Hi Michael
I have used oak pallets for toys and some of them are great because of the junk oak they use for pallets. (fire wood down south USA)
But the odds are in favor of the oak or to say they will and offen do take out blades and bits.
Most of the screw nails break off and you can't see them until you hear that nasty click of a planner blade or router bit.
I have used a magnet and a mates metal wand and still got nailed with hard little rocks inside the wood.
Used furniture can be just as bad because the mfg. have a way of hiding fasteners and the glued parts always rip the stock when you try and reuse it.
If you can get by the junk in the wood the gum is no big deal, oak is clean so to speak but junk pine, well that will gum the bits up.
Again they use fresh cut pine lumber for pallets the norm, not dryed the normal way just racked and stacked. (green)
Hope this helps
Bj
I have used oak pallets for toys and some of them are great because of the junk oak they use for pallets. (fire wood down south USA)
But the odds are in favor of the oak or to say they will and offen do take out blades and bits.
Most of the screw nails break off and you can't see them until you hear that nasty click of a planner blade or router bit.
I have used a magnet and a mates metal wand and still got nailed with hard little rocks inside the wood.
Used furniture can be just as bad because the mfg. have a way of hiding fasteners and the glued parts always rip the stock when you try and reuse it.
If you can get by the junk in the wood the gum is no big deal, oak is clean so to speak but junk pine, well that will gum the bits up.
Again they use fresh cut pine lumber for pallets the norm, not dryed the normal way just racked and stacked. (green)
Hope this helps
Bj