House in Progress Diary

The Little Nail That Could (Not Be Removed)

My dad came over to help work on the master bedroom. If we've ever worried about the endurance of our 90 year old house, we're worrying less tonight.

When trying to remove a bent nail, we found out that these old timbers are at least stronger than the average hammer:

Oh well...good thing the previous owner actually left us two identical hammers. We'd still get that nail out. We just went ahead and used the other one...

Hmm. Needing reinforcements, my dad went home and returned with a steel hammer. We weren't going to get beaten trying to remove a simple nail. And, in the end, we showed it who's boss:

Posted by aaron on November 28, 2003 at 10:42 PM