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Most of our materials are 100+ years old from old barns. All are slow, labor intensive and many scare the wood. On the hardest material such as white oak it was a failure both in thick stock (4" and greater) as well as thin stock ( The nail jail is an interesting, well built tool. We have tried the 11-inch nail jack on a variety of reclaimed materials.
I believe it may work well on new wood.In business we work with reclaimed lumber frequently for the past several years. Sometimes Douglas Fir and pine but more often with northern hardwoods such as red and white oak and hard maple. In general reclaimed lumber gets very, very hard and pulling nails from it is a difficult, time consuming, frustrating job. We have tried every tool we can think of -- cat's paws, nail pullers, chisels, etc.
The Nail Jack is grate for small nails and staples but larger rusty nails you still have to use a crow bar and or hammer. If you were in the business of pulling nails it would be a good tool to have otherwise it is just another tool in your toolbox.
I have looked all over for a simple quick way to pull nails, and this is by far the best one so far.
I bought this larger version of the nail puller tool to remove large nails.I agree with J. The handles are too far apart for one handed use while gripping the nail.Good tool idea, but needs improvement to work well.Not worth the price I paid. Anderson on it's inability to grip rusted and/or long-imbedded nails, especially the "larger" 10D-16D size nails. I can grip them OK, but there isn't enough leverage built into the handles to hold the grip on the nail while extracting the nail.
This tool uses real common sense. Great. It can be tapped on the back of the head to drive the tips into the wood and uses a pliers like action to hold a nail, while the fulcrum will pry the nail out.
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