I am renovating a small house built in 1951 and while fixing various things I removed the old rafter tails fromm the front of the house. The picture is one of them, just like I found it.
Sometime in 1951 some poor carpenter was having a bad day. Wonder what he was saying as he banged in the 9th nail.
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You know, a good psychic would probably blush from the cursing embedded in the soul of that lumber.
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Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA
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Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
" cheap china made nails $^^&*(**)()"
here the bad part that quality work held up for over fifty years
during that time frame...
Jim Walter nails....
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Ah, the very first Chinese nails.
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He probably saw a snake in the attic and was trying to rush to get out of there.No need to pound those nails all the way in, right?'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Two nails pounded in half-way equals one nail pounded all the way in,, right?
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Dude, I drive, I have peripheal vision...if anything moves, rattles, shakes, smells, within 5 car lengths of me, I'm killing something.
Grant was short on HIS take..it was " hey, its a rattlesnake"
Me : " I dunno, lemme whack it or something with a copper ( soldering Iron, he hhad nearby)"
Him : wait, I gotta answer the phone and get my keys to the truck where the camera is...
Me : shooting pics with my phone
I took a few 2 pics and poked it, it went back inside, Grant got a pic and then I opened the hood and tried to snake it out with a 1x3 he had...it dived back in and I HAD NO CLUE HOW BIG THAT MO FO WAS..
went on my way.
only me, only my life, I am soooooo glad it was witnessed, dude, I live it every day. Look up crazy conundrums and cataphosic events in the dictionary, thats my smiling face looking at ya...........
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Who knows, maybe it led to a stroke of genius:
"I need some sort of machine to shoot these things in..."
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More likely lead to a 1950's version of Godfry Daniel (WC Fields)
I dont think it was Our Piffin as in his Yute his powerfull forearms Combined with a Buffed torso wood have shattered the nails , smashed the board in half and taken down the building!!!!
If Piffen built that house as a yute the date would be 1751 instead of 1951stephen
By 1951 he learned to use the hammer part of his roofing hatchet not the sharp part.;]
#@*#* green knotty doug fir!
Some of that #*$&% knotty doug fir was nice clear old growth stuff. Even found a clear bird's eye grain stud. Those pieces went to the wood stash in the shop.
Pulling rusty 60 year old nails from #&$*% knotty doug fir was fun. More fun was trying to pound new nails in #($*%& knotty doug fir. Add to that trying to pound nails into the stuff HD sells as wood, *&%$$* hemlock I think. At least the nail gun would split it fast so you get it over with.
A lot of the SoCal houses built in the early 50s were framed completely with green DF 2X4s, carrier beams, joists, headers, rafters and all. Poured foundations with lots of piers under the house, to allow the house to roll with the quake.
I'm know whereof you speak, about trying to pull old nails out of that stuff.
My SoCal house was built by Kaufman & Broad in 1965. I decided to upgrade the door casings, but when I pulled off the old casings from the first door, it fell, jamb and all, into the room. Turns out that only the staples in the casing had held those jambs in place.BruceT
I'm not surprised to hear that now, although I was truely amazed, the first time I was told to set pre-hungs like that. It's a real bean counter mentality that comes up with that kind of "efficiency".
One can only hope that karma prevails quickly. Maybe his car's seatbelt will have been similarly fastened to the frame.
I thought i read a thread here or maybe somewhere else how to hang doors like that or some way without nails???
I don't recall that thread but if the object is to save time, it can't been done any quicker than slapping the pre-hung unit in the opening, checking it for plumb with one hand and nailing the casing to the framing with a trim gun.
I don't object so much to setting a pre-hung unit like that, as long as the second step is to shim the appropriate places, nailing the door jamb through the shims into the framing. That's the step that was skipped in both cases that have been mentioned previously.
That same carpenter, term used loosely, must have worked on portions of my home built in 1974! Mine must have been a demonstration model built to see how fast, not how well, a crew of chimpanzees could assemble something closely resembling a house.