Mr. Haynes’ Nail Coil Tip
Two coils are better than one to resist crushing inside tool belt pouches.
WACTC instructor Michael Haynes offers guidance and tips to the students throughout the day as they work at the FHB House site — things that those of us in the home building business take for granted, having learned them from a coworker years or decades ago, or just figured out ourselves. These valuable tips and techniques hopefully land with deep impact — as they are gems well worth absorbing — so they become second nature to tomorrow’s carpenters and builders.
One tip Mr. Haynes explained recently, while Nick, Addy, Derek, and Max were shingling the garage roof, was how to carry roofing nail coils in a tool pouch without crushing them. The students loaded a couple of coils in their bags before heading out on the roof in the morning but sometimes the coils got bent.
Mr. Haynes’ tip: push two coils together — points in, heads out — so the two coils support each other and resist crushing.
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