Farm I help out at had an old dry cow pole barn fall in this winter. I was looking to get some steel to line my shop after insulating it, and they said have at it, take whatever you need out of the place. Its an older building that used nails for attaching the metal. Anybody have any best practices for pulling those nails? Any other helpful tips for this endeavor. The nice thing is that its almost all ground work.
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I took a 6 inch pair of vice grips and filed off all the teeth but the very end one on each jaw, making a sort of front mouth with top an bottom "teeth". Then I took out the adjusting bolt and replaced it with a long piece of threaded rod with a round weight slipped on and nut on the end. Making a slide hammer. Watch for blood blisters
I've got a pole barn in bad shape that I need to take down this coming summer and replace. The next door neighbor here said that he and his Dad took down a big poultry barn one time. He said they took a pair of nippers like this,welded some half inch pipe on them to lengthen the handles and just nipped the heads off the nails with it.
old
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What type of wood is it?? If a hard wood like oak the nippers as rrlund said if a soft wood a simple nail bar and pull them
Did this many years ago when a wind storm blew part of a roof off. You need one of those slide hammer nail pullers and a 4X6 piece of maybe 1/8 inch thick steel plate. Put the teeth around the nail head and tap the handle a couple of times to get a grip. Stick the metal plate under the curved part of the puller and gently pull her out. Keep from bending the metal up. I have even pulled rosin coated nails this way. Jeffcat
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We bought some good used corrugated steel roofing off of dismantled turkey houses to re-roof some buildings we have. The guy that took it off cut the nails with nippers he had welded rod onto to make the handles longer. No elongated holes and we could put screws in the same ones. It went on fast and didn't leak.
I've used nippers like RRLund showed. I did sharpen the cutting edge so the edge was flush with the outside surface of the nippers. By doing that it made it easier to get under the head of the nail and because the cutting edge was sharp I could cut the heads off fairly easy with out adding any length to the nipper handles. Also, it did not dent the metal around the nails. It really worked good.
Janicholson
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Greenly Nail Puller (down the list) is by far the best. Slide hammer and no issues, self contained and excellent. Jim
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