Yup, the pine pallets reduce to tooth picks rather quickly. If you are lucky enough to not destroy the board the head of the nail seems to pull straight through the board. Then I try to pull the nail and the head pops off. I gave up on trying to salvage anything from then unless they are heavy duty pallets. I like that tool though, wonder what it cost.
Nail puller and a straight claw hammer be ya best bet going that route.I'll keep that in mind. I'd prefer to pull the nail if I can to I don't hit it with a circular saw if I had to cut the board... cant have it all I guess.
Most pallets I've seen are put together with nail guns and ring shank nails. The head will come off way before you get the ring shank out. 'Bout like trying to pull spiral shank nails out of Masonite siding, hardy-plank siding, lap siding, etc...it ain't gonna happen. Best bet is to drive them through with a nail set.Yup, the pine pallets reduce to tooth picks rather quickly. If you are lucky enough to not destroy the board the head of the nail seems to pull straight through the board. Then I try to pull the nail and the head pops off. I gave up on trying to salvage anything from then unless they are heavy duty pallets. I like that tool though, wonder what it cost.
This is what I am thinking. I have dealt with more than one deck that had a treated frame with untreated pine or cedar decking. You can still salvage lots of that stuff for other projects once the ends start to punk out to the point where the deck needs new decking.Looks like a nice tool for remodeling or salvaging old building materials. When I burned pallets, they were simply cut up, with the nails going into the fire box (some guys salvage them from the ashes with a speaker magnet dragged through the ashes). I have used a reciprocating saw / 'Sawzall' (slow), chainsaw (messy), circular saw (best). A large, commercial bandsaw would be the best choice IMO.
Philbert
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