The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-25
hI ONOMY IN USING NAILS

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economy shown in the use Of nails
for different kind of work. Some
times the fault is with the foreman
and sometime with the workmen.
Ten-penny and twelve. penny nails
arr frequently employed when six.
pennies or eight-pennies would
subserve more Satisfactory, as
well as more economical purpose
Every workman, who has occasion
to use nails of various sizes, should
provide neat-nail box having about
six compartments, for as many
different kinds of nails. A sutrsabIe
box for holding nails may be made
OF thin boards, IL inches long by 10
inches wide, with faring sides and
division board through the middle.
It should be provided with suitable
handle in the upper part, and such
a nail-box Wi Railways be found more
convenient than some old dish that
may be turned over at q touch.
# workman ssis not sufici-
emily interested in choosing nails of
the most suitable size fer a given
piece of work, the intelligent boss
should point out to him the advant-
ages of one size and the dlsadvant-
ages of using nails of large size.
When one is naingly down thinfoor-
ing, for example, il will be found
matter of economy to use eight-pennJ
nails. especially if the joints or
sleepers are hard timber. Whenev
Ell an eight-penny will hold board
or stick Of timber, it will be more
economical to use eight-penny than
nails ia large size. In many in
stances, when workman is mailing
on siding, the studs, posts, or beans
III certain places, may be unusually
hard and gnarly; in all
such places, six penny nail can be
driven in with facility whereas a
ten-penny nail will double up and
very likely split the siding or
casing before il be driven half its
length.
When balloon frames are being
erected, the sides of the joists are
often nailed to the studs with thirty
penny nails, which argues a great
lack Of economy, as more than an
inch in length of every nail will
protrude beyond the stud. BY en-
ploying for such purposesstenpenny
nails which will barely extend
through the joist and stud, and driv-
ing In two or three more, the joint
will be ! rendered much sitter even
by the use of less weight of
nails.
There is also a great lack of
economy when more nails are used
than are absolutely necessary for the
well doing of the work, though rails
enough to hold the work permanently
together will be found satisfactory
sufficiency. And whatever may be
be used beyond a requisite number
may be computed as so much clear
loss.
The joists of a building are often
placed only II inches apart Work
men frequently drive two nails
through every board into each joist.
One half the number of nails would
serve the desired purpose quite as
well, thus saving not only the nails
but the time employed to drive
til em.
When making picket fences, for
example, two ten-penny nails are
employed at one end of
a picket where one eight-pennp would
answer quite as well, if a ribbon
were nailed over all the pickets with
Il few thirty-penny nails reaching
we'll into the rails or runners of the
fence. The same economy may
be exercised when one is putting on
battens over the joints OF vertical
siding. If the studs are sufficiently
hard TO hold nail as well as hemlock
small Fights may be employed rather
than tens. And this sort of economy
may be exercised in numerous kinds
of mechanical operations with advan-
tage to the work itself and with
profit to the proprietor.
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fences. where tho ,,oo+c oro ,nolo ocI