I was on a mission trip with some ex-cons and we were doing it very homespun. We had to break up a concrete plot, and for this purpose the locals had hacked together a sort of long chisel called a lom, which they had fashioned from thick rebar by hammering one end to a chisel-tip and blasting the other with a welder until it formed a nail-head you could hit with a hammer.
Anyway, I had just finished a bout of beating the concrete and I tossed the lom over to a gravel pile, whereupon the improvised nail-head - ringed as it was with the crystallized bristles of melted iron - opened my throwing arm messily from mid-forearm to wrist. It was neither terribly deep nor along any major blood vessels, but it was very showy and it stung like the dickens.
I remember people used to say that Jesus would have had to have the nails go through his wrist like this rather than through his palms, since if the nail was just between the metacarpals, his body weight would pull them through the flesh.
I can see how someone would think that if they’re using the wrong nails like this. But if you use proper nails, about 3/8” square shank with an oversized head, the clamping force you get will be more than enough to support the whole hand if nailed through the palm.
Its not just that it will tear - the pain comes from the nail being in the joints. The place they put the nail is where the ligaments and tendons go through, causing a sensation like your entire upper body is on fire. The word excruciating comes from the amount of pain it induces.
There are no horizontal bones to actually keep it in place so the nail will always be getting pulled until it pulls through. Yes, you can use large nails and surface tension with a strong clamp, but its still going to pull through. The only way it doesn't pull through is if its through the wrist joint or the carpal joints at the bottom of the palm as you mentioned, which was the most common place. I can see them putting it central and nail downward into and through the carpal joints, but other than that I cant see the palm being a viable place
It will not tear. The correct nail is a a 3/8” square shank nail with a head around 1.25” wide. I have made some nails this size and shape and the clamping force the head provides is shocking. The shank of the nail will not be bearing any of the weight of the body in shear, so it won’t have a chance to tear the flesh. The head of the nail will be clamping the hand to the timber. The size of the head will distribute the load between the bones and flesh.Â
It works similar to using a washer to rivet leather or cloth.Â
The nightmare shot is the one that hits around the other side, more laterally, somewhat under the thumb and right below the wrist bones. Driving a nail through your radial artery would be one helluva freak accident.
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Fire which ever Roman put that nail in, they did a piss-poor job
They nailed at an angle to get as much support as the could. Don't be so cross.
I was on a mission trip with some ex-cons and we were doing it very homespun. We had to break up a concrete plot, and for this purpose the locals had hacked together a sort of long chisel called a lom, which they had fashioned from thick rebar by hammering one end to a chisel-tip and blasting the other with a welder until it formed a nail-head you could hit with a hammer.
Anyway, I had just finished a bout of beating the concrete and I tossed the lom over to a gravel pile, whereupon the improvised nail-head - ringed as it was with the crystallized bristles of melted iron - opened my throwing arm messily from mid-forearm to wrist. It was neither terribly deep nor along any major blood vessels, but it was very showy and it stung like the dickens.
I remember people used to say that Jesus would have had to have the nails go through his wrist like this rather than through his palms, since if the nail was just between the metacarpals, his body weight would pull them through the flesh.
I can see how someone would think that if they’re using the wrong nails like this. But if you use proper nails, about 3/8” square shank with an oversized head, the clamping force you get will be more than enough to support the whole hand if nailed through the palm.
Its not just that it will tear - the pain comes from the nail being in the joints. The place they put the nail is where the ligaments and tendons go through, causing a sensation like your entire upper body is on fire. The word excruciating comes from the amount of pain it induces.
Right but I’m saying with the right nail it won’t tear.Â
Are you talking about the carpal joints if it goes through the wrist? Cause I’m saying it would be the palm, not the wrist.Â
No, but it will tear.
There are no horizontal bones to actually keep it in place so the nail will always be getting pulled until it pulls through. Yes, you can use large nails and surface tension with a strong clamp, but its still going to pull through. The only way it doesn't pull through is if its through the wrist joint or the carpal joints at the bottom of the palm as you mentioned, which was the most common place. I can see them putting it central and nail downward into and through the carpal joints, but other than that I cant see the palm being a viable place
It will not tear. The correct nail is a a 3/8” square shank nail with a head around 1.25” wide. I have made some nails this size and shape and the clamping force the head provides is shocking. The shank of the nail will not be bearing any of the weight of the body in shear, so it won’t have a chance to tear the flesh. The head of the nail will be clamping the hand to the timber. The size of the head will distribute the load between the bones and flesh.Â
It works similar to using a washer to rivet leather or cloth.Â
Nailed it
If you’re a Jewish carpenter then you should really be weary of a Roman with a nail gun.
The nightmare shot is the one that hits around the other side, more laterally, somewhat under the thumb and right below the wrist bones. Driving a nail through your radial artery would be one helluva freak accident.