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Re: Refooting Large Building -Help: X-post

Cyborg 0019

2007-02-17, 9:25 am

marson wrote:
> On Feb 11, 6:39 pm, Cyborg 0019 <jjbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> could try fastening a ledger to the studs (uprights as you call them)
> and jacking on that. I've moved garages like that, don't know if it
> would work on a heavier building.
>

Hey replying to your post again,
Do you have any idea what this strange thing is?

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?...jackish1yp0.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jackishhf9.jpg

It looks like a climbing jack......???????
I always thought it was broken off something,was a hitch of some kind or
related to trucks or cars or saw mill related
If it is a climbing jack,what dose it climb? wood? Would this be its
main use?
Surley it was not made to climb studs!
It has sat in the workshop for years unexplained.
Have x posted hoping to find some answers

TIA

Andrew Mawson

2007-02-17, 9:25 am

"Cyborg 0019" <jjbruce@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey replying to your post again,
> Do you have any idea what this strange thing is?
>
> http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?...jackish1yp0.jpg
> http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jackishhf9.jpg
>
> It looks like a climbing jack......???????
> I always thought it was broken off something,was a hitch of some
kind or
> related to trucks or cars or saw mill related
> If it is a climbing jack,what dose it climb? wood? Would this be its
> main use?
> Surley it was not made to climb studs!
> It has sat in the workshop for years unexplained.
> Have x posted hoping to find some answers
>
> TIA

I think it is a floor board cramp. The grippy bit sits either side of
the joist, and the plunger cramps the board tight against the previous
one before you nail it.

AWEM

Cyborg 0019

2007-02-17, 9:25 am

Andrew Mawson wrote:
> "Cyborg 0019" <jjbruce@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:45d6f745@news.comindico.com.au...
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> it to
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> place,seehttp://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=uprightsjk6.jpg
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> problems,but
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> tied at
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> pushing the
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> kind or
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> I think it is a floor board cramp. The grippy bit sits either side of
> the joist, and the plunger cramps the board tight against the previous
> one before you nail it.
>
> AWEM
>
>

Arhh interesting as basic as that,I recon you are correct,the more I
look at it,I recon you are spot on.
What a very odd tool,It must have cost a mint,come to think of it,When
pulling up a floor in a house a while back I saw these strange marks on
the sides of the floor barers,(I have always used a chisel and bit of
floor board)
I could not think what made them,I now know.

The tool has finally a name," The floor board machine "...lol

Thanks heaps.

hoot

2007-02-17, 9:25 am

"Cyborg 0019" <jjbruce@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:45d7155c@news.comindico.com.au...
>
> Arhh interesting as basic as that,I recon you are correct,the more I look
> at it,I recon you are spot on.
> What a very odd tool,It must have cost a mint,come to think of it,When
> pulling up a floor in a house a while back I saw these strange marks on
> the sides of the floor barers,(I have always used a chisel and bit of
> floor board)
> I could not think what made them,I now know.
>
> The tool has finally a name," The floor board machine "...lol
>
> Thanks heaps.

It's definately a floor board clamp. If you have a lot of flooring to do and
you can get hold of two or three of them they are really handy. You can
place, clamp and nail six or eight boards at a time. They aren't easy to
find, i saw them at an equipment hire place once. There's a modern version
available that uses a turning handle instead of the ratchet action.

H.

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