Scrap wood to nail together? Luxury. Try, "take the nails out of these boards and straighten them, so we can reuse both"

Depending on things, manufacturing your own cut nails in your backyard from free scrap metal may be more efficient and significantly easier than pulling nails. It doesn't help much if you want to reuse the lumber, though.

oh, i had my share of that project too. way back then, i found busy work fun. i think it is the true source of my absolute frustration with busy work now. thanks doc, i think we just made a break through!