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[Chilli]

Has anybody ever seen a horn that could move a car? 🤷‍♂️🙄

Yep.

 

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[blossom]

Morning Pirates!! Ahh another week dawns! Hope u are all ok fine and dandy this am xx 🤗

 

[Chilli]

 

[fishstick]

Good morning y'all

 

[robertk]

Good morning all.

 

[newnan man]

Good Morning everyone

 

[ARC]

Good morning TN Crew.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Good morning!☕️

 

[Ohiogoldfever]

Morning all! While hunting your treasures avoid the various government sanctioned dumping grounds. These fellas learned the hard way.

Getting ready for our annul party.

 

[pepperj]

Morning everyone

 

[Surf_Pirate]

I need to get the blade sharpened and cleaned up.
Then put it out for sale.View attachment 2173725

Oh I remember this beast! Ran one a many a times building docks and seawalls (before fiberglass walls)
Built a wooden bridge for a lady one time so she could reach her island across the swamp. Oh my poor arms, swinging a 2# hammer to drive 12" nails in 3" thick deck boards (oh and yes this was strong enough to hold a loaded concrete truck💪)

 

[Surf_Pirate]

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was this your pic ARC? scary moments there

 

[pepperj]

Oh I remember this beast! Ran one a many a times building docks and seawalls (before fiberglass walls)
Built a wooden bridge for a lady one time so she could reach her island across the swamp. Oh my poor arms, swinging a 2# hammer to drive 12" nails in 3" thick deck boards

I found drilling a pilot hole really is a good thing.
Spikes are going out as the Dodo bird.
There's so many great structural fasteners now.
I used these 8" to screw the bracing to the walls in the 25'x40' garage when I raised it 32".
Used an electric impact gun to drive them.
Never stripped a head.
Only bent one when I hit a knot in a piece of oak.

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[Surf_Pirate]

I found drilling a pilot hole really is a good thing.
Spikes are going out as the Dodo bird.
There's so many great structural fasteners now.
I used these 8" to screw the bracing to the walls in the 25'x40' garage when I raised it 32".
Used an electric impact gun to drive them.
Never stripped a head.
Only bent one when I hit a knot in a piece of oak.

RSS™ Rugged Structural - GRK Fasteners

GRK’s RSS™ screw is made of specially hardened steel to provide you with high tensile, torque, and shear strength. The sharp threads and points bite instantly into the material (including hardwood), reducing the splitting effect due to smaller shanks.

grkfasteners.ca

Oh yes we had to drill pilots. no way to get them started. Wasn't often we used them but boy I'd would have killed for an air hammer. My arms were like Popeyes after that summer

 

[CreekSide]

Morning

 

[pepperj]

Oh yes we had to drill pilots. no way to get them started. Wasn't often we used them but boy I'd would have killed for an air hammer. My arms were like Popeyes after that summer

I had to sister in all the floor joists in a renovation.
PL premium and 2"×10".
Nailing was impossible as the spacing between the joists.
Solution was this tool.

Granted it's a 3 1/2" nailer. But I ground down a cut socket extension. Then just used what ever socket fit the spike head.
Just driving regular galvanized 3 1/2" the nailer did over 5000 without a hitch.

 

[Surf_Pirate]

Yep.
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Looks like a safari trip gone wrong 🚌🦏

 

[Surf_Pirate]

I had to sister in all the floor joists in a renovation.
PL premium and 2"×10".
Nailing was impossible as the spacing between the joists.
Solution was this tool.
View attachment 2173902
Granted it's a 3 1/2" nailer. But I ground down a cut socket extension. Then just used what ever socket fit the spike head.
Just driving regular galvanized 3 1/2" the nailer did over 5000 without a hitch.

exactly,,,, but probably needed one you could stand with
It was early 90s and my Boss was old school military. Seemed like everything we had was bought military surplus. Even our cranes and dump trucks

 

[pepperj]

exactly,,,, but probably needed one you could stand with
It was early 90s and my Boss was old school military. Seemed like everything we had was bought military surplus. Even our cranes and dump trucks

Oh I think I would of liked that guy.🤣

I had 1980s F600 military flat deck, 1968 Military Uni-Mog.

Lots of equipment for the scrap yard.

I bought surplus for yrs from the decommissioned Downsview Base.

I'm a used/reuse type of guy.
(Granted I have a hard head it seems)🤣

 

[pepperj]

Well we are celebrating our Thanksgiving holiday today up here in the Great colorful north.

Been invited up to help devour this 29 pound beast.