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Well, with too many nails the structural integrity of a board CAN/COULD indeed be weakened.
That area where the tow nails are installed could have something behind it that they were trying to get a hold and grip on.
However, I tend to look at all those items coming together in one location at multiple different plains and I don't think this is a new home. This looks like a remodel. A cheap one with no OSB on the outside of the wall so they used the silver insulating board for shear strength. Meaning, this home is being put together cheaply anyway.
As I look closer I can see the board that is vertical that has the 6 tow nails are actually holding that vertical board to the flat board underneath. So technically I don't think that is too many nails. A 4x4 post, as it appears, would need 3 tow nails regardless. 2 nails did not get a good bit so 4 nails look to actually be holding the board. Not too many, especially since on my typical post details that are nailed they are required to have 3 nails anyway. One extra is very rarely a bad thing.
So then, under all the wood it appears there is a piece of carpet, further suggesting this is a remodel.
If you look at what the top left flat board is nailed into with the 6 nails you can see that the outside rim is a 2x that is on end, then there are multiple layers of wood built up to the depth of that left board. They look to be 3/4" boards sandwiched and nailed together to achieve the depth. That being the case, every 3/4" there would need to be at least one 10D nail placed into the center of each 3/4" piece of pine wood. So, technically I don't think there are too many nails in that left board. I know my engineer makes notes that tell me to install at least one 10D or larger nail into any multi layered build up like that.
Now, if I change my perspective and look at this picture in the tone of it being a roof rafter the picture makes more sense. I don't think it's too many nails since there are no hangers anywhere. And again it appears to be a remodel where two roofes come together.
That area where the tow nails are installed could have something behind it that they were trying to get a hold and grip on.
However, I tend to look at all those items coming together in one location at multiple different plains and I don't think this is a new home. This looks like a remodel. A cheap one with no OSB on the outside of the wall so they used the silver insulating board for shear strength. Meaning, this home is being put together cheaply anyway.
As I look closer I can see the board that is vertical that has the 6 tow nails are actually holding that vertical board to the flat board underneath. So technically I don't think that is too many nails. A 4x4 post, as it appears, would need 3 tow nails regardless. 2 nails did not get a good bit so 4 nails look to actually be holding the board. Not too many, especially since on my typical post details that are nailed they are required to have 3 nails anyway. One extra is very rarely a bad thing.
So then, under all the wood it appears there is a piece of carpet, further suggesting this is a remodel.
If you look at what the top left flat board is nailed into with the 6 nails you can see that the outside rim is a 2x that is on end, then there are multiple layers of wood built up to the depth of that left board. They look to be 3/4" boards sandwiched and nailed together to achieve the depth. That being the case, every 3/4" there would need to be at least one 10D nail placed into the center of each 3/4" piece of pine wood. So, technically I don't think there are too many nails in that left board. I know my engineer makes notes that tell me to install at least one 10D or larger nail into any multi layered build up like that.
Now, if I change my perspective and look at this picture in the tone of it being a roof rafter the picture makes more sense. I don't think it's too many nails since there are no hangers anywhere. And again it appears to be a remodel where two roofes come together.
Justin Plant
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Old Man with a Hat
Well in the videos I watched the poster kept mentioning a IAA yard he was at in the first drone overview of all the 17,000+ cars in the Clewiston FL yard which is actually a CoPart yard via Google Earth & streetview. I could see the yard but it was empty of cars when I Google Earthed it the other day but that image could be months or a year or so old, the Utube video was over a month old but he did say that the vehicles were in the processing stage and he's been doing this for a couple of years and is out of South Carolina and talked about a C8 Corvette he bought at one of the yards he was re-visiting.
IAA is Insurance Auto Auctions and here's a little summary from a Google search:
"IAA provides international buyers with the flexibility of participating in our online car auctions either with a registered buyer account or through a broker. Our Market Alliance members can provide local support to buyers in over 170 countries with bidding, buying..."
Remember practically all these flood vehicle's come with 'Certificate Of Destruction' titles with very few having 'Salvage Titles' meaning that the vehicle can only be used for parts and never registered or insured again here in the USA, but that's where the international buyers come in and you have to bid with them.
IAA has some yards up in the Tampa area but nothing as large as the Clewiston FL yard but I was already spending to much curious time on it and moved on. The say they got over 200+ locations, just checking now I see that some Hurricane cars went live today.
I imagine the registration is just the same as CoParts.
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LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
Don't encourage the POS.
Interesting. Definitely isn't the type of title I would want.
Sure does make a lot of sense to sell them to other countries since our "laws" prohibit us from being able to use destruction vehicles. Gives some reprieve for the insurance companies that lost a ton of money (not that I care) .
Jakter
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Only someone with no experience and a brand new nail gun would think that.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
POS? is that aimed at me?
You in the retail construction industry and a little sensitive? lol
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LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
POS? is that aimed at me?
You in the retail construction industry and a little sensitive? lol
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No, not you.
68PK21 440.6bbl
Old Man with a Hat
I think you missed the part "on a brand new house".
There are many FB 'Reels', Tube 'Shorts' and I don't even go there on TikTok'y about slapped together shoddy construction.
Texas seems to be famous for shoddy construction and Gold Star Inspections on FaceBork is popular with it's "That ain't right" reels.
I'm sure Floriduh is in the same boat with slap it up construction.
Here's another shot of the rafter which is a total WTF, hell I built better tree houses when I was like 6.
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3175375
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They used hurricane brackets here.
The garage that was here, that I gave to my cousin, though was a different story.
Its roof rafters were just sitting on the walls, with a nail into the side wall, if the builder felt the need.
There we go. A proper picture of what we were looking at.
I agree, for a point ridge that the hips come into that one point, this is not put together properly. No doubt.
However, the amount of nails doesn't hurt anything. They really need to have a bunch of hangers and connectors on that point.
You are correct. No experience.
How about a screen shot of the day from me. Just a small sampling.
Some of my inexperience as a general contractor for 20 years and a framer for 10.
I design, then create plans with my architect and then I build them myself.
I'm definitely still learning and need some more experience.
Would any of yal like to come have a custom home built in Colorado? Right in the middle, surrounded by something like 15 peaks that are 14,000 that you can see from all of your windows?
Some of my inexperience as a general contractor for 20 years and a framer for 10.
I design, then create plans with my architect and then I build them myself.
I'm definitely still learning and need some more experience.
Would any of yal like to come have a custom home built in Colorado? Right in the middle, surrounded by something like 15 peaks that are 14,000 that you can see from all of your windows?
LocuMob
Fluid Technician with a hat
You need to brush up on your skills.
67newport
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Jakter
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Jakter
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POS? is that aimed at me?
You in the retail construction industry and a little sensitive? lol
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Then who did you mean?
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