Tuto: how to disassemble pallets for recycling

[chopko]

I left to build a garden hut, with cladding in recycling pallet ... After a good fifty dismantled pallet, I start to have the hand, and I found a quick and efficient way ...

a short presentation video:

https://youtu.be/FZvLEiqnOEg

Have a good day!
Chopko

[Christophe]

Nice tutorial! A good narrator (it's you?)

Because the disassembly of the Pallets is difficult, I tested!

Especially the EuroPalettes (normalized them), the lighter you use is a little easier, but the recovered boards are thinner ... After as a Europallet is consigned (15 € at the time) we find less easily to recovery ...

You can also look at this subject, on the use of pallets in recycling: https://www.econologie.com/forums/idees-eco- ... 12483.html

[chopko]

thank you...
yes it's me who tells the story ...

I also get euro pallets but less, only when they are a little damaged, but the corner I found, I can have as many as I want for free, so I do with the differences in thickness!

have a good day

[Christophe]

Cool! Welcome here then!

Did you do other tutorials?

[Ahmed]

Tutorial really well done!

I had this problem of dismantling pallets not too long ago and I was inspired by an American video (there are a lot of tools intended for this purpose, but I chose the simplest, because it seemed to me the most effective and that I was in a certain emergency).

Its use is simple: we introduce the thick steel piece under the board by positioning it at the leveling of a cross member and we use leverage. The Tor iron support ring of 12 has been welded slightly below the upper level (the original model is welded above) of the lifting element, to effectively extract the point closest to the lever, without damaging the board.

To strengthen the most stressed part, a strut takes up the efforts and the tube (locksmith quality) has been ovalized in its lower part.
All this has been welded "tears" (sic) to the electrode, reuse of scrap requires ...

Note: the red object is a measuring tape serving as a wedge and a scale for the photo ...

[Remundo]

wow that reminds me of a few afternoons dismantling pallets ...

for me that is not a passion, but I admit that I was less "industrialized" than you.

Congratulations, you have good helping hands.

Some pallets are terrible to dismantle. Staples, turned nails and many ...

[Ahmed]

Thanks for the compliment! I'm not just a theorist ...
I reassure you: dismantling pallets is not a devouring passion with me either! It was just to help and get rid of ...

[chopko]

I admit that I take pleasure, myself, in martyring the palette ... as it is not very hot in my old shack not very isolated, it is good to have an hour break from work in front of my screen and going to dismantle pallets ... it is also that I am planning a house in self-construction, with a very small budget, therefore, I must push the D system and recycling to its maximum ... j have collected about 6m80 of pallet wood for 2 months ... it's starting to make a real budget if I had to buy that! And also fun using a recycled material, which has its history, each board is different ... and I can play with it ...
Today for example, I came across a Beech pallet ... (why then make beech pallets ... will know ...) it makes me seven beautiful boards very dry with superb patterns ...

Thanks for the feedback!

[Flytox]

Even with patience and good tools (very wide crowbar etc ...), it looks like some pallets are made not to be removable / recoverable. The nails are large, long, twisted / striated and slanted in several directions. Of course several are aligned on the same wood fiber.
So the wooden board immediately splits between 2 nails under the force of the crowbar or the carpenter's mallet.
Or the head of the nail has such a small diameter and the wood is so soft that the head sinks into the wood making it burst rather than bringing the nail in / up ...

[izentrop]

Quite flytox.
There are also ridged or twisted points with welded rods on the side which prevent hook or harpoon extraction.
Those, impossible to disassemble without breaking everything, I smash them with the mass to serve as small wood to start a wood fire.

I used the right planks to make my chicken coop and my compost, otherwise, except in exceptional cases, it is obier or soft wood which risks being easily attacked by worms.

Although they are already treated in general and indoors without humidity, there is little risk that wood-eating insects attack it.

Ahmed ... more than a V notch to add the nail puller function to your tool