Rapid flatbed truck unloading - GIF

[Haroun]

I ONCE tried to take apart an extra truss to salvage the wood. The truss plates are just a bunch of pointy pieces of steel only 5/8" inch or so long, how hard could it be. I'll tell you- insanely hard. Truss plate are strong as anything I've encountered. The individual teeth of the plate are easy to withdraw, I think, but your not trying to remove 1 tooth, but 5-6 every time you try to pry the plate up. Then as you start prying the teeth not under edge of the prybar the teeth next to those need to be pulled up, then the ones next to that need to get pulled up, then..... . I finally just cut the 2x stock off at the plates. The issue that may arise is a wood piece breaking but there's not that much movement in that drop method so there's not an extreme amount of stress on the joints. Certainly not more than they can deal with & stay together just fine.