Tool To Straighten Warped Lumber
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-Jerry Ziegler, Providence, Ky.: "I made this tool to straighten warped lumber last year when I was laying flooring on a three-season porch addition to our house. I was using treated 1 by 6's, which warp pretty easily once you spread them all out. So I welded a 3/16-in. thick section of angle iron onto the end of both jaws of an ordinary fence stretcher. To use the tool, you put a nail between the crack at each end of the board. Then you grip the board just ahead of the last one you nailed down and the one you're going to nail down. By pulling bows out of the wood this way, you get perfectly spaced, straight boards every time. The tool worked so well for the floor, I'm going to use it - just a little differently - for the tongue-in-groove ceiling I'm putting in the porch this year."
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Tool To Straighten Warped Lumber FARM SHOP Handy Hints 19-3-28 -Jerry Ziegler, Providence, Ky.: "I made this tool to straighten warped lumber last year when I was laying flooring on a three-season porch addition to our house. I was using treated 1 by 6's, which warp pretty easily once you spread them all out. So I welded a 3/16-in. thick section of angle iron onto the end of both jaws of an ordinary fence stretcher. To use the tool, you put a nail between the crack at each end of the board. Then you grip the board just ahead of the last one you nailed down and the one you're going to nail down. By pulling bows out of the wood this way, you get perfectly spaced, straight boards every time. The tool worked so well for the floor, I'm going to use it - just a little differently - for the tongue-in-groove ceiling I'm putting in the porch this year."
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