Hammer A Nail Safely
By Anna
@LadyDuck (469257)
Switzerland
February 13, 2016 6:26am CST
This morning, reading the comments to a discussion posted by Fleur I have noticed that many users feel uncomfortable hammering a nail.
I understand that this task requires a little practice. There are anyway some tricks you can use, to avoid hitting your fingers.
First, select the right hammer e nails to be used for your job.
Make a mark on the spot where you have to insert the nail.
Now hold the nail with a clothespin, position the nail and hit with the hammer.
As an alternative, you can insert the nail in a piece of cardboard, as you see in my picture.
Here is a simple way to hammer a nail, without hitting your fingers.
Others ideas on how to safely hammer a nail?
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67 responses
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
13 Feb 16
The safe way it to let my husband do it but I'm been using a hammer long enough to know how w/o getting hurt.
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Feb 16
I also let someone else do it ha haa
That moment you have to hide behind the feminine nature so as not to do it
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@LadyDuck (469257)
• Switzerland
13 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill I am pretty good in using a hammer, my grandfather was a carpenter, I started early.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
14 Feb 16
@LadyDuck I don't think I've hit my thumb or finger more than one or two times in my life. I don't hammer a lot but it seems to happen when the hammer slides off the nail not when it's missed completely. I tap lightly until it's in pretty good and then a couple of good solid whacks seems to work for me.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
13 Feb 16
Yeahh I'm with you on that one.... I'm all for equality etc.... but ... sometimes... just let the menfolk do it.... lol's
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
13 Feb 16
that's a good idea.... I don't use a hammer very often .... but will keep this in mind... but Like @AbbyGreenhill and @Juliaacv I'll probably ask a man to do it...
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
13 Feb 16
I can do it, but that's 'his job' if he is within shouting distance.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
13 Feb 16
I hate hammering, I prefer to drill. I have hit my thumb soo many times trying to hammer nails on the wall to put up picture frames and mirrors
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14351)
• West Haven, Connecticut
13 Feb 16
@LadyDuck il try that next time I have to nail something to the wall lol
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
13 Feb 16
Luckily I was married to a carpenter but not lucky in other ways lolz But he showed me how to properly hammer a nail and ever since then I am an expert.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
13 Feb 16
@LadyDuck Yes we must still employ caution Anna. A long line in the family of carpenters, it must come natural to you. The main thing I learned was to keep the nail straight and only a few hammers to it necessary if you are hammering deliberate and efficient.
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@LadyDuck (469257)
• Switzerland
13 Feb 16
@TiarasOceanView Yes, those are the important rules, if the nail it's not straight it bends.
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@LadyDuck (469257)
• Switzerland
14 Feb 16
@JamesHxstatic For all the individual houses and apartment complex in Switzerland it was mandatory to have an atomic shelter until 5 years ago. Now you can pay an annual tax for a public shelter and avoid to built this pricey room, but once you have built one, you cannot get rid of it. I remember I wrote a post about this in Bubblews.
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@JamesHxstatic (29412)
• Eugene, Oregon
14 Feb 16
@LadyDuck You have an atomic shelter? That would an interesting discussion.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
13 Feb 16
Good ideas Anna although I liked the suggestion in your third paragraph of using an e nail.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Feb 16
Cool idea, I handle a hammer and nails like a pro, but in another life I was a wood worker.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
13 Feb 16
The clothespin idea is excellent @LadyDuck .
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@LadyDuck (469257)
• Switzerland
13 Feb 16
@nanette64 This is the reason why I use those little helps, I get very easily distracted when I work outside and then I hit my fingers.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
13 Feb 16
@LadyDuck I will remember it for next time. I had to put up a 4'x8' sheet of MDF on the side of the donkeys shelter and smacked my fingers. Owwwie-oomie!!
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@LeaPea2417 (37336)
• Toccoa, Georgia
13 Feb 16
That is good information. Reading this reminds me of a time when I bashed my index finger with a hammer (hitting a nail for a picture to be hung). My nail was black and blue for a month as it healed.
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@thash1979 (33)
• Akron, Indiana
13 Feb 16
I would have never thought to use a clothes pin! What a great way to avoid not hitting your fingers. I will have to suggest this to my hubby, seeming how he is more "dangerous" than I am. I tend to be the one fixing everything in our house rather than him. Sometimes, being a woman, you just have to do it yourself in order to get it done right away or even the right way!
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@LadyDuck (469257)
• Switzerland
14 Feb 16
@thash1979 I also am the one fixing everything in the house, I try to avoid small accidents and problems as much as I can.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
14 Feb 16
Well, Anna- I never thought of the clothespin to hammer a nail- fabulous idea and it will help me to hold onto my fingers- lol!
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
14 Feb 16
@LadyDuck Especially when it's a very small nail. lol!
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