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TIPIt takes a crew of three to get the most speed out of a roofing nailer: one person driving nails, the others Laying shingles in place.Air compressorIf you have your own compressor, you''ll save about airmasonarynailer $25 per airmasonarynailer day when you rent an air nailer. So if you plan to use a nailer for eight days or more, buy a compressor. If you''re framing up a wall or two, renting a framing nailer probably isn''t worth the trouble. But it will save hours airmasonarynailer on a big job like a garage or an addition. You''ll nail studs, joists and rafters quickly, but more important, you''ll nail sheathing to walls and roofs 10 times faster than you could with a hammer. "It was just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A nail-gun accident airmasonarynailer in Mississippi had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., 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 die," Hatten told local TV station WLOX. "I told my coworker to tell my family that I loved them." But the two framing spikes had narrowly missed major blood vessels, and surgeons were able to remove the nails from Hatten''s heart in a two-hour operation. And in Connecticut in August, a nail-gun incident highlighted the importance of training and supervision, as horseplay airmasonarynailer between two carpenters almost turned deadly. The New Haven Register reported that carpenter airmasonarynailer Eric Haslob was in the hospital recovering from surgery to repair his heart after fellow carpenter Joseph Dupont fired a finish nail into Haslob''s heart by accident as the two were fooling around on the job. A supervisor told the paper he had warned the two friends against horseplay just the day before.
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