Just recieved the Jan issue of JLC. On the back cover is an add for Grace skid resistant roof underlayment, It pictures a guy bent over, on a roof, swinging a hammer with the claws toward the roof.
Choose one:
A) He’s going to hit himself in the head for never buying this stuff before
B) The roof he’s on doesnt have skid resistant underlayment and he wants to stop his slide off the roof by digging in his claws
C) An honest advertising screw up
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the guys a model, never had a hammer in his hand before, didnt know any better!
I don't have any idea.
I do however have a nearly 1 1/2" long scar that wraps around my left thumb from a shingle hatchet that somehow didn't find the roof to be buried in.
Next time I will take my chances on the fall.
backwards hammer because he's gonna pill a nail
"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"
Sorry, couldnt scan the add to post, but he is SWINGING the hammer. I'm really curious about this add, was this pose intentional?
Sorry, but it takes some imagination to see that he is swinging it instead of just holding it.
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This is just plain obvious to me ... he's nailgunned his hand to the roof sheathing and is using the claw hammer to remove it.
Jeff
Send grace a letter or e-mail.
Might get you some free Product out of the deal.
Haven't you ever finished off a nail with your claws when the nail is in a weird spot? Haven't you ever swung the hammer, claws first, to get under a nail head? Haven't you ever swung the claws first to cut a band? Haven't you ever swung the claws first to grab a stick or chunk of lumber?
It sounds like an odd picture for an ad but there are many, many reasons why the claws would be rotated first, if it's a framing claw.
On a roof, the most common time I'd swing it that was would be to swipe off a protruding roofing nail which comes out easily, on one motion, using that method. The return swipe clears the nail out of the crack.
It's fun seeing these anomalies though. Is anomaly the right term to describe this, if it's a legitmate picture?
Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
Here's the photo in question. Looks to me like a set up. Some art-director's idea of what it would look like to claw into the roof deck to stop a slide. Wrong hammer, wrong slope, but a pretty sunset, though I doubt that's real either. Photoshop.
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Steve
That guy could be getting ready to dig those homeowner claws under a kicker board to pry it out. He's certainly in no position to be setting a nail or even finishing one off.There is nothing here folks...other than no one wears a hard hat on a roof like that! 6/12? Bob's next test date: 12/10/07
yup. Hard hats are for the guys underneath the roofers. I was on a job years ago working with Fred Lugano. Remember him all you other old-timers? He was doing the roofing and got into a little spat with some of the other trades working on the walls below. I remember him saying to me that people ought never to mess with the roofers because they have the high ground...he never did abuse his tactical advantage though.Steve
Fred Lugano arguing?Doesn't sound like the FreddyLu who used to post here. <g>
Barry E-Remodeler
LOL
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Maybe arguing with a penguin?
Joe H
Commercial work you have to wear a hard hat on the roof.
We have to on a big roof that I have going. Woods favorite carpenter
That is framed - not even plywood sheathing on yet. He is crawling across framing open under him.That claw is to pull a brace board/spreader, or at the ready to hook onto something if he slips.
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Doh! I guess the sky showing through the framing is a little bit of a clue, huh? Though from the angle it's shot at you don't see if there is a deck on the side he's standing on or not...or maybe there's a little light glinting off the tops of the rafters. Kind of hard to tell. I take it back about being art-directed. But the sky is faked. Probably a stock-house photo bought for the ad just because it looks like a guy on a roof and is pretty. Hey...where's his harness?Steve
Maybe he wants to test the hard hat. Or he is knocking himself in the head over working for just $8/hr.
Same issue of JLC. I was just thumbing through it and low and behold...
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That guy look familiar? And where did his hammer go? Or is he just getting ready to pound a nail in with his fist. Man, that's one tough dude!
Steve
look at the fist, do you not see the handle of the hammer
"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"
Yep. But where's the rest of it? That's some sloppy photoshop work making the outline around the original photo to drop the sky in behind it.Steve
It is a silhouette. The handle is turned side to and the head of the hammer in that one is behind the other arm.Jeeze Lousie, I gotta 'splain everything to yah?
He has an African American silhouette too - Dan sez soh
Any more questions?;)
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I was thinkin' hispanic myself...You're right about the hammer though, now that I see it...the bump at the top edge of the fist is the inboard knuckle of the pinky finger, not the thumb! Too quick to suspect photoshop foul play. Still suspicious about that sunset though. Darn fine optics not to produce some flare or halation...oh wait halation doesn't happen anymore with these halide-free "films". Guess I'm getting old.Steve