Guy making pallets on the other end of the conveyor: "Hey, I just got through making those pallets. What the F."

Engineer#1: What do you do for a living? Engineer#2: I build machines that dismantle pallets. What do you do? Engineer#1: I build machines that make pallets.

The pallets they are destroying look better than the ones I'm using right now.

The weirdest thing is the disconnect between companies that need pallets and the companies trying to get rid of pallets. They need to close the loop and fully recycle them.

I'm getting PTSD flashbacks from my 10 years experience working in a warehouse. All day long was a desperate struggle to find even a single good pallet without a whole corner missing. Now, here's a dedicated robotic machine that cuts up perfectly usable pallets because they aren't "good enough".

I think I’ll rush out and buy one today!

I ran a construction company in Upper Michigan for many years. Old pallet + skill saw = free home heat (just remember to empty the nails out of the ash-pan occasionally)

This thing looks like a quarter-million dollar solution to a ten-dollar-an-hour problem.

If anyone asks why I'm hammering broken drill bits and shards of files into pallets, I'll remind them this is a band saw blade factory.

When I was a kid we had a wood burning heater and a lot of out wood came from a pallet manufacturer. They would make new pallets and accept old broken pallets and they would reclaim much of the good boards. So my dad would load up his truck with all the broken boards that they gave away and we'd use it for heat. Later when I turned 15 I started working at that pallet manufacturer. I being 15 couldn't use the power saws but I could disassemble the broken pallets and reclaim the good boards. Using a hammer and a pry bar was fun for about 5 minutes. Then it just became work. I can tell ya, this is so so much quicker than doing it by hand.

KZfaqs algorithm knows me better than I do

Wow, it works with absolutely pristine, perfectly formed pallets. Robots always work well with perfectly specified objects. Unfortunately, the real world doesn't offer up many perfectly formed objects.

Quite an amazing machine indeed! Taking pallets apart by hand is a real chore.

You guys are great! The comments guys that is. Youve already covered everything i came here to say. The perfect even clean pallets theyre destroying, ole Bert just out of sight (they sent hime on break so you couldnt hear him nailing them together) building pallets...you covered it all! Loool

Motoman....cool! The first time I ever saw a robot it was 1984 in "The Terminator" and the robot was a "Motoman". It was one of the coolest things I ever remember seeing back then, a time when having a BOOM-BOX was a big deal. LOL!

Nice! This will pay for itself in 2000 years (If it lasts that long)

I like how it slightly angles the pallet to edge the saw along the pallet ribs.

Why dismantle the pallets I ask? They are perfectly good to be reused as pallets

Very nice robotics! Amazing how it tilts during cuts for optimum angle.

This is the best pallet dismantler I've ever seen.

Do they have a name for that machine ? ? Call it "The Mosquito"

I used to heat my house from pallet wood. Burned about 1200 - 1500 of them a year. A 12" electric chop saw with carbide demolition blade makes almost as easy of work out of breaking them down to a size a wood-fired boiler can handle with ease.

Quite the coffee table making operation they got going there

My first job as a kid was at my great uncle's job. It was an onion shed in Arvin, Ca (Maisie's). My 2nd cousin and myself had to breakdown pallets with a claw hammer and build new ones. Boy I wish I had this tech back then.

wow thats precision pallet disassembly.

Imagine being from the 15th century and seeing this. You would think it was some kind of supernatural alien being...... Imagine what the world will be like in 500 years from now.......

I’ll get one of those tomorrow, and step up my production line!!

Very cool. I wonder how often that blade breaks and whether there's a blade welder on the machine.

wow thats some serious engineering !

5-million dollar machine can do it in 30-seconds, but it takes 5 seconds to throw on my bonfire for free.

This reminds me of when I was working, designing 'one armed bandits.' People used to ask me how to cheat them. I'd say, 'Easy, just take a crowbar to the cash box!' This system of pallet dismantle is so effortless, simple, direct and elegant. .

How does it aim the saw to get right between the planks to cut the nails?

These pallets look perfectly fine. Why?

How often do they have to change the saw blade and how long does that take?

How does the robot hold the pallet - is it pneumatic system with vacuum or system with electromagnets, or any other?

Worked with these machines there crazy fast trying to keep up is challenging and trying to sort it even harder

There’s a story about Henry Ford requiring the deliveries to his factories to use hardwood pallets, which he then recycled to build more factory floor from it... - something like that.

The place I used to take old and damaged pallets to just threw them into the big chipper for biomass fuel.

how often does the band saw blade need to be sharped ?

How long does that giant circular blade last? What is the cost of the machine? What is the value of a pallet? Is it cheaper to just burn them? Or give them away?

There's sensor at each side of a blade detecting down force, as soon as its detected lateral movement starts maintaining the same level...clever.

Why dismantle the pallets on an industrial level? What do they use the wood for? Just curious.

THats amazing.. lord knows how easy it would be! I tried to dismantled a damaged pallet .. and its hard work which took me ages! hahah

Muy bueno, la cierra puede tener filo de ambos lados, cortado mas rápido y simplemente con un giro

Yeah. Great. But what happens to all the cut nails in the salvaged pieces of wood?

Yea I guess this would be worth having now with prices of lumber where they are.

Its 2021 did it get up and running did you get the patents for it all ??

so what happens to the metal riddled pieces of wood?

Blade is most impressive. Every little spark is a nail being cut.

Great machine, but what use are the boards with all that metal work left in there?

And what's typically done with the wood?

Thanks for the video, that's a neat operation.

Seems like an awfully expensive machine when the other option is to pay low wages and wear a few humans out in the process 😂

Hey, I use to make money on extra pallets left in my trailer when I was driving over the road. In fact I would get $7.00 bucks per pallet which can add up especially when you have as much as 20 pallets leftover.

so... what are they going to do with the reclaimed wood from those pallets? Make pallets?

Now I know my and computer are listening to me. All I did was call ONCE to a guy I work with and ask him if we had any pallets I could use for firewood stacking. Then this shows up on my feed. Nice.

I have a robot that does much better, including removing nails, nobody wants wood with nails! He calls himself my son.

I really must get a life lol Watching this after it took me two hours at the weekend to do one by hand!

Can this used to dismantle a broken CHEP US pallet ?

Thank you, KZfaq Recommendations Roulette. I always wanted my own pallet disassembler.

I'm curious how this would do on pallets with lots of plugs/zipper type pallets, also would it be able to teardown block pallets?

Meanwhile I spent like a whole day breaking down a few palettes and cutting them into firewood

So precise. But the pallets already seemed in good condition?

Question: Is there a patten pending on this?

I just used a sawzall a couple week or so ago to do the same thing. But it didnt take 30 seconds. More like 30 minutes at first.

I think I've seen everything now. Lol

I'm curious as to how the machine grabs the wooden pallet and picks is up. I would guess that the underside of the pick-up plate has screws sticking out of it that are rotated and screwed into the wood to grab it. Then once the pallet is disassembled the screws are unscrewed by rotating them in the opposite direction to drop the remaining pieces of wood that made up the top of the pallet.

You know humanity is going extinct when we already have pallet dismantling robots.

I have to get one of these machines. How long do the band blades last? If they snap do they fly across the workplace giving out free haircuts?

I hate and despise this machine.. The hours I've spent splitting (and wasting) pallet planks, wrenching ribbed nails out to get some timber......

I wonder if they are using the wood to make new pallets or selling it for projects or fuel

Ok but how does it grip to the pallet in the first place

Those pallets looked new, why not just reuse them as is

This is why we are always out of pallets at work!

What about the metal that is still in the wood?

Actually quite mesmerising!

I love it! Although it could be build better & faster & cheaper by removing the arm and just having the pallet travel through a blade (or perhaps two blades) that moves through two different set levels.

That's a weird looking fire.

What happens to the unusable wood?

My favorite video of the year...

and the factory next door makes new ones.

A $300,000 robot machine to recycle pallets?? And then the timber still has the cut nails inside. No thanks, you can find FREE pallets everywhere! :)))))

Those pallets looks great compared some of the old dogs you see in the UK 👍

how does it know where to cut

I would love to see a close up of the blade, trying to imagine what kind of teeth it has

those pallets being destroyed are ones with "closed bottoms" ie left to right slatts on the bottom, as a warehouse worker i can tell you WE HATE THOSE

Picked up one of these at Goodwill the other day.

How do it know?

i tried dismantling these in the back of our shop with a circular saw - damn near fell forward when the saw blade got pinched - jesus murphy.....ain't doing that again!

In my glory days I could dismantle pallets 20x faster than this by myself easily.

How Much for of of those models in the Video? In the US. Please reach out to me.

Now THIS is some great ASMR- Watch with no sound 👌

Do they also make robot dismantling robots?

The most amazing display of man's hubris.

To anyone wondering why they're using perfectly good pallets: it's probably because they're testing the machine.

What happens to the timber?

This was very satisfying

How it is grabbing on to those pallets?

how much does it cost?

it's lowering in Z right at the end of the first pass. Why not stay in plane? is it compensating for blade flex?