The Wooden Duck

There are a few ways to break pallets down that keep cropping up. One is to saw the good bits of wood out and the other is pry the boards out with some kind of prying bar, AKA a pallet buster. Linko: https://amzn.to/3HHrvtg

The pros and cons of either method don’t seem to be weighted too heavily one way or the other. Sawing the wood out means you’re less likely to split wood, but you sacrifice the length of wood. Prying the wood apart means you can end up with the full length board but you can split wood in the process. I figured owning a pallet buster could double up as useful anti-zombie weapon so it seemed the obvious choice.

There are plenty of guides out there on pallet busting but none seem to have be for pallets with the boards that are almost flush with each other. This made it tricky to get the pointy end between the boards or pry on one board at a time.

I got there eventually though and only partially split a few of the boards. De nailing with a regular hammer by bashing 2 shades of sheet out of them took some time and will certainly be looking for another method. But overall I’m fairly pleased with the resulting yield. I wonder how easily they could be reconstructed into pallets again?