Nail removing gun - GIF

[Frank S]

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That's a real nail biter

[Toolmaker51]

Safe enough for me, long as operator stays awake. Foot-pedal and housing over linkage to jaws; without usual crop of OSHA encumbrances. Asian characters [lower left] made things clear, time invested time to build a machine recycling near useless lengths of pallet grade material. Probably nails too. Cannot visualize profitable use.
What a fabulous resume entry...Harvested mountains of scrap; yesterday, today, tomorrow, and day after that. Kept my fleshy bits out.

Finish library visit, all the while trying to imagine 'why'. Maybe, not knowing where all the pelletized fuel comes from, wagering that output is hammer milled or shredded. But they'd eat those nails, and filter over a Bunting/ Eriez grate or disc.

[Frank S]

Safe enough for me, long as operator stays awake. Foot-pedal and housing over linkage to jaws; without usual crop of OSHA encumbrances. Asian characters [lower left] made things clear, time invested time to build a machine recycling near useless lengths of pallet grade material. Probably nails too.
Harvest this mountain of scrap; yesterday, today, tomorrow, and day after that. Keep your fleshy bits out.

Agreed, the scraps of short lumber pieces are probably destend to be chipped and pressed into pellets or possibly chip boards or ground to become particle boards the low moisture content of used or aged lumber would mean the resins used in production processes would not have to compete with the higher moisture of raw lumber. These scraps could also be destined to be charred to become charcoal

[Toolmaker51]

Oh yeah, particle board [MDF]. World market can't get enough of that furniture!

[ranald]

not so long back we would have discarded that piece of wood , now we even recycle the used nails.

[PDXsparky]

not so long back we would have discarded that piece of wood , now we even recycle the used nails.

I wouldn't have discarded it because it can be fuel for a fire, but I probably wouldn't have saved it to use as construction material.

[ranald]

That's a real nail biter

Reminds me of a dentist I once went to.

[ranald]

I wouldn't have discarded it because it can be fuel for a fire, but I probably wouldn't have saved it to use as construction material.

As a child growing up in S.E. Qld (in late 50's early 60's), I spent much time in "the bush" and I was curious about all the fallen trees my brother & I had to negotiate while exploring so asked my father why there were so many fallen trees left to rot and house the dredded snakes. Apparently the times dictated that eucalypts, corymbias, silky oaks and the like weren't worth the effort of forresters to collect and were fallen in order to gain access to more valuable species like Toona (Aust'n Red Cedar), Beech and the like. Even then "northern silky oak" was considered the poor mans cedar in furniture. I guess "not so long back" is in planet terms and our lifetime.
It is interesting to see today, plants like Laminex that have chips that bull dozers climb & stack/push up into small mountains.
Not detracting your comment, but also interesting, all pallets I have seen, from overseas, are made of softwood & have little "fire power" so that pallet looking board would be destined here, for chipping i would think. In saying that, of course I would have given almost anything to have a couple of those boards when fishing on a beach in OUR mid winter when it is only about a couple of deg or zero. The soueasters cutting through a spray jacket seem to reduce the real temps.

Times HAVE changed.

Cheers

[carl blum]

Are they saving the wood, or the nails?

The wood only looks OK for fire wood.

Carl.