Today started like this and didn't get any better.
That was from a hammer slip.
My goal today was to remove all the wood along the end rafters so I could frame for my fascia on the sides. That little slip happened about 5 minutes into the day.
I finished up that side and decided that, since the scaffold was there I'd go ahead and try to frame that side.
I shot 1 nail and my nail gun jammed. It has never jammed before. I've been using 2 different size nails, 1 for framing and 1 for nailing decking. Apparently three was 1 smaller nail left in the gun when I loaded the bigger nails. I usually tap the gun to make sure this doesn't happen but, well, it happened.
I spent about 2 hours trying to get that nail out. I was hitting this with a sledgehammer with no luck.
Then I tried to take it apart like the instructions said. Not the gun, but the part that holds the nails. Stuff like this is supposed to not be hard but it was. Two of the hex nuts wouldn't budge. I ended up using a monkey wrench to get them off. Then I couldn't find a wrench for the two other nuts. Turns out the were metric. Sheesh. Finally dug through my box of useless metric tools and tried to get them off. No luck. They just turned. Only you can't even see the other side of them to maybe get something on a nut. They just turned and turned.
I was pretty much defeated at this point. So I went to Lowe's to get a new gun. I didn't see the kind I had so I asked the guy what a good gun was. He asked "well, what angle do you need". Apparently there are 22 degree guns, 28 degree guns, etc. etc. Who knew? Since I have a bunch of nails I wanted a gun that could use them. So, back home I go. On the drive back I thought maybe the Home Depot tool rental folks might know how to get this unjammed. So, I get the gun and head on over. Big long lines at the tool rental place so I said "**** it I'll just get a new gun". I went over to the tool area and couldn't find the nail guns so I asked someone that worked there. I then decided to ask him if he might know how to unjam it. Miracle of miracles he said "yes, I used to work on these". He told me to take the whole thing apart and get it from the top. He told me a bunch of details that I won't go into. So, I got some stuff he recommended and headed back home.
I figured I'd lost enough of the day already and I figured I could tackle the gun in the morning. So, I decided to finish tearing off the necessary wood from the other side of the house.
This was not so easy. Here is the only way to get the scaffolding next to the house.
So, I would tear off about 5 feet or so and have to partially tear down the scaffolding an push it 5 feet over and put it together again.
Even this wouldn't have been so bad except I had to tear a 1 x 4 that was covering the siding that was covering another 1 x 4 nailed to the end rafter. So, it basically came off in layers causing me to move the scaffolding all the way across and then all the way back. The air conditioner wasn't helping me much either.
But, I did get all the wood pulled off. The part around the electrical box was challenging but it's gone.
These don't look like much but they represent a day's work (minus the nail gun fiasco time).
The good news is, for the second time this week, a nasty thunderstorm has somehow moved just around my house.
cliffs
busted my eye
busted my nail gun
busted up the other stuff that needed busting up