Removing stuck nails with a propane torch

[@gizanked]

"avoid the temptation to snap" is advice I try to live by every day. Some days it goes better than others.

[@pocket83squared]

The struggle is real.

[@12jojimbo]

*snaps fingers* Oh shit

[@CheveeDodd]

When I was a kid, I made lots of things out of used (framing) lumber. My method for the stuck nails (I was scrawny) was to clamp the nail in a vise and beat the wood off of it.

[@Peashant2142]

Here I am watching a 16 minute video of a guy taking out nails from a pallet at midnight. God dammit, I love your videos, Pocket! I've been enjoying them for a long time now. Thanks for all the good times.

[@archieyanson2650]

that was the most valuable things that none would ever realize... The way an artist rescue a potential material, the care not to damage the wood when pulling out the rusty nails I was hypnotized by the processes because I wanted to see the end results and really it was incredibly awesome. Imagine that walnut could have just been incinerated as fire wood. And finally you brought out its Its value and beauty. ....

[@brendand3030]

Ive been looking for a solution like this for so many years now, you have saved me

[@thefox347]

My God, with the knowledge of how to remove any nail he will be unstoppable!!!

[@pocket83squared]

*AIR NAILERS HATE HIM!*

[@kansasboy011]

I know it's a little late to give you advice. But you might try heating it with a propane torch. You're welcome.

[@patmatt975]

That would never work, sorry.

[@UtkarshAmitabhSrivastava]

Remind me when someone gets whooooshed reading the comment.

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

Is this John Madden?

[@kevinvanbuskirk5672]

Weld a nut to the top of the nail...

[@87Rado]

Good video. I plan to try this method on a piece of wood I acquired from an East-coast house built in 1885. I'm not surprised you got black walnut from a pallet, because... over the years I have note only acquired black walnut, but also oak, teak and leopard wood from South America. One of the reasons is, pallets are made with what lumber is available for the region.

[@timstewart4600]

I noticed this video was a couple years back. I may not have read enough of the comments and suggestions to catch what I am going to suggest. With the lay out plus a table, you are fighting yourself. First thing to do is mount a bench vise . That will make things much easier. The flame to the nails sticking out looks great. Your bench vise will give you leverage plus pulling power.You can pull the heated nail out with vise grips. The back of the vise grip is its own folcrum. This comment is a bit late but, hope it helps all readers 😊👍

[@pocket83squared]

Commenters are ignored most of the time for a very simple reason: most comments are loaded. There's simply no possible way to reply to that comment without appearing either patronizing, condescending, or stupid. Since I have zero concern for popularity on this medium, let me be completely honest with you, and take the least favored of the three. This stuff has been put here because some of it is useful. With respect to the brass tacks of this video, that is, to its concept, how I happened to've been prying on the nails that day is incidental to the point of irrelevant. The fact that you'd even bother to 'help' by suggesting to me specific leverage technique is downright insulting. You have nothing to teach me; the belief otherwise is distilled hubris. I started prying nails at age nine. Then I continued to do it professionally, for decades. There isn't a single nail extraction method in existence that I haven't been exposed to. In fact, every single nail was successfully removed from every single skid that day; NOT EVEN ONE nail remained in the wood. So please, without taking this response too personally, and without telling me that I'm 'too sensitive,' take your improved methodology and go make your own video. While you're at it, pay attention to what it's like to pry something out while making make sure that it stays in frame, in focus, well lit, and with a usable white balance. Also note that the correct spelling is 'fulcrum.' Hope that helps. Unsolicited advice stings, doesn't it? Sheesh.

[@SeanMohundro]

I truly appreciate your videos. The production, the content, the sincerity. Thank you for sharing the way you do.

[@ThumpertTheFascistCottontail]

Nice work. I've done this before using a large soldering iron as a heat source. It took quite a while to heat up the nails, but it allowed me to sneak up on just the right amount of heat without charring the timber too much.

[@kyfho47]

Congratulations on identifying an awesome find AND being able to figure out how to save them. This is definitely going into my bag o'tricks. Thank you for sharing.

[@nathanernest]

This is classic pocket at his best! I'm in awe of your creativity!

[@pocket83squared]

Thanks, haha! It's just nail-pulling!

[@anthonyst.angelo4382]

Forget the heat, Irwin makes a handy tool called a "vise grip nail puller". I recommend using a piece of shingle as you pull the nail so you don't damage the woods finish. It's saved me several times when installing siding, especially with the removal of stubborn rusty nails!

[@SuperDataSafe]

A couple of years ago I got an old horse carriage that had almost rotted away. It was between 70 and 80 years old. Wheels and axles were in good condition, the plan was to use it to make a wagon for my old Leyland 154. As I cut into the frame, which was covered with moss and other growing things, my cheap saw blade shouted for help. The frame was made of rock hard dark oak. Got some really nice big pieces of beautiful wood out of it. All other wood on the wagon was almost completely gone. Sometimes you get surprised, in the right way. :-)

[@whilomforge3402]

I saw this truck on Izzy Swans channel several years ago. It’s been a life-saver for me.

[@pocket83squared]

I pinned a link to the video about it. I wasn't aware.

[@whilomforge3402]

pocket83² I wasn’t insinuating anything, just giving props to the guy that I originally learned it from. Good video!

[@luxordeathbed]

Send the saw dust to Peter Brown. He would love that for a resin project.

[@pocket83squared]

I don't think so. The last package I sent him cost $60 in shipping, so he can make his own sawdust.

[@MsCherade9]

@@pocket83squared Hahaha, that's the big thing about sharing materials between crofters, the shipping and customs costs are a killer!

[@jonathin5852]

How much tougher am I than you? I'll have you know I stubbed my toe last week while watering my spice garden, and I only cried for twenty minutes.

[@killerguppy2988]

fantastic tip, and beautiful wood that you salvaged. I'll have to keep it in mind next time I'm struggling to get some stuck nails pulled.

[@MsCherade9]

That's the way to do it, nice and slow! I remember that from watching The Flintstones in the early 80's as a kid!

[@cocok.291]

Want someone to look at me the way pocket looks at old nails he pulled out of some wood he found

[@johno6861]

There are a lot of interesting rain forest mystery woods in the pallets. Seek out motorcycle pallets . I generally use a plug cutter to remove broken nails and screws. Seeing you don’t think you you will ever do this again, maybe it will help someone else.

[@pocket83squared]

That's a _really_ good idea!

[@EsteGlez]

WHAT A LUCKY FIND! Those would be so cool to wood turn with

[@shayamanandnautiyal2713]

Thank you so much .This video is very knowledgeable. I look forward to seeing your next video

[@ahorseman4ever1]

Great tip, thank you. I have found pallets that were made of teak before too. Hidden treasures if we only know what we are looking for. Good video.

[@pocket83squared]

Wow. Teak? That would be a find.

[@evilcanofdrpepper]

You can some times find pallet wood for free on Craigs list and stuff you just need to search for it. Looking through pallet wood I've found many exotic ans expensive pieces of wood in and on them. If a pallet goes to South America and a slat breaks off they fix it with whatever wood they have there so if there is a rare tree growing there they don't care it's just a piece of wood to them and as a pallete they get covered in grit and no one pays any attention to them. You should go Pallete hunting some time and see what you can get a hold of.

[@dreamwolf7302]

i made a knife handle from some grade A Cyprus with the most amazing grain i have ever seen, that i found as a pallet runner.

[@Metrolife52]

You tell me I dont need to wear my safety glasses after I already put them on!

[@XPStartupSound]

Holy shit that wood is beautiful I am awestruck. Nice work

[@otzh]

really enjoy these kind of 'experimenting' videos!

[@Cadwaladr]

I have some pallet hickory of similar dimensions with similarly difficult nails. I'll give this a try. One thing I've noticed though is that the nails have bits of wire stuck to them from when they were stuck together in strips or coils for the nail gun, and sometimes those bits are left in the holes. Just something to keep in mind. Probably won't hurt any carbide tools like your sawblades, but not so good for steel planer knives.

[@pocket83squared]

Good point. With pallets, the barbs aren't likely to penetrate all the way through to the skid board, luckily. I guess it comes down to how much we want to risk for the board! You have to watch for embedded gravel, too. If the trick works on hickory, please let me know.

[@Cadwaladr]

@@pocket83squared Will do.

[@milbournema]

Always great to find such nice wood! Great trick! You can also increase your leverage greatly by using a narrow item under the foot of the pry bar, anything much less than the length of the foot, pushed up close to the nail. Half-inch to 3/4 dowel or square stock or chunk of pipe etc. If the pry bar foot is, say, 2" long and you move the fulcrum to less than 1" you've more than doubled your mechanical advantage. I help work on RR track and we have huge claw bars to pull spikes. Occasionally a spike will not pull even though the bar is about 5 foot long and 4 inch foot. So then we slide another spike under the foot as close in as we can get and the pull suddenly becomes MUCH easier. And even if you could still brute force it without the extra leverage, you have much increased control to do the advised "steady" pull rather than the "snap". And it' much easier to hold down the piece as well.

[@pocket83squared]

Same idea as in house framing: pull a nail with a chunk of 2x4 against the head. WAAAAY easier.

[@spinafire]

Not sure what I was expecting but this was a chill video to watch.

[@antifascist1]

There's a cobbler tool called a hot nail. It's basically two electrodes connected to a low voltage (but high amp) transformer that you apply on a nail. It heats up the nail relatively evenly. It's very useful for ribbed nails used to hold heels to insoles.

[@johnt4060]

Come to Arkansas, we literally have black walnut growing everywhere

[@johnzee691]

Some time back working on tract homes one of the plumbers that was also working there was telling me about his neighbor who was a wood shop teacher in a high school. He had hooked up with a Kubota tractor dealer for all the crate wood that was to be disposed of. The crates were all made of Brazilian rose wood. Pallets and crates are made from local materials, it's just their local materials are exotic to other parts of the world. Knowing your woods and being observant of what's around and available can pay off big. Old doors coming out of old homes during remodels and pretty much all clear pine. Curb side furniture could have lots of great recyclable wood. Drawer sides are often pine and oak. Curbside, dumpsters, thrift stores, swapmeets, Craigs list can be great sources

[@matthewbartlett8080]

I am really weak. But I can watch this from the comfort of my bed.

[@misfitramone]

I have found some of the most beautiful wood on pallets. I have white oak, red oak, alder, elm, bird's eye maple, spalted maple, spalted oak, really clear hard maple, black walnut, English walnut, white ash, black ash, mahogany, and a few other gorgeous hard woods and I've gotten a majority of my inventory from pallets. If you see a pallet and notice the thicker boards are not a 2x4 then it's probably a hardwood, that's what I always check first because if is thinner then a 2x4 then it's at ther least popular maybe red oak and ther rest of the pallet is probably a hardwood as well. I've gotten a ton of gorgeous book matched peices by grabbing a pallet and once they're milled I check the end grain and find the slats are resawn peices of hardwood. Go find them they're out there. I got a pallet once from my store when we ordered a new meat cutting band saw that had ash, cherry, elm, and white oak and it was all at the very least 4 quarter and some was 8 quarter. So yeah find the stuff take home and build a beautiful peice of furniture for your house! Happy woodworking!

[@rolandkeys8297]

I also dicoverd this method while trying to break down some pallets and I agree with everything you said.

[@YUHJKT]

Dude, good thinking. I was a carpenter for 18 years and I never tried that. Way to use your brain.

[@The1wsx10]

glad to hear you are going back to the rings. take it easy now

[@Yonatan24]

I just spent probably 5 hours today editing a video that I filmed a few months ago, part of which I show this tip. Whoah. But I learnt it from Izzy Swan a few years ago. Fantastic tip, it has saved me so much time! Even on small staples.

[@Yonatan24]

Even faster: put the wood in the microwave!...no.

[@pocket83squared]

Nothing new under the sun. Neither you, nor I, nor Izzy invented such an old idea. In fact, I may've done it 20 years ago and just forgot. It just so happens that I thought of it, tested it, and it worked. I'll check out your vid when I get some time though. Also, do you know which Izzy vid it was?

[@Yonatan24]

@@pocket83squared It was probably 5 years ago. I think it was 8 woodworking tips or something. Not done editing it. Trying to condense NINETY minutes of footage to a 5-10min video. 20 hours in so far... No worries, my video will be out in a few months, probably.

[@pocket83squared]

Ouch! Don't record so much! Stripping down footage is the worst. I only take what I want to use, as in 20-second clips at a time. One minute for 4x speed shots. If it's dialogue, think about what you want to say first. 90 minutes of footage just ends up in my "WIP" folder. Works in progress = never released.

[@Yonatan24]

@@pocket83squared Oh, it is (mostly made of) 20 second shots. I've been working on it for almost two years. The video isn't actually that special though, content-wise. But you never know what performs - I think it will do well. Most of my videos are around 30-min worth of footage, and I condense them to around 4 minutes.

[@pocket83squared]

Izzy Swan mentioned this trick a few years back in the following video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGbNeWejg66Ffck Had I known, I probably wouldn't have posted this video. Nothing new under the Sun, I guess. *edit:* (speaking of lacking originality) Comments about clamps, levers, and vices are now blocked. C'mon, I asked you not to state the obvious. Besides, it's not the _amount_ of leverage that helps here, but the way that the leverage is applied. More force would've just broken more nails. Also, applying leverage from above gives way more control, so clamping to the table would've just made it harder and more time consuming.

[@Kolajer]

Oh bull, that stud finder alone was worth the entire video, saved me a lot of grief and Ebay searching. Cheers

[@rolandkeys8297]

sometimes we just have to find and figer things out by ourself, It showes that we all have the ability to solv problems and it is posible that more than one person can come up with the same solution.

[@victorcastle1840]

Why, I have not seen Izzy Swan channel , but subscribe yours and surely there are others the same way.

[@patmatt975]

@@victorcastle1840 Izzy is a wood working genius, you should check him out.

[@pocket83squared]

There's a tip on the linked video about putting a magnet in your cutting oil so that it doesn't spill. Izzy really does give out some great tips. I really liked his tablesaw bowling ball jigs/videos.

[@ghost2coast296]

watching all your effort makes me feel bad for having half a cord of split & seasoned black walnut for my fireplace lol. Around here people give the stuff away for free. Smells great though!

[@richardbaumfalk7301]

Here it sells fo $10.00 a board foot.

[@Idothinkysaurus]

9:01 That's like removing an ingrown hair. I felt that nail removal in my bones.

[@willmontgomery79]

I love that Good Vibes lighter. I'm always looking for those at gas stations

[@johnguidry4065]

Satisfaction is a nice reward

[@VagabondTE]

Interesting idea. My instinct at the beginning was that the heat would expand the metal. I was going suggest throwing it in the freezer for a bit. But I didn't think about the wood burning away.

[@TheRedhawke]

Great save on those timbers.

[@gonzo5912]

my grandpa did this back it the day when I was little and my dad did teach me this. both my grandpa and dad would buy bent boards and collect bent used nails and build stuff all the time around their homes.

[@pocket83squared]

There's this fuzzy memory of a story I have of my grandpa picking bent nails out of the ditch from a construction site. When he came home with his find, my great-grandpa turned him around to make him return those nails that he had 'stolen.' Three score and ten+ later, I still pound my bent nails back to straight on the vice. Things are expensive.

[@billbaggins]

Great tip Pocket 👍 But why couldn't you have uploaded this before I needed it 😁 Pallet wood can have some great timber, some good stuff comes from SE Asia. Cadbury chocolate factory used to get cocoa butter with ply sides and assorted rainforest timber bracing, cocobolo, teak,mahogany,etc but stopped allowing ppl to salvage it cos of OHS concerns 🙄

[@JETHO321]

I just so happen to also be watching King of the Hill and I laughed my ass off at the impression.

[@calebkirshenbaum6839]

I've been watching the channel for a while and have found your videos very helpful in building my woodworking skill (if that's what you want to call it). I would love to see another video on making seemingly impossible objects, as I've wanted to make one for a while. If you could make one without a miter saw or table saw, since I don't own those, that would be a massive help to me. Keep up the amazing work!

[@victorcastle1840]

Caleb K. Did you know that they make handsaws and used them to do the same thing as miter and table saws for many many years ? It use to be carpenters started out using those tools and mastering them before they were allowed to use a table saw. Also get and learn how to use a couple different type of hand planes. You will never be sorry about what woodworking skills you learn. .......older than dirt

[@marstondavis]

I couldn't believe how mechanically inept this guy is...then he quotes The Flintstone's. That cleared it up.

[@pocket83squared]

Ok, I'll give you some time, smart-mouth. Tell me the specifics of my ineptitude. Go on, sweetie. Put me in my place. Make it witty, and you may even end up in a video!

[@TheJacksTrades]

I wore safety glasses anyway, just to be safe...

[@rawbacon]

Have to keep this trick in mind, might need it someday.

[@googooforyou]

Should experiment with the walnut shavings and epoxy like a bowl or handle for a tool

[@hoborock007]

I recognized... 'Nice and slow see'... as soon as you said it

[@barry6541]

That hank hill impression wasn’t half bad!

[@pocket83squared]

Mrs. pocket has been encouraging me to use this bizarre gift for imitation more often. It's just too inconsistent with my dry humor. Also, ever heard your own voice on a recording? It's weird at first. Now imagine hearing Hank Hill as portrayed by your own voice! Really weird! Next multiply that by thousands of people also hearing it: this is weird growing exponentially!

[@jordanjdickson]

I was hoping the big reveal when put through the planer would be "Whoa, these arent even walnut!"

[@superdupergrover9857]

I believe there is a (car) mechanics tool that adapts an air chisel to pull like a slide hammer. I believe it also comes with a vise grips adapter.

[@dragon111409]

It probably has something to do With heat expansion loosening the wood's grip , and the powdery rust it would knock off probably acts like a lubricant in the nail hole.

[@pocket83squared]

Can you explain what you meant by "Junk science"? I'm fairly certain that expansion has everything to do with how this works.

[@dr.feelgood2358]

annealing evens out the stresses in the metal where it might want to snap. they are probably just work hardened when they are manufactured, which makes them more rigid.

[@buildingsalvage]

I’ve been wondering if you could heat up a nail with a soldering iron to remove those stubborn rusty nails… may have to give it a go

[@-a13x-75]

black walnut smells so good

[@Ms.Nightshade]

I wonder if spinning the nail would help a bit. I’ve tried it a lot in the past when I’ve run into this same scenario and it’s worked very well!

[@rodneyshelley6966]

Heat transfer. Heat the nails and let it sit for a bit till the heat transfers down the nail into the board and sometimes let the nail cool for a bit the steel will expand and then contract. It works well on rusted or frozen bolts by keeping light pressure on it as it cools and you will feel it let loose when it gets to the right temp. Just dont get in a hurry.

[@pocket83squared]

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[@kirkendauhl6990]

Our comments can move through time if you use the community feature for KZbin, it’ll give your viewers a chance to post their two cents before you commit to a video. Most channels use the community feature as a way to say thank you or to assure people that they’re alright and more videos are on the way, but this type of thing would benefit immensely from it too.

[@johnnybolla]

I think those spiral nails have glue on the surface that melts from the friction of being shot into the wood. I wonder if the wood inside the nail hole is charring or if the expansion and contraction of the nail plus the added heat degrading the glue is what makes it come loose. I guess I need to try this and saw it in half across a nail hole and see what I can see. I was always tempted to corrode them out, but I never did the research to figure out what eats steel and doesn't eat wood.

[@pocket83squared]

Thermal expansion/contraction has lots to do with it. If you're interested, I wrote a bit about that in the description. As for glue, those nails were collated with wire. Any other adhesives/lubricants/residues had either scraped off as the nail entered, or else have long since decomposed. If you were to try a corrosion technique, vinegar is one possibility, but it would probably react with the tannins in the wood. Electrolysis could be another way forward, but I know next to nothing about that. Char (at least in my example) didn't really lend much to the overall release. I don't think the char made it very far down. Maybe 1/4", tops.

[@Wordsnwood]

I'm ashamed to admit that I have never seen UHF, though I love Weird Al. Quite an enjoyable puzzle figuring out the joke too, but I persevered and nailed it. Brilliant bit of association there. Won't name things so others don't get a short cut. BTW, I've never seen a walnut pallet. Seems like junk spruce around here. But I'm also no Paul Jackman so I don't generally look that closely at them.

[@brh4015]

Personally I put the nail in a bench vise and use the wood itself as a lever. Whatever works.

[@virginalax44]

I simple welded a 44 magnum to a pair of vice grips muzzle facing the same way the jaws of the grips face. Works well only problem is you shoot a large hole in whatever you’re getting the nail out of but that’s what wood filler is for baby

[@metroplexchl]

Sweet baby Jesus, that is some beautiful walnut.....and from a dang pallet!

[@longshot789]

I wonder if just annealing the nails as you did prevented them from just snapping off as so many nails often do.

[@Crafterrian]

When someone says so and doesn't immediately follow it up I like to say la ti do.

[@harryragland7840]

If you can spare it, it might be interesting cut through the nail hole and see what it looks like. I wonder if the scorching goes down far. Also, as a control you might heat a piece with a stuck nail in the oven to see if some of the relief is due to the wood warming.

[@jimobrien84]

Entertaining and interesting as always

[@icblf]

Dandelions are underrated. A lawn full of bright yellow blossoms or delicate puff balls is always a welcome sight.

[@pocket83squared]

Amazing things. We've selected them, you know. Think about it. Americans keep their grass obsessively short, so only the fastest-flowering Dandelions can go to seed. Considering the fanatical avoidance from where this ultra-fast growth has sprung, the result pleases me in a sick way. Fighting them is like Whac-A-Mole!

[@Yonatan24]

Did you inspect for bugs, including ones that can't be seen, or does it not matter?

[@pocket83squared]

I didn't see any. In my experience, bug damage is usually pretty apparent.

[@SLVRphoto]

Funny, everywhere I've lived we've had black walnut and they are really bad trees to have grow around. A lot of plants won't grow around black walnut and it's poisonous to animals as well. I've always thought of black walnut as more of a pest tree than anything.

[@pocket83squared]

Yes. It is. But the wood is beautiful! Also, the cured nut is surprisingly tasty. But the husks will burn and stain your skin given enough exposure.

[@SLVRphoto]

@@pocket83squared The husks will stain for sure. We collect the fallen fruit to dispose of and if left long enough the fruit leaves a black liquid that stains concrete, brick, skin, clothes, you name it.

[@ryanwood891]

Wow, that was amazing

[@Wordsnwood]

Save the shavings. Soak them in resin. Turn a bowl. I'm sure no one else has ever thought of that before... ;-)

[@pocket83squared]

Whoa, what about a river table? With a live edge and walnut shavings for mountains? Maybe for my 100K subs special!

[@Wordsnwood]

@@pocket83squared Now you sound like John Heisz... he wanted me to do that also with my last project... ;-)

[@pocket83squared]

It's like a running gag around here. Did you see Steve's Halloween special? The guy has a gift for spotting clichés in advance.

[@Wordsnwood]

@@pocket83squared While I don't share Steve's love of horror flicks, his halloween special this year was brilliant. Especially the intro bit. Actually the rest of it was pretty inspired also. Wonder how many subscriptions he lost... :-D Seriously, I am kind of done with resin river tables. Wonder what's going to be the next big thing in the youtube "makerspace"...

[@VagabondTE]

This thread just gave me an awesome idea. I mess around with HDPE and have found ways of melting it into stuff like cloth. I wonder if I could fuse sawdust into it.

[@peterjames2580]

Great show! My friend gave me parts of a Big leaf (quilt) pallet , worth the time to pull the nails! I will use this technique! Thanks again .

[@ElectricPhantasmagoria]

What about using electric to heat the nail? Maybe faster?

[@geraldsmith7951]

Thanks for the tip Im sure Ill put it to use some day. I was wondering if the nails were twist shank one seemed to look like it was? Thanks again

[@pocket83squared]

Yes, I think they were.

[@rickdff62]

Great trick. Thanks!

[@mordyfisher4269]

Just incase i missed it, did you sink the nails in about an 8th before you tried to pull them, my father and uncle use to reclaim lumber when i was a kid and that was our go to method

[@pocket83squared]

Yep. Step one is to try breaking a rusted nail loose. These were a bit of special case.

[@amend5269]

I wonder if a custom puller type device would work combined with liquid nitrogen.

[@mr.mickles]

How have I not thought of this? I literally have a blow torch sitting two feet from my nail pulling station. I have even tried chucking the nail in a drill and spinning them out.

[@pocket83squared]

Did you try staring at, and swearing at, the nails in frustration? I mean, that's what got me to try this.

[@mr.mickles]

@@pocket83squared I insulted their questionable lineage and the reputation of their mothers. Yessir.

[@pocket83squared]

Ok, well- the only thing left was to search KZbin!

[@mr.mickles]

@@pocket83squared Remember the scene from Dune when that Fremen yells at the obelisk? That was a similar scene with me and some white oak pallets.

[@pocket83squared]

No. But I just laughed at the reference. I'll watch Dune again tonight. As an aside, _Dune II_ is the best game I've ever played on a tablet, and it's a PC game from 1992.

[@TheGathumpus]

if you really want to tighten up a pair of mole grips change the knurled pin for an allen pin then use a an allen key to tighten it.

[@garywheeler7039]

American Colonists loved walnut for siding.

[@hobbit321a]

use a metal detector to check for nails in old trees and used lumber it will be a valuable tool in saving planer blades and saw blades

[@ariennelandry9207]

Great idea thanks.

[@digadigado]

one of the walnuts fluoresce under UV lights too

[@Tshizzle42o]

You are thinking of black locust.

[@richardhart7652]

Good tip

[@fricstix7072]

I clamped it to a vise and used a hammer prying them out. I had few snap then drilled beside it and chiseled a small angle out so that the vise grips could reach and pryed with the hamner

[@The1wsx10]

I'm no carpenter, so this is probably one of the things you already tried. but if those splits go all the way the nail goes, couldn't you get oil in there pretty easily?

[@pocket83squared]

Probably. But oil stains wood by permeating it. I briefly considered a drop of vinegar too- maybe it would break loose some rust, but I think that it would react with the tannins in the wood. It's a tough problem.

[@RichardT2112]

I once found mahogany in a pallet... ended up using them for a bar top!

[@jdshenanigans9265]

I use a garret metal detecter. called the garret carret. Its water proof so it can go out in the field to test for metal fencing and staples in trees before the chain saw finds them first.for big thick trees i also use the Garrett at max . Good investment if it saves countless plain blades saw and chainsaw chains.and no garret dont pay me to say this but would be nice if they did lol

[@eldritchowl1061]

Love your content

[@pocket83squared]

Thanks a bunch.

[@ecostudio1044]

do you think that the heat also releases some oil in the wood? Rich