Removing very long nail

hiace_drifter · Post by **hiace_drifter** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:55 am

I'd like to try and remove a very long nail, before I install some upvc boards in my porch. Any tips on how to get a claw hammer/crow bar to grip on to it? Should I just a saw/multi tool to partially cut into it to give a notch for the hammer/crowbar to grip onto? Or just give up and cut through it, and leave a remnant in the wood?

Sorry for terrible photo, will try and add a better pic later!

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 11:13 am

Put a block(s) of timber under your hammer (To raise its height) and continue to pull via its claw

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:33 pm

someone has gone to a massive amount off effort to drive that home so make sure there's sufficient support elsewhere

dewaltdisney · Post by **dewaltdisney** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 2:08 pm

Cut it off flush.

DWD

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:01 pm

Another way to remove it using a claw is to put the nail in the claw and with one hand on the striking face use the other to push on the handle sideways , refitting the claw onto the nail and pushing in the opposite direction and so on. The nail comes out bent to buggery but it does come out.

hiace_drifter · Post by **hiace_drifter** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 6:46 am

big-all wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:33 pm someone has gone to a massive amount off effort to drive that home so make sure there's sufficient support elsewhere

If you mean make sure it is not hioding anything up ...

Some 4 inch mock tudor beams had been attached to the porch beams using these nails. Most came off with the beams, but this one pulled through the beam and stayed in situ. So it is not holding anything up or in place.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:03 am

ahh ok makes sense just ignore my thoughts

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:14 pm

What ever you do, don't bite it, my (late) mum was always telling me "son, don't bite your nails"

hiace_drifter · Post by **hiace_drifter** » Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:46 pm

Someone-Else wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:14 pm What ever you do, don't bite it, my (late) mum was always telling me "son, don't bite your nails"

very good advice ;)

I have now got them out ... managed to bend them over and manhandle them out.