If you are experiencing a problem with your product, contact our Technical Support team via email, Live Chat or Hotline. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the standard limited warranty will not apply in respect of any product alterations or misuse by the buyer. You may be able to find specific warranty information in the product description or on the vendor’s website. □īUT it does show the first mighty pallet breaker I made in action….Provided that the buyer has paid to Glass Commerce all amounts owed for the products, and payment is not contested by the buyer’s credit card issuer, products purchased via Glass Commerce are warranted to the buyer under the vendor or manufacturer’s standard limited warranty as applicable in effect for the specific product at the time of purchase. please excuse the ‘basic’ nature of the video, you won’t see me in it, as I have a face made for radio…. If you’re all out of ideas for making stuff out of old pallets, head on over to and check out their pallet crafts page. Let me know if you find pallet breakers anywhere else and I can add them to this list. Or, you can of course buy a pallet breaker off the shelf: Especially if you tell them what you’re doing, pallet dismantlers of the world unite and all that □ OR visit this instructable for a no-weld pallet breaker…ĭownload your FREE instructional PDF at the end of this sentence to make your very own pallet breaker! Most places will be able to build you a pallet breaker from their scrap bin and it’s not going to cost an arm and a leg. Now I know that many of you are not welders (neither am I, as you can see my welding is awful!) so I thought I’d put together a downloadable PDF that you can print out and take to your local machine shop to show them what you want. My first pallet breaker was suitable for pallets with 47mm (2″) bearers but then I got some pallets that had 100mm (4″) wide cross planks, so I made another one with a wider jaw. So have a go with the materials you have to hand (because they are free!) and see how you go, you can always tweak the design once you’ve field tested it. The length of the tines depends on your pallets but the ones above are 150mm (6”) long although for most pallets, 112mm (4 1/2”) or so is sufficient. Then the back plate sits on top of the pallet bearer and the top of the tines are snug under the planks. The easiest way to do this is to weld the tines underneath the back plate. It’s really important the tines or forks fully support the plank when you lever them off because it’s really easy to split or break the plank. Thin stuff will just tear out under load. You need thickish walls to take a really strong weld you see. If you’re going to buy some new steel, I’d go for mild steel 25mm (one inch) box section with minimum 3mm (1/8″) thick walls. The metal sizes are not set in stone either, so substitute them according to what you have to hand, just make sure they are sturdy enough to cope with some pretty hard levering (thick-walled stuff basically). The important one is the distance between the tines, so make sure you adjust that to suit the type of pallet you have (check the bearer size and the width of the planks). Rough measurements for this pallet breaker…ĭon’t worry too much about the measurements, as most of them are not too critical. This means it only cost me a few welding rods to make it, result! This is what I managed to make from my scrap metal corner…įree plan showing how to make a pallet breaker or buster, ( download the free PDF here), Use whatever metal you have to hand, the stiffer the better. Did I mention that it’s quicker and easier too?! Simple pallet breaker design (loosely speaking!)įortunately, I hoard bits of metal when I come across them and my old fireplace yielded some useful bits suitable for my pallet breaker. In fact you’ll be able to use over 90% of the wood using a pallet breaker, whereas using regular tools you’ll be lucky to save 60%. Then I discovered that using a pallet breaker doesn’t just make it easy to take pallets apart, it hugely increases the usable planks you save, because you’re much less likely to split or break planks. So after being inspired by an instructable (thanks Darren), I decided to make a proper pallet breaker tool of my very own to make ‘wrecking’ pallets a breeze. Even ‘single use’ pallets are tough to dismantle using normal tools (without breaking lots of planks!). The trailer above yielded 175m (575?) of timber!!
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