Claw Hammers explained

You're probably using the claw of your hammer wrong. Curved claw hammers, as you can see the curved claw rather than the straight. This is your everyday light duty hammer, designed for leverage. This curve here offers leverage when you're yanking out nails. But instead of just straight yanking out the nails, take your claw, and this works the best when you're in tight areas, and just work it out. Twist that handle back and forth, reset on your nail, just like that, the nail comes right out. This is your straight claw hammer. This is designed primarily for demo and ripping stuff apart. Now, while you can still pull nails, you're just not going to get the leverage as you would with the curved hammer. The back of your hammer hits, and there's just no leverage there. As with the curved, it kind of rocks it, and you have a little bit of leverage. Like the curved hammer, you can still take your straight hammer, and work your nail out. Where this hammer really shines for demolition and ripping stuff apart, it's right in between or underneath material, and just spreads it apart. That's primarily what the straight claw hammer is designed for. I've been remodeling this garage the last couple days, and I've used both of these hammers just for pulling nails in my OSB. The next step is prepping all this OSB so paint actually sticks to it. And tomorrow, I'll show you how to do it right. But anyways, it's Saturday. I got plenty of stuff to do. I'm out of here. Peace.