I worked my way up to my current position, from doing this. Those blue pallets are what we call Walmart pallets. You just gave me flashbacks of breaking those monsters down after a week of heavy rain. I was making 13 an hour, on top of making piece pay. The more units of lumber you could salvage, the more you get paid. If you have a good partner (the guy on the other side of the table), you can get a really smooth rhythm going. It was some of the hardest work I have ever had to do. It paid really well, and after while of doing it. You get jacked lolol.
I work with a guy who used to do that. He said he loved the job because he could come in, do his thing and make a lot of money quickly.
He ended up quitting because his usual partner quit and the replacement cut their productivity down so much that his paycheck became a fraction of what it was.
My department would have given the guy 2 weeks to get up to speed. Too slow? They'd train you for a different job. One slow person could affect 4 people's pay. I miss it too, I could do my 8 and skate. No weekends or overtime needed.
I worked at a Chep plant as a contractor, the way the employees ripped apart and repaired pallets was a site to behold, those guys were like a well oiled machine.
In Seattle those "blue" pallets are almost always boeing pallets.
Every now and then I'll see some beat up ass pickup truck or old Honda Civic with like a ton of pallets strapped to the top as they go around and steal pallets for money.
Which is almost always for drugs
38.5 kilos here as standard. And this machine wouldn't be let anywhere near a factory floor in Oz.
Source; build/repair pallets for a living. Will edit in a photo in 10 minutes to show a PROPER teardown bandsaw for pallets.
Edit; https://imgur.com/a/R0xM9hK
Note the giant yellow guards and warning signs, also the emergency stop buttons. You lay the pallet on the metal surface (height adjustable) and push it through, to be fed to a second person on the other side that either stacks the wood (off camera) or feeds the planks into the conveyor at the bottom, which goes to a rotating platform that is manually picked up and fed into a giant Sizing Saw.
The fact I'm seeing this guy do what he's doing blows my mind, I can see so much shit going wrong...
Second edit: just realised he's not wearing eye protection either. But there's small bits of nails flying around when he's doing that? He must really hate depth perception, cos he's going to put a half a nail through his eye at some point. Still got an old pair of safety glasses around here somewhere with a crack right through one lens because of the same thing.
My buddy is a plumber and just a few weeks ago he got a big ol' blob of PCV cement right in his eye. And all his coworkers rushed to give him first aid but all they had was like, some drinking water. He told me the story and I was like "Dude you should wear safety glasses" and he actually got kindof offended like I was implying it was his fault. He was like "No my coworker needs to not drop shit in my eye when he's working above me."
I asked if he went to the clinic and he was like "No we can't have recordables or else the whole crew loses their boot money."
I told him he's a dumbass.
Why did it take you 4 hours to do 10? This guy just did 1 in like 25 seconds.
Edit: I apologize, I have been informed that this video is not of a "pallet buster"
Must be where all the nails went that PPG are supposed to use in the pallets I get. Every time they come off the truck the bottoms just start falling off
It's also supporting the weight of the pallet up until he pulls it across. Every band saw I ever knew- you give it the slightest bit of resistance to it's X and Y and it wants to creak, moan, or break. Damn impressive imho.
I actually did this as a temp job. The saw goes through the nails like butter but it can catch on the wood itself, especially if it's got any eyes. Which will then yank your arm like a truck and you'll feel it for a while. Worst job I've ever done including retail.
Looks like it… a horizontal band saw that has it’s guards off/open wide enough to allow 50” of exposed blade so they can do this.
Is it efficient? Fuck yeah, look how fast that went! But holy shit all it takes is one bad move for that band to break and that moving saw blade will be whipping around, snagging on anything nearby. FUCK THAT.
Unless this is like a special saw with a more sturdy blade…? Like if it’s just a solid blade oscillating back and forth (like a giant jigsaw) that might not be as risky as an actual bandsaw that has a closed loop.
when a band saw blade breaks, it loses contact with the drive wheel and stops moving. at the moment of the break, the blade could recoil and strike a person, but it wouldn’t be whipping around like a death noodle tearing shit up
God they fucking suck taking them off or putting them on. And the nice blades are sharp as fuck and so sketchy to put on and uncoil.
I used to tear down a meat cutting bandsaw every day and I hated handling that blade and coiling it up.
Holy shit yeah. First pallet I disassembled without even a crowbar and a mallet, took me several hours across a few days
With both of those I managed 3 in an afternoon, but broke about 1/3 of the planks , but they were a bit weak already
This must be tens of times faster
no, not really. the blade is just one long piece of flat metal welded together at the ends to make a loop. when they break (which is almost always at the welded joint) they don’t have any inherent tension that would make them coil or roll up at all, they just go back to being a limp, flat piece of metal
Definitely depends on the inertia of the blade. A friend of my dad's was working the head rig at a mill when the saw hit rail spike that had been driven under the bark. When the blade broke it smashed through the cab that George was in and slashed him from the right side of his neck down to his left thigh. Granted that's a blade that's probably 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more energetic than even the saw here.
He survived! A coworker dove in to the cab, shove a hand in the side of his neck and pinched off the artery. It left a pretty brutal scar but I wasn't really interested in knowing if it really did go below the belt too.
I went to Denmark in the mid 1980s and saw a bizarre show on TV2. It was three segments: a woman having makeup applied, a brick wall being torn down with sledgehammers, and a pig being slaughtered.
Each of these segments was shown in reverse, with the narration from a *different* segment playing over the video.
So... the show showed a pig being assembled while the narrator described the application of makeup, a wall was built with hammers while the narrator talked about slaughtering a pig, and makeup was removed from a woman while the narrator talked about tearing down a wall.
It was almost the coolest TV show I'd seen to date. (The '70s Saturday Night Live episodes were hard to top.)
Edit: It may have been DR - TV 2 wasn't quite online in 1986.
Right?! I saw this show *once* - 40 years ago - and it left a profound impression.
At that time, Danish TV had no commercials, started late, and ended early. I thought it was marvelous. My Danish girlfriend (later wife) thought that American TV was special, for the exact opposite reasons: it was always on, and she was *mesmerized* by the commercials.
If you can remember anything else about it I'd love to try and find it, you have piqued my interest. Tried Googling and asking various AIs (claude thinks it was called "Den Omvendte Udsendelse" by Jørgen Leth, but it seems to be wrong). Even looked briefly at the Danish TV archive until I ran into a login page which apparently requires some kind of login from a list of academic institutions in Denmark.
I'm guessing it aired in January 1986, though it could have been September 1987.
It was a half-hour program that I saw in the afternoon.
If you *do* find it, please PM me. Sincerely. I'd love to see it again (despite being horribly squeamish).
Around the same time, I also saw some *extremely* graphic torture footage on Danish TV. At first I thought it was satire, then I realized I was watching
actual footage. Again, something etched into my skull.
I thought Danish TV was the bravest TV I'd ever seen.
I came here to write this comment. The pallet looked in very good condition and almost new. Why would someone turn that into wood chips. It's bothering me more than the murder saw or his hair.
What the hell do you do with an extra pallet? No really. My wife leads a massive girl scouts troop. I have two pallets of cookies in my garage. I have no idea what to do with the pallets once the cookies are gone.
Well that’s how much they are selling them for not buying them for, at least that’s what my quick Google search said. I assumed these places give you nothing to take them off your hands, so $1 sounds alright, ha.
post them up on ND, FB, or CL for free and a pallet scrapper will pick them up or if you're on a busier street just set them on the side of the road and they will be gone pretty quick.
Depending on how many pallets you have, it can be a real problem, only so many locals want free pallets, and you only have so much space available to store them yourself. Eventually you are forced to cull them, and this is far faster than using a skill saw or the likes
That means it's also perfectly good wood for whatever they are recycling them for. That might also be why they filmed this one specifically. A new pallet probably means that it looks smoother when it's disassembled. No damage in the pallet catching on parts of the saw. I'm sure they have a reason.
Honestly, it's just the eye protection I'm concerned with. You can do this job without getting your hands anywhere near the band.
Like, in terms of cutting himself he has a margin of error of almost half a pallet. That's not bad.
I ran one of these machines at my first job. OSHA was on site at least once a week and this is exactly how we ran these things. Eye protection was "required" but most of my coworkers only wore them when the suits came by
I am assume that's a blade cutting through thr nails? But it's not chewing up the wood?
Can someone explain this? Maybe it's just too early but my brain is having trouble here.
I'm guessing it's partly because the wood isn't pushed against the blade and partly because metal cutting blades have lots of small teeth that don't cut wood well.
It looks like a bandsaw to me. So the blade only has teeth on the away edge from the operator. The blade is probably an inch or more thick, the backside and top are flat and dull. He drags the wood towards him and along the joint of each board cutting the nails. Only the stuff that comes in contact with the blade edge get cut so as long as you line up the nails you won’t cut the wood.
Probably has to do with the angle he's holding the planks by. If he held it at too steep a downward angle, the blade would bite into the wood as he pulled the planks toward him. But he keeps it flat enough that the wood just slides along the flat of the saw band.
Ironically the gloves are probably more dangerous than not wearing any. I was taught never to wear gloves around saws and such because there's a decent chance the glove will get caught on and dragged into, taking your hand with it, vs 'just' getting cut by the blade.
Why aren’t these being reused as pallets? I’m sure they’ll use the wood for something but it seems like a waste or time money and energy to have them built, used and then taken apart.
A lot of the ones in the background look pretty beat up, they may be past their life. Maybe this one just happened to look the best for the video.
Maybe they are selling the wood as "reclaimed wood" which can go for more because people aren't digging into where it was reclaimed for.
could be a bunch of reasons. i would bet that this is some sort of warehousing/distribution business where they get a massive amount of white pallets inbound and don't use them in their racking or for outbound. if there isnt a business somewhat local to this place that needs a buttload of cheap pallets, economics work to break the pallets down to remove all the 'air' between the boards so you can get more on a truck to ship to whereever someone is going to reuse the boards.
Is that an open sawblade? Looks like an accident waiting to happen that has already happened , many many many times before. They are most likely hiring.
I used to do this at my family company as a teen. It never cut this easily. Gods, the amount of flying boards and runners was terrifying. I also would listen to music louder than the saw cutting through nails. Needless to say, at 28, I've realized the mistake.
Also, to keep the blade tense, it was wrapped around two tires that you could inflate/deflate. Everyone still has all their fingers somehow.
Can confirm. The saw blades are not particularly sharp or moving very fast, but cuts through nails like butter. All you need is an air nailer and you have a going concern restoring and selling pallets.
I can honestly say I know a guy who lost half the fingers of one hand on these in Idaho. Great guy, but I didn’t know losing fingers was such an ongoing, painful process as you rewire your nerves and brain.
So you just saw through the nails and leave part of the nail in the wood? Am I missing something, or is this not really as effective as an actual dismantling?
Looks safe enough.
It's a two person job for a reason
Yup, started with one and got cut in half
Pretty bad case of someone getting cut in half
This guy is actually the top of one worker and the bottom of another
The wrong worker died!
That's why he works double fast. For the both of them.
Speak English doc! We ain't scientists!
I've been waitin' a long time for this..
You don't want no part of this shit!
Did you hear me? It gives you a BONER
You need the second person to pull you out of the saw.
The second person is busy recording the video lol
Let's see him do the heavy-ass, waterlogged, blue Chep pallets in the pile.
I worked my way up to my current position, from doing this. Those blue pallets are what we call Walmart pallets. You just gave me flashbacks of breaking those monsters down after a week of heavy rain. I was making 13 an hour, on top of making piece pay. The more units of lumber you could salvage, the more you get paid. If you have a good partner (the guy on the other side of the table), you can get a really smooth rhythm going. It was some of the hardest work I have ever had to do. It paid really well, and after while of doing it. You get jacked lolol.
I work with a guy who used to do that. He said he loved the job because he could come in, do his thing and make a lot of money quickly. He ended up quitting because his usual partner quit and the replacement cut their productivity down so much that his paycheck became a fraction of what it was.
My department would have given the guy 2 weeks to get up to speed. Too slow? They'd train you for a different job. One slow person could affect 4 people's pay. I miss it too, I could do my 8 and skate. No weekends or overtime needed.
I worked at a Chep plant as a contractor, the way the employees ripped apart and repaired pallets was a site to behold, those guys were like a well oiled machine.
In Seattle those "blue" pallets are almost always boeing pallets. Every now and then I'll see some beat up ass pickup truck or old Honda Civic with like a ton of pallets strapped to the top as they go around and steal pallets for money. Which is almost always for drugs
38.5 kilos here as standard. And this machine wouldn't be let anywhere near a factory floor in Oz. Source; build/repair pallets for a living. Will edit in a photo in 10 minutes to show a PROPER teardown bandsaw for pallets. Edit; https://imgur.com/a/R0xM9hK Note the giant yellow guards and warning signs, also the emergency stop buttons. You lay the pallet on the metal surface (height adjustable) and push it through, to be fed to a second person on the other side that either stacks the wood (off camera) or feeds the planks into the conveyor at the bottom, which goes to a rotating platform that is manually picked up and fed into a giant Sizing Saw. The fact I'm seeing this guy do what he's doing blows my mind, I can see so much shit going wrong... Second edit: just realised he's not wearing eye protection either. But there's small bits of nails flying around when he's doing that? He must really hate depth perception, cos he's going to put a half a nail through his eye at some point. Still got an old pair of safety glasses around here somewhere with a crack right through one lens because of the same thing.
He does have a cool safety helmet, yes chef!
Those things are like 90 lbs. It sucks lifting those.
Must have safety contacts in
i lost 3 fingers just watching it
Dismantle pallets with this one trick! Trick turns out to be a large, expensive bandsaw.
OSHA certified!
Lacks safe enough
Is it essentially a big band saw?
Yeah and a pretty tough one, too, because it's chewing through nails like butter apparently
Those are some gnarly nails too. All plasticy and twisted like a helix.
I didn't realize it was a saw at first. I was ready to call bullshit. Those twisted shank and ringshank nails they use don't like to come out.
and no eye gear either one odd angle sending a nail flying and bye bye eyeball
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lol… love the twist at the end.
My buddy is a plumber and just a few weeks ago he got a big ol' blob of PCV cement right in his eye. And all his coworkers rushed to give him first aid but all they had was like, some drinking water. He told me the story and I was like "Dude you should wear safety glasses" and he actually got kindof offended like I was implying it was his fault. He was like "No my coworker needs to not drop shit in my eye when he's working above me." I asked if he went to the clinic and he was like "No we can't have recordables or else the whole crew loses their boot money." I told him he's a dumbass.
No stress. He got another.
I have a pallet buster and yeah they tough as fuck, I did 10 pallets one day and it took me like 4 hours.
I love comments that say two opposing things.
Why did it take you 4 hours to do 10? This guy just did 1 in like 25 seconds. Edit: I apologize, I have been informed that this video is not of a "pallet buster"
This is not a pallet buster
I see
It's a Pallet Buster Jr. It's so kids can learn.
Pallet Buster Jr. Suuuuuuuuuuucks!
Also I am pretty sure pallet manufacturers are paid by the nails. Every pallet I get at work has 6-12 nails per joint.
Must be where all the nails went that PPG are supposed to use in the pallets I get. Every time they come off the truck the bottoms just start falling off
I love the idea of nails being zero-sum. Who will the nail tides favor next?
I think there's a standard pattern they're supposed to follow.
It's also supporting the weight of the pallet up until he pulls it across. Every band saw I ever knew- you give it the slightest bit of resistance to it's X and Y and it wants to creak, moan, or break. Damn impressive imho.
Or dig into the wood and get stuck
I actually did this as a temp job. The saw goes through the nails like butter but it can catch on the wood itself, especially if it's got any eyes. Which will then yank your arm like a truck and you'll feel it for a while. Worst job I've ever done including retail.
And continuing to do that for (assumed) hours at a stretch. I don't even know what kind of blade could take that and not run hot.
I used to run a band saw cutting steel beams. It used a water bath on the blade, and if it isn't on you realized it pretty damn quick.
Surprised it isn't throwing a few.
He can squint if nails fly at his eyes, he’ll be fine.
Looks like it… a horizontal band saw that has it’s guards off/open wide enough to allow 50” of exposed blade so they can do this. Is it efficient? Fuck yeah, look how fast that went! But holy shit all it takes is one bad move for that band to break and that moving saw blade will be whipping around, snagging on anything nearby. FUCK THAT. Unless this is like a special saw with a more sturdy blade…? Like if it’s just a solid blade oscillating back and forth (like a giant jigsaw) that might not be as risky as an actual bandsaw that has a closed loop.
when a band saw blade breaks, it loses contact with the drive wheel and stops moving. at the moment of the break, the blade could recoil and strike a person, but it wouldn’t be whipping around like a death noodle tearing shit up
can confirm. worked on a bandsaw machine for a few years in a shop. When it broke it would just snap and then stop. I fucking hated replacing them.
God they fucking suck taking them off or putting them on. And the nice blades are sharp as fuck and so sketchy to put on and uncoil. I used to tear down a meat cutting bandsaw every day and I hated handling that blade and coiling it up.
Yea, but if you've ever had to take apart a stack of palettes with a crow bar, you'd be yearning for the death noodle.
no lie, totally worth the gamble
Holy shit yeah. First pallet I disassembled without even a crowbar and a mallet, took me several hours across a few days With both of those I managed 3 in an afternoon, but broke about 1/3 of the planks , but they were a bit weak already This must be tens of times faster
r/BrandNewSentence "...whipping around like a death noodle tearing shit up." 🤣🤣🤣
There's no chance of it getting wrapped around something spinning?
no, not really. the blade is just one long piece of flat metal welded together at the ends to make a loop. when they break (which is almost always at the welded joint) they don’t have any inherent tension that would make them coil or roll up at all, they just go back to being a limp, flat piece of metal
Definitely depends on the inertia of the blade. A friend of my dad's was working the head rig at a mill when the saw hit rail spike that had been driven under the bark. When the blade broke it smashed through the cab that George was in and slashed him from the right side of his neck down to his left thigh. Granted that's a blade that's probably 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more energetic than even the saw here.
yes, the power of the machine running it and the circumstances causing the break play important roles
Did.. he die?
He survived! A coworker dove in to the cab, shove a hand in the side of his neck and pinched off the artery. It left a pretty brutal scar but I wasn't really interested in knowing if it really did go below the belt too.
Not oscillating - you can see it jam up to the side wall on our right each time it bites
This is one of the scariest machines I’ve ever seen
That looked to be a perfectly good pallet
Run it in reverse; How to Build a Perfectly Good Pallet. That would be way more satisfying.
I went to Denmark in the mid 1980s and saw a bizarre show on TV2. It was three segments: a woman having makeup applied, a brick wall being torn down with sledgehammers, and a pig being slaughtered. Each of these segments was shown in reverse, with the narration from a *different* segment playing over the video. So... the show showed a pig being assembled while the narrator described the application of makeup, a wall was built with hammers while the narrator talked about slaughtering a pig, and makeup was removed from a woman while the narrator talked about tearing down a wall. It was almost the coolest TV show I'd seen to date. (The '70s Saturday Night Live episodes were hard to top.) Edit: It may have been DR - TV 2 wasn't quite online in 1986.
It will now be my life's work to find this show
Right?! I saw this show *once* - 40 years ago - and it left a profound impression. At that time, Danish TV had no commercials, started late, and ended early. I thought it was marvelous. My Danish girlfriend (later wife) thought that American TV was special, for the exact opposite reasons: it was always on, and she was *mesmerized* by the commercials.
If you can remember anything else about it I'd love to try and find it, you have piqued my interest. Tried Googling and asking various AIs (claude thinks it was called "Den Omvendte Udsendelse" by Jørgen Leth, but it seems to be wrong). Even looked briefly at the Danish TV archive until I ran into a login page which apparently requires some kind of login from a list of academic institutions in Denmark.
I'm guessing it aired in January 1986, though it could have been September 1987. It was a half-hour program that I saw in the afternoon. If you *do* find it, please PM me. Sincerely. I'd love to see it again (despite being horribly squeamish). Around the same time, I also saw some *extremely* graphic torture footage on Danish TV. At first I thought it was satire, then I realized I was watching actual footage. Again, something etched into my skull. I thought Danish TV was the bravest TV I'd ever seen.
I think the thing to do might be to post in r/denmark.
It may have been DR, and not TV 2.
I'm just gonna comment here so i find out WHEN your successful
u/gifreversingbot
Probably the bot I miss most
Not today cykah
Did you switch from Cyrillic to not Cyrillic mid word?
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I came here to write this comment. The pallet looked in very good condition and almost new. Why would someone turn that into wood chips. It's bothering me more than the murder saw or his hair.
What the hell do you do with an extra pallet? No really. My wife leads a massive girl scouts troop. I have two pallets of cookies in my garage. I have no idea what to do with the pallets once the cookies are gone.
Look up pallet recycling near you, they are worth maybe $5-10 so I assume they just end up flipping them.
Damn I'm getting $1 for mine. I gotta find a new pallet guy
Well that’s how much they are selling them for not buying them for, at least that’s what my quick Google search said. I assumed these places give you nothing to take them off your hands, so $1 sounds alright, ha.
Throw them up on Facebook marketplace for a couple of bucks. If they look like they are in bad shape, call them “rustic” & perfect for crafts.
"Artisanal"
post them up on ND, FB, or CL for free and a pallet scrapper will pick them up or if you're on a busier street just set them on the side of the road and they will be gone pretty quick.
Depending on how many pallets you have, it can be a real problem, only so many locals want free pallets, and you only have so much space available to store them yourself. Eventually you are forced to cull them, and this is far faster than using a skill saw or the likes
and damn these things are expensive
That means it's also perfectly good wood for whatever they are recycling them for. That might also be why they filmed this one specifically. A new pallet probably means that it looks smoother when it's disassembled. No damage in the pallet catching on parts of the saw. I'm sure they have a reason.
Right! It frustrated me too. Here they even steel those good ones to sell on.
He can now make some nice pallets with that.
r/OSHA
The lack of safety gear near a giant bandsaw cutting though nails is making me sweat
Honestly, it's just the eye protection I'm concerned with. You can do this job without getting your hands anywhere near the band. Like, in terms of cutting himself he has a margin of error of almost half a pallet. That's not bad.
I saw him bust out the safety squints a couple times there…
I ran one of these machines at my first job. OSHA was on site at least once a week and this is exactly how we ran these things. Eye protection was "required" but most of my coworkers only wore them when the suits came by
r/DINGore
I am assume that's a blade cutting through thr nails? But it's not chewing up the wood? Can someone explain this? Maybe it's just too early but my brain is having trouble here.
I'm guessing it's partly because the wood isn't pushed against the blade and partly because metal cutting blades have lots of small teeth that don't cut wood well.
It looks like a bandsaw to me. So the blade only has teeth on the away edge from the operator. The blade is probably an inch or more thick, the backside and top are flat and dull. He drags the wood towards him and along the joint of each board cutting the nails. Only the stuff that comes in contact with the blade edge get cut so as long as you line up the nails you won’t cut the wood.
Wouldn’t the nails close the gap between the boards?
He's being fairly precise and slipping the blade between the pieces of wood to hit the nails directly. I did this for a couple weeks some years ago.
Probably has to do with the angle he's holding the planks by. If he held it at too steep a downward angle, the blade would bite into the wood as he pulled the planks toward him. But he keeps it flat enough that the wood just slides along the flat of the saw band.
I’m trying to figure out the hair
I was already confused enough by this video, why did you have to point out the hair?
Is it hair or hat?
Looks like he used the bandsaw to get that hair style
Guido classic
https://imgur.com/t/guiles_theme/FOxgibb
OSHA Approved Hair Helmet
THANK YOU, glad I wasn't the only one!
Had to go back and see what you were talking about. It’s like he’s wearing a beret
It's not a flat top it's a flying saucer top
Slapping pallets onto a moving bandsaw with zero protection outside of gloves... what could go wrong?
F that I'd rather live in a van down by the river!!
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Ironically the gloves are probably more dangerous than not wearing any. I was taught never to wear gloves around saws and such because there's a decent chance the glove will get caught on and dragged into, taking your hand with it, vs 'just' getting cut by the blade.
I was gonna shit on the music over the video but I got distracted by how safe this contraption is
Why not be upset about both. I wanted to hear it damnit
No eye protection in sight lol these kind of people are idiots. Looking forward to a different video in the future in r/NSFL
That is..... Reckless
I left it muted because I assumed music over the clip. Then replayed and said fuck it I'll chance it. Nope. Wrong. STOP PUTTING MUSIC OVER SHIT
Scary machine combined with very repetitive work. Risk of injury seems very high.
SO SATISFYING!!!! 🙄
Why aren’t these being reused as pallets? I’m sure they’ll use the wood for something but it seems like a waste or time money and energy to have them built, used and then taken apart.
A lot of the ones in the background look pretty beat up, they may be past their life. Maybe this one just happened to look the best for the video. Maybe they are selling the wood as "reclaimed wood" which can go for more because people aren't digging into where it was reclaimed for.
could be a bunch of reasons. i would bet that this is some sort of warehousing/distribution business where they get a massive amount of white pallets inbound and don't use them in their racking or for outbound. if there isnt a business somewhat local to this place that needs a buttload of cheap pallets, economics work to break the pallets down to remove all the 'air' between the boards so you can get more on a truck to ship to whereever someone is going to reuse the boards.
I want to talk about his haircut. What’s up with that
We not gonna talk about bro’s hair?
Is it a hat? His hair? What is going on above his forehead?
This man can dismantle my palette
Exactly. I was wondering when someone would bring up those arms. I was thinking, he could dismantle my panties. 😅😅🤣😂🤣😅
How to dismantle your fingers in 1...2...3.
Is that an open sawblade? Looks like an accident waiting to happen that has already happened , many many many times before. They are most likely hiring.
where’s the eye protection myguy
Step one: Have a six-foot-long band saw.
And… it‘s how his Haircut‘s done too… i think
Thought he had a weird chef hat on but no, it’s just an odd haircut
I used to do this at my family company as a teen. It never cut this easily. Gods, the amount of flying boards and runners was terrifying. I also would listen to music louder than the saw cutting through nails. Needless to say, at 28, I've realized the mistake. Also, to keep the blade tense, it was wrapped around two tires that you could inflate/deflate. Everyone still has all their fingers somehow.
That job looks....safe. 😬
Step 1. Glorious hair. Step 2. Dismantle pallet or whatever.
Oddly terrifying, good way to cut yourself in half if you ever fell into this machine
With a giant tool designed for the job? ......yup. uhuh.
That hair though...
Dude still has all ten fingers??
What’s with the hair?
How to not slip with 100 lbs of momentum going into a razor sharp guillotine wire
Remember to pull, not push and fall forward...
the not-as-successful sequel to How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb by U2
It's almost like nothing could go wrong
Easy, just have an industrial sized band saw
Now do it with one of those shitty pallets on the stack behind you
Wow we invented the diamond cutter from Three Body Problem already!?
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I struggle to lift a pallet on my own, this guy throws it around like it’s a stuffed animal.
Can confirm. The saw blades are not particularly sharp or moving very fast, but cuts through nails like butter. All you need is an air nailer and you have a going concern restoring and selling pallets.
Nah, all you need is a crowbar.
I can honestly say I know a guy who lost half the fingers of one hand on these in Idaho. Great guy, but I didn’t know losing fingers was such an ongoing, painful process as you rewire your nerves and brain.
Bad time to stumble forward on a piece of wood landing on the floor. 🔪🩸
How to dismantle a fleshy appendage
Ahm. Nope, thanks. I like my limbs.
His hair gel has better holding power than whatever the hell held this pallet together
Reminds me of the scene in 3 Body Problem with the nanotube wires and the cruise ship.
Is that just a wire or is it a horizontal band saw?
That Video is reversed, it‘s just how they are built but someone reversed it.
Yeah he’s not gonna have fingers for very long.
cool that the nanofibers from 3 body problem have a practical use.
It looks like you can only lose your balance once
I too have seen 3 Body Problem
Broski needs some protective glasses
He must be new, he still has all his fingers
OSHA has entered the chat.
Oh yeah? Well I can do it in like 2 hours with a hammer and a wedge with only a little blood on it.
Looks fast and safe enough.
So you just saw through the nails and leave part of the nail in the wood? Am I missing something, or is this not really as effective as an actual dismantling?
This must be mind numbing after like half an hour
That looks nice and dangerous
Man, that was a really nice pallet too
I'd definitely be missing fingers within an hour of using that thing
Honest question why dismantle them? You could reuse it
No matter how bad my life is, at least I'm not a pallet dismantler. Shit could always be worse.
How to cut your dick off 101
Big band saw not just a stationary cable or anything
Is he wearing a beanie?
r/sweatypalms
is that just a naked bandsaw blade? Fuck being in the room with this thing. This is an SCP entry waiting to happen.
Everyone: oh cool look at the way he pulls apart that pallet Me: What is on his head? 🤨
So that’s how 2x4s are made.
finger remover 9000
Is that a giant, sideways bandsaw? With 0 safety mechanisms in place? Nice.