Need equipment for wood cutting - help

Can anyone help? ive got a load of palletts and wood to chop up. I would normally get to it with an axe but i havent got the strength anymore.
can anyone suggest some type of work bench with clamp and some type of electric saw?

 

I have a black and decker scorpion, it has changeable blades, wood saw, jig-saw and one for cutting metal. Keep your eye out far a work-mate bench or lidl have one, wait for the specials, it`s good enough for me.

 

I cut up 100+ pallets p.a. and 'Workmate' style benches are too small for whole standard pallets and they'll most likely start falling off as you're cutting them, but a bench is handy for cutting them into kindling or usable boards for construction once it's been dismembered. I get some non-standard pallets about 3m long from a local business and need to reduce them in size with a cordless jigsaw to get them in my car.

A jigsaw with coarse blades makes short work of dismembering them. If you want long boards for building stuff with you'll need to knock the blocks/cross pieces of slats off the boards and for that I use a medium size axe that can either slice through nails, bang them off, or a bit of both. Use an angle grinder to remove any projecting nails. Watch your feet for nails whilst working.

These are the best/cheapest jigsaw blades I've found http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221144583845?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

 

Would a Breaker Bar do for that job I wonder? (Dunno whether the "force" needed would be too much though ... perhaps get a very "long breaker bar" for extra leverage?

Watch out for getting stopped for "going equipped"!!

 

For firewood I've been using an Evolution chop saw - cuts thru pretty much anything up to the width of a fence post & doesn't mind the odd nail - pallets need a certain amount of stamping / whacking with the wrecking bar first.. wish I had bought the bigger one, but then again it wasn't discounted.

 

Many/most pallets are fixed to the 'blocks' with twisted nails and the slats will bust if you try and separate them with crowbars, etc. (got them up to a metre long), but a good axe (I use a Husqvarna) can slice straight through them. One of these is also handy

 

Saw workmate style bench at the carboot in Porthcawl,

 

I have used axes for cutting the branches of trees but as you mention you can't do it with axes then electrical saws are the best option. You can also use mauls, hammers and Wedges.
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