On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 23:32 -0400, Lee Michaels wrote:

I used to make rustic furniture and often used lag bolts to hold the slabs
together.

I had a friend who banged together some recycled planks into some temporary
furniture. He did not even bother to drill pilot holes. He just drove in the
lag screws with a baby sledge hammer. When they wouldn't go any further, he
would then use the socket wrench. How's that for fine woodworking??

My carpenter brother says "the hammer is for putting 'em in, the screw
driver is for taking 'em out". The hammer is usually one of those
delicate 20oz framing hammers.

- Doug