Shipping Pallet Dangers and Disassembly
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2017
- How to identify if wood from a shipping pallet is safe to use, as well as how to disassemble them quickly and efficiently.
3:56 How to decode the markings on the wood
8:14 Tools
10:20 Disassembly with reciprocating saw
11:55 A word on safety
13:28 Example DIY projects
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This is the absolute best video on pallets and safety on RUclips….
Bill, your video was excellent in my opinion. Very well done, good video and audio, informative with good detail. About the best pallet video I have seen on YT. Thank you for your efforts!
I'm extremely new to DIY and in the middle of buying our first house. These videos are fantastic and very informative. Looking forward to following along with your guides.
Just getting into pallets for wood projects and this is very informative. Thank you so much for posting. I would’ve had no idea
Double damn informative, Man!! Answered every one of this newbie pallet wood hunter's questions. +++100 on the code information
NO MB!!
Thanks again,
Keith
Great info to explain the markings on pallets. I have worked as a sailor and have seen so many of the markings and did not know all of the details. Thanks so much.
Methyl Bromide is a gaseous fumigant. It does not penetrate the wood. It does not pose a danger except as airborne contaminant that is breathed. A pallet fumigated with MB is not toxic once the fumigant has dispersed. It is perfectly safe to work with fumigated pallets that have gone thru shipping and aeration.
I can tell you really enjoyed researching this! But a really useful video. Thanks.
Well , Blimey , this is so informative I hadn't realised that Pallets could be this interesting.Now I am off to my Garage to tackle the dismantling of my newly aquired Pallets in order to transform them into outdoor Compst Bins and guess what I have the same tools reqired as well.Thank you very much.Paul
Thanks. Who would have thought there was so much to learn about pallets!
ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS EVER!! SAVING AND SHARING. THANK YOU LOTS.
CC Rescue always leaves the best and most positive comments
I'm only half way through the video and I've already liked and subscribed. Great video!
Great video! So many people use pallets for projects- timely information!
Thank you for this information, I learned a lot about pallets!!!
Very educational video. Just getting started messing around with Pallet wood.
I like the relative stability of recycled pallet wood, we have pallets offered to any clients at our home hardware store chain Bunnings, a source of several timber types, some with plywood tops (handy) and often double sided ....I made a two leg pry from scrap steel to start the pry process and have much recovered timber that is nail free .... nice video.
Methyl bromide has a very high vapour pressure; to put it simply if a pallet was treated with it, by the time it gets to you there will be none of it left in the wood. The real nasties were the arsenic compounds used in "tanalised" wood.
Hello. Do you know if any pallets are "tanalised"? If so, what would be the markings to confirm this? Thanks!
Smart guy, good information, good advice. Thumbs up.
Thank you for this very informative video!!
Excellent, simply excellent; much better that some tv shows.
Thank you very much for this very important info.
This is the best vid on pallet wood I seen and I watched a lot of them. Thank you and I subbed.
Awesome video, thank you so much.
Thankyou for the information Love the Z car mate.
Thanks for this informative video
Great video lots of good info.
Thank you for the video you had a lot of good information that really helped. I have a question and it would really help me out. Last week i began cutting up my pallets having not known there are certain types of pallets I shouldn’t use. Through a picture I took before breaking down the pallets I was able to piece together out of the 10 pallets 6 were labeled HT where the other 4 pallets had no marking what so ever. I was able to eliminate most of the wood form the 4 unknown pallets but obviously have sacrificed a lot of time doing so. My question is should I really be worried about these 4 unknown pallets or am I doing the right thing in your opinion? Just looking for advice from someone who knows better than me though I did find it reassuring the USA has outlawed MB pallets since 2005. I got all these pallets from Lowe’s and I live in New York btw. Thanks for your help
I'd say that it is up to you and what you feel comfortable with. Some people may wish to take the utmost caution and not risk any possibility of potentially nasty chemicals, and others may feel the odds are decent enough that there isn't anything on the wood they've collected.
It would also depend on where the wood is destined to wind up. If it were next to an infant or in a garden, I might be more concerned than, say, a decoration that sat in front of my house.
Another consideration would be if the wood will be sealed or painted. That can potentially 'lock' a substance up underneath the finish.
Great video!
Great video. Thank you.
I have a pallet that doesn't have one of those stamps on it, it just has an 'A' on the side. What does that mean and is it safe to use?
thank you so much i learned alot from this, especially the actual prying part!
This video is SME-rich and should be part of a future RUclips Encyclopaedia. Cheers mate! $0.02
Great video
My first day looking for pallets 2/3 pallets we looked at were treated with methyl bromide. That's... Fantastic odds since everyone says they're rare.
We have since found nice heat treated pallets from Canada.
great video. well explained. and great to see how you deal with taking pallets apart. i have an Eizzy Bar Pro which i got after watching a YT video. it's great most of the time but what Bill says about some of the slats breaking is very true. depends on how many nails are in it. so cutting them is always faster.
Great video. I believe that the blue pallets are painted blue for standardization in terms off storage capacity for warehousing as well. Meaning that only certain pallets are deemed suitable for weight and also being able to be securely placed in warehouse racking. So for instance you would not allow 45gallon drums to be stored on the same style/quality pallet that pillows were shipped on. Typically the blue ones are made of a hardwood and are generally shipped to and from destinations with deposits $$ secured on them. Therefore insuring that they are returned to the shipper. These pallets can have a value of $25-$50 dollars.
Folk assemble pallets from broken pallets to sell on, so it's equally reasonable to assume maybe a few of them might include parts from pallets that don't adhere to regulations, which only requires exclusion of any incriminating pieces that have been stamped.
I'm not an alarmist, but my mother didn't raise fools.
Better to check the source of any unmarked pallets, if possible, than trust to blind luck, which may just bite you. 😂
Your idea of using particular pallets from known sources is sound.
Other than that, a very informative vid and thank you for posting.
Personally, I use an SDS drill on chisel function with a magnetic drive guide, or a filed down hex adaptor, at a pinch, to punch out the nails, seeing as I already had the drill and wasn't dismantling enough pallets or on a regular enough basis basis to justify splashing out on an air punch nailer/nail remover.
To pry the slats loose I use, believe it or not, another slat, akin to employing a large prybar, using the adjacent slat as a fulcrum, rather than trying to wedge in the chisel of the prybar, which can easily split the slat, as you've discovered.
You'd be surprised how successfully it works.
I also use the block technique, ie, a block or two blocks stacked atop each other, placed under the slats, raising both them and the stringers, one side, middle, then remaining side, then hammer down on the now hanging stringer to separate it from the slats.
Naturally, either technique incurs some damaged slats, but it's safe to say they're about 99+% successful.
Neither technique was born of my own ingenuity.
I just watched a couple of guys, who dismantle pallets and cannibalise them for a living, hence knowing about the odd ones that slip through the net.
Loved your take on Big Pharma sales technique, incidentally!
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This vid most definitely deserves more views, likes and subscriptions, so I'll be sharing your link, if you don't mind.
Great talk! Who knew pallets could be dangerous?
Nice Datsun
Is there anything you should do to prep so doesn't hurt machinery?
just make sure all nails are removed before planing or anything like that
Question: Getting the half nails out of the slatboards is easy - with a punch - but how do you get the other half out of the stringers?
I usually don't bother with the stringers. Most of them have cutouts for lift truck forks which doesn't leave much usable wood left. I have used some nice hardwood stringer boards to make things like a hammer handle or to turn on a lathe, but I just cut around the nails that are left in the wood. I've tried using a punch on the stringer board nails to push them through the other side, but it is a bunch of work and tends to just do more damage than its worth. If I come up with some other solution I'll be sure to post about it.
Great information, well made video. But wow, your jointer looks pretty sketchy.
Yesss
Blue pallets are rented Pool Owned Pallets such as CHEP. They are not to be sold or given away or collected. The red pallets are a different pool pallet system (PECO).
Keep a bucket of water close to cool your SawZall blade after each cut through nails. The blade will last much longer.
Cutting the nails still leaves the other part in the thicker material making it impossible to get out. My preferred way is to hold the top slats and hit the thicker portion with the hammer. It will raise the nail head just enough to get a grip with the hammer claw. Just tap the slat back down and pull the nails
my wife works near a pallet factory lol pallet shipping pallets
you have magnetic powers now, lol.
Awesome magnetic arm man..
It might be a lame superpower, but it's the only one I've got.
I found a pallet that had both HT and MB on it.
"Under the 1987 Montreal Protocol, all United Nations-recognized countries agreed to ban methyl bromide and other gases because they were depleting the ozone layer, which acts as a filter against the sun."
If you can find a pallet with MB it is THIRTY-THREE years old. The life of a pallet is being smashed around by forklifts. Do you find many of them???
Get yourself a table, or make one from two sawhorses and a pallet, and put the pallets on them, your back and knees will thank you. If you have a pallet that has hardwood stickers and pine slats, you're gonna want to cut the slats, not the nails.
Try this method for EURO pallets
ruclips.net/video/1aqehUy5cqQ/видео.html
An this for the weaker ones:
ruclips.net/video/JMcyXes7MPg/видео.html
I tested those and they're great.
don't burn
from china you will also get arsenic
gettin old,👴 i use them for raised gardens. watchout, the homeless will fight ya for em' 😒 mostly i like to stack all round the house to piss off the neibhors👍 firewood also ♨ maybe build some fence someday 💤🐒
Just for information that is not a sawzall
You're right. I believe the correct term is Kleenex.
Try Craftsman oscillating saw?
Reminds me of the old days when people said skillsaw for any hand held circular saw .....
@@chrisbraid2907 they still do
But a good video
Very generic
Great video!