{"id":1900,"date":"2008-10-22T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2008-10-22T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T20:36:12","slug":"mr-tools-new-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Tool&#8217;s New Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nailing<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I got myself a bunch of 8-foot tongue-and-groove boards, to fix the giant hole the bee remover left in the soffit. I&#8217;m not too optimistic. The board sample I took to the lumber store is nearly an eighth of an inch thicker than the ones I bought, but it looks like I have no choice. I went with pressure-treated; I&#8217;m not completely stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering how to attach the boards to the house. Nails, I know. But does this mean I need a nail gun?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it does. I would probably kill myself, up there under the eave, trying to hammer nails upward.<\/p>\n<p>You know what this means. I get to use the compressor! The little tiny Eaton compressor? NO! The huge, belching, 220-volt Curtis compressor! Because the little one won&#8217;t drive a nailer? NO! Because the big one is more FUN.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs like this are the reason I bought a hundred feet of hose, right off the bat. All I have to do is reel it out.<\/p>\n<p>WOW, I just checked, and pneumatic nailers are EXPENSIVE! I think I&#8217;ll rent. They run about $250, and I&#8217;ll never use it again.<\/p>\n<p>I think it may be time to look at a Sawzall. The bee people cut sections out of a whole bunch of 8-foot boards. Now every board they cut has to be replaced. That means prying and sawing to get the damned things off the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nailing I got myself a bunch of 8-foot tongue-and-groove boards, to fix the giant hole the bee remover left in the soffit. I&#8217;m not too optimistic. The board sample I took to the lumber store is nearly an eighth of an inch thicker than the ones I bought, but it looks like I have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}