As the photo depicts, William J. ("Brud")
Snyder is in a bit of a tight spot. A
"free-lance" carpenter from Kinderhook,
N.Y., Brud had the good fortune to get the
job of hanging half-inch CDX plywood on
the gable end of the building on the right.
Besides the sliver of a workspace, we asked
Brud, were there any other problems?
Plenty. For starters, it seems the building
wall on the left isn't a gable end. "Until the
gutters were put up, it made for kinda wet
work with all the rain we had this spring,"
he reported.
Then there were the nails.
"We used warm-dipped, eightpenny box
nails, and they're tough to nail even when
you've