Voice your opinion: What is the best way to break down pallets for use?

**bmorto1504** · 08-02-2012, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by FrankC

If you ask me I am getting tired of hearing about pallets.

Pallet wood is a total waste of time and one of the best ways to destroy your tools.
Wooden pallet importation should be totally outlawed, or at least not allowed to leave the ships they arrive on, we don't need bugs they frequently contain to infect us.

This should support Frank's statement. " (Anoplophora glabripennis). Native to parts of Asia, the beetle is believed to have arrived in North America in the wooden packing material used in cargo shipments from China." This information from the following site. http://www.asian-longhorned-beetle.com/ It is easy to find one infestation that required millions of dollars and the removal of hundreds of trees in Chicago. The situation is not isolated.
The government(s)can produce all of the standards they wish and they will not solve the problem. People in China or other places do not care one bit about trees in the USA.
bmorto

**deepsplinter** · 08-03-2012, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by bmorto1504

This should support Frank's statement. " (Anoplophora glabripennis). Native to parts of Asia, the beetle is believed to have arrived in North America in the wooden packing material used in cargo shipments from China." This information from the following site. http://www.asian-longhorned-beetle.com/ It is easy to find one infestation that required millions of dollars and the removal of hundreds of trees in Chicago. The situation is not isolated.
The government(s)can produce all of the standards they wish and they will not solve the problem. People in China or other places do not care one bit about trees in the USA.
bmorto

"Asian-longhorned-beetle"....DANG, thats a new one on me.

We're infested with Emerald ash borers....dead/dieing ash trees all over northern Indiana, among other places.

But this little sucker is gonna kill maples, poplars, willows, elms, mulberries and black locusts. Geeze.

Back to pallet wood...If someone wants to recycle that stuff into something usable, more power to 'em. I'm a bit of a tree hugged myself, but you'll never find pallet wood in my shop.

**craftedbyethan** · 08-03-2012, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by bmorto1504

This should support Frank's statement. " (Anoplophora glabripennis). Native to parts of Asia, the beetle is believed to have arrived in North America in the wooden packing material used in cargo shipments from China." This information from the following site. http://www.asian-longhorned-beetle.com/ It is easy to find one infestation that required millions of dollars and the removal of hundreds of trees in Chicago. The situation is not isolated.
The government(s)can produce all of the standards they wish and they will not solve the problem. People in China or other places do not care one bit about trees in the USA.
bmorto

Yes infestations are terrible. But to this note, I am not importing them, I am not producing them, I am not wasting them. I am recycling them, I am saving them from landfills... I am keeping them from dumps.

**FrankC** · 08-03-2012, 02:20 PM

Totally agree infestations are terrible, there are many types of infestations in this world, among them spam on the internet ranks about as high as any of them.

You seem to feel that you have to continually bombard this forum as well as others with your message, we get it, you like to use pallets, now go build something.

**kevinbrown966** · 08-06-2012, 12:05 AM

I think the best way to do it is to go at it with a claw-hammer and a pry bar and take off the slats on the side with the least amount of them, and then remove the ones on the side. Or try tnis few simple steps:

• Lay the pallet so that the side with the least amount of slats is facing upward.
• Push the pry bar into the edge of the slat where it's nailed down to the side of the pallet and hammer it further in.
• Pry up that side of the slat and then pry up the other side.
•Pry up the other slats.
• Finish the disassembly by taking one of two approaches--turn the pallet over and pry up the slats on that side or stand in the pallet and use your hammer to knock the side slats off the pallet

**craftedbyethan** · 08-06-2012, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by FrankC

Totally agree infestations are terrible, there are many types of infestations in this world, among them spam on the internet ranks about as high as any of them.

You seem to feel that you have to continually bombard this forum as well as others with your message, we get it, you like to use pallets, now go build something.

This was a topic poll... To gauge the community forum and its users. I feel I am using this forum appropriately and every topic I have posted has had significant content.

**craftedbyethan** · 08-06-2012, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by kevinbrown966

I think the best way to do it is to go at it with a claw-hammer and a pry bar and take off the slats on the side with the least amount of them, and then remove the ones on the side. Or try tnis few simple steps:

• Lay the pallet so that the side with the least amount of slats is facing upward.
• Push the pry bar into the edge of the slat where it's nailed down to the side of the pallet and hammer it further in.
• Pry up that side of the slat and then pry up the other side.
•Pry up the other slats.
• Finish the disassembly by taking one of two approaches--turn the pallet over and pry up the slats on that side or stand in the pallet and use your hammer to knock the side slats off the pallet

Thank you for replying to this poll! I appreciate you staying on topic!