από όλους όσους μου είπανε πώς θα διαλύσω μία παλέτα ο δικός σου ήταν ο καλύτερος

[@AbnormalAxis]

Try using a framing hammer instead. The checkering on the head keeps the hammer from slipping off the nail point as much and not bending so many nails on the way out.

[@SavvasPapasavva]

I don't want any more hammers!!!

[@MartinRP89]

El único tipo que encontré que desarma un pallet de forma inteligente!

[@danielortizdecaracas]

very clever guy and smart method i´m very fan of this pallets i´m newbie

[@joer6446]

Got a video on dismantling the other type of pallet that doesn't have the blocks?

[@bahbcat]

This is like watching paint dry. Boring yet fascinating. And how do you get such clean pallets?

[@alexandratriantafyllou8088]

Ωραίο!!! Θα το δοκιμάσω κύριε Σάββα. Θέλω να φτιάξω σύντομα κάτι με ξύλα από παλέτες.

[@zunzun73]

thx for the vid. Now i know the diference between desmantling and destroying a wooden palet.

[@cowboycanon1300]

A quicker and easier way is to use a sawzall with a bi-metal blade. Then cut through the nails between the boards. You can get a pallet apart in about 2 minutes. Dont forget to use eye protection.

[@MrMnchstr]

You couldn't run the wood thru expensive power tools using your method. The point is to re use the wood.

[@berndpfe]

For heating purpose I use to leave the nails where they are, simply bending them flat with a hammer instead of pulling them out piece by piece.. The rest is sawing everything into pieces (blade saw). Nails can be removed lateron from the ashes, too :-)

[@OlegKostoglatov]

Good thing that pallet has common nails, a lot of the ones I run into have twist nails in them which are really nasty to remove even when the pallet is bone dry.

[@RainbowConure]

I recently saw an ad in Craig's List for 50 free pallets. They certainly are plentiful.

[@TheAlmaty101]

Brilliant! I liked the method and enjoyed the video itself.

[@moldprintsrl]

cool however that will work with fairly new pallets only - if you try to do the same with an old pallet you ruin it

[@lianiperez3346]

thanks for the tips. I just dismantled my 1st pallet. thanks!

[@royalspin]

While this may work on a traditionally nailed pallet ,many now days are using heavy duty long staples for construction which are next to impossible to be rid of using a hammer method.The only way to disassemble these nasty flesh ripping pallets is to use a sawzall and then pull the rest out with pliers.Ive tried using a hammer and pry bar method and didn't have much luck saving 100% of the wood.Worse yet are the ones that use a glue treated fastener of any type.Then you just have to saw off the ends and hope you can save enough good wood.

[@tanadarko6991]

This was very cool, I love how you showed how to dismantle every piece, and I learned a lot of great little tricks! I tried dismantling a pallet and broke all the wood pieces but one and smashed my hands beside. Since you asked for feedback - this video could have had the same amount of information and been much shorter with some editing. Loved the tips (like straightening a nail) but a lot of it was redundant and the closeups of hammering made my eyes twitchy. Next pallet however I will try your techniques!

[@SavvasPapasavva]

What were you planning to make?

[@tanadarko6991]

I just built a shelf with pallet pieces for work which was pretty challenging and interesting, and for home I plan to do some artwork with it. Lots of stuff I've found on pinterest!

[@moulinherve8374]

Good, simple, and efficiency

[@pamelitap2]

Great job. Lo hace parecer fácil.. es el mejor tutorial.. Gracias por compartirlo. Saludos desde Concepción, Chile. !!

[@derekdeeley4321]

I find that when a nail bends i hold the nail with pliers at the weak spot and it seems to help the nail stay strait when i hit it.