3PLUS HAPT50SP Pneumatic Punch Nailer/Nail Remover/Nail Puller

See YouTube reviews on how these work. This one works as advertised and made the job of removing nails from pallet boards much easier. I was worried it would be too heavy for comfort since it weighs around twice as much as the other brand I was considering but the weight seems to help keep it from vibrating too much or kicking back when I fire it. I used it to remove nails from a 2x9 boards from a sturdy pallet. You still need to expose the nail ends by separating the boards but once you have the nail tips exposed it does a great job driving them through so you can easily grip them with a craw bar or hammer to finish pulling them out. These nails were rusty, spiraled and had a lot of grip. I really struggled when I tried pulling them with just a hammer and wrecking bar without driving them out first with this nail punch. This saved a lot of sweat. The barrel is sturdy enough that I could insert a bent nail then straighten it out using the gun before I drove it out. I had my compressor at only 80 PSI but it still left a dent in the wood if I pressed the tip in firmly. That feature let me remove nails that were cut off flat with the board and had heads embedded in the other side. I also trimmed a nail head and used this to drive the nail into the 2x9 as a test. It took two firings to drive the nail all the way but it worked. Be careful, looser nails and nails in thin boards can shoot out and bounce. Overall, very good tool for the price. Durability is TBD but it feels like it will last. You can supposedly buy replacement anvils/rods from the maker but I doubt I will need one for a while. (Follow instructions and add a few drops of oil every so often. It came with a bit of oil and an Allen wrench.)

Nice tool. Does a good job. Beats hammering them out !!!

I bought this tool because I'm demolishing an old wooden garage and I wanted to try and salvage as much lumber as possible. The tool works really well, but it's misleading to call it a nail puller - it's actually a nail *pusher*. You need to have access to the sharp end of the nail for it to work. I used a crowbar to pull planks off the building with the nails still in them. I turned the planks over, slipped the sleeve over the sharp end of the nails that remained in the wood, pulled the trigger and it fires the nails right out of the plank. I would advise anyone using this to exercise caution: A: Wear the supplied safety glasses - I had several nails ricochet into me at first. B: Don't use it near your driveway - the ejected nails can fly a long way and are hard to find. I improvised a collection mat with an old moving blanket stretched across my sawhorses, kind-of like a hammock, of a trapeze artist's safety net - the nails hit the blanket and stay in it, rather than bouncing all over the yard. All told, I'm delighted with this tool. It will push out nails that are surprisingly thin; I'm very happy to be able to salvage lots of planks (especially given the cost of lumber today).

I am marking it as 4 for now as I tool longevity is unkown, but from what I can tell so far, it works amazingly (Scarily so). Be wary of how well it works, it really likes to shoot the heck out of those nails at high speed, it creates so many sparks form the nail hitting the ground if its pointing towards the ground when you remove the nail.

So I had a deck to demo, however, I wasn't just going to take all the boards to the dump. I wanted to be able to burn the wood and not have a whole bunch of nails laying around. This made the job so much easier being able to punch out all the nails. Sometimes the nails would shoot out, other times it would not. I just put the boards over a large trash can, lined the bottom with some much, and put a heavy duty contractor bag. It seemed to have caught most of the nails. I liked this kit because it actually came with safety goggles, oil, air fitting and some hex wrenches. Others you have to buy some of the additional accessories separately (i.e. air fitting). Overall, I won't be using this long term since I only needed for my deck demo, now that the job is done probably won't need it anymore, so something cheap worked well in this case. And while this was cheap, it was still a good quality tool.

We, finally, unpacked the air tool, added 3-4 drops of the included oil into the air intake and put it to work on six (6) pallets' worth of deck boards (had nails/staples with pointy ends sticking out). We left alone the stringer boards (had nails with heads sticking out). Use eye and ear protection. First, we used an air compressor set to 90 PSI with 1 SCFM capacity. We gave up after one deck board because the compressor was too weak to recover. So, we used another air compressor set to 90 PSI with 4 SCFM capacity and it kept up throughout the whole project. Next time, we will try it at lower pressure, e.g., 65-70 PSI. If you push the tool's barrel over the nail and firmly against the wood, the piston/rod will punch into the wood and penetrate about 1/8" or so. This is useful if the pointy or broken end of the nail is flush or below the wood surface and you can punch the nail so that it's head pops up on the other side for easy removal...if the wood is thin, it may punch the nail out, completely. If you hold the barrel over the nail 1/2" above the wood surface, the tool will not damage the wood (good if you intend to reuse/re-purpose the wood)...if the wood is thin, it may punch the nail out, completely. We used a 5 gallon bucket with bubble wrap on the bottom to catch the nails so that they do not bounce out. We tried holding the wood against the bucket's rim, then without touching the bucket... both worked, with minimal movement of the wood not touching the bucket. Use caution as the nails become projectiles. The compressor cycled every 1.5 pallets and we used this timing to add 2 drops into the tool's air intake. It helps significantly if the nails are (mostly) straight. You can use the tool's barrel to straighten the thinner nails/staples, but use a pair of pliers for thicker gauge nails. If thinner nails/staples are not straight enough, they will be "squished" into the wood... good luck removing them. Overall, the tool worked 100% of the time and we are VERY HAPPY with it's performance.

I recently had our deck replaced with Trex and ended up with a substantial pile of 2x6 decking with 16d nails and "hidden" fasteners that were also held in place with nails. This nail remover saved me so much time. It doesn't always remove it on the first try but I would then use it to drive the nail back into the wood and usually the 2nd time would do the trick (maybe a few took 3 tries.) I also used it to remove the hidden fasteners -again, sometimes required more than one try. Lastly there were some boards that had wood screws in them, a lot with rounded Phillips screw heads and I used on them with great success. Most of the screws required several tries moving the screw back and forth with this tool until it would come out. Summary, this is a great time saver and works very well. Anybody who says different is either not using it properly or doesn't have a good enough compressor. FYI, I've got a "pancake" style compressor that I've got set at 120 PSI.

This thing works as advertised but there are a few cautionary notes. 1. You must wear safety glasses. 2. This thing will launch nails everywhere. 3 Even with the compressor air pressure set below minimum recommended pressure it still shot a nail through my shoe. So yes, buy it but be sure to use every safety precaution

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This is a durable and effective de-nailing device. Recommended.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Very powerful, running off a 6L compressor is fine. Just make sure you keep your feet out of the way. Best to do it into a bin below.

Super Produkt, schießt die Nägel zuverlässig komplett aus Brettern raus. Für den Preis eine sehr große Arbeitserleichterung. Man muss nur irgendwas dahinter legen (ich hatte eine Eimer mit einem Handtuch) weil einem sonst die Nägel um die Ohren fliegen (oder irgendwo hin fliegen, wo man sie nicht mehr so schnell findet).