treefarmer wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:00 pm
Y'all talking about bent nails brought to mind how resourceful my old uncle was when I was a little feller. He had a chunk of steel, more like a cube, maybe 3 or 4 inches with several holes drilled in it. This cube of steel was used as a small anvil on a work bench but it was also used as a "nail straightener". Reclaiming lumber called for pulling the old nails. The old nails were put in a bucket, for obvious reasons. Then when needed a bent, used nail could be retrieved, placed in the appropriate hole and straightened enough to reuse. I remember straightening lots of nails for him as a little boy.
Times were hard, Unkie was resourceful and he has provided me with a world of great memories!
Treefarmer
Reminds me of straightening steel fence posts. Same principle, just a bigger scale. I straighten mine with the front end loader bucket on the tractor.
Ken
My dad said when he was a kid,he didn't know nails came anyway but bent.
When you want to nail two 2X4'S together, short edge to short edge like when you need make a thicker wall, you lay a 16d nail on it's edge on the 2X4 and hit it about 1/3rd of the way up from the point to bend it slightly. Then when you toenail it into the top 2X4, it goes in and follows it's bend into the center of the 2X4 it's being nailed to instead of coming out the other side. Otherwise you'd need a 6 inch nail to connect the two boards. When our boys were little, oldest 5, and the twins 3, Jane and I were building the home we are living in now. We were working in the basement and the boys were upstairs in the framed in house. We were busy and they were out of our hair so we weren't paying a lot of attention to what they were up to. I ran up stairs to get some of the large boxes containing sheet metal heat run ducts only to find the boys had toenailed them to the floor, about every 3 inches with 8d nails. I was so impressed that 3 year olds, coached by their 5 year old brother, could toenail, that none of them got into any trouble. If it had been into a finished floor it would have been a different situation.____Dave
Quite the load out Ray, i bet you need a set of really good quality mil-spec suspenders, to hold it all up
I really like that ppk. Ivory grips i presume .
Willy
Thanks, guys. Actually, I don't carry the Mustang 380 and the 1911 both at the same time but it require a good set of galluses to do that. No, not ivory.
I appreciate all the good comments, guys.
Ray
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djknife13 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:26 pm
When you want to nail two 2X4'S together, short edge to short edge like when you need make a thicker wall, you lay a 16d nail on it's edge on the 2X4 and hit it about 1/3rd of the way up from the point to bend it slightly. Then when you toenail it into the top 2X4, it goes in and follows it's bend into the center of the 2X4 it's being nailed to instead of coming out the other side. Otherwise you'd need a 6 inch nail to connect the two boards. When our boys were little, oldest 5, and the twins 3, Jane and I were building the home we are living in now. We were working in the basement and the boys were upstairs in the framed in house. We were busy and they were out of our hair so we weren't paying a lot of attention to what they were up to. I ran up stairs to get some of the large boxes containing sheet metal heat run ducts only to find the boys had toenailed them to the floor, about every 3 inches with 8d nails. I was so impressed that 3 year olds, coached by their 5 year old brother, could toenail, that none of them got into any trouble. If it had been into a finished floor it would have been a different situation.____Dave
Dave,
the way my father taught me to put 2 2x4s edge to edge was to take 16p nails, drive them in not quite 1/2 way, use a hacksaw to cut off the head and then use a 4# hammer to drive the 2 boards together.
I was REALLY glad we never had to do many of those.
I like advertising paperweights. Holland Hitch Company. for Tractor Trailer trucks. A guy wire or cable. St. Louis, Mo. Patented in 1895. Allen Bradley makes electrical switches and such.
A Fuller Brush Company desk object. I sent them a picture and asked for approx. year and if for a special gift? She wrote that they do not have an archive department but would forward it to a retired employee.
I have often thought of buying one of these "NOYES, BROWN & NOYES" weights that show up on Ebay occasionally. There two there now.
They are almost always labeled as a "Paper Weight", but given the stamping and their size, I suspect they were to hold down a bolt of suit material to keep it from sliding off the work table.
RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 3:42 pm
I like those paper weights.
I have often thought of buying one of these "NOYES, BROWN & NOYES" weights that show up on Ebay occasionally. There two there now.
They are almost always labeled as a "Paper Weight", but given the stamping and their size, I suspect they were to hold down a bolt of suit material to keep it from sliding off the work table.
I agree with you 100% Charlie. Those things are cool. As soon as I saw those from mrwatch I went to the Bay to see what I could find but they were all a bit expensive over here and mostly of glass. Ya know what else is small, kind of heavy & pretty cool and I almost started collecting them a few months ago is mini Anvils. They were often used by jewelers, gold & silversmiths ect. I had a Hoffritz knife once that was etched "Hand Forged" and I always thought it would look cool sitting on a mini anvil to emphasize the "Hand Forged". I traded it though so I don't have any knives at the moment that say that on them.
Anyways, here is a mini anvil that my dad made once out of aluminium. It has three parts with screws going up through the bottom of it. He made it when he was a welding instructor in the Army. I had my mom mail it to me. I may collect a few more mini anvils sometime. I just think they are cool and in a bit of a way, I find anvils to be knife related. They might also come in handy when working on knives.
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I straighten mine with the front end loader bucket on the tractor.
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Looks good Ray! 
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