Sometimes, You Just Have To Create The Right Tool For The Job.

My dad, Phil, must've enjoyed work, because my freshman year in high school we moved from town to a farm.  When most people get above 50 years old, they tend to slow down a bit; "Lighten the load" so to speak.  Not Phil. Although, he did sell the shop, he then converted a barn on the farm to his new shop.  A place where his customers could still bring their cars for Phil to fix,  when he wasn't out in the field.

All this extra work meant Phil needed to make sure that he had the right tools available so he could get the job done quickly.  And then there arose those times when the right tool wasn't available, but that didn't slow down Phil.  That just meant that Phil needed to CREATE the right tool.
One summer, a tornado brushed past our farm.  Thankfully, nobody was hurt but the tornado did toss our empty 400 gallon water tank like a frisbee about a half mile down the road and blew some boards off of our tobacco shed.  We were able to assess the damage immediately, because my dad and I were OUTSIDE watching the whole storm unfold!  You know those people that look up after someone yells "DUCK".  Apparently, my dad and I are those people.

            "Aww...There goes the cow tank." I heard my dad calmly say.  I just stood next to dad and thought, rather uncalmly, "I'm Alive!". 

The water tank ended up being unsalvageable, but the boards on the tobacco shed could easily be replaced.  Since it was getting dark out, my dad decided to add that to his list of things that needed to get done the next day.  Besides, the way Phil was going to fix the barn, it wasn't going to take long at all.

After his morning cup of coffee, dad went out and gathered up some old barn boards that he had stacked up on the side of the machine shed.  All the boards would need to be trimmed, though, since they were longer than the boards they were replacing.  However, because Phil had a 2 foot gap from the bottom of the tobacco shed to the ground (for circulation) this made his job much easier.

This is how any normal person would replace the boards. 
1. Measure the space where the new barn board is to go.
2. Cut barn board to that length.
3. Nail barn board into place.
4. Repeat.

Now, because Phil was not normal (remember, he had mutant powers) he had his own plan to replace the boards.
1. Nail boards into place (All the boards fit within that 2 feet of clearance from the ground)
2. Use the WEEDEATER FROM HELL to trim all the boards at once!

Done. 

The boards he nailed in place overlapped the bottom by 6 inches to just over a foot.  Plenty of room with that 2 foot gap.  After they were nailed, Phil went to the shop, grabbed the Weedeater, took off the spool, bolted on a blade from the Skilsaw, started it up, and walked along the tobacco shed trimming as he strolled.