I tried using a 'pallet breaker' bar which worked for some smaller pallets here in the UK but I couldn't for the life of me dismantle the EPAL pallets. Good to see this technique which I will try soon!
Most EPALs aren't this easy, often I have to chop the blocks apart with a hatchet to get at the nails, you can bash the blocks out from between the planks too but it tends to damage the planks
Thank you, thank you young man. My usual comment would be, I would like one of those, and would you bring your tools with you, but I hope you don't think that is disrespectful, because you are magic. I am a 70 year old female, just itching to make things with pallet wood, but just dismantling them has been an issue for me, until now. You are very clever my dear, and I want you to know how much I, and all your other fans, really appreciate you taking the time to share your skills. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Sherie Rodrigues from Australia. Possibly your oldest fan. Lol.🤗🌟😍
Thanks for the kind words! I don't think that is disrespectful at all. The upside of these pallets is that the boards are all standard sizes and they are fairly easy to find, the downside is that they are either tricky to dismantle or impossible to dismantle, lightweight pallets usually come apart much easier. Merry Christmas to you and yours too!
Thank you for watching! in my previous video a lot of commenters said they had trouble swinging a hammer (or swinging it hard enough) so I wanted to show a different way to do it and most people with access to pallets have access to a car jack.
Euro pallets are beasts! Most the videos on RUclips show people dismantling American pallets that seem to fall apart but sneezing at them. The last euro pallet I dismantled I sawed the spacer blocks in half and hammered the nails out. Probably took a bit longer than this but a lot quicker than teasing them apart with a pry bar while trying not to crack the wood
The pallet in my more popular video was the fall apart variety, much of the time with europallets I chop the blocks out and away from the nails until I can bash the nails out, well worth it though!
Gonna try this today, I'm on the right track as far as the technique. Oh yeah, that's because I watched your earlier video. It has been my first time working with pallets and building anything at all really. I told my husband I think I want to be a carpenter when I grow up. Thanks for keeping me looking like I have done this a million times. ~Brenda the Builder ;)
@@redseantlworld, wet pallets are a major PITA to mess with. The wood swells which basically locks the nails in place. But, if you let them dry out, you might find them actually easier to disassemble because the wood can shrink away from the nails.
Just finished watching your other pallet break down video. I have a chicken coop build going up this week and need to break down multiple pallets. Once again thank you.
@@lapislignum Stripped a pallet down earlier, real thick wood (high quality pallet) and this method I had no broken pieces. Problem I find with the older pallets is the annular nails start to rust and grip the wood making them real difficult to pull out - that's when I've had problems with wood splitting.
Definitely worth saving this. Those pallets can be found in abundance although annoying to take a part. The video + the comments here by others sheds light on the best approach to make it less of a nightmare then it needs to be.
Superb video mate! You've just saved me precious time and spared me looking like a psychopath by swinging my claw hammer about in my back garden! Great upload!
No problem, europallets often hold together pretty well, if they won't come apart using this method I usually split the blocks with a hatchet, either to get to the nails to knock them back through or untill they are chopped away from the boards altogether. I often use a Prybar to get these blocks off too, then the boards come apart pretty easily.
There's a few pallet mills near where I live. Watching these videos always makes me imagine them watching these videos and silently rolling a single tear watching their hard work being undone. 😂🤣😂
Thank you. Just waisted £30 for pallet buster and cracked most of the boards with it :(. Tomorrow will try your method. Looks (I understand need some practice)simply, no investment in sophisticated tools needed and no damage to wood at all. Thanks for effort to record it.
Cheers! Some progress europallets are stuck together pretty good but this method is a good place to start, if you get a hard one try another good one, sometimes I have to chop the blocks apart with a hatchet to get at the nails. Good luck!
What can I say - your method is the business. I also use your stripping method from your 2016 video for the "standard" pallets . Thanks for your ingenuity.
Thanks! They came out easier than usual for this pallet, but they aren't much harder when they are hard. The nails in these pallets are fairly sturdy so the heads don't pull off as much as with smaller nails.
I had one board today (this was before seeing your video), and darn, I could not get nails out. So I had to saw the board. Still happy that I have board to play with, but excited to give your way a go. Much thanks.
This is an excellent video and you make it look so easy. However, I have just spent the better part of a day, taking apart an EPAL which must have been a real "heavyweight" compared to the relatively light pallet you have used. I could only just lift mine on my own. Unfortunately my car jack was too large to fit between the cross members as yours did, so I was forced to use a crowbar and a wide brickie's chisel with a heavy hammer. The nails were about 5" long and serrated and in many cases the ends were bent over and buried in the wood, so your method of simply tapping the cross-members apart wouldn't work. However, now I've finished I have a pile of very substantial timber (even if some of it is damaged) with which to build a cold frame for the garden.
Thanks, this was my fourth attempt at filming this, I had pallet or camera issues the first few times. EPALs can be pretty hard and some just won't come apart without breaking using this method so I chop the blocks out instead. The boards you end up with are worth the effort though.. Thanks for watching!
I sympathise - my pallets are heavy weight too. The car jack is an excellent idea (thanks Mr Lignum) will try that later.
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Nice tehnique, thanks for sharing. I tried this but my epal pallet had wooden blocks, so it took me about an hour to dismantle 3/4 of the pallet. Also center wide piece had been cracked.
I often split the wooden blocks with a hatchet until I can hammer the nails back out in that case, cracked boards happen, and the more you do the faster you will get. Thanks for watching!
Takes some practice to not hit nails, the edge of my hatchet has a few nail sized bits missing. Good luck!
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I found this, i think this is the fastest way for removing those badass bricks . The man is cutting the nails with a saw ruclips.net/video/7cAhtq0e2w8/видео.html
Personally I'm not a fan of that method as it damages the boards and means you can't reuse the nails, If I had to use a saw I'd just cut the ends off the boards, I often do this after dismantling as per this video, just depends of the project.
I don't usually use a jack myself but figured it could be useful for some people. This pallrt came apart pretty easily, but on some it felt like the jack was going to explode so I had to use a different method.
Nice way of dismantling EPAL pallets. Thank you for posting!! With a new pallet it is OK and easy enough to dismantle them. But an older pallet with rusty nails in solid wooden blocks is a lot more difficult and just hammering will often result in split planks. Take your time and if possible try not to hammer those blocks off, but split those wood blocks into 2 or 3 horizontal layers in order to remove them piece by piece. This will prevent your planks from splitting.
Don't wind it too hard, sometimes the blocks are stuck pretty hard, I've had to knock them out sideways with a hammer or chop them away with a hatchet before, and some come apart easily.
@@lapislignum Hi thanks, I tried all morning, the car jack didn't work, the winder upper I think is too long, and just didn't seem to do it, it kept falling and wobbling everywhere. I tried your other technique putting two short blocks to separate pallets, with a modicum of success, unfortunately when I was using the sledge hammer it split a few planks. One plank is all I managed and have glued and clamped it. Then I got rained off with this sodding UK weather again!. I think I will need to buy a bolster and pry bar to lever off may be. I'm making oblong boxes for my soap project. Hopefully I will get there sometime. btw I just hit 70 too! and will have a go Joe at anything! thanks Spe. x PS I wish you were my neighbour! LOL!
@@summerbreeze1955 i've had lots of board breakages on europallets, the few i've tried to take apart wet have been extra hard, and I had to cut them up so they would fit in the bin. If you can't just keep getting more until you find enough that come apart easily and the "chop/bash the blocks apart" method doesn't work for you can use a reciprocating saw between the boards and blocks to cut the nails, I haven't tried this way but it could get you out of trouble. If you don;t need long boards then cutting the boards either side of where they are nailed works pretty well. Good luck!
@@lapislignum Thanks SPE you're very kind. Later i thought to saw them, but have ordered a bolster and crow pry bar, I'm sure that will do it, as I need pretty long planks thnx
@@lapislignum after i see how you use the jack, i think its pointless to build a buster for this kind of pallet. Actually your work is only slower because you take the nails out after each plank. I would just do that later, all together and on a table or sawhorses or something.
I usually break down first then take out all of the nails, but figured this is the safer way to demonstrate, I was surprised that it didn't take that much longer to do than doing the nails all in one go.
All the nails I can remember pulling out of europallets have been grooved (around the nails not along them) some are very hard to remove, most come out without too much fuss.
If this is a Euro Pallet, what are the more common pallets called, and what are the differences? Ever thought about making a drill attachment for the scissor jack?
Euro pallets are pretty common internationally, within the Pallet species there are all sorts, but most timber types consist of three beams with boards nailed to the top and bottom, this type is just boards and chipboard blocks which needs a slightly different approach. A drill attachment could work but would take some fabricating, if you were going to go to that much effort you might as well make a drill powered board puller, the ones I have seen work fine but are much slower than this method.
Ingenious to use the car jack! Thanks for sharing it! I've taken apart a lot of these pallets but this sure makes it faster and easier! Only problem I encountered was that my jack only folds to 3 1/2 inches and some of these pallets are only 3 inches opening. Any suggestions?
Cheers! I guess you could look for a lower profile jack at a wrecker, or just use the block and hammer method, I don't use the jack as 8t felt like it was going to explode on tougher pallets, some of them still came apart with the hammer.
@@lapislignum Couldn't help but say thanks to you again today as I took apart my next load of pallets. Between the car jack and 'blocks under the 2 nailed together boards' ideas you've shaved my disassembly time by 50% per pallet. Thanks again!
How heavy of a sledgehammer are you using? Would it be best to use something on the heavier side like a 6lb or 10lb or something like a 4lb sledgehammer when trying to disassemble a little more fragile boards that crack relatively easily?
Thanks! it doesn't help on pallets with well held nails (I've had a few where I backed off because it felt like the jack was going to break) but is worth a shot.
Don't throw those corner blocks away they burn OK in a wood stove,I take euro pallets apart with a small steel splitting wedge,hammer and a nail bar takes less than ten minutes and all the wood is usable,you get a good three warms off it to,warm one taking it apart,warm two carrying it down to the house,warm three well you get the picture lol.
Thanks! I guess the edges are chamfered to make it easier for the forklift tines to slide in, and the corners are chamfered so they don't get caught on stuff. The nails can be reused, I use them a lot. Usually they just take a little bit of straightening.
About the nails, if you're doing this stuff in a garage or anywhere you might drive a vehicle or walk barefoot, you *need* to keep track of every nail. Plus, if you're looking for the "pallet wood aesthetic" the weathered nails will look better than a shiny new one.
I must admit I've lost a few in the grass but haven't picked up any in car tyres or feet yet. I ran over a bumper screw once though, which was one way to find it.
How strong does one have to be to get this to work? I tried with car jack; the car jack bend 🤣 I tried with the 2 blocks on either side and the board lied across those but no matter how hard I hit the boards just didn't budge. I'm a 1.57m twig so my muscular strength is pretty much non existent🙄 for now I gave up trying to take apart the pallet... You made it look so easy.
Fairly strong, this type of pallet can be very difficult to get apart and this one was fairly easy, the jack will only work on the easy ones. Often I choose the wooden blocks out away from the nails but even then the nails can be hard to get out of the planks.
Real wood can to hang on to nails better, I usually split the blocks in half to seperate the top and bottom boards, then keep splitting them until I can get to the points of the nails to bang them out.
This pallet must have had really small nails in it. I tried with a V shaped car jack and a board started to snapp. This method method though - the trapezoid (some times called "the frog") car jack - seems legit.
The nails were the usual variety but I had to try a few pallets to get one that would come apart, felt like the jack was going to break on the others - some eutopallets just don't want to come apart!
Ps good use of varied levering techniques: glad to see somone who has been shown the correct (efficient) way to use a claw hammer and block to remove nails. Ps nice use of a car-jack!
Incidentally, I've bought a Faithfull manual nail puller. That might, now, be redundant. But I'll see, eventually, whether that solves the wood block spacer issue . . .
PS, it occurs to me that the wood block problem might be solved by clamping it in a workmate vice and, then, using the car jack. I prefer leverage as against noisy battering: it's a pacifist and Quaker thing.
Europallets (and most softwood pallets) don't usually get returned here, I've seen a few old europallets but don't usually pick them up because they are garbage.
It s a nice video but even though this pallet is an EPAL it s a pretty easy one. With some other pallets espacially the LPR ones, you would never be able to do what he did
I have about a 50% success rate with EPALs, this way, if they are difficult I split the blocks apart with a hatchet until they will come off the nails and shorten the nails with bolt cutters if I have to so they are easier to knock out.
@@lapislignum bought a Roughneck Pallet Buster for £21 out of Toolstaion and it is an incredible piece of kit.Takes off wood cleanly and you can dismantle a pallet in no time.
As an ever less young man myself I do most of the work on a bench, sometimes all of it. I just figured I would get more "but I don't have a bench" comments than "why don't you do this on a bench" comments. Thanks for watching!
Simple cheap tools as opposed to complicated expensive tools. Here's an exercise for you: how many tools in your list are used to pull a pallet apart but not to build anything out of your store bought timber?
What's a rag nail? Europallets don't all come apart this easy but this one did, roughly 1 in 3 need to have the blocks split to get at the nails which takes a bit longer.
@@lapislignum a rag nail is riven like a screw and will not draw out. Ive been using a jack for years but cannot use the handle, they are so tough i have to use a lengh of pipe. I have now developed the use of an engineers machine wedge and sledge hammer, even with that they still split and break. Filming an easy deconstruction isnt fair to folk that think its going to be that easy and all the parts useable. Give them a real taste.
Very good. EPAL are super strong. Great wood but a real pain taking them apart.
I tried using a 'pallet breaker' bar which worked for some smaller pallets here in the UK but I couldn't for the life of me dismantle the EPAL pallets. Good to see this technique which I will try soon!
Most EPALs aren't this easy, often I have to chop the blocks apart with a hatchet to get at the nails, you can bash the blocks out from between the planks too but it tends to damage the planks
Thank you, thank you young man. My usual comment would be, I would like one of those, and would you bring your tools with you, but I hope you don't think that is disrespectful, because you are magic. I am a 70 year old female, just itching to make things with pallet wood, but just dismantling them has been an issue for me, until now. You are very clever my dear, and I want you to know how much I, and all your other fans, really appreciate you taking the time to share your skills. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Sherie Rodrigues from Australia. Possibly your oldest fan. Lol.🤗🌟😍
Thanks for the kind words! I don't think that is disrespectful at all.
The upside of these pallets is that the boards are all standard sizes and they are fairly easy to find, the downside is that they are either tricky to dismantle or impossible to dismantle, lightweight pallets usually come apart much easier.
Merry Christmas to you and yours too!
Lovely to hear from you. You are so nice.🌟Sherie
This is literally the fastest, simplest and yet effective way to do it. Thank you for sharing! The car jack is so useful!
Thank you for watching! in my previous video a lot of commenters said they had trouble swinging a hammer (or swinging it hard enough) so I wanted to show a different way to do it and most people with access to pallets have access to a car jack.
@@lapislignum Exactly this! The car jack is a genius idea. So obvious and yet it never occurred to me. I applaud you sir!
Cheers, It won't help with difficult pallets (I had one that felt like it was going to break the jack) but it's worth a try.
@@lapislignum this is great!! Thank you!! After watching I was thinking to myself: why didn't I think of a car jack...lol!! Smart!! 😊 thank you!!
The only thing i haven't used that jack for is to jack up a car
Euro pallets are beasts! Most the videos on RUclips show people dismantling American pallets that seem to fall apart but sneezing at them. The last euro pallet I dismantled I sawed the spacer blocks in half and hammered the nails out. Probably took a bit longer than this but a lot quicker than teasing them apart with a pry bar while trying not to crack the wood
The pallet in my more popular video was the fall apart variety, much of the time with europallets I chop the blocks out and away from the nails until I can bash the nails out, well worth it though!
I have been looking for a good method and now found one. Genius idea with car jack mate. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers! thanks for watching
Really good technique. The cleanest pallet dismantling I’ve seen
Gonna try this today, I'm on the right track as far as the technique. Oh yeah, that's because I watched your earlier video. It has been my first time working with pallets and building anything at all really. I told my husband I think I want to be a carpenter when I grow up. Thanks for keeping me looking like I have done this a million times. ~Brenda the Builder ;)
Good luck! Some of these pallets are very difficult, some are OK :)
Genius use of the car jack!! Thank you so much for sharing 😊
Out of all the vids on this subject yours have to be the best.
Your ideas are excellent !
Thank you for sharing 👍👍🤓
Thanks!
Good innovative idea, does it matter if my pallets are wet because of the rain? I've been collecting them in my back garden.
Cheers, I haven't had much luck with dismantling wet pallets, they are often stored outside though so most should be fine after they dry out.
@@redseantlworld, wet pallets are a major PITA to mess with. The wood swells which basically locks the nails in place. But, if you let them dry out, you might find them actually easier to disassemble because the wood can shrink away from the nails.
Just finished watching your other pallet break down video. I have a chicken coop build going up this week and need to break down multiple pallets. Once again thank you.
Cheers! This type of pallet can be very difficult, but this method is a good place to start. Good luck with the build!
You have SERIOUSLY made my day! Thank-you! Why didn't I think of using a car jack to take them apart? Genius!
It won't always work, but it's worth a go. Just stop if it makes bad noises or is harder than jacking up a car!
@@lapislignum Stripped a pallet down earlier, real thick wood (high quality pallet) and this method I had no broken pieces.
Problem I find with the older pallets is the annular nails start to rust and grip the wood making them real difficult to pull out - that's when I've had problems with wood splitting.
Definitely worth saving this.
Those pallets can be found in abundance although annoying to take a part.
The video + the comments here by others sheds light on the best approach to make it less of a nightmare then it needs to be.
Superb video mate! You've just saved me precious time and spared me looking like a psychopath by swinging my claw hammer about in my back garden!
Great upload!
Glad to be of help, thanks for watching!
Yes! These euro pallets I’m talking about. Takes a little more time to pull apart and some different tools. Thank you for the link😊👍🏾
No problem, europallets often hold together pretty well, if they won't come apart using this method I usually split the blocks with a hatchet, either to get to the nails to knock them back through or untill they are chopped away from the boards altogether. I often use a Prybar to get these blocks off too, then the boards come apart pretty easily.
There's a few pallet mills near where I live. Watching these videos always makes me imagine them watching these videos and silently rolling a single tear watching their hard work being undone.
😂🤣😂
Dismantling pallets is basically job creation for pallet assemblers :)
Thank you. Just waisted £30 for pallet buster and cracked most of the boards with it :(. Tomorrow will try your method. Looks (I understand need some practice)simply, no investment in sophisticated tools needed and no damage to wood at all. Thanks for effort to record it.
Cheers! Some progress europallets are stuck together pretty good but this method is a good place to start, if you get a hard one try another good one, sometimes I have to chop the blocks apart with a hatchet to get at the nails. Good luck!
What can I say - your method is the business. I also use your stripping method from your 2016 video for the "standard" pallets . Thanks for your ingenuity.
Thanks! glad to hear feedback from the other video, I use variations of it for most pallets but figured the EPAL type deserved its own video.
Really love how easy you get the nails out. Thank you!
Thanks! They came out easier than usual for this pallet, but they aren't much harder when they are hard. The nails in these pallets are fairly sturdy so the heads don't pull off as much as with smaller nails.
I had one board today (this was before seeing your video), and darn, I could not get nails out. So I had to saw the board. Still happy that I have board to play with, but excited to give your way a go. Much thanks.
Very good.
Once again, thank you and greetings from Portugal.
Thanks! You are most welcome and hi from Australia
I love the way this guy uses his BRAIN
Excellent, was really struggling with other methods but this worked. Still had to use a bit of muscle.
Good to hear, these pallets can be very tough to get apart.
This is an excellent video and you make it look so easy. However, I have just spent the better part of a day, taking apart an EPAL which must have been a real "heavyweight" compared to the relatively light pallet you have used. I could only just lift mine on my own. Unfortunately my car jack was too large to fit between the cross members as yours did, so I was forced to use a crowbar and a wide brickie's chisel with a heavy hammer. The nails were about 5" long and serrated and in many cases the ends were bent over and buried in the wood, so your method of simply tapping the cross-members apart wouldn't work. However, now I've finished I have a pile of very substantial timber (even if some of it is damaged) with which to build a cold frame for the garden.
Thanks, this was my fourth attempt at filming this, I had pallet or camera issues the first few times.
EPALs can be pretty hard and some just won't come apart without breaking using this method so I chop the blocks out instead. The boards you end up with are worth the effort though..
Thanks for watching!
I sympathise - my pallets are heavy weight too. The car jack is an excellent idea (thanks Mr Lignum) will try that later.
Nice tehnique, thanks for sharing. I tried this but my epal pallet had wooden blocks, so it took me about an hour to dismantle 3/4 of the pallet. Also center wide piece had been cracked.
I often split the wooden blocks with a hatchet until I can hammer the nails back out in that case, cracked boards happen, and the more you do the faster you will get. Thanks for watching!
great idea, i will try that too :) thanks
Takes some practice to not hit nails, the edge of my hatchet has a few nail sized bits missing. Good luck!
I found this, i think this is the fastest way for removing those badass bricks . The man is cutting the nails with a saw ruclips.net/video/7cAhtq0e2w8/видео.html
Personally I'm not a fan of that method as it damages the boards and means you can't reuse the nails, If I had to use a saw I'd just cut the ends off the boards, I often do this after dismantling as per this video, just depends of the project.
Of all the times ive tried to take apart a Epal I never thought to use a bloody jack,LOL brilliant cheers
I don't usually use a jack myself but figured it could be useful for some people. This pallrt came apart pretty easily, but on some it felt like the jack was going to explode so I had to use a different method.
Nice way of dismantling EPAL pallets. Thank you for posting!! With a new pallet it is OK and easy enough to dismantle them. But an older pallet with rusty nails in solid wooden blocks is a lot more difficult and just hammering will often result in split planks. Take your time and if possible try not to hammer those blocks off, but split those wood blocks into 2 or 3 horizontal layers in order to remove them piece by piece. This will prevent your planks from splitting.
Good point, older chipboard blocks come apart easier too, I usually don't bother with old ones though. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the link, I will check out my car jack tomorrow and try this
Don't wind it too hard, sometimes the blocks are stuck pretty hard, I've had to knock them out sideways with a hammer or chop them away with a hatchet before, and some come apart easily.
@@lapislignum Hi thanks, I tried all morning, the car jack didn't work, the winder upper I think is too long, and just didn't seem to do it, it kept falling and wobbling everywhere. I tried your other technique putting two short blocks to separate pallets, with a modicum of success, unfortunately when I was using the sledge hammer it split a few planks. One plank is all I managed and have glued and clamped it. Then I got rained off with this sodding UK weather again!. I think I will need to buy a bolster and pry bar to lever off may be. I'm making oblong boxes for my soap project. Hopefully I will get there sometime. btw I just hit 70 too! and will have a go Joe at anything! thanks Spe. x PS I wish you were my neighbour! LOL!
@@summerbreeze1955 i've had lots of board breakages on europallets, the few i've tried to take apart wet have been extra hard, and I had to cut them up so they would fit in the bin.
If you can't just keep getting more until you find enough that come apart easily and the "chop/bash the blocks apart" method doesn't work for you can use a reciprocating saw between the boards and blocks to cut the nails, I haven't tried this way but it could get you out of trouble. If you don;t need long boards then cutting the boards either side of where they are nailed works pretty well.
Good luck!
@@lapislignum Thanks SPE you're very kind. Later i thought to saw them, but have ordered a bolster and crow pry bar, I'm sure that will do it, as I need pretty long planks thnx
@@summerbreeze1955 Just keep trying until you find something that works, the best pallets in life are free!
I wish I could get nails out that easy. 😫 I think mine must be glued in lol. At least my muscles 💪 are getting stronger. 😃 great video thank you!
I have to chop the blocks out on this type sometimes, thanks for watching!
best so far I found fast
Sold some stuff unrelated on Ebay so tomorrow I'm getting a Roughneck Pallet Buster to make life a bit easier.
Hi spe what do u make the pallet wood ?ur was really great as ive got epal pallets to take apart ur video really helped me ty vm.
Lots of things, Cheers!
Insane idea. Perfect. Thank you!!!
Cheers!
De la technique et beaucoup de patience....... bravo.
Merci!
you make look so easy well done
Классно! Очень трудно разбирать паллеты! Этот способ я обязательно попробую!
Thank you very much for this video,some pallets bust my balls to disable it!!🤗🤗🤗
The hard ones are still hard (or they just break) but this is still worth a go. Cheers!
Found this video after i realised that building a pallet buster is't an option to me. 90% of the pallets here are EUPALs. Thanks you!
There is probably a way to build a pallet buster for EPAL pallets but this way is fairly quick. The only tricky bit is getting the blocks off really.
@@lapislignum after i see how you use the jack, i think its pointless to build a buster for this kind of pallet. Actually your work is only slower because you take the nails out after each plank. I would just do that later, all together and on a table or sawhorses or something.
I usually break down first then take out all of the nails, but figured this is the safer way to demonstrate, I was surprised that it didn't take that much longer to do than doing the nails all in one go.
@@dekurvajo that's one way of getting a nail through your boot as I experienced ouch 🙄
I've been pretty lucky/careful with nails.
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Thanks!
Good how-to, but why it needs to be that properly dismantled?
So I can make things out of the boards
@@lapislignum Oh, yes. True.
11.40 - if it won’t move, hit it with a big hammer. Hard!
The one you dismantling are the nails grooved? Those are really pita to remove
All the nails I can remember pulling out of europallets have been grooved (around the nails not along them) some are very hard to remove, most come out without too much fuss.
If this is a Euro Pallet, what are the more common pallets called, and what are the differences? Ever thought about making a drill attachment for the scissor jack?
Euro pallets are pretty common internationally, within the Pallet species there are all sorts, but most timber types consist of three beams with boards nailed to the top and bottom, this type is just boards and chipboard blocks which needs a slightly different approach.
A drill attachment could work but would take some fabricating, if you were going to go to that much effort you might as well make a drill powered board puller, the ones I have seen work fine but are much slower than this method.
A euro pallet is metric dimensions, whereas a standard English pallet at 40 x 48 inches is bigger than a Europallet
Great video. However, i think a pry bar and a hacksaw and cutting the nails is the quickest way to dismantle a pallet.
Ingenious to use the car jack! Thanks for sharing it! I've taken apart a lot of these pallets but this sure makes it faster and easier! Only problem I encountered was that my jack only folds to 3 1/2 inches and some of these pallets are only 3 inches opening. Any suggestions?
Cheers! I guess you could look for a lower profile jack at a wrecker, or just use the block and hammer method, I don't use the jack as 8t felt like it was going to explode on tougher pallets, some of them still came apart with the hammer.
@@lapislignum Couldn't help but say thanks to you again today as I took apart my next load of pallets. Between the car jack and 'blocks under the 2 nailed together boards' ideas you've shaved my disassembly time by 50% per pallet. Thanks again!
Good to hear, cheers!
Thank you. I’ve destroyed these pallets using a pallet wrecker tool...not pretty
Cheers, this method won't work every time but it's a good place to start, when it doesn't work I split the blocks away with a hatchet.
I think the name is in the description when it's says wrecker.... 🤔😜
Excellent video thanks
Thanks for watching!
I would keep using the car jack for the rest of the pallet - isn't that more efficient?
I was just showing it as an alternative for people who have trouble swinging a hammer, I find the hammer much faster.
How heavy of a sledgehammer are you using? Would it be best to use something on the heavier side like a 6lb or 10lb or something like a 4lb sledgehammer when trying to disassemble a little more fragile boards that crack relatively easily?
4 pounds, better to saw fragile boards off close to the beam sometimes.
@@lapislignum Wow, wasn't expecting you to respond so quickly! Thanks a ton 🤟
No problem, hope it works out for you!
you are the best mate
Thanks!
Just asking. Wouldn't it be better to smash nails out with a bigger hammer? Or it will increase the chance to bend them?
More likely to bend them, and big hammers don't usually have claws
@@lapislignum tks
Another 👍👍 up video 🇨🇦🥓🍻
Thanks!
Car jack, great idea!!!
Thanks! it doesn't help on pallets with well held nails (I've had a few where I backed off because it felt like the jack was going to break) but is worth a shot.
@@lapislignum yeah here I am trying to break up pallets 😂😂😂
Don't throw those corner blocks away they burn OK in a wood stove,I take euro pallets apart with a small steel splitting wedge,hammer and a nail bar takes less than ten minutes and all the wood is usable,you get a good three warms off it to,warm one taking it apart,warm two carrying it down to the house,warm three well you get the picture lol.
I've burned the chipboard ones before, when the bin is full usually.
Legend mate!
Cheers!
Great stuff. Two points - why do they chamfer the edges of these EPALs? Bizarre. Also, why do you religiously keep the nails - can they be reused?
Thanks! I guess the edges are chamfered to make it easier for the forklift tines to slide in, and the corners are chamfered so they don't get caught on stuff. The nails can be reused, I use them a lot. Usually they just take a little bit of straightening.
About the nails, if you're doing this stuff in a garage or anywhere you might drive a vehicle or walk barefoot, you *need* to keep track of every nail. Plus, if you're looking for the "pallet wood aesthetic" the weathered nails will look better than a shiny new one.
I must admit I've lost a few in the grass but haven't picked up any in car tyres or feet yet. I ran over a bumper screw once though, which was one way to find it.
How strong does one have to be to get this to work?
I tried with car jack; the car jack bend 🤣
I tried with the 2 blocks on either side and the board lied across those but no matter how hard I hit the boards just didn't budge. I'm a 1.57m twig so my muscular strength is pretty much non existent🙄 for now I gave up trying to take apart the pallet... You made it look so easy.
Fairly strong, this type of pallet can be very difficult to get apart and this one was fairly easy, the jack will only work on the easy ones. Often I choose the wooden blocks out away from the nails but even then the nails can be hard to get out of the planks.
Great job 👍
Thanks!
Good technique but older and well used pallets are much harder to dismantle especially if they’ve had repairs and are riddled with extra nails . 👍
I don't bother picking up old pallets
@@lapislignum , unfortunately the majority I pick up are usually the older ones .
That's too bad, guess it helps that most pine pallets don't get returned where I am.
I did think of using a car jack but thought it would split the wood
Cool video. But the same technique will take an awful lot of time more if your Epal Pallet has the wooden blocks instead of the cork ones... 😭
Real wood can to hang on to nails better, I usually split the blocks in half to seperate the top and bottom boards, then keep splitting them until I can get to the points of the nails to bang them out.
Cork? Pressed wood. Sawdust and glue.
Awesome 😊
Genius! Thanks
Thanks for watching!
20 min ??? !!! 1 paleta
Yep
25 pallets disliked this video.....
This pallet must have had really small nails in it. I tried with a V shaped car jack and a board started to snapp. This method method though - the trapezoid (some times called "the frog") car jack - seems legit.
The nails were the usual variety but I had to try a few pallets to get one that would come apart, felt like the jack was going to break on the others - some eutopallets just don't want to come apart!
took me a bastard hour to get one of these things apart...EURO TRASH more like,lol...all for just 10 lengths of timber
Some are easy, some are very hard.
Great ida
Thanks!
how to strip a pallet with simple cheap tools (un-powered) in just over 10 minutes
Thank-you!
Ps good use of varied levering techniques: glad to see somone who has been shown the correct (efficient) way to use a claw hammer and block to remove nails. Ps nice use of a car-jack!
Cheers! It prevents the hammer marking the wood too
Incidentally, I've bought a Faithfull manual nail puller.
That might, now, be redundant. But I'll see, eventually, whether that solves the wood block spacer issue . . .
PS, it occurs to me that the wood block problem might be solved by clamping it in a workmate vice and, then, using the car jack.
I prefer leverage as against noisy battering: it's a pacifist and Quaker thing.
Used a car scissor jack and snapped the winding handle. Ha Ha.
Lol whoops, hope you weren't planning on having any flat tyres anytime soon!
Probably made in China
Problem no Ferry good
huh?
Don’t know what they used for nails but they don’t come apart that easy.
Some do, most don't
i notice he is using a new unused pallet
Europallets (and most softwood pallets) don't usually get returned here, I've seen a few old europallets but don't usually pick them up because they are garbage.
So this is why we have trouble sourcing euro pallets to ship our product
What country are you in? I'll sell you some :)
@@lapislignum haha we in nz
Haha I'm west of you at the other side of the travel bubble.
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Good job but must add time consuming
It s a nice video but even though this pallet is an EPAL it s a pretty easy one. With some other pallets espacially the LPR ones, you would never be able to do what he did
I have about a 50% success rate with EPALs, this way, if they are difficult I split the blocks apart with a hatchet until they will come off the nails and shorten the nails with bolt cutters if I have to so they are easier to knock out.
iT LOOKS BLOODY EASY BUT i GET CONFUSED DOING IT
It took a few goes for me to work out a good way to do it, feel free to watch it again as many times as you like :)
@@lapislignum Haha I need to get a life all I do is watch pallet dismantling videos And I think people that watch cricket need to get a life!!!
I've got a euro to break down today and oddly the car jack is in the front of the car so divine providence maybe
Don't crank it any harder than you would when lifting the car, I had to stop on one pallet as it felt like the jack was going to exlode
@@lapislignum bought a Roughneck Pallet Buster for £21 out of Toolstaion and it is an incredible piece of kit.Takes off wood cleanly and you can dismantle a pallet in no time.
Harder then it looks
Ok pretty easy...However Way too much squatting and bending for an old man like me. Would have to be working off of a table and a solid one at that
As an ever less young man myself I do most of the work on a bench, sometimes all of it. I just figured I would get more "but I don't have a bench" comments than "why don't you do this on a bench" comments. Thanks for watching!
OMG!!! Couldn't this be edited to be shorter?
It sure could, I Made a short version of my earlier pallet breakdown video but the real-time one was more popular so I didn't bother with this one.
Good job
I lick also
simple cheap tools? car jack £26,sledge £7, claw hammer £7, Goggles£9, ear defenders£9, gloves £9 about £80,,,,,, 9 metre sawn treated timber £27
Simple cheap tools as opposed to complicated expensive tools. Here's an exercise for you: how many tools in your list are used to pull a pallet apart but not to build anything out of your store bought timber?
have you lost your voice
No!
Wtf😂🤭
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Bullshit 100%. Lets see you strip my pallet like that. They are not rag nails.
What's a rag nail? Europallets don't all come apart this easy but this one did, roughly 1 in 3 need to have the blocks split to get at the nails which takes a bit longer.
@@lapislignum a rag nail is riven like a screw and will not draw out.
Ive been using a jack for years but cannot use the handle, they are so tough i have to use a lengh of pipe.
I have now developed the use of an engineers machine wedge and sledge hammer, even with that they still split and break.
Filming an easy deconstruction isnt fair to folk that think its going to be that easy and all the parts useable. Give them a real taste.