Wood pallet is the material which is widely used in transportation or shipping industry. It is the main tool for moving and storing things in stock. However, those pallets are often discarded by retailers who receive them because there are too many of them. Moreover, those discarded pallets are sometimes salvaged as a reclaimed wood’s source. To decrease a big number of discarded wood pallets from landfills, wood pallets should be taken for recycling. As these pallets are made from woods, it can be recycled by making furniture, crafts or anything useful for your home. As followings, there are the instructions on how to dismantle wood pallets as it is the very first thing to do for start recycling wood pallets.
1. For safety, you need to put on protective clothing such as leather work shoes, work gloves and goggles or shielded safety glasses.
2. Put pallets upside down on the surface. At one corner, you got to put a hammer’s claws between bottom slat and a wood beam. Next, keep on repeating strike on claw hammer’s head with sledgehammer until the slat comes out of that corner.
3. After the slat came out of the corner, the hammer claws need to be placed between the slat and center beam and striking the hammer head with the sledge hammer until the slat is pulled away from the center beam. Next, the hammer claws must be putting under the slat at the other side of beam and keep on repeating the process until the pallets are off the slat and continue doing the same process with other two bottom slats.
4. From the top slats, the beams need to be removed by putting a steel slat flat against the beam. Next, you need to stand on one other beam with the weight from your feet and striking the slat with a sledge hammer until it is pulled away from the top slats enough to tilt slightly.
5. Now the steel slat needs to move into the beam center and striking by sledge hammer to loosen the center. Next, moving the steel slat to the other ending beam and striking until the beam is getting loose. After that, the steel slat must be laying against the attached beam in any spots. Let’s start striking until the beam off completely and removing the other two beams.
6. For the last instruction, all the nails must be removed from slat. You can remove those nails by leaning them against the beam which has pointing up nail and striking the points of the nails repeatedly with a claw hammer so that it can drive them out backwards and using pliers to make the nails straighten.
