Was common practice in the day to pin the guard back with a framing pencil
Ripped wedge of scrap lumber, but yeah, used to work with Florida's biggest Jimmy Buffet and Clapton fan, and that's how things were done.
Years later worked for another company, and you would've thought I just shot the Pope for wedging back the guard.
@dave-karoly "sinking 16d nails accurately in one or two hammer blows is amazing."
Three, and the pine is wet. Doug Fir is easier, yellow pine not as much.
Our first house in Sacramento was 2-1, 1 car garage, 930 square feet.?ÿ The 3 bedroom models in that neighborhood a bit bigger, still 1 bathroom/1 car garage.?ÿ Built in 1952.?ÿ It's on the market right now, wish I could buy it.?ÿ The 20% down is as much as we paid for it in 1986.
http://www.metrolistpro.com/homes/2/6/3409-MAYFAIR-DRIVE-SACRAMENTO-CA-95864/20015225
Second house was 3-2, 2 car garage, 1370 square feet built in 1955.
I liked to go up in the attic just to admire the lumberyard's worth of straight, knot free, tight grained douglas fir lumber up there. Beautiful stuff and they didn't skimp. It had hipped roofs, gables are better for DIYers, better access up there.
The subfloor was 2x6 T&G over 4x6 joists on 4 foot centers with 6x6 posts on concrete piers every 4 feet, big concrete piers. A real challenge to crawl around under there.
Current house built in 1935 has concrete floors downstairs and concrete block first floor walls and gables. It's a big thermal mass, no air conditioning, one central floor furnace but it's not bad in the summer.
I never did put all my faith in that guard coming back down, they can get hung up. Bit like handling a gun, best to always assume it's loaded and handle accordingly. Even now when I set a saw down, it's nose first to the floor and roll it on it's side, guard up or down, pure habit.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@dave-karol
I have an 18ga brad gun that is great to hold things together while the glue cures.
Looking for a framing hammer because I am tired of hammering in nails. I already have the headphones for noise reduction.