Okay. When I first realized that there no single tool that could effectively pull nails in a variety of situations, I was euphoric at the creation of the Nail Jack. Finally, a hand tool, low tech, requiring no compressor or screw gun to actuate. A tool that could be implemented in the jungle or the city or the suburbs to dig, grip and pull any size nail, any size staple or brad. This is a tool that contains its own fulcrum, and because it can grip the fastener at its exposed base, can be effective no matter how far into the, er "wood" it may be. See the little flash presentation at the top of the home page at www.nailjacktools.com.
Anyway, I dreamed of its usefulness in places where a tornado or hurricane had passed through, helping clear, clean and reuse otherwise good building materials in places where they were worth their weight in gold for creating some new semblance of shelter. (I personally believe that any milled lumber will someday be considered treasure, just as pure drinking water will...and that someday folks, is now) In places where lumber can be quickly and effectively cleared for reuse, the Nail Jack would be put quickly to work.
Little did I know that it would need to be issued to every hospital emergency room! We all heard the story recently about the poor guy who had a nail shot accidentally into his skull! I think that the only thing that made people more queasy was that the doctor was forced to use a good old-fashioned claw hammer as a nail puller! That means that because of the poor curve of the top of a hammer, and its inability to grip, this guy's skull assisted in being the fulcrum! Please, ask for a Nail Jack soon at your local hospitals, because there's finally a tool that can grip! I started this story with a little tongue-in-cheek, but perhaps the next model may be made in surgical steel!
