Trying to make a pallet crowbar and failed (for now). Got some random metal I had lying around, came up with a bit of a plan. Just need to stick 4 pieces of metal together, how hard can it be. Well a lot harder than I thought. This ain’t no glue gun.

I cut a 3” piece of 1/4” angle iron with an angle grinder (tried to cut it with a jigsaw and gave up within 15sec angle grinder is def the way to go.) The cut didn’t line up but it’s whatever. I then cut 3/4” strips off that piece to get the little claws that will do the prying. Making sure to cut my clamp in the process. Cleaned it up with some 40 grit and added a little chamfer for me to fill. Layed it all out and let her rip.

The first attempt looks god awful and it never got any better. I tried putting some leverage on it snapped just like my ego. I wasn’t giving up that easy. 40 grit grinder and a prayer and we were back at it. Buggered it up nicely, tested it out and the thing cracked again. It was no better the 3rd time. Turns out welding kinda hard.…