| Re: [GMCnet] 12 Ton Jack-Stands [message #83349] |
Thu, 06 May 2010 12:39 |
Gary Cottingame
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Ken
It's good information to know. It's amazing what these old timers have taught us. Just a matter of paying attention and soaking up the knowledge.
One reason I'm on the gmcnet.
Gary
TZE21
Denison, Tx
--- On Thu, 5/6/10, Ken Henderson <ken0henderson@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ken Henderson <ken0henderson@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] 12 Ton Jack-Stands
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 11:22 AM
Gary,
As the son of a carpenter, I can assure you that's an OLD trick. Did you
ever install oak tongue & groove flooring? In the old days, we used "cut
nails" (all corners square) for the same reason: they cut the wood fibers
instead of pushing them aside and splitting the wood. As hard as oak is,
that's about the only way to nail it without drilling pilot holes (or
probably these days using a power nailer).
Ken H.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Gary Cottingame <gcottingame@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Steve,
>
> As a young man, I was working with an old fellow, doing some framing. We
> were using 16d common nails [back when you could buy 16d commons]. They were
> big thick and heavy. Anyhow, this old man [probably in his fifties,& me
> about 17], would take a hand full of nails and turn them upside down and
> flatten the point some. I thought he was nuts. He explained to me [since the
> 2x4's I was nailing were splitting], that by flattening the point some, as
> the nail went through th wood, instead of spreading, it would tear it's way
> through the wood fibers. I never saw the old man split a board. Who knows!!
> ...
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