This bar works great for breaking pallets apart. Handle is solid (not hollow) and because of the mass and length of the handle it seamlessly pops off the cross boards. We’re reusing all materials and we’ve only damaged a few removing them likely because the boards were fatigued to begin with. Super easy to use but a bit on the heavy side, it takes a bit of time to be sure it’s placed properly for the next board section until you get the hang of it. I can’t imagine there is a better similar tool on the market of this quality. THANK YOU.
EDIT 2/2024
After months of use, and reading the reviews again I figured I’d do an update. We’re doing our entire basement- walls and ceiling, in pallet wood… so anything that broke a measurable number of the pallet board we would not use. We’ve broken down hundreds of pallets, new and very old… wide boards, narrow boards, repaired pallets, standard runners, oversize runners, hard woods, soft woods… we’ve seen it all. It breaks a few boards, I can almost guess which ones will break by looking at them before I even break the pallet. It will also blow out the nail holes occasionally, doesn’t matter on our project as it adds character to the wood. For those saying the tool is difficult to get between the boards, here is a way I combat that. I take a hammer and nail bar and remove the very end board on the pallet, after that the tool works great. If it wasn’t built as bulky as it is, it would not be reliable. We’ve had quite a few that the boards are very close, that is a simple and effective fix. Just today I broke down about 17 pallets of various size, condition, and board width/length. Out of those 17 pallets the bar damaged about 10 boards I could’ve otherwise used. So it’s what I figure to be 5-7% damage… I can live with that. I could’ve used the hammer and nail bar to save those boards, but the sheer volume we’re using on our project it wasn’t worth it. It generally likes to break boards where knots are present. In another defense of this tool- I salvage some of the runners for other projects and I try to keep them nail free. I’ve noticed on the boards that blow out the nail holes (nails stay in the runners) that even my nail bar will just snap the heads off the nails. When nails are set that hard there isn’t a pallet buster made that’s going to save your wood. The older the pallet and the more aggressive the nails then less likely they’re going to pull out. This tool isn’t made with the idea of us hobbyists using the materials, it’s designed to make pallet wrecking efficient and effective and it does both of those very well. Just so happens some of us have figured out a way to make use of the materials, and as said our project goes on with some damaged planks because it adds character to our project- that’s part of the trials and tribulations of that particular plank of wood. Before I bought this tool I used to use a sawzal between the runner and plank and cut the nails. I was using a Dewalt 20V brushless and Diablo blades (at $5 a copy). One blade would last 3-4 pallets depending upon the hardness of the hardware used to assemble it. So in a weekend I could burn up $20 worth of Diablo blades- gets expensive fast. Not to mention this method is very labor intensive on the hands, leaves shards of metal everywhere, and one would not want a ceiling done in material where nail heads continuously fall out to be stepped on. The pallet buster and manual nail removal has proven to be the most cost effective, comfortable, and cleanest method. Trust me, this is a fantastic tool… I paid full price for it, it was not given to me, and I’m not being compensated for this review.
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Necessary for anyone wanting to reuse pallets!
My neighbor is a delivery driver in the next large city over. This means he's met a LOT of companies, made a bunch of friends, and they offer him things that they can't sell. One day, they came home with their truck stacked as high as possible with pallets. Over the next couple days, they sat out there with a saw cutting through the nails before giving up and redesigning the garden boxes they were going to build. They offered us pallets as well, but after looking at how much the saw blades were, we couldn't justify it. It goes from free to expensive real quick! And it took them 15 min to cut off 3 boards and ruined a blade each time! We needed another way.I pulled out my Google-foo and discovered pallet busters. I saw home made ones, commercial ones, hydraulic ones, a whole menagerie of them. Then I started searching through amazon. This buster has the articulating bottom, meaning it's more gentle on the wood and moves how it needs to with the strength still to pull them right out. The pallet we used this on initially has been outside for at least 6 months. We also used it on a newer one and it pulled it apart much easier. It wont prevent it from continuing existing cracks. So, if your pallet is broken in any place, it wont prevent it from getting worse. a crack will, most likely, get bigger.Going from full pallet to boards took us about 15 min. I had to stand on one side of the pallet to keep it from lifting up while my husband pulled the boards off. Also, the pallets we got are BEEFY! So the gaps to put the buster are SMALL and difficult to insert into the first board. If anyone knows how to start that first board without needing it resting on the vertical pallet support, i'd LOVE to know! It needs the elevation from the board to use as the fulcrum and press against as it lifts the boards off of it. That's why we had to go in between the boards to pull the first board. We also discovered that it worked easier if we used it on the outside nails first, then worked our way in.I'm so happy that we bought this. We've shown our neighbors and they will be sharing the pallets and we will be sharing the buster. Win, win, win all around! I definitely recommend this beefy buster to anyone that wants to reuse pallet wood!
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