Saw a guy using a framing hammer for finish work yesterday

I was on a job in Portland last Tuesday and watched this dude try to set 16 gauge brads with a 22 oz Estwing. He mushroomed three trim pieces before his foreman came over and handed him a finish hammer. Why do people think one hammer does everything? Has anyone else run into this on site?

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alicecooper1mo ago

Saw a guy on a site in Seattle use a 28 oz Vaughn to tap in some tiny panel nails on a door casing, he actually dented the jamb so bad they had to replace the whole thing. I swear some dudes think a hammer's a hammer and physics doesn't apply lol.

chen.james1mo ago

Is it really that big of a deal though? I mean yeah it's dumb to use a framing hammer for trim but mushrooming three pieces of wood isn't a catastrophe. That's maybe 15 bucks in materials and he had to have realized it was wrong after the first one. The foreman stepping in is standard stuff. I've seen guys use a speed square as a pry bar and nobody called the police.