Nail Pulling Machine

Possibly the world’s most unique tool … that you probably wish you had.

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If you’ve ever—and who hasn’t in this group—chewed your knuckles to hamburger or taken just about every pinching, prying, and otherwise getter-outer thing you own out of your truck to clean up flooring staples, nails, and other fasteners blown into floors to hold them down, this tool might be for you.

While I pride TOOLS as being the place you go for your tool reviews, I’m going to farm this one out to Nate, who reviewed the super Inside Baseball NailXtractor for Wood Floor Business. He does a nice job on the review and the follow-up videos.

Also, NailXtractor is designed for roofing nails primarily—pulling them out of the deck after a tear-off—and the video below shows it doing a remarkable job. As the company says, it’s designed by roofers for roofers. And, it looks like—and this is no criticism; I think it’s amazing—each NailXtractor is hand-built in somebody’s garage.

This article originally appeared in Tools of the Trade.

About the Author

Mark Clement

Mark Clement is a former editor of Tools of the Trade, as well as remodeling carpenter, business owner, and flipper of a few houses. To date he remains a B+ drywall finisher and tile setter and painter. He's also a presenter at the R|D|J shows. He can set a kitchen just as well as the next guy, but decks and pergolas are where it’s at for him. Along the way he’s worked behind the scenes (and in front of them) on various television shows from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to Spartan Race.

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