Crescent 44" Indexing Deck Removal Bull Bar - DKB446X, Multi, One Size

I removed 1000 ft.² of 5/4 treated decking that was 30 some years old and this thing did flawless save me a bunch of time a bunch of elbow grease sweat tears probably it seemed to be about half price of other ones that were advertised, and there were no issues whether you were Trying the boards away from you or swinging it towards you. It does a great job. I would highly recommend this over any other method I ground off the heads with a dry grinder of any nail sticking out of the joist.

This tool made removing deck boards much easier. We needed to resurface or deck and wanted to save the frame. This tool helped to maintain the integrity of the frame. The pivot on the tool made it easy to adjust angles as needed. The nail remover worked much better than a remover on a standard hammer due to leverage. The tool is solid and sturdy and saved us a ton of time on demo.

This tool is excellent for easily pulling old deck boards. I am using to pull boards for lengths up to 15' and works great. The integrated nail puller is a back saver. Great tool.

This product is fantastic. My business is repairing and refinishing decks in the Seattle area. I tear a lot of deck boards off. Today I was taking 10' long boards, 16" on center off in less than 60s! I pulled 30 boards, including disposing of them, in under an hour. (As pro, I time these things to make better bids.) The little nail puller is awesome! The puller I've been using often folds the heads of the nails up, but that didn't happen once with this tool.I only have too nits. First, it's heavy. I don't think it needs to be that beefy. Second nit is there are no directions and the two videos they have, done by well-intentioned amateurs, are horrible. I don't understand a company that can't make their own 1 min video and instead posts bad customer-made videos of their product. Those videos make this took look much harder to use than it is.Here is how to use it quickly and safely, which is important as today I was removing boards from a second story deck. First go to the farthest edge of the deck from the house. Remove that last board. You may need a pry bar for this first board because the prongs on the tool are a tiny bit thick to fit between 3/16" spaced boards (ok, 3 nits). Once that first board is up, adjust the tool so that it looks like a hoe, so that the tines curl TOWARD you. This is the opposite of what you see in the videos. The head should be at an acute angle to the handle. Now, you can insert the tool over the exposed joist at one end of a board (again, think of it as a hoe), and lift UP, not pry down like the videos. On the ends you will have to hold it at an angle and only be able to get one tine under the board, but it will still pry the end up just fine. Once you get going its very much like a hoeing motion: using two hands place tool over a joist, pry and then swing it over to the next joist. Likely, you will pull several joists worth of nails/pull.Using the tool this way, you can stand on the unpulled boards while you are working, and the tool is always resting on a joist when you pull. (Unlike that first video, I have no idea why that guy even likes the tool the way he was using it.) The fulcrum of the tool is NEVER on a board, it's always on a joist. You are pulling the board in front of your toes and working backwards.When I get to a place where I'm not comfortable any more because I have too few boards to stand on, I lay some new boards on the exposed joists to stand on, turn around, and repeat the procedure for the 6 or so boards that are laid against the house. Again, starting with prying up the board on the edge so I can expose the joist and lift up, working towards myself until the boards are all gone.

great for board replacement

If you're taking down a deck, stop, buy this and then continue. It's crazy how well it works.

This product works great. It saved me hours and hours of work.

Took up 600sq feet of decking with it in less than 3 hours by myself. Really great if nailed. Boards that had screws were much more difficult. I don’t know if this is better or worse than other large pry bars but it’s half the price of some others. It’s extremely sturdy, and the articulating head means that you can work with good ergonomics whether you are standing on the deck or on the ground. And it’s not made in China.