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   BG | Aug 12, 2005 08:03pm | #1

   Jaune,
   You probably want ot post your question over in Breaktime, that is where the construction guys hangout. However, you use a tool that has a hook on end(actually, the end has a hook on each side) allowing you to slide up under the clap hook on the nail and cut it by hitting the other end with a hammer...thereby freeing the bad clap so it can be replaced.

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   jaune | Aug 12, 2005 09:49pm | #3

   Thanks. Is that too lavailable in a place like lowe's or h.depot?

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   MarkRD | Aug 12, 2005 11:26pm | #5

   More than likely....Mark
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   MarkRD | Aug 12, 2005 08:30pm | #2

   Been there, done that.

   Get a small (thin) pry bar.

   For the board you want to remove, pry it up a bit till the nails pop enough so you can grab them with the pry bar. For the board above it, you'll have to cut the nails off with the thin pry bar and a hammer.

   Once you get one board off, going down is easy. Going up is a pain in the neck.

   I used a pry bar like this one.

   Mark

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   jaune | Aug 12, 2005 09:51pm | #4

   Thanks, Mark. I'll give it a shot.
   John

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   YesMaam27577 | Aug 12, 2005 11:57pm | #6

   You need a tool known as a shingle ripper. It's an odd-looking steel bar, with an offset handle. It slides up under a wood shingle (or a course of siding), then it hooks a nail, and pulls it out from the back side of the wood.

   As an alternative, it can be sharpened, so that it cuts the nail instead of pulling it out.

   And it's long enough that it can get both the easy nails along the bottom edge, and the tough ones that are "blind nailed".

   Most of the big box stores carry them. Seems to me that one should cost less than $20.

    

    

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   jaune | Aug 13, 2005 01:18am | #7

   thanks...I'll trry the ripper.
   jaune