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Robotic Pallet Dismantling in 30 Seconds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Alliance Automation of Van Wert, OH built this robotic system that can fully dismantle a wood pallet in under 30 seconds. This allows pallet manufacturers and recyclers to reclaim planks and rebuild damaged pallets.
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Guy making pallets on the other end of the conveyor: "Hey, I just got through making those pallets. What the F."
At least he has a job for life. steady employment is the name of the game
WRONG CONVEYOR CHARLIE !
Federal government must be involved somehow
Just put a robotic palette builder. Then it can build and unbuild palettes all day long in a highly efficient way.
The wood gets conveyered back to his work station so he can stay busy making more.
The pallets they are destroying look better than the ones I'm using right now.
. It confuses me their taking them apart; pallets are worth more money that just the wood.
I literally had to use a 4x4 broken plastic one today because we didn't have anything else in the warehouse. I could have easily used each and everyone one of these for atleast another year.
Like im concerned someone is fucking with my warehouse "yeah theres a shortage so ughh 1000 bucks a pallet" {blade cuts through wood in background}
@@Gr33kChief :
Maybe that's the goal, reduce pallet supply to increase demand and profits; it should be in the stock market.
I was supposed to dismantle pallets one day and rebuild them. That was the worst. I think i ripped apart 20 and made one.
Engineer#1: What do you do for a living?
Engineer#2: I build machines that dismantle pallets. What do you do?
Engineer#1: I build machines that make pallets.
"ARE YOU READY TO RUMBBBBLLLLLEEEEEEE"
random forklift driver who feels like an engineer: Why would anyone destroy the pallets?
ok.... is that supposed to be a joke?
@@Gr33kChief LMAO!
@AmbientVibes oh shit, grey goo scenario
I ran a construction company in Upper Michigan for many years.
Old pallet + skill saw = free home heat (just remember to empty the nails out of the ash-pan occasionally)
Same here! But I would occasionally wonder what chemicals had gotten into the wood over years of service.
@@josephastier7421 Most of the pallets I received were still fairly clean. It always surprised me that they never cared to get them back.
@@mpeterll Anytime they don't want the pallet back I figure I paid for it already so I may as well use it.
If you run a construction company, you can probably afford to turn on the heater at less than a dollar a day.
My neighbors burn scrap wood... it smells nasty enough outside sometimes, I wonder how badly they get gassed inside.
I'm getting PTSD flashbacks from my 10 years experience working in a warehouse. All day long was a desperate struggle to find even a single good pallet without a whole corner missing.
Now, here's a dedicated robotic machine that cuts up perfectly usable pallets because they aren't "good enough".
I'm sure this was a pure demonstration video. I'd have been interesting in seeing how it handles junk pallets.
@@thtiger1 To demonstrate doing what of value??
This is a production tool for pallet recycler's. All the damaged parts are sorted out and undamaged pieces saved and are used to rebuild new pallets with the recycled good pieces. It's a recycling tool.
@@sailingsolar My point is they were using nice straight no broken board pallets. Many pallets that are recycled have broken central struts and the majority of them will have broken top of bottom planks. They still have lots of good material that can be used to build new pallets, but we are not shown how this machine handles them. I'd guess someone would have to rip off the dangling bits before feeding it into the automated machine so they don't jam it up or break the saw blade.
@@thtiger1 this machine only cuts the nails. it has vision, doesnt even touch the wood.
As useless as it looks, such a robot might be useful at the company I work for. Some of the materials we buy are stored on oversized pallets. All these pallets are dismantled because we ship only on EPAL or smaller. The material is reused to build the smaller pallet sizes.
The weirdest thing is the disconnect between companies that need pallets and the companies trying to get rid of pallets. They need to close the loop and fully recycle them.
Well this is apparently for companies making and recycling pallets to recover good pieces of wood from partially damaged pallets or something like that, at least according to the description and some extrapolation.
I'd wager that this is to allow it to happen on an industrial scale rather than just replacing boards individually by hand, and that the pallets here weren't damaged because it was just a demo.
In europe you got standardized pool pallets, they get reused. It is beyond me how america is still using this shitty single use design.
@@martinum4 They get way more than a single use.
@@martinum4 you guys are both dumb. Don’t speak on things you know nothing about. The companies getting rid of pallets, sell their pallets to a company that refurbishes them. Then that company sells them to other companies. Most pallets are recycled, hence why you see massive piles of them behind stores, and you need permission to take them. They make money on them.
@@martinum4 Thats nothing. We have a potato for a president.
I think I’ll rush out and buy one today!
I was gonna look into buying one also and put it in my garage😁😁
Great deal
I think I saw one a Costco a while back.
I first have to buy a bunch of old pallets.
How much would you pay for this? $20,000? $15,000? NO! if you act today it's only two payments of $19.95.
When I was a kid we had a wood burning heater and a lot of out wood came from a pallet manufacturer. They would make new pallets and accept old broken pallets and they would reclaim much of the good boards. So my dad would load up his truck with all the broken boards that they gave away and we'd use it for heat. Later when I turned 15 I started working at that pallet manufacturer. I being 15 couldn't use the power saws but I could disassemble the broken pallets and reclaim the good boards. Using a hammer and a pry bar was fun for about 5 minutes. Then it just became work. I can tell ya, this is so so much quicker than doing it by hand.
This machine is so perfect but people are losing jobs I make that by hand. Watch my videos .
It is a human game to build robots with natural water conservancy and steel and dismantle trays made of natural trees🤨
Ford made old pallets into KingsFord charcoal
Yes but now what is the job available up young unskilled workers!
@@ArtStoneUS Jeopardy?
If anyone asks why I'm hammering broken drill bits and shards of files into pallets, I'll remind them this is a band saw blade factory.
I hope you're joking. Being a sociopath is not an admirable quality. :)
@@theobserver9131 No Country for Old Men.
@@mikakorhonen5715 Aren't you clever.
@@theobserver9131 Movie name, nothing personal.
Genius!
This thing looks like a quarter-million dollar solution to a ten-dollar-an-hour problem.
that means if paid labor for this task was 10 dollars an hour...and if this machine tasked ran 24 hours a day.... this machine would overall be cheaper than labor costs of three shift workers and would pay itself off within 46 months of purchase with zero absences, zero sick days, zero breaks required and zero accident injuries.
@@HamburgerAmy The robots aren't too common though. Recycling plant don't run 24/24 and machines do stall often.
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@@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii .......yet
Quite an amazing machine indeed! Taking pallets apart by hand is a real chore.
Wow, it works with absolutely pristine, perfectly formed pallets. Robots always work well with perfectly specified objects. Unfortunately, the real world doesn't offer up many perfectly formed objects.
I like how it slightly angles the pallet to edge the saw along the pallet ribs.
I used to heat my house from pallet wood. Burned about 1200 - 1500 of them a year.
A 12" electric chop saw with carbide demolition blade makes almost as easy of work out of breaking them down to a size a wood-fired boiler can handle with ease.
Why dismantle the pallets I ask? They are perfectly good to be reused as pallets
Yea i thought we Built Pallets because we Needed them, not take them Apart, i don't get it either !!! Oh But Now the Other Robot puts them Back together, in Record Time !!! Funny i don't see a Human Anywhere !!! That's because the Bots Shit Canned them All !!! The Bots are going to Take the World Over, and it won't Be Long!!! Than what are we going to do to stay alive UGGH !!!!
Tooth picks
@Joe Blogs Yes we need to plant more.
Those pallet trees are very rare!
Because used pallets wouldn’t be so easy to cut evenly
@@rogerhegemier8491 No human? What's that bloke in the back doing at 33 seconds?
TH-cams algorithm knows me better than I do
This is the most important video of all time!!
Your profile picture is a symbol of my childhood.
@@StanHowse Gogo dodo for life!
Nice! This will pay for itself in 2000 years (If it lasts that long)
In reality it breaks down every 2 mins
I guess you guys lost your job because of automation?
@@test5093 it's called common sense. This "automation' costs at least $2m dollars, plus a CNC engineer to program and a technician to maintain it + parts = 250k a year at least. There are many ways where the robot could be useful, but certainly not for cutting the nails with a bandsaw on perfectly good skids that could be reused IMHO
@@orangepants5749 2m are you kidding me. I work as a PLC programmer in the robotics industry, programming all kinds of robot cells and installations like this cost maybe 500k, tops.
@@thomasplooijer4437 I was exaggerating 😆 around 300k - not bad at all - I guess the technology is getting cheaper from the last time I checked. Used to be a very expensive thing.
But if you think of it wouldn't you have to replace 2 people disassembling pallets with a robot/cnc maintenance person? Probably same wages + ongoing maintenance/material costs.
I'm just trying to point out there are probably better usecases for this technology than disassembling the old pallets.
Imagine being from the 15th century and seeing this. You would think it was some kind of supernatural alien being...... Imagine what the world will be like in 500 years from now.......
But what if you run the video in reverse?
If humans still exist 500yrs from now!
They will basically remove the nails instead of cutting them.
In 500 years we will just 3-D print whatever we need, and to recycle it just throw it back in the printer. Wood and nails will seem like stone tools.
Any technology sufficiently advanced appears as magic. - Asimov
This is the best pallet dismantler I've ever seen.
It's the best blue one I have seen.
Quite the coffee table making operation they got going there
Yeah just 2,000$ worth of blue water looking resin, a boring youtube video about it, and there you go! Lool
Just made a side bar table using pallet wood. Butcher block top looks great with the nails still in the wood and nice coat of varnish.
Motoman....cool! The first time I ever saw a robot it was 1984 in "The Terminator" and the robot was a "Motoman". It was one of the coolest things I ever remember seeing back then, a time when having a BOOM-BOX was a big deal. LOL!
wow thats precision pallet disassembly.
Yea Pretty DAM SOON none of us Dudes are Going to Have a Job !!!! Than how are we Going to Feed our Families !!! Just like in the Terminator the Machines are Taking Over !!! We thought there is a Homeless Problem in 4/14/2021 !!!Stand By for a Ram !!!! You Havn't seen Nothing Yet !!! WOW !!!!!! Pretty Quick the Robots will be Taken us Humans Apart, and use us for Grease to lube the Bots !!!! Just wait and See !!!!
You know humanity is going extinct when we already have pallet dismantling robots.
...and pallet assembling robots, I am sure.
Do they have a name for that machine ? ? Call it "The Mosquito"
There’s a story about Henry Ford requiring the deliveries to his factories to use hardwood pallets, which he then recycled to build more factory floor from it... - something like that.
Actually it was for floorboards of his Model one, from the boxes that the motors arrived in. He also demanded that they put holes in for his later use, so his employees didn't have to add them on his dime.
@@PlayingWithFireOutdoors Thanks!
You guys are great! The comments guys that is. Youve already covered everything i came here to say. The perfect even clean pallets theyre destroying, ole Bert just out of sight (they sent hime on break so you couldnt hear him nailing them together) building pallets...you covered it all! Loool
Very nice robotics!
Amazing how it tilts during cuts for optimum angle.
My first job as a kid was at my great uncle's job. It was an onion shed in Arvin, Ca (Maisie's). My 2nd cousin and myself had to breakdown pallets with a claw hammer and build new ones. Boy I wish I had this tech back then.
There's sensor at each side of a blade detecting down force, as soon as its detected lateral movement starts maintaining the same level...clever.
The place I used to take old and damaged pallets to just threw them into the big chipper for biomass fuel.
Nails and all?
20 years ago pallets were very high quality wood.
I collected them, and used for many projects.
After a while, they became junky pine, but my shop
was full of excellent hobby wood by then.
Just remember, when you plane a piece of pallet
wood, it likely contains multiple chemicals
from everything it ever carried.
I no longer recommend using them, especially
for indoor furniture. Toxic chems in the house
will kill a pet and harm you as well.
wow thats some serious engineering !
5-million dollar machine can do it in 30-seconds, but it takes 5 seconds to throw on my bonfire for free.
Not sure if you have seen lumber prices lately but mite hold onto them instead of burning them.
These pallets look perfectly fine. Why?
To anyone wondering why they're using perfectly good pallets: it's probably because they're testing the machine.
This reminds me of when I was working, designing 'one armed bandits.'
People used to ask me how to cheat them.
I'd say, 'Easy, just take a crowbar to the cash box!'
This system of pallet dismantle is so effortless, simple, direct and elegant.
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Why dismantle the pallets on an industrial level? What do they use the wood for? Just curious.
There's a man off camera making pallets!
How can that use warrant so expensive robots?
@@ronnieg6358 I'm ROTHFLMAO
I worked for a regional trucking company years ago. Many warehouses required us to pay lumpers to move product from the shipping pallets to their own rack pallets. It took us no time to collect hundreds of shipping pallets the other companies purchased from us in bulk and they would refurbish/rebuild them to sell to shippers. I can easily see those companies using something like this.
@@CrazyOldFart66 So my first comment on this post is not a joke after all !
Hey, I use to make money on extra pallets left in my trailer when I was driving over the road. In fact I would get $7.00 bucks per pallet which can add up especially when you have as much as 20 pallets leftover.
$7.00 isn't much for a deer.
@@huverdoose . That was over 10 years ago and you could make over a $100.00 bucks for doing nothing, I mean most places had a forklift and a dock and they could unload the trailer in a few minutes. When you are stuck usually over 500 miles away from home you might as well make the most of it by making as much money as you can.
@@huverdoose David didn’t get the pun
The most amazing display of man's hubris.
Somewhere out there is a robot making pallets.
The robotic circle of life.
Yeah. Great. But what happens to all the cut nails in the salvaged pieces of wood?
They put band-aids on them.
Blade is most impressive. Every little spark is a nail being cut.
Wow, you’re a genius
Thx for the sarcasm,
I agree what i said was pretty obvious to any idiot. Does that make me an idiot? Perhaps.
No shit sherlock?!
Bad Pallet circa 1985: less than 3 boards total. Bad Pallet 2021: Divot in the paint.
Now I know my and computer are listening to me. All I did was call ONCE to a guy I work with and ask him if we had any pallets I could use for firewood stacking. Then this shows up on my feed. Nice.
Yea I guess this would be worth having now with prices of lumber where they are.
Can't see how the lumber is commercially usable, given the bits of nail left in it.
I have a robot that does much better, including removing nails, nobody wants wood with nails! He calls himself my son.
Nobody wants wood with nails, except the people that don't care if there are nails
Well it’s that dumb.
Your robot is self-aware too! Impressive
this one is faster though
Who refers to themselves as "my son?" Does that make him his own daddy?
I would really like to see what a robot could do in terms of politician dismantling in 30 seconds. wow, that would be awesome!
If the machine just cut off the lies and treason that would be so cool!~
Worked with these machines there crazy fast trying to keep up is challenging and trying to sort it even harder
How often do they have to change the saw blade and how long does that take?
That saw is one impressive thing on this machine. I don't know witch nails or screws used, but some of them are very hard and good steel.
When old ship says bye bye, people's say "it turned to nail's" like the think those are just "some random metal". Some random maybe but usually hard at least..
Seems like an awfully expensive machine when the other option is to pay low wages and wear a few humans out in the process 😂
. Or just sell them to a pallet refurbish company. I had a job when I was younger repairing pallets to resell; they made millions in profits.
that robot is pretty overkill. this is how you can see companies have way to much money on their hand.
My favorite video of the year...
I really must get a life lol Watching this after it took me two hours at the weekend to do one by hand!
I'll never forget sitting on the floor of my garage in the debris of the first pallet I just spent a couple of hours dismantling.. Looking up at the enormous pile on the back of the ute that I'd brought home with me. Thinking seriously about taking the rest back. lol A couple of amazon purchases and a bit of welding later.. I've got it down to 22mins.. Full planks and all the nails in a box. But I'll always remember the enthusiasm with which I attacked that first one with a prybar.
@@M3rVsT4H lol, I used a scissors jack to start then the crowbar.
How could that possibly take 2 hrs to pull apart?
Were you using your teeth?
@@larjkok1184 I'll just say, pallets are different all over the world. And one pallet is not like another. Some of them practically pop apart, and others have curled nails and are just stubborn. Maybe your local pallets are easy :) Congrats.
@@larjkok1184 Brute force & ignorance altho in fairness it was a double nailed euro pallet!
I think I've seen everything now. Lol
Picked up one of these at Goodwill the other day.
while this machine dismantles pallets, the wood still contains metal fragments, because the nail was sawed off, not pulled from the wood
I have to get one of these machines.
How long do the band blades last?
If they snap do they fly across the workplace giving out free haircuts?
til they break and yes.
Lol a”devil’s haircut “ 🥴
A $300,000 robot machine to recycle pallets??
And then the timber still has the cut nails inside.
No thanks, you can find FREE pallets everywhere! :)))))
@@circusbrains For sure you got a non stupidity Certificate as a circus clown!
I have recycled 1000's of pallets into small parts. This is how its done, saw thru the nails. By hand a sawzall reciprocating saw and 8" demolition or metal blade is your best friend. With a flat bar to pry, its 5 to 10 minutes per pallet.
You only use saws that can cut nails?
I don't know which is more impressive, the robot or that saw blade??????
Meanwhile I spent like a whole day breaking down a few palettes and cutting them into firewood
I just used a sawzall a couple week or so ago to do the same thing. But it didnt take 30 seconds. More like 30 minutes at first.
@Aww The way wood prices are skyrocketing, I can see this taking off finally. I don't see the smaller existing pallet recyclers affording one...they can't even buy decent semi trailers...but I see a big money investor knocking little guys out of business with a new startup.
Try an air hammer. Few minutes and yer done.
I’ll get one of those tomorrow, and step up my production line!!
So precise. But the pallets already seemed in good condition?
I love it! Although it could be build better & faster & cheaper by removing the arm and just having the pallet travel through a blade (or perhaps two blades) that moves through two different set levels.
I hate and despise this machine..
The hours I've spent splitting (and wasting) pallet planks, wrenching ribbed nails out to get some timber......
I cant fathom, how the cost of that machine, which looks wildly expensive, returns its value in doing something so easy.
The machine does this 24/7. No need to pay someone doing this boring stuff. The robot will always do the same, even on mondays!
WTF???... those are perfectly good pallets.
This is why we are always out of pallets at work!
Life is a lie
Those pallets looked new, why not just reuse them as is
because if they use used pallets it jams the machine.
@@albe7292 huh? doesnt make sense. leave it as it is and reuse it. why take it apart leaving in split nails.
For the same reason that we no longer use returnable bottles. The cost of sorting collecting and transporting the pallets back to the manufacturer is more expensive than making a new ones.
@@danielebrparish4271 Wouldn't there be a cost to sort and transport to that facility?
@@Riker626 Yes and even if there weren't I don't see how that machine can ever pay for itself. It could be that this disassembly machine is located at a facility that receives lots of palletized products everyday and this machine allows them to have more room without buying more land. It really is a conundrum to me.
Very cool. I wonder how often that blade breaks and whether there's a blade welder on the machine.
Imagine what the world will be like in 500 years from now.......Thirty feet deep in dismantled pallets!
Great machine, but what use are the boards with all that metal work left in there?
They reuse them for new pallets.
@@VaporheadATC That sounds like digging a hole to fill it in again
@@VaporheadATC Your correct! Pallets get partially damaged in use. The damaged parts are sorted out. The good pieces are reclaimed and reused to make pallets
@@timboatfield most dug holes get filled back in. dont do much work do you?
@@DieselRamcharger On the contrary,. Either you do too much work or none.
There is a differance of digging a hole in order to put something in it other than what you just dug out and digging a hole just to fill it in again. Don't do much thinking do you. (No question mark needed)
That's a weird looking fire.
You are making your kid surplus. But the machines will love and care fore them.
Wow those thin blades cut though nails fast!!!
and the factory next door makes new ones.
they are teh factory.
those pallets being destroyed are ones with "closed bottoms" ie left to right slatts on the bottom, as a warehouse worker i can tell you WE HATE THOSE
The factory next door is probably making the pallets.
There's a machine out there somewhere made out of pallets, that dismantles robots.
I'm curious how this would do on pallets with lots of plugs/zipper type pallets, also would it be able to teardown block pallets?
I'm also curious about this
A Robot is working on that right Now !!!! Does anyone see we Have a Very Huge Problem, Robots are Taking all of our Jobs Away !!!! And than what !!!!????
@@rogerhegemier8491 Learn how to build, install and program robots. The days of work for uneducated, unskilled people are over.
I would love to see a close up of the blade, trying to imagine what kind of teeth it has
It’s a metal-cutting bandsaw
Carbide teeth amigo 👍🏽😀
Thank you, TH-cam Recommendations Roulette. I always wanted my own pallet disassembler.
I have seen wood grinding machines that would eat that pallet in about 3 seconds, spit out Mulch off a conveyor, and collet the nails in a sack
i tried dismantling these in the back of our shop with a circular saw - damn near fell forward when the saw blade got pinched - jesus murphy.....ain't doing that again!
In my glory days I could dismantle pallets 20x faster than this by myself easily.
Robots are always in their glory days
@@daanl8993 with proper maintenance
You are so funny
its okay robocop, just take your pil
Those pallets looks great compared some of the old dogs you see in the UK 👍
That band saw is the stuff of nightmares! 😮
And the machine at the other end makes new pallets again from those planks.
Wow that was a great example of robots saving the planet
Working in a warehouse, now I know why many companies don't take bad pallets.
THats amazing.. lord knows how easy it would be! I tried to dismantled a damaged pallet .. and its hard work which took me ages! hahah
Do they also make robot dismantling robots?
This was very satisfying
Now THIS is some great ASMR-
Watch with no sound 👌
I don't know why, but I found watching this robot's repetitious actions quite calming........... Shame about the "Fingernails down a blackboard" audio though. :)
I work for a distribution company, we receive product from different venders that come in on pallets, (lots of pallets), we use, reuse and send some of the bulk product we sell to our customers on some of the hundreds of pallets we have... Then I see this video, lol
And what about the nails that are still in the wood ? Just burn the wood and collect the iron later or something?
These pallets look pristine, so hopefully the wood is actually used, not just burned, but there are 59 comments about nails.
They needed to mention it!
Holy cow. Talk about over engineered! I can imagine much simpler ways of automating this.
I see one big problem in the long run: wood dust collects everywhere and you have nice Sparks to ignite a eventual wood dust Explosion..
Therefore, at shift-changing, a worker has to blast around some compressed air. Standard at almost every company.
I work in pallet production and sawdust really isn't as flammable as everyone makes it out to be. Any sparks that come off the nails aren't intense enough to start a fire if they're held at that height. When it does start, the fine dust from bandsaws doesn't flash burn, it smolders. A quick broom every day around the machine and it'll be fine.
That was the famous last word..
Even sugar is good enough to blow up an entire factory