*Magic* Yellow Bar thingy
For my birthday a couple of weeks ago, I had a birthday cake (which was yummy), a promise of driving fast cars round Silverstone (in October, can’t wait) and this magic yellow bar thingy which is definitely its technical name because it is a bar and it is yellow. And it is MAGIC!
The age-old problem of dismantling pallets is well-known to those of us who, well, dismantle pallets in the (in my case) oft-mistaken belief we can re-purpose the wood into something else – a chair, a gate (ha ha) or a scale model of the Severn Bridge (only kidding, at least for now). Well, this device just slots in either side of the planks and with very little pressure levers them up in a it-uses-physics-and-leverage-cleverness fashion.
Using physics-and-leverage-cleverness
So, from this:
In one piece…
to this:
…into several pieces
took 9 minutes. Another 16 minutes elapsed whilst I removed the vicious nails.
Gnilain – nailing in reverse
Not quite sure what to do with the three supports – having used two of them to put the planks over whilst doing the gnilain, I think I’ll leave them in case the assemblies are useful as they are.
Next time on Palletable DIY: the DIY begins. What could possibly go wrong? There could be a list…
oOo
MAGIC YELLOW BAR THINGY – it comes from, er, somewhere, the Snail knows, I’ll put it here when she reminds me. It was some guy on Twitter apparently. Or Hogwarts.
I honestly thought she’d got you a selfie stick Jon. I confess I was worried.
Hugs
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So would I be – I don’t have a camera phone. I have a camera AND a phone – I suppose I could glue them onto the pallet-breaker? 🙂
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Now there’s a novel idea but I don’t know how you’d market it. Hugs
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This definitely comes under the heading of Cool Tool. Now I want one. Except I don’t have any pallets to break up. Maybe I should get one just in case. You never know! 🙂
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When pallets start taking over the world (and there are enough of them – 2 billion in the US alone in 20112), it may be wise to be prepared!
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I love me some magic! Now you just need some kind of magicked gnilian thingy ……….. If that materialises you’ll have that bridge built in no time!
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I think I would need a magic hammer – I wonder if B & Q or Homebase sell one? If so, expect a third Severn Crossing any day! 🙂
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Will be on the phone to Hogwarts post (pun entirely intended) haste Mr Snail. Magic yellow thingies are not to be sneezed at. I hear 99% of them are useful. The other 1% can be squeezed in black tea.
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The trick is not to get them confused – freshly-squeezed pallet breaker in one’s tea may b a taste sensation but I’m not sure I want to be the first to try! 🙂
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As always, I concur.
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Magic yellow tool came from http://www.cargo-cycles.com/ as recommended by Alfred Chow @Maker_of_Things
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Thank you – I knew the Snail knew!
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