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Denailer

tool for removing nails from lumber

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ5256563 ↗
Source-derived summary

A denailer is a tool for removing nails from lumber to facilitate its reuse. Two types of denailer are available:

A stationary denailer is a machine designed for single-purpose use, e.g. pallet refurbishing.

A portable denailer is a hand-held pneumatically powered tool. It works by driving out the nail from the point end in pieces of nailed lumber which have been pried apart. The process of denailing (removing large numbers of nails from salvaged lumber) is greatly expedited by using this specialized tool.

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“Denailer” enters the record as tool for removing nails from lumber. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Denailer, tool and removing can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 83-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Denailer, tool and removing.
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This entry incorporates text from “Denailer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.