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   dockelly | Mar 24, 2009 05:48am | #1

   not sure if you are referring to another post, what are you trying to say?

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   FastEddie | Mar 24, 2009 03:56pm | #2

   He's saying that he has bad aim with a hammer so he lets the helper hold the nail.  Hurts less that way."Put your creed in your deed."   Emerson

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   und76xx | Mar 24, 2009 03:59pm | #3

   Unless you are the helper. But then jobs are difficult to find.

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   Danno | Mar 24, 2009 04:01pm | #4

   Swell, but what if you are working alone? Back when I was a framer, my boss would have told me to collect my last check on the way to my car and don't come back, if I had asked for someone to hold something for me (in most cases). And many times I just work alone, plus it's kind of crazy when you're up on the roof working and everyone else is doing their job--cutting boards and handing them up to you, etc,--to ask someone to stop what they're doing to climb up where you are. Boss showed me the trick of setting a nail and using it as a "stop" to keep something from sliding down the roof or whatever. I've found clamps to be very useful too--the squeeze handle type you can set and release with one hand.

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   xxPaulCPxx | Mar 25, 2009 02:15am | #6

   I wonder if that explains why all the trimmer studs in my doorways has a nail bent over... bowing out the drywall right in the middle of the door frame.  sweet.

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   Danno | Mar 25, 2009 02:20am | #7

   I doubt it. Can't see what a nail's purpose would be there and I always removed the nails when I was through using them.

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   AitchKay | Mar 25, 2009 02:59am | #14

   That's a California framer's trick for straightening cripples -- pry out the dips in the cripple until it's straight, drive a nail halfway into it, then bend it over until its head buries into the king stud.The head grips just enough to maintain the gap -- no need for shims.But an old roofing stapler -- remember them? 1" crown? -- works better, and doesn't leave that annoying hump.AitchKay

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   Sphere | Mar 25, 2009 03:03am | #15

   I set deck joists with a nail on one end , at the top, bent over the end flat.

   Then it hangs by that nail, till I get the other end in and nailed or get a hanger under it.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   KFC | Mar 24, 2009 10:58pm | #5

   A bent over nail is better than a dry wall screw.

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 02:30am | #8

   I've got a bent over nail on this finger that I cut the end off of... 

    

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   Junkman001 | Mar 25, 2009 02:31am | #9

   Is this one of those "test threads" that starts like a book thats missing the first few pages?

    

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 02:32am | #10

   So what WERE you talking about? We seem to have stepped into the middle of a private conversation...

    

    

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   andybuildz | Mar 25, 2009 02:35am | #11

   sounds sauced if ya ask me. Least it's not me'r Duane this time...lol

    

    

    

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   Sphere | Mar 25, 2009 02:38am | #12

   I heard that ..Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   andybuildz | Mar 25, 2009 02:44am | #13

   I knew you would but man yer fast...lol

    

    

    

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 03:27am | #16

   He has his high speed ears on now. 

    

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