I usually find the tips a little more helpfull than the ‘third hand’ video. Let me suggest my ‘third and fourth’ hand tip.
Ask your helper to hold the joist, use either had if you like.
Discussion Forum
Discussion Forum
Up Next
Video Shorts
Featured Story
Listeners write in about haunted pipes and building-science tomes, and they ask questions about roof venting and roof leaks.
Featured Video
Highlights
"I have learned so much thanks to the searchable articles on the FHB website. I can confidently say that I expect to be a life-long subscriber." - M.K.
Replies
not sure if you are referring to another post, what are you trying to say?
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
Unless you are the helper. But then jobs are difficult to find.
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.
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.
Tu stultus esRebuilding my home in Cypress, CAAlso a CRX fanatic!
Look, just send me to my drawer. This whole talking-to-you thing is like double punishment.
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.
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
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
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations
They kill Prophets, for Profits.
A bent over nail is better than a dry wall screw.
k
I've got a bent over nail on this finger that I cut the end off of...
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
Is this one of those "test threads" that starts like a book thats missing the first few pages?
Mike
So what WERE you talking about? We seem to have stepped into the middle of a private conversation...
Welcome to the
Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
where ...
Excellence is its own reward!
sounds sauced if ya ask me. Least it's not me'r Duane this time...lol
http://www.cliffordrenovations.com
http://www.ramdass.org
I heard that ..Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations
They kill Prophets, for Profits.
I knew you would but man yer fast...lol
http://www.cliffordrenovations.com
http://www.ramdass.org
He has his high speed ears on now.
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!