Nail penny sizes refer to length, not diameter, so technically he was right. Whether or not his nails were any good is another thing; most nails these days are made in China and not worth the box they come in. If you want GOOD nails, find some Maze galvanized siding nails. Lowes carries them, I think. You pay a little more for a quality, made in the USA product, but you'll save yourself a lot of aggravation trying to drive butter-soft Chinese nails.
1/2" OSB is certainly available, but a lot of places don't carry it because of the popularity of 7/16". Personally, I wouldn't use anything less than 1/2" unless going over existing sheathing. The roof on my shop is 5/8" OSB and it is very solid. A lot of houses in our area were built back in the '70s with 7/16" plywood roof sheathing; if you try to replace the shingles without re-sheathing the shingles will blow off in a year or two.
Right now, I'm working on a house built in the '20s. The 2x4 studs are very close to today's dimensions, although they're rough-sawn and so have a little bit more material than a modern stud.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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