The smallest, air and hand brad nailers which shoot nailer and air brads hand up to 1-1/4 in. long, often sell for well under $100. nailer You might be better off buying one.Roofing nailerCOST: $50 per day with compressorBENEFITS: Easy as pulling a trigger and faster than a platoon of hammer-swingers.Driving thousands of roofing nails with a hammer is like scrubbing the floor at air Grand Central Station with a toothbrush. Don''t put asphalt shingles on anything bigger than a doghouse without a roofing nailer. For wood shingles, speed up the job with a roofing stapler. "It hand and nailer was just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin air told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died at the Peninsula hand Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A nail-gun accident in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports nailer the Biloxi Sun-Herald. air Stone County, Miss., hand contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nail a 2x4 block onto a column when he lost his balance and fell against the nail gun, which fired two quick nails into his heart. "I just figured I was gonna nailer die," Hatten told local TV station WLOX. "I told my coworker air to tell my family that I loved them." But the two framing spikes had hand narrowly missed major blood vessels, and surgeons nailer were able to remove the nails from Hatten''s heart in a two-hour operation.
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