hello looking for free wood please

[Stere]

I used to remove all the nails before  any cutting.

 

Also have a pallet buster  bar.

 

Best pallets were the two way USA ones with "stringers" rather than blocks and  they also had very wide & thick planks  - they all seemed to  be  made of oak.

 

 

Loads better than the more common random light weight ones .

 

Haven't done any for yrs as my source the good ones  dried up and the  crappy ones didn't seem worth the hassle.

[Steven P]

I was tempted by the pallet buster, are they worth it - look like they could do the job but a lot of tools are like that till you try them

[Stere]

Definetly worth it .

[GarethM]

When I did a lot of pallet burning the best thing was to buy a decent Hitachi reciprocating saw with 100mm blades as your only cutting one side at a time.

 

Stack them up and using the end of the saw cut the rails apart, flip over and repeat.

If you're doing it right a whole pallet took less than two minutes including flipping over and cutting away the blocks.

 

I burned that many I even bought a carpentry vacuum to make sawdust collecting easy.

[Johnsond]

You can have this crap and the 6 inch nail for free if you come and sort the 36” freshly sharpened chain I’ve just mangled on it 😡