Looks fun. I have a feeling if I tried that. I'd be pulling that whole wall out along with it.
Because I would have just yanked it hard because it wouldn't budge.
Then after the wall falls down. I realized that I missed about 15 nails. :laughing:
"Scratches head" Aw man, that's why the thing didn't budge. "Throws hat down". "Starts cussing".
Chad
Chad, Funny!! Actually, you aren't going to likely get every last one in a bay window, especially if the installer put them in goofy places 30 years ago. But you are right. Gotta get most of them. Two or three, here or there aren't going to matter much.
Once you gently stress the chain, the "free" portions of framing slip easily. If something isn't moving, that gives you an indication of where you need to work a bit more.
My strategy involved moving the bottom first. That weighed an easy 150 lbs, I figure. That wasn't really anchored much, so I knew it would "move". That is where the tractor was flat out, the right "tool".
The top, as you saw, was blind nailed and screwed. No way to get to them. It didn't budge. Once the bottom was free, I just broke the upright styles, to be honest.
That top portion had to weigh 200 lbs. That was a trip!!! It was anchored by long 3" drywall screws. No way that was going to just pull out. Had I just jerked away at full speed, it
might have brought the header with it, perhaps. More likely the style uprights would have just snapped and that would have blown my opportunity to use them to pull the bottom portion out.
The pictures are fun, and posted for a bit of a laugh, but it was a serious job, actually. It wasn't quite as redneck a job as it appears, (not there's anything wrong with being a redneck)
