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Toe nailing the Great Great Wall to the line. Best place to toe nail, is on the stud side but between framing members. Use your feet and both hands working down the wall. It's important to have the plate right on the line. If you toe nail on the other side, they are weak and the wall will want to move as it's lifted. This wall is 44' long by 25' to the peak. Spoilers, it didn't move off the line when we lifted it.
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[joemamma]

I've been framing for 25 years and this is how I've always done it. I even plywood them and wrap it. Anything u can do on the ground the better. I've been watching ppl make videos of framing and they don't even plywood it or anything. Such a waste of money. Everyone wants to be a carpenter tho.

[michaelgarrow]

I did some park bathrooms and trellises for a big commercial outfit. Would frame the walls and sheet them on the ground before they poured the slab. I even framed and sheeted the roof on the ground. The day after the pour we would set the walls and land the roof with a Gradall reach lift by noon. I had a 10 day schedule that I finished in 2-1/2 days.
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[Mouseblob]

Building makes you kinda whole... release frustrating day's it is soothing... Great work...

[bephilz]

This is how i do it when stick framing, no need for chicken boards, the wall stays on the line and you can pull these toenails easily later. Most clean and efficient way to do it

[alejandroperez]

I like your style, I always got yelled at for adding that many toenails.

[Jeff-vc]

My wife and I added a second story to our rancher and turned it into a cape cod. There was a 38' dormer that ran across the back of the house. I framed it and sheathed it and waited fur a day when I could line up sufficient help to get it lifted into place and secured. I actually placed 2x6 blocks on the outside of the rim joist as added insurance to keep it from sliding off the second floor into the yard below. Wouldn't you know it, Go Time, all my help is there, and, out of nowhere, wind, lots and lots of wind. This was before smart phones, BTW, so, the morning forecast on the local news was about the best information available. Anyway, that was the day so we waited for a lull, stood it up, and I quickly ran down the line and secured the braces we had pre-installed with single screws so they hinged real well. We also pre-installed cleats, and between meticulous planning and the geace of God, it worked out perfectly. That wall was perfectly plumb, the entire length, first attempt. My poor wife still gets the chills when we drive by that house because she still thinks we "Almost lost it." Lol😅😂 Tyat house is still the talk of the town because it's on a busy corner and is seen by hundreds of commuters taking a shortcut between two major routes.

[cullenzawacki]

How many Martinez’s do you own?
I feel like every video i watch there a new hammer. Love it Haha

[mikecraftsmancustombuilder]

I've been following you for years but have never noticed you do it this way! I always leave the bottom plate tacked flat on the subfloor, spread the top plate, and end-nail through top plate into studs. Then pop bottom plate up and end nail through it into studs. I do hinge-nail the same way you do here, just later in the process.

Looks like your way might be easier to align the plate to the chalk line... I guess that's the main advantage? Does it move much as you're nailing studs? Cheers :)

[essentialjudge]

Why not run it it by at the other end? I always did all the front and back plates regardless of bump outs and such to where they would equal the width of the house frame out to out. If you were to like lay them all out across the floor butted together

[Gustavothedon]

That hammer is sexy please do a video on it

[BDOutlaw]

A battery powered nail gun and a 12oz claw? Things have changed since the day

[kevinshafer]

This is the way the frames I had on my house did it. How do you get them to go back and pull all those nails out so they aren't in the way of the drywall?

[bluebird]

what length nail are you shooting to hold the plate?

[chasnetzow]

“Hey! Throw me the hammerfer!”
“What’s a hammerfer?”
It’s for pounding nails, Silly.

[henrypeisch]

I might disagree with anyone end nailing studs - on the basis of speed and accuracy. Out of curiosity, have you guys worked a crew where you triple plate, pull back and toenail tops (to the double top plate) and then stand walls with danglers and toenail bottoms. Nail home bottom plate, tack second (lower top plate) and nail home third plate (upper top plate). All plates are detailed at once - stacked on the deck. Top plates interlock at intersections and plumb one corner and string one wall and others auto plumb. Brace walls and sheath off ladders. Framed a few ways for longer than I like to admit. This east coast method was the most accurate and the fastest to the roof. Don’t want to argue the method with anyone who hasn’t worked a crew that toenails only. I also do not want to argue toe nail vs end nail. But I know what I know. Just curious if others who argue for end nail, square up and sheath on the deck before standing - how many of you guys have done it the best and fastest way there is to stand walls.

[joemamma]

Funny because most ppl that been framing forever don't even know what this is called.

[austinblevins]

If speed is your only goal, then go ahead. But in custom building. We stand walls, square it up and lay the sheeting. Better home all the way around