Posted by northeast iowa on January 25, 2010 at 12:15:32 from (206.72.18.143):
In Reply to: Nail Pullers posted by Ben Donovan on January 25, 2010 at 07:01:53:
Sorry, I did not mention pulling the nails afterwards. We usualy don't pull them, just smack them into the wood. There is always a pattern so you know about where they are when reusing the lumber.
We also often use a 4" side grinder with a thin cutting wheel to remove nails from used lumber. Our labor costs are to high to pull nails, so we just grind them off. One guy rolls them on to the saw horse, the other guy just keeps the grinder going. After ten layers we band the lumber, and fork lift it out of the way.
We always throw down a tarp so the nails just drop to the ground, then roll the tarp up.
This is not a good idea if you intend to sell the lumber, but we usualy use the lumber to strip roofs, over a shingled roof when applying steel roofing. You can justify the labor cost that way.
The guys that tear down barns in our area are looking for other ways to provide income because the market has dropped pretty bad on used lumber.
As I said, with our labor costs, one must use a sharp pencil to justify used lumber / nail removal. Often depending on location, a match will remove the nails, then we just pick up the sheets from the ashes.
We still have some old sheds with home sawed lumber, often hard wood--then it is usualy a no brainer--we use a match.
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