This nail that has spent the last 20 years slowly backing itself out of my deck railing.

    by EazyKeez

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    1. What would be the equivalent of checking your height over the years on a door frame?

      Where’s the proof!? 🧐

      Picture(**s**)?

    2. A three-inch deck screw is an excellent replacement.

      Two seconds with a cordless drill and the board will never lift.

      Ten minutes adding new screws around the pier and the whole thing will stay up an extra five years.

    3. It’s the process of the bowed railing being leaned on, repeatedly pulling it out a little

    4. Yall remember that story from along time ago on here somewhere about the dude that caught his nutsack on a nail when he slipped while jumping off a dock(or something like that)?

    5. Have you ever considered that maybe the entire Earth has sunk a couple inches in the last 20 years?

    6. This is a reflection of the human condition, we are slammed into the workforce, we struggle, we rust, we fade away.

    7. It’s entropy. As you walk on the deck you wiggle the nail up and down, side to side. If it takes just a tiny little bit more force to move it up than it takes to move it down it will move up in sum.

    8. What’s interesting isn’t the natural movement of the nail over time, it’s how lazy you are to not pound it back in with a hammer at all in 20 years.

    9. The interesting thing about this post is not the nail, it’s the mentality that has a person looking at it for 20 years and not fixing it. It takes ten seconds, you don’t even have to own a hammer even a hairbrush would do the job. I’m almost scared to see what other issues you ignore for countless years

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