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Default Screwing Versus Nailing Studs

"Jon Danniken" wrote in
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dpb wrote:
On 2/5/2012 9:47 PM, gregz wrote:
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I tried nailing by hand, that does not work. Everything shifts....


Certainly were a lot of houses (and much larger structures as well)
built that way, somehow... :J(


Those guys that swing hammers every day know how to drive a nail. The
theory behind it is simple enough to understand, but until you've
driven a few thousand of them, you don't know how to do it.

Jon



That goes for cutting lumber as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHGIwCHfESg&NR=1


Clipped frame of how close he got.
http://i49.tinypic.com/wusbh4.jpg