You have your pallets and want to start building something! But wood pallet disassembly can be time consuming and hard work. Most DIY beginners will start with a ply bar and a hammer, which is rough on the hands and arms and also can be very damaging to the wood itself.
Not everyone minds a little hard work and the satisfaction tearing stuff apart, but if you want to get the job done a little easier, using a reciprocating saw (Sawzall) with a 12″metal cutting blade, can make the job of dismantling your pallets a lot easier and will help keep the wood from splitting.
If you plan to do any type of pallet work or any renovation jobs around your home a reciprocating saw is a great investment. Check out our page on idea of things you can build with wood pallets. http://www.homediyfixes.com/7-awesome-pallet-furniture-ideas/
The video below will show you how easy it is to take apart a pallet.
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Use a punch to get nail heads out after using sawzall to tear apart pallets
Great advice Jeff Prigge
Freddie King
With the proper pry bar, they come apart rather easy as well.
Some times that is true. A pry bar can damage and split the wood.
Marc Pagé
Johnny Rodriguez
Justin Rodriguez
Best way I found too take one apart and real fast.Put a old chain on your chainsaw
Throw it in the fire.
Andrea M Timmermans
You may want to use a the guard that your sawzall comes with and a shorter metal blade than this clown.
Denise Reynolds…lol
I heat my house during daytime hrs with recycled wooden pallets, also have made some shop shelving and bookcases with pallets. And best of all it’s free lumber except some labour.
There still a$#%&!@* u can buy the tool that takes them apart for around $25
A 24inch 2×4 and l use a 48 inch 2×4 as a pry bar close to edge of nails with slight pressure just so l can get nails to loosen up after you hear the nails letting go just one quick down motion works great with minimal boards damage.
You people are either IGNORANT or pretty STUPID. …..fyi….most (not all ) pallets have at some stage been in a fumigated container and WILL contain poison in the form of Formaldahyde residue. If you dont know the full history of the pallet your using, DONT handle it without gloves, dont sand it, dont cut it, dont burn it…..just leave it alone and put it in the rubbish ……unless you like POISONING yourself !
Christy Nida
totally correct
loving the fanpage
Wendy Smith Robinette
Saws all with a metal blade
Bryant Hinkle
Kristy Johnson
Jason Johnson
Michael Finley
Jon Seiler
exactly
Dont forget to use a saw blade made for cutting metal. Done this many a times. Works very well
Johnny Rodriguez Justin Rodriguez Araceli Sanchez
Danielle France-aanerud, I could see your kids loving the dog house. lol
Sherry Deloney
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