I spent Labor Day pulling up a rotten 16-foot-long board on our deck. I pulled all of the nails out and bought a replacement from Home Depot. I am a machine at pulling nails, thanks to life experiences in my early twenties. I learned how to pull a nail with a clawhammer, a nail puller, a flat nail puller, a crowbar, sometimes twisting sideways to get it going. If it’s rusty and stuck into some particularly hardwood, if you yank too hard., you are liable to wind up with only part of the nail and the rest of it stuck deep in the board. And then good luck to … Continue reading NAIL-PULLING