when hand nailing, which is the best way to hold the nail.
between index finger and thumb, palm down.
or
between index and middle finger, palm up?
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No, both of those configurations puts your hand at risk of injury. The best technique is to take off your shoes and place the nail between the big toe and the adjacent toe. With practice you can have the other foot already loaded with nail, ready to go. This works well with 16d sinkers.
The correct way is to have your helper hold the nails.
Since you're getting old........
And don't do Yoga or Pilates like the nobscot man.............
Short nails..................and most often - roofing nails-palm up.
Probably because these nails are below you...............not nailing above the chest.
All others and overhead-over the waist..........palm "down".
But that's for me-whatever works for you.
period.
Speed, accuracy and minimal smashing.
i likes to hold my nails in the magazine of the gun...
Coil or stick?
hand nailing
You guys have to hold your own nails? My FIL made the kids hold the nail while he swung the hammer. Family lore has it that you were in far greater risk of injury if you flinched.
buy one of those hammers that holds the nail for you
Hey bobl
Jokes on you.
I thought you were serious.
I've heard rumors of TOE NAILING!!!
Now, that's a real tough way to nail.
I understand Helen Keller was the first to invent Blind Nailing - very difficult to master, gotta hand it to some people the way they adapt to their own challenges!
That's probably harder than toe nailing, but less painfull when correctly executed.
Then I heard about liquid nails, so I tried it, but the wood kept catching fire as I poured the liquified iron into the holes I made. There must be something I'm missing.
Yeah dummy - you're supposed to melt pennies, not iron! 16 per hole for bigger lumber, 8 for sheathing, duh! Man, where would you upstarts be without us old farts to keep ya in line! (3 big years your senior, buddy!)
BTW, most current codes now include a nailing schedule. 16 penny nails from 9-11AM, 8 penny nails from 2-3PM.
Few people also know that Finland's aggressive export policies of the 18th century (under the tutelage of Johan Anders Jägerhorn of Spurila) laid the groundwork for the current popularity of Finnish Nails, now commonly used throughout the construction industry.
Legend has it that it was an Irish carpenter with a drinking problem and a serious hangover that invented Staggered Nailing.
Yeah, I heard about those penny nails, but all I can find is D nails. So I gotta melt pennies, not iron. That sure helps.
I don't ever need finnish nails, because I never finish anything.
I'm Scotch, Irish, English, and Appalachian, so I'm pretty good at staggered nailing already, especially when I'm drinking scotch, bourbon, irish whiskey, or Ale.
You only use Finnish nails in a sauna.
Shower nailing requires
Since you mention it, it should be kept in mind that shower nailing requires regular practise, with a studied focus on technique. Otherwise, it becomes Rusty Nailing, a dangerous practise to be strictly avoided.
Some think vinyl coated sinkers are so named for the viny coating, but that isn't the case. It is a little known fact that the colonists' guerilla warfare during the American Revolution led to a practise of hammering large nails (often soaked in wax for easier and quieter hammering) into the wood hulls of British warships to cause leaks and cripple the fighting power of the ships. The largest nails were regularly set aside "to sink the redcoats", and were frequently referred to as "redcoat sinkers", which today has been corrupted to coated sinkers, or vinyl-coated sinkers.
As regards D Nails, in our neck of the woods we use double-D nails, which are more full-bodied nails, heavier but with the extra weight concentrated in the structurally advantageous upper portion of the nail.
BTW, for those who may have missed it, the second post in this thread (by PenobscotMan) gives an accurate description of the origin of the expression "toe-nailing", a widely misunderstood term.