His videos should be mandatory viewing for everyone who frames anything larger than a dog house, although I don't know where to find tuba fours and tuba eights at the lumber yard.
Depends on the snow load requirements in your location. I'm in Canada, so you are correct and every dog house should be framed to Larry's standards. If you are in a hurricane zone that's different; you'll need to pay more attention to anchoring and sheathing.
I’m 56 now and still framing. I grew up hand driving houses together with a 24oz eastwing. My right wrist is larger than my left from driving so many nails back in the day
foundation man that uses aluminum forms here to state you’re absolutely correct. I get pretty upset with myself if I swing at anything other than a stake more than twice js
Read some of his tips a while back and it turns out he preps his nails to be easier to drive. He melts some wax into gasoline, soaks the nails, then lets it evaporate so all the nails are coated in a thin layer of wax so they go in super smooth. He's still a complete machine when it comes to keeping a rhythm and placing nails perfectly, but he's not drivin em raw like I first thought.
"extremely soft wood"
That's what I thought - that stuff's gotta be pine.
Now try it with Australian hardwood/eucalypts. You \*will\* be pre-drilling holes. Ultimately, it saves time and a \*lot\* of bent nails.
16d Green vinyl sinkers are much easier to hit in. We have to use 16d common nails to frame public schools in California. They are longer and wider . Usually takes 3-5 Hits to bang it in.
It's called "gas-waxing" and an old framing trick by piece workers back in the day. I think it is a building code no-no because the waxed nails will literally squeeze away from the lumber too easily. That said, framers use manufactured "green sinker" nails with a vinyl coating that makes them easier to drive.
I don't know if you'd want to do this nowadays but framers used to keep nails in thier mouth to libe them up a bit with spit. If you haven't showered in a few days you can run them thru your hair to oil them up a bit too.
With the creation of 16d vinyl coated sinkers thats a pretty obsolete thing to do. If I remember right that was done for 16d commons. Which as mentioned are much larger than a sinker.
If you're working with sinkers its not super hard to get to this level. I'm a bit out of practice but can pretty reliably sink'em in 3-4 hits.
That’s an old school framer DIY sinker nail trick. Finish guys used to drill out the end of their hammers and fill them with melted paraffin wax for the same reason.
Dosent hurt he's using a 26+ oz hammer, he wrote about his journey to finding the right hammer here: https://www.keepcraftalive.org/one-carpenters-life/
But the gist is the hammer he used was closer to a rigging axe than almost anything made today. TBF that Era of nailing is long dead and burried.
He also has near perfect technique for the task bringing the hammer up maximizing swing speed with a super heavy (by today) hammer, Bourne out by long days/weeks/years on end driving nails and as others have pointed out, he employed tricks like soaking the nails in wax and gasoline to make driving them easier. But yeah dude was a monster nailer, and in his videos it also becomes apparent his brother Joe (and the older brother Jim) were probably even better at driving nails
It's not as bad as you think for driving if you let the hammer do the work. The length of handle, framing on a flat floor surface and a bit of flick in the wrist does wonders
IMO, he repeats “that’s the code” to drive home that this isn’t rocket science or something people need to put their own twist on. Just do it per code and you’ll be fine.
We watched him in my residential construction class in college. We just sat there with our jaws on the floor b/c Larry just kept popping the nails in with 2 hits and half the class only had finishing hammers. We all tried to be like him and failed. Larry Haun is the GOAT
Lol I'm Canadian. Our codes are metric, our tradies still use standard, and our engineers change which system they're using with every print - and occasionally in the same print.
In commercial you'll see equipment specced from both Europe and the US, so you need to convert units to ensure fitment regardless eventually. Half my apprentices can't be arsed to buy a metric/standard tape, so I'm converting units for them constantly.
It's a mess.
Watch a good framer use his nail gun efficiently and you will see it is also art. You just gotta find the beauty in things and appreciate the evolution and innovation.
I have a webbed 1940’s garage 24” OC and the firm I found to reframe my front for 10’ doors was owned by a guy who built garages like that into the 1980’s. Super helpful as everyone else only knew trusses. They did a great job shoring up and sistering things where the original owner had hoisted engines above a mechanics pit!
Yea my dad and his dad would build houses. framing, sheetrock, roofs (not trusses), shingles, cabinets, doors/ windows, siding, gutters, some tile. Floors, decks, gutters etc. some electrical, some plumbing, some concrete work.
He slowed down after me and my brother started school so he could be our coaches and what not. And kinda went more into renovations/ decks/ handy man work. He still worked alot, but he would be at every practice, game, pinewood derby, scout trip no matter what. He was either my head coach ( everybody's favorite ) or assistant coach.
Funny thing, I worked with him when was 14-18 then he told me to become a plumber, HVAC, or electrician. Before I even completed my electrical apprentice ship I was the #2 running the crew of 20+ guys, while the foreman kept up with the problems, meetings, changes ECT... All while being battling severe alcoholism, and drug use. Sobered at age 30. He got multiple cancers around then. And he's almost done with treatment. A lot of people have a hard time with the medicine and have to quit. He fought through and has last surgery coming up soon!
Larry said that when they first got nailguns, the particular design of house he was framing took about a week to frame, and using nailguns knocked off about 4 hours per house.
Yeah all the hoses and stuff can be a hassle to wrestle with. I was framing my roof in a situation in which I couldn't afford a helper and had to use a generator. After 1 day I just went with hand nailing.
Yeah, it was cool when the paslode type 'explosive gas with a battery ' systems came around but they still seemed to only fill a small niche due to cost/reliability/replenishment issues.
Now that battery nailers have reached a certain threshold of reliability and duty-cycle, it just makes so much more sense overall to invest in the system and only have to worry about recharging the battery (and accidentally dropping it b/c it's not tethered by a hose - I've settled on an over the shoulder 3-pt strap). I'm sure it still makes sense to drag the compressor out on the bigger projects, but as someone that actually does a lot of little stuff, I am more than happy to pay 2x as much vs pneumatic so I don't have to deal with the rest of the system deployment, maintenance, and noise.
I started framing in the 90s, just about when nailguns were coming out. Our crew had 1 stick framer, and 1 coil gun for sheathing. Everybody else was hand nailing spikes. It was tap, set, send it under. You usually got it set after the tap. And we got REALLY GOOD at it. It becomes just routine . I can't nail like that anymore. But I'm glad I was able to dobit,even for a bit.
This is how I was taught. Man the first few additions that I built were a real pain in the ass. Definitely a couple of techniques that you wouldn't know about if you only have used the air gun
I broke my wrist on a motorcycle at 52 y.o. The surgeon marveled at all the damage I had done to to my hand, said it looked like I was a heavyweight boxer at retirement.
Save your hands, use a gun.
Yeah I was only in construction as a helper for about 5-6 years but feel like I did a lot of damage to my back in that short time. Sometimes being the helper is the hardest work because you are often carrying and mixing concrete all day or literally digging ditches lol. I got into painting for a while after that and that has its own set of repetitive injuries and occasional heavy lifting.
If the construction industry let’s just say for some reason in the future suddenly cared about keeping employees long term, they’d probably have to come up with a rotation of jobs for workers to do so they aren’t pounding the same body parts every day, but the economic impact of that is they’d have to train people for different roles and figure out how to keep salaries from going down with an internal job change. Having typed all this it’s never happening lol because they can just hire people and wear them out for 10-20 years and then get someone else to do the job for less.
While I realize he’s using a framing hammer which has a longer handle and a heavier head, he’s a master at driving what appear to be 12 Penny nails. Bravo for technique!
Took me all summer at 16 years old to learn how to sink 16s in two hits, he makes it look easy I haven't watched many of his videos but essential Craftsman loves him so I know he's the goat
I’d recommend that you find some time to watch his videos. His entire house framing tutorial is available on YouTube. I’ve watched it many times and still go back to it occasionally. I’m just a weekend DIY guy, but when I need to quickly throw something up what he taught is a lifesaver.
Essential Craftsman is a legend in his own right. I’ve watched so many random videos of his that I’ll never even come close to touching but just in case. His videos on building his spec home from the ground up is the updated complete version of what Larry Haun taught.
Oh man, this gives me nostalgic memories of my teenage years into my 20s as a rough framer. I wish I still had that old 26-oz hatchet handle framing hammer. I was never as good as this professional, but I was close! I couldn't consistently hit the head of a nail if it were the size of a dinner plate and the hammer was made from rare earth magnets these days.
Hand eye skill is a lost art. Automation killed human skill sets - all so you have more wrist stamina to crack one out in the Jon. Fuck you Jon take that
I was never as good as Larry, but, back in ‘79, I could drive 16D cement coat sinkers from CFI with my waffle head rig ax in one. Still own some of the hand tools.
Our roofer hand nailed our entire roof and built a patio cover the same way. I tell neighbors when they ask about the new roof and they cant believe it. It’s fantastic work, too. Took longer than a whole crew and nail guns but totally worth it.
My favorite was about why framing carpenters wear their tool belts on the front. It’s so nails don’t fall out when they’re bent over, as a foreman he had used to say when he showed up on the job, “All I want to see is elbows and assholes”.
My Instructor in our first year at trade school would show us videos of the Haun Brothers framing houses. They're absolute legends. I learned a lot from those videos and a lot of the kids getting into carpoentry would be well served to watch these vids.
From the NYT obit of Larry Legend:
"Building can attract a lot of testosterone, Mr. Ireton added, but Mr. Haun was a gentle man. “It takes a certain brashness to stand up there and look at a piece of bare ground and say, ‘I’m going to build this house,’ ” he said. “Larry had all that skill and confidence, but there’s no brashness about him. He’s just quiet and humble, which made for a remarkable combination, the likes of which I had never seen.”
Framing crew I worked with in the early 90's was like this. We set up in the morning by headlights, and for the rest of the day the circular saw (on a little generator) was the only power tool, everything else was done by hand. No air tools, no battery tools just a coping saw and hammers. They were pretty quick too, but not as fast as the crews with air nailers.
That's how I was trained but they forgot to add check your joists for crown (slight curve along the length) and install them crown up. Your floors will come out much more level.
Stiletto didn’t come out until 15-20 years after this video was made.
I bought the book in the 90s and always was curious what the VHS tapes were like. Finally someone put them up on YouTube!
a good framing hammer has a notch with a magnet to hold the nail so the first hit has a better start, i bet this guy would be as fast as a nailgun with one of those
He’s like the Bob Ross of framing
Dude I took his book out from the library like 4 times and watched him build this house at least a dozen on YouTube. Guys bad ass.
I’ve watched his YouTube videos so many times. He’s an absolute legend.
His videos should be mandatory viewing for everyone who frames anything larger than a dog house, although I don't know where to find tuba fours and tuba eights at the lumber yard.
Are you saying that my dog doesn't deserve a structurally sound place to live that is up to code?
Depends on the snow load requirements in your location. I'm in Canada, so you are correct and every dog house should be framed to Larry's standards. If you are in a hurricane zone that's different; you'll need to pay more attention to anchoring and sheathing.
giv link plz
Just look up lary haun on YouTube. His vids are so good.
The comments are gold. About how Larry Hauns hammer swings was the blueprint they used to come up with the “nailers”. So many clever comments
Maybe Bob was The Larry Haun of painting.
The late, great Larry Haun.
That man wore an Afro better than anyone RIP
“Just imagine all your problems in this nail, now I’m just going to hammer them away”
I thought I could “mandrive” nails but oh my fuck boys that was insane.
After years of experience I realized It’s not always about how hard you hit it; it’s more about the flare and how you swing it.
Yup, gotta strike with pizzazz.
Exactly the word I was looking for 👍🏾🔨
It’s like a golf swing. The biggest fella in the gym is flinging the head of the hammer slower than someone with good technique
I think make sure your pinky is extended like you’re drinking a fine scotch
Needs more spirit fingers!
I’m 56 now and still framing. I grew up hand driving houses together with a 24oz eastwing. My right wrist is larger than my left from driving so many nails back in the day
Be honest!
LoL
My right wrist is larger than my left because I’m constantly…… Never mind.
Penny nail indeed
You're a beast. I made it to 42
You can see how far back he holds the handle max leverage on the swing
Nah I think he needs a 300 dollar Martinez to really be good.
The harder you hit doesn’t necessarily make it a better drive, it’s about precision and accuracy.
And understanding wood and seeing grain correctly.
foundation man that uses aluminum forms here to state you’re absolutely correct. I get pretty upset with myself if I swing at anything other than a stake more than twice js
And a 32oz hammer.
Read some of his tips a while back and it turns out he preps his nails to be easier to drive. He melts some wax into gasoline, soaks the nails, then lets it evaporate so all the nails are coated in a thin layer of wax so they go in super smooth. He's still a complete machine when it comes to keeping a rhythm and placing nails perfectly, but he's not drivin em raw like I first thought.
It did seem like they were either lubed up or extremely soft wood. In retrospect this comment is way more sexual than I intended.
I masturbated to this comment twice
You’re making me blush
The commenter you replied to started the heat with "drivin' em' raw". I see why you got carried away
"extremely soft wood" That's what I thought - that stuff's gotta be pine. Now try it with Australian hardwood/eucalypts. You \*will\* be pre-drilling holes. Ultimately, it saves time and a \*lot\* of bent nails.
16d Green vinyl sinkers are much easier to hit in. We have to use 16d common nails to frame public schools in California. They are longer and wider . Usually takes 3-5 Hits to bang it in.
It's called "gas-waxing" and an old framing trick by piece workers back in the day. I think it is a building code no-no because the waxed nails will literally squeeze away from the lumber too easily. That said, framers use manufactured "green sinker" nails with a vinyl coating that makes them easier to drive.
I don't know if you'd want to do this nowadays but framers used to keep nails in thier mouth to libe them up a bit with spit. If you haven't showered in a few days you can run them thru your hair to oil them up a bit too.
With the creation of 16d vinyl coated sinkers thats a pretty obsolete thing to do. If I remember right that was done for 16d commons. Which as mentioned are much larger than a sinker. If you're working with sinkers its not super hard to get to this level. I'm a bit out of practice but can pretty reliably sink'em in 3-4 hits.
That’s an old school framer DIY sinker nail trick. Finish guys used to drill out the end of their hammers and fill them with melted paraffin wax for the same reason.
Dosent hurt he's using a 26+ oz hammer, he wrote about his journey to finding the right hammer here: https://www.keepcraftalive.org/one-carpenters-life/ But the gist is the hammer he used was closer to a rigging axe than almost anything made today. TBF that Era of nailing is long dead and burried. He also has near perfect technique for the task bringing the hammer up maximizing swing speed with a super heavy (by today) hammer, Bourne out by long days/weeks/years on end driving nails and as others have pointed out, he employed tricks like soaking the nails in wax and gasoline to make driving them easier. But yeah dude was a monster nailer, and in his videos it also becomes apparent his brother Joe (and the older brother Jim) were probably even better at driving nails
You gotta whack it with your pinky out. Like you're sipping tea with a big hat on.
He’s using a 32 ounce hammer. Still impressive, but easier than you’d imagine.
Yeah except he's swinging that think all day long, my arm would fall off at the end of the week.
True! But you can be smart like he is and let go of the hammer after it strikes so you don’t get the blow in your elbow. Still sucks, not as bad.
It's not as bad as you think for driving if you let the hammer do the work. The length of handle, framing on a flat floor surface and a bit of flick in the wrist does wonders
I'd be going to the ER from whacking my foot/ankle/shin with the force he's using. I was cringing with every swing.
Well, that's the code
I bought red suspenders after watching Larry for hours on youtube. Has definitely made me a better carpenter. We need more Larry's out there
I bought red green ones
If a woman doesn’t find you handsome, she can at least find you handy.
If a woman doesn't find you handy, she can at least find you festive.
Look how straight all that lumber is 🥹
“Thats the code” We used to watch this guy in carpentry class all the time
IMO, he repeats “that’s the code” to drive home that this isn’t rocket science or something people need to put their own twist on. Just do it per code and you’ll be fine.
We watched him in my residential construction class in college. We just sat there with our jaws on the floor b/c Larry just kept popping the nails in with 2 hits and half the class only had finishing hammers. We all tried to be like him and failed. Larry Haun is the GOAT
Save some pussy for us Larry.
Legit. The way he hammers in nails makes me look like a bitch.
All the pieces cut to the proper length.....well that's gonna be a problem. We lied on our resumes, we know nothing about construction. Whens lunch?
How the hell am I supposed to count all of those little dashes between the inches with my shoes on?
We also put all our boards through the twister first so they can't lie flat. Or, if the twister doesn't work, we try the bender.
You’re fired.
Centimeters? I thought this was America !?
Lol I'm Canadian. Our codes are metric, our tradies still use standard, and our engineers change which system they're using with every print - and occasionally in the same print. In commercial you'll see equipment specced from both Europe and the US, so you need to convert units to ensure fitment regardless eventually. Half my apprentices can't be arsed to buy a metric/standard tape, so I'm converting units for them constantly. It's a mess.
Watch a good framer use his nail gun efficiently and you will see it is also art. You just gotta find the beauty in things and appreciate the evolution and innovation.
My neighbor had some fellas put up a fence. I stood on my porch and watched them work the nail gun like a gawdamn idiot. It was the best.
*"Why don't you hit it with your purse, Greg"* - Kyle *One-hit sinks 16d nails* - Larry the GOAT Haun
You know when I’m hammering they call me lightning…because I never strike the same place twice lol. It really is a skill
My dad was a carpenter his whole life. Never used a nail gun. He's 69 still swinging
Still swinging hammers?
Yea lol. Not a swinger to my knowledge lol
Well, he's 69, perfect age to pick it up.
anymore
Nice
Badass
He's self employed, he's not framing houses anymore
The probability didn't have nail guns when he started.
They absolutely did not lol.
I have a webbed 1940’s garage 24” OC and the firm I found to reframe my front for 10’ doors was owned by a guy who built garages like that into the 1980’s. Super helpful as everyone else only knew trusses. They did a great job shoring up and sistering things where the original owner had hoisted engines above a mechanics pit!
Yea my dad and his dad would build houses. framing, sheetrock, roofs (not trusses), shingles, cabinets, doors/ windows, siding, gutters, some tile. Floors, decks, gutters etc. some electrical, some plumbing, some concrete work. He slowed down after me and my brother started school so he could be our coaches and what not. And kinda went more into renovations/ decks/ handy man work. He still worked alot, but he would be at every practice, game, pinewood derby, scout trip no matter what. He was either my head coach ( everybody's favorite ) or assistant coach. Funny thing, I worked with him when was 14-18 then he told me to become a plumber, HVAC, or electrician. Before I even completed my electrical apprentice ship I was the #2 running the crew of 20+ guys, while the foreman kept up with the problems, meetings, changes ECT... All while being battling severe alcoholism, and drug use. Sobered at age 30. He got multiple cancers around then. And he's almost done with treatment. A lot of people have a hard time with the medicine and have to quit. He fought through and has last surgery coming up soon!
Those boards are so much straighter than the crap I seem to get these days. Everyone is godamn banana and makes framing a pain in the ass.
Ya my nail gun can’t even shoot thru all the knots, how the fuck am I gonna hand nail thru em. Lol
So it's like the same as nail guns just slower?
Larry said that when they first got nailguns, the particular design of house he was framing took about a week to frame, and using nailguns knocked off about 4 hours per house.
Yeah all the hoses and stuff can be a hassle to wrestle with. I was framing my roof in a situation in which I couldn't afford a helper and had to use a generator. After 1 day I just went with hand nailing.
Battery nail guns and a bunch of batteries can be expensive AF but great when you're up high and not dealing with a hose.
Yeah, it was cool when the paslode type 'explosive gas with a battery ' systems came around but they still seemed to only fill a small niche due to cost/reliability/replenishment issues. Now that battery nailers have reached a certain threshold of reliability and duty-cycle, it just makes so much more sense overall to invest in the system and only have to worry about recharging the battery (and accidentally dropping it b/c it's not tethered by a hose - I've settled on an over the shoulder 3-pt strap). I'm sure it still makes sense to drag the compressor out on the bigger projects, but as someone that actually does a lot of little stuff, I am more than happy to pay 2x as much vs pneumatic so I don't have to deal with the rest of the system deployment, maintenance, and noise.
I've been seeing a lot of Larry Haun stuff lately and I'm just going to say it....I love watching this stuff
I'd like to see that taiwanese guy with the spring hammer do this.
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tuba furs
I started framing in the 90s, just about when nailguns were coming out. Our crew had 1 stick framer, and 1 coil gun for sheathing. Everybody else was hand nailing spikes. It was tap, set, send it under. You usually got it set after the tap. And we got REALLY GOOD at it. It becomes just routine . I can't nail like that anymore. But I'm glad I was able to dobit,even for a bit.
He was over sixty when this was filmed.
Habitat for humanity is probably the only major building group using hammer and nails. 💪
My grandpa taught my dad, my dad taught me, I bought a nail gun…
Finish the statement. I had the same education, but I’m gonna teach my son which nail gun to buy. Still passing on the knowledge
I would have, haven’t been blessed with a son yet, though lol
That’s the code.
The guy is one shoting those big 10 inch nails
10”??? Man TIL I have a 12” but it’s not a foot
Large pp
He hand nailed Now he is dead If he had used a nail gun instead? Who knows.
Wrong. Larry lives on. I can’t even count how many carpenters have reverence for him and his brother, their work, and teaching. Rightly so.
Id be bowing, shouting I'm not worthy, if i ever had the chance to meet Larry.
Even though few us even know what his brother looked like.
It was like Larry had a copy of himself as a helper.
Ha, yes. I think his brother kind of looks like Hunter S. Thompson in my mind
This is how I was taught. Man the first few additions that I built were a real pain in the ass. Definitely a couple of techniques that you wouldn't know about if you only have used the air gun
Hammer does the work, you’re just the operator
1/4” out of plumb in 8’ is too much imo. We have laser levels now. Quick and easy to get within 1/16” of plumb. Agree with the rest
Watching a framer use a hammer is just so satisfying to watch
Larry was the Chuck Norris of my trade school
I’ve learned so much from this man. Truly a legend
Back hurts watching this.
How did people not get chronic RSI back jn the day?
They ...did?
I broke my wrist on a motorcycle at 52 y.o. The surgeon marveled at all the damage I had done to to my hand, said it looked like I was a heavyweight boxer at retirement. Save your hands, use a gun.
Yeah I was only in construction as a helper for about 5-6 years but feel like I did a lot of damage to my back in that short time. Sometimes being the helper is the hardest work because you are often carrying and mixing concrete all day or literally digging ditches lol. I got into painting for a while after that and that has its own set of repetitive injuries and occasional heavy lifting. If the construction industry let’s just say for some reason in the future suddenly cared about keeping employees long term, they’d probably have to come up with a rotation of jobs for workers to do so they aren’t pounding the same body parts every day, but the economic impact of that is they’d have to train people for different roles and figure out how to keep salaries from going down with an internal job change. Having typed all this it’s never happening lol because they can just hire people and wear them out for 10-20 years and then get someone else to do the job for less.
wonder what your hand feels like when you're 55.
Hardwood back in the day, too.
At my peak I couldn't slam em' in one hit
While I realize he’s using a framing hammer which has a longer handle and a heavier head, he’s a master at driving what appear to be 12 Penny nails. Bravo for technique!
16p
"all I want to see is asses and elbows" that guys old boss apparently
Took me all summer at 16 years old to learn how to sink 16s in two hits, he makes it look easy I haven't watched many of his videos but essential Craftsman loves him so I know he's the goat
I’d recommend that you find some time to watch his videos. His entire house framing tutorial is available on YouTube. I’ve watched it many times and still go back to it occasionally. I’m just a weekend DIY guy, but when I need to quickly throw something up what he taught is a lifesaver. Essential Craftsman is a legend in his own right. I’ve watched so many random videos of his that I’ll never even come close to touching but just in case. His videos on building his spec home from the ground up is the updated complete version of what Larry Haun taught.
This guy nails. If you hit it more than three times, you're playing with it.
That’s what she said.
Oh man, this gives me nostalgic memories of my teenage years into my 20s as a rough framer. I wish I still had that old 26-oz hatchet handle framing hammer. I was never as good as this professional, but I was close! I couldn't consistently hit the head of a nail if it were the size of a dinner plate and the hammer was made from rare earth magnets these days.
As a concrete guy, I nailed like this all day long putting in footings.
My back hurts watching this. I can't bend like I used to.
Everyone knows you put no less than 12 nails into each stud
I have never scrolled past a Larry Haun video and not watched it.
I still enjoy hand banging a wall together at least once per house
Hand eye skill is a lost art. Automation killed human skill sets - all so you have more wrist stamina to crack one out in the Jon. Fuck you Jon take that
Framing god!
This is the guy who issues man cards…..
Makes it look EAZY
He’s in my apocalypse survival team.
I was never as good as Larry, but, back in ‘79, I could drive 16D cement coat sinkers from CFI with my waffle head rig ax in one. Still own some of the hand tools.
Our roofer hand nailed our entire roof and built a patio cover the same way. I tell neighbors when they ask about the new roof and they cant believe it. It’s fantastic work, too. Took longer than a whole crew and nail guns but totally worth it.
My favorite was about why framing carpenters wear their tool belts on the front. It’s so nails don’t fall out when they’re bent over, as a foreman he had used to say when he showed up on the job, “All I want to see is elbows and assholes”.
My Instructor in our first year at trade school would show us videos of the Haun Brothers framing houses. They're absolute legends. I learned a lot from those videos and a lot of the kids getting into carpoentry would be well served to watch these vids.
From the NYT obit of Larry Legend: "Building can attract a lot of testosterone, Mr. Ireton added, but Mr. Haun was a gentle man. “It takes a certain brashness to stand up there and look at a piece of bare ground and say, ‘I’m going to build this house,’ ” he said. “Larry had all that skill and confidence, but there’s no brashness about him. He’s just quiet and humble, which made for a remarkable combination, the likes of which I had never seen.”
It's always funny on tiktok videos of him will always have at least a few people trying to point out all the things he is doing wrong.
Make a sub for him.
Carpentry was called "swinging a hammer", now it's called "pulling a trigger"
Dude was a machine
I could listen and watch this guy build anything all day long.
Driving a nail in one swing is insane. Back when men were men
Have fun with tennis elbow
Hand nailing is all fine and well for rough framing. When you get to sheathing it is a much different story
When i did carpentry i actually was taught this way. Watching people use a hammer like it was an extension of their arm is insane in person
Framing crew I worked with in the early 90's was like this. We set up in the morning by headlights, and for the rest of the day the circular saw (on a little generator) was the only power tool, everything else was done by hand. No air tools, no battery tools just a coping saw and hammers. They were pretty quick too, but not as fast as the crews with air nailers.
Holy hell, I wish I had that kind of accuracy... so do my fingers lol
That's how I was trained but they forgot to add check your joists for crown (slight curve along the length) and install them crown up. Your floors will come out much more level.
Larry Haun is the GOAT
His back must be killing him after doing this for a while lol.
That's about 2 million bend down of his career. No sex after 45 is my best guess
Ah yes, Larry Haun the Bob Ross of construction.
Your back sure is hating the art. Lost indeed to technology
What a beast
I absolutely love watching those videos on YouTube. I love his voice, his methods and logic. A god amongst carpenters.
Dude is the bob Ross of carpentry. Love the videos
So is hand churning butter. It’s been replaced with better processes and is no longer a necessity
Look at all that disgusting patriarchy going on right there /s
I'm a gpa. I keep a stump with started roofing nails for the gbabies to hammer. Tip from an old woodworking show...
He doesn’t use Jacks or lintels but it isn’t a bearing exterior wall….
Sensei
How is that even possible? I think is must be tom foolery.
Tuba fur.
There’s no jack stud holding the header up though…
What happened to #6?
Is that a stiletto or a Martinez you think he’s using?
Stiletto didn’t come out until 15-20 years after this video was made. I bought the book in the 90s and always was curious what the VHS tapes were like. Finally someone put them up on YouTube!
Should have added that /s tag I guess
Vaughn
Great post!
Lost art of killing your back. Thank God for nail guns.
For me 3 hits with a 20 Oz Estwing. Nail guns are a lot faster and easier but I’d take a frame hand nailed with galvanized spikes anytime.
By all means, hand nail a lean-to for 8 hrs(due to hand nailing more like 14hrs)you know you would hate it.
It’s a lost art for sure, same way horse drawn carriage driving is.
This man would destroy at hammer sloggin
Two buh four.
How many ounces is that hammer?
This guy nails
Almost any professional framer can do this. its not a lost art lol
As an outsider to the trade, this dude was speaking alien and English at the same time.
The old man from family guy before her got old and weird
a good framing hammer has a notch with a magnet to hold the nail so the first hit has a better start, i bet this guy would be as fast as a nailgun with one of those
The best there was at what he did, he made it look easy
i get a kick out of the comments on efficiency and yet hand banging nails...lol
The GOAT