How to disassemble a pallet

This is a lot more time consuming than I would have ever thought, if this is something you want to do, start with one pallet, not what I did, fill an entire trailer with them

Get your pallets home, be more selective as to which ones you take, not like what I did, now I'm stuck with a bunch of bad wood

I tried a few different ways, on the Internet I've seen people just pry them apart, which was way too hard, the other method was to use a reciprocating saw and cut the nails. That didn't work well

I ended up using a circular saw and cutting the ends of both sides off

It was easier to knock these pieces off once apart

This is what I'm left with

Mallet and a pry bar and they come out with the nails

Nails up on all the removed boards, then used a hammed to drive them backwards through

Then could pry them out easily

This is what I'm left with after about 5 pallets, took about 2 hours to get to this point, with all of the nails removed, now on to the projects