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Tightwad Workshop
Australia
Registrace 27. 05. 2021
Making things in my workshop, without spending a lot of money.
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1-Hour Pallet Disassembly Challenge
I've been a little bit stung by some recent accusations of pallet-disassembly fraud, so here I present my rebuttal.
Where I'm working with the boards on the ground I've rotated the video from the head-mounted camera by 180 degrees, which I think makes it into a 2nd-person perspective.
"Big Stick" Pallet Disassembly
czcams.com/video/BYWYVVy5Mtc/video.html
EPAL pallet disassembly using minimum tools
czcams.com/video/zDjhr4Cu6UU/video.html
Unconventional Pallet Disassembly Methods
czcams.com/video/OCJhoRsj5us/video.html
Building simple trestles (sawhorses) from pallet wood
czcams.com/video/0VOqTW6Xq9k/video.html
00:00 Intro
01:07 Pallet #1 - sawdust blocks
13:57 Pallet #2 - wooden blocks
32:14 Pallet #3 - sawdust blocks
36:55 Yoink!
47:31 Pallet #4 - wooden blocks
01:01:01 Outro
01:01:40 Live studio audience
Audio credit:
Track: Crazy Castanets
Music by www.fiftysounds.com
Where I'm working with the boards on the ground I've rotated the video from the head-mounted camera by 180 degrees, which I think makes it into a 2nd-person perspective.
"Big Stick" Pallet Disassembly
czcams.com/video/BYWYVVy5Mtc/video.html
EPAL pallet disassembly using minimum tools
czcams.com/video/zDjhr4Cu6UU/video.html
Unconventional Pallet Disassembly Methods
czcams.com/video/OCJhoRsj5us/video.html
Building simple trestles (sawhorses) from pallet wood
czcams.com/video/0VOqTW6Xq9k/video.html
00:00 Intro
01:07 Pallet #1 - sawdust blocks
13:57 Pallet #2 - wooden blocks
32:14 Pallet #3 - sawdust blocks
36:55 Yoink!
47:31 Pallet #4 - wooden blocks
01:01:01 Outro
01:01:40 Live studio audience
Audio credit:
Track: Crazy Castanets
Music by www.fiftysounds.com
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Great job!!!!!
Thank you! 🙂
I thought you were going to add Mentos.
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What a mad man someone has to stop him!!!
Listen, if you're going to carry on like that, I think I'll skip Canberra on my way home....
if you cant get the leverage, use a longer crow bar!
Just stick a piece of pipe on the end to get that extra leverage.
I like my sawzall and longer metal blade saves more board's
It's an excellent tool if you have one.
Just found this vid. Totally builing this for Christmas at our flower shop.🎉 Thank so much. God Bless from Canada
I'd love to see a photo of your finished product - you can e-mail it to: showmywork@tightwadworkshop.com
@@TightwadWorkshop thanks. Will share when I have made it.
Jist started taking apart applets to make wood stuff at my family's flower shop. This was inspiration. You plowed through those pallets in my opinion. Well done! You go bro!❤🎉
Here in Norway at least, on the second pallet we have a return system. Those are worth about 21 ausd(today's exchange rate) a pop.
If I could earn $20 for each returned pallet I definitely wouldn't be dismantling them! Here in Australia EPAL and other unpainted softwood pallets are not reused. We DO have reusable pallets, but they're an unusual 1165x1165mm size that isn't used anywhere else in the world: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_standard_pallet
One other thing: I use google/bing to translate my subtitle files for these videos. Can you tell me if the Norwegian translation looks reasonably accurate?
I can only imagine how much hard work goes into these videos. From idea generation, to planning and development for the camera and on screen work, gathering materials and setting up, actual filming, then hours of editing including subtitles and sound. After all that, I'd hope people could at least leave an appreciative comment. For my part, I very much enjoy your videos and always learn something new. Thank you for making them.
Okay that intro was perfection
Why nit use the blocks for kindling or firewood?
I've tried that a couple of times, but the ones I used burned with a lot of very bad-smelling smoke. I have neighbours close to my house, so I didn't want to try that again (no sense in needlessly being a bad neighbour).
Good job 👍 I've been taking pallets apart for a while too, and your video definitely shows how tricky and time consuming the little beggars can be. I like your use of the tressels, I'll have to make some original Tightwad ones 😊 thanks for sharing, and showing us you can make decent things with not much ❤️
This is way more exciting than the Olympics. You aren’t wearing gloves. You can hammer left handed. In Albuquerque, people buy new furniture made of fake wood. Then they leave their old pine and maple furniture by the sidewalk for free, hoping a poor neighbor will take it. That wood is better than pallet wood. So I only use the best pallets. I have to finish watching this video later since I have a tightwad project to do. I never thought you were faking anything, but I thought you were lazy and not making enough videos.
I actually found this kind of therapeutic though I personally have music blaring in the background when doing diy things.
Yeah, I kind of got the idea that pallet timber harvesting was a chore. And for someone with ADHD, I dont think it's worth me getting too involved in it. Although, I have some stupid vision of making a table top for one of those cast iron sewing machine frames out of scrap timber all nicely made into lines..... It's currently got a daggy piece of ply on it, just to make a flat surface.
It's always a trade-off between "time" and "money", although in this game however much "time" you spend harvesting wood from pallets it'll never be as good as the quality you'll buy with "money".
Have you considered making a matchstick-top for your sewing machine base? I made a "chessboard" one when I was about 12 - it took me a couple of years because I was collecting my father's used cigarette-lighting matches to do it. For the video below I just bought a bag of "craft matchsticks" and charred their ends witt a gas flame: czcams.com/video/vJN27JYGTlY/video.html
@@TightwadWorkshop IO dont have the patience for that kind of thing. I do have 4 of them, though. I considered a stubbie top & resin version but that was only an excuse to drink the beer.
Hi tightwad I've got a log burner so I use those blocks on that along with any broken bits of wood, I also use a very old and a bit damaged hatchet to split the wood blocks, striking the back with the hammer then i knock out the nails it does a lot less damage to the slates which is the part i want
I tried that once but they made a lot of smoke and smelled TERRIBLE!
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If you're planning to comment that I've used sneaky editing on this video to fake it as well, you might want to watch a bit of this one first: czcams.com/video/KkcWKJXPzRY/video.html
Anybody that whines for whatever reason you should just ignore them anyway. That is all. have a great day.
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 We to be fair, it *DID* get me motivated enough to make another "pallet disassembly" video.
I found a “JAWS OF LIFE “ tool at auction. Takes me about 2 minutes to dis mantle.
Not bad. I hope your boots have a puncture proof sole. I almost couldn’t watch.
I use a slightly different method these days, I've learned a bit over the past 3 years.
chinese crap
I'm actually Australian, but thank you for your constructive feedback.
@@TightwadWorkshopNot you...THE FAN!
@@TightwadWorkshop thing is I have a fan like those and it's the base. It is bent and warped because the sheet metal used for the base is thin cheap made in china crap
@@JayWalker2222 I know, but that wouldn't have been funny. ☺
@@JayWalker2222 Yes, I agree - it just takes 1 accidental stepping on the end of one of those tin legs to ruin them. To be fair, the rest of the fan isn't so great either, but with care you can get a few years of service from them (I found these ones dumped in a carpark, and just wanted to see if I could save them from landfill)
You can buy wool insoles to put inside the boot
Do you have a dishwasher?
Yeah right, they don't come apart as easily as that, try one that's been round the block a few times, those nails are a real bastard to get out, this is obviously one that's been put together with bog standard nails just to make it look easy for the video!
It sounds like you've already made your mind up and nothing I can say will change it, but in truth I recorded the disassembly of 3x different EPAL pallets then used the one that worked out best. Also, if you didn't like this pallet disassembly video then you're REALLY gonna hate this next one! czcams.com/video/OCJhoRsj5us/video.html
How long did it really take you to dismantle the pallet off camera and how long did it take you to reassemble it to make yourself look good? Thanks for the laugh there buddy. 😂liar liar pants on fire.
It sounds like you've made your mind up and nothing I can say will change it, but in truth I recorded the disassembly of 3x different EPAL pallets then used the one that worked out best. Also, if you didn't like this pallet disassembly video then you're REALLY gonna hate this next one! czcams.com/video/OCJhoRsj5us/video.html
I have a 1949 Japanese Riccar machine! The machine is a direct copy of the 47' Singer. Mine has the 100 v motor add on with a foot pedal. I had the tensioner replaced in Yokosuka, Japan. STILL the fastest and straightest sewing machine I know.
I also have one of those Japanese HA-1 sewing machines, you can see mine in this video: czcams.com/video/7eS_5DSk-4U/video.html I also used to think that the 2 machines were identical, but in fact many of their parts are NOT interchangeable (the most obvious being the location of the "arm" on the bobbin case). I'll make a video showing it and my Singer 15 side-by-side one day, but maybe it's more accurate to describe them as an "evolution" of the Singer 15, rather than a "clone".
Strawberry Mustache Oil!
nice bit of ASMR video there
Anti-Stress Medicinal Relaxation? You bet! 🙂
you're the perfect mix of knowledge and entertainment. I'm so glad I found your channel.
Welcome aboard! 🙂
Fine, excellent😂
Howdie hard to find anybody that would spend the time to do this thks for sharing your project with us keep it up from Canada 🇨🇦 SK later 😊
Yeah, a lot of people seem to measure every activity by the money it'll earn them. I had fun fixing these fans, then the following summer I gave them away to some deserving people in my neighbourhood. They might be in landfill by now, but at the least they gave another couple of years service first.
Thanks!
Thank you! You're my very first SuperThanks viewer, so this a very memorable day! 🙂
Great video :)
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Dude! My mind is blown, a drill guide! What the hell do I need my huge and heavy press drill for?!
Well they're not for EVERY job, but they can help with a decent number of them...
I've never seen epal pallets come apart so easily. I've tried this method and every time the heads of the nails pull through the boards or the heads pop off.
I have about a 50% success rate (slightly better when I use the EPAL pallets made with compressed sawdust spacer blocks). Practice helps a bit, but there's still an element of chance in it - I had to record 3 takes to get this video, and even in this one I ended up with some broken firewood pieces.
A tip: if you get an old tire and put the logs you're splitting in the center, it'll hold the chunks upright as you split and remove the need for picking up the individual pieces for further splitting. Pack it tight and the natural combination of slight elasticity and steel cords will keep the pieces together... Came across that a while back and it's made the process of chunking through the firewood stack next to the house much easier. There's a certain satisfaction to spending a day logsplitting - the timber keeps you warm three times, once when you cut it, once when you split it, and a third when you finally get around to burning it!
Thank you Mr Wakely, I'll definitely add that one to my Top Tips List for next time. 👍 I must admit though, I wanted to capture the "split blocks violently flying apart" on my high-speed camera to add a bit of drama and interest to the video. 🙂
I hope you didnt recieve a splitting headache.
I wonder what he wears when he hangs around in bars?
"Women want him. Men want to BE him."
Brittle, brittle ironbark.
"I WISH ID BEEN A GIRLIE LIKE MY DEAR PAPA" I wonder why i had those lyrics running as the soundtrack?
It was the video that Red was born to make.
@@TightwadWorkshop 🤣
No Clickbait this time, I promise!🙂
That was thirsty work mate. I had to pause it to go get a beer!
The old GoPro works well for slow motion when you use the 240fps mode, eh?
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