This is by far the most simplistically helpful KZfaq video I’ve watched.

I had never thought of bracing underneath the top plank and hammering it out, but that's such an immaculate method. I've been using a wood chisel as a wedge between the side and the plank and prying, but this would save my edges as well as saving most of the nails for reuse. Also, your tutorial is better than 99% of tutorials on youtube, regardless of topic. Thank you.

Huh... I think that is best tutorial of how to take pallet apart I've seen!

What a very clever method to remove the boards! I remember struggling with this years ago, trying to pull the nails out!!

pardon me gentleman, allow me to speak to you, the good man with a pallet.. i dont know why a lovely music call four seasons keep play in my humble head while i see such a wonderful techniques to dismantle a pallet wood.

He got me at when he said I show you through the season what you can do in the garden using pallets.

This is by far the easiest looking without a bunch of tools that I don't have. Thank you

Based white man gives sage advice. Just took apart my first pallet after watching

Wonderful thank you.. I will be using your way. From South Carolina

OMG that's the most smart way to do that! So glad find this vedio.

Game changer!

Oh man I needed this video 5 pallets ago. This is great tnk you!!!

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing this technique

Just so simple. Excellent.

Can't wait to try this method out! So many have shown techniques with tools I don't own, or can't use, but this is something I can do!! Thank you!

Found your channel through Huw Richards and subscribed. Thanks for sharing, I appreciate your knowledge!

My god this looks so easy had an old gent tell ne to use a chisel and mallet. I'm 5ft and couldn't get a decent swing on the mallet to hit the chisle, few bust up fingers later I gave it up as a bad job but this I am definitely going to try thank u for the video 👍

Excellent and no expensive tools well done

Brilliant thanks Steve! Was wondering how I’d get hold of a crowbar in the current situation but...no need! Many thanks 👍

Crikey, so logical and obvious, fantastic!

great idea ! for preserving the planks and not damaging them with the hammer

Love it! I think I will give it a go again. I tried taking apart pallets before, lots of frustration! But this looks easy!

Seriously... you are awesome sir. I appreciate this video!

Nice! I’ll try this when a pallet comes my way.

Absolutely brilliant! Kudos to you for providing a great solution for us

Excellent, thanks for sharing

I will try this today! Great video...thanks!

Oh thank you! I’ve messed up with this so many times and your method is wonderful- changed my garden life! Thank you !!

Brilliant! Such a helpful video for those of us who want to recycle! Thank you. 😊

Genius! Thanks Steve. X

Very clever! Thanks for sharing. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

This is much less noisy than my circular saw method. I'm going to try your way next time I get more pallets. Thank you for sharing this idea.

Brilliant! So simple. Thank you!

Thanks! Watching and learning from Umbria, Italy! We will attempt the cold frames now!

I've never taken a pallet apart that way but have been bending nails for over 50 years. I have found that it is always easier to de-nail a board when the nails are straight rather than bent. Seems to me it would be better to remove all the boards with the blocks rather than bending the nails. Have a big stack of pallets, guess I'll find out soon enough. Can't kneel on the ground so will set up a saw horse table. 40" high horses with 5 or 6 - 8' 2x4s and 2x6s and a 4x8 sheet of scrap plywood. A higher table eliminates the stoop and saves your back. A block for each runner of the pallet seems like it would speed up production also. Great idea, thanks for the video. Will definitely give this a try.

You just saved me a ton of work !!! Wish I had thought of that before ???👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thanks for the video, was really helpful! Managed to make my first planter box based on the cold frame design :)

Best video on this yet! Well done

So clever! Thank you very much.

Thanks for this video.I can't wait to try this with my free pallettes.

Thanks for sharing. I'll try this method :)

Brilliant!

very cool, thanks!

very clever, thanks for posting this

nice tip, gonna have to get me some pallets now!

thank you, thank you, thank you. I have a bunch of pallets but wasn't sure how to take them apart as I neither had, nor could I find, a crowbar. Every video showed expensive equipments which I cannot afford, so this is amazing. I'll be spending this weekend taking my pallets apart :-)

I've seen this method a few times. I've tried it more times than I've seen it. What you folks use looks like soft green pine pallets, which I have never seen. Except in these videos. Every pallet I've ever seen and tried is mostly hardwood. I have never, ever, had any luck doing that. I'm glad it works for you. If I ever see pallets like the ones you seem to be getting, I'll give it another go.

I took a pallet apart about an hour ago and I wish I'd known your method - I reverted to sawing off the nailed parts as I've seen many woodworking KZfaqrs do, I didn't realise how easy it could've been to keep all the boards intact!Thanks for sharing.

brilliant method and good channel loving all the diy stuff

I'm yet to try this but I think this is really going to help me!

I’m over from Huw Richards’ channel. I’ve subscribed and look forward to watching your content!

AMAZING!

Wow! Genius! I have never been able to get them apart! Their everywhere and free but unless I could take them apart I ran out of things I could do with them!

Finally, I found the solution to my pallet problem. I have to try this

Smarter, not harder, well done 👏

Amazing I was about to give up. Thank you!!

Blimey, that's totally ingenious. I had to sub as fast as I could after watching this. 😀 Thank you so much for sharing your awesome knowledge with us, looking forward to watching more of your vids. All the very best. Take care, Steve. 👍👍

Oh from Nova Scotia! Well that is worth a sub. From Ontario!

Oh wow!

Thank you so much. 🤗 I have been doing it the hard way.🥴

Brilliant

You just save my life man lol. I'm currently in the process of preparing the pallets to build a wall in my house and I've tried numerous ways one included my noisy circular saw. This is genius! Thanks for sharing!

Super way don’t need to buy expensive tools! 🛠 👍👏 Follow you now :)

Mashaallah!Genius method looks like no struggle at all very convenient...keep up the good works!

I’m so happy I found this channel before beginning my first pallet project! You explain and demonstrate everything so well. This should keep me busy during my states quarantine!

Thank you sir!

Those are seriously clean, photogenic pallets. Ive never seen any that look like that. Ours are almost all painted by one of the 'return to' pallet company

Hi. Have come from Huw Richards channel. This is a very informative video. I'm going to try this as soon as the weather gets a bit better. No way am I going out in the snow like you. Cheers fro Ireland

Amazzzzzzzing thank yoooou

I thought I knew every method of taking apart a pallet but that's a new one on me. Thanks, I will give it a go on the seriously stubborn and well made Scottish pallets that seem to be stronger than the stone walls of my house.

Thank you!!!

Brilliant! Where were you last weekend when I was sweating up a storm while prying apart multiple pallets, one of which was a very long one, in the blazing hot Florida sun? 😁 Back breaking. I kept thinking that there had to be a better way, while concurrently admiring those unyielding pallet nails with a twist. I’m looking forward to trying this method. Thank you very much.

Looking with interest on how to take pallets apart cheers Ray 🌶🥕🌽

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

Another excellent video of yours! I've got some pallets piled up, originally meant for something else, but I'm sure gonna make some of your planters and this sure looks like a neat way of taking them apart. Thanks again for sharing great tips and knowhow Steve! 👍

Thank you

Nice! How simple is that. 👍😎

Well done, I just came over from Huw Richards channel, I will definetely try your method, I have some some pallets lying around the house. I have mostly used a hammer and a crow-bar but the wood often cracks while doing it.

Excellent, just found you via Huw Richards' FB page. I just took one pallet apart, hard going with up to five nails in each place. Took a while ad a few damaged bits. Using your method tomorrow should be a lot easier, for the remaining half a dozen.

Awesome little trick new sub for sure, home here in B.C.

So simple! I was prying mine apart but not anymore. Thanks!

I wish I had seen this a few months ago. I just finished building a 14 x 6 foot garden tool shed using pallets and skids.

Now how to de-nail them, a quicker and easier way of that would be just lovely.

So clever 🙌 lovely to follow you found you on Hews channel 💚 Geri

Thank you Lord bless 🏹🤠👍.

Hi. I saw your pallet seed trays on Huw Richards channel, so I am here for a little bit of support. Looks like you have a number of very interesting videos! Thanks! I'm across the continent, on the American side of the BC/WA border, but within sight of Victoria, BC. Pallets are not that cheap here for some unknown reason, and the good ones, the heat treated ones, are very rare.

I’m old I need to work off the table I can’t be kneeling in gravel but all these block of wood solutions for breaking up pallets seem to be working pretty reasonable but I’ve noticed that most of the guys doing this are using pine pallets and stuff I work with is a bit more substantial

Just subbed you due to Huw Richards Channel. I have access to pallets but not have a special tool so I am going to try your way. Eveline In Scotland

I'm watching your videos closely.I have started making trellises from recycled wood and now with your videos am gonna start making cold frames etc. Have sold over 50 trelisses and mow want to sell thses.I w ant be be self employed and haven't ever done any carpentry so wish me luck and thank you for your help

Method for pallets planked both sides. Situate on hard ground, pass support beam through the cavity and raise on upended equal legnth bricks inserted between bottom planks. Hammer in between the planks Hammer energy is maximised on hard ground and solid brick.

I use a reciprocating saw Can somerimes break oallets down in two minutes Nail heads left give a beautiful rustic effect.

I made a patio deck out of pallets. Worked out well but only lasted about four years even with urethane coating each year. The Chinese wood that pallets are made from is about as low grade you could use.

Put a length through the gap, under one slat, push down on the opposite end and the slat pops up

Love it! I just took a pallet apart with a crowbar. I like your technique better.

This method is a bit slow but is a good way to do it if you don't have some machine. It doesn't take much effort either. Thanks Steve.

I’m so mad. Lol I just spent an hour doing one the hard way. This was so much easier

I just spent ages with a crowbar and gave up. I wish I'd looked at this first!

Great method. I tried this with pallets I got for free in Dartmouth here. Only my hammer bounced right back! Wouldn’t budge. Do you think some are tougher than others? All the way from Fall River!

Great video - the only problem I've got with the pallets I get from work is they have supports along the bottom as well so there's no chance you can get a block of wood under like you have.

i am doing it