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I see it all the time: do-it-yourselfers bostitch suffering through projects using medieval tools, or hiring contractors to do jobs they could handle themselves if they only had the right tools.Truth is, you can get just about any tool you''ll air ever need at a rental center. Here are a few time-and-sweat-saving tools that do-it-yourselfers often overlook ....JackhammerCOST: nailer and bostitch $75 to $120 per day BENEFITS: Ten times faster than a sledgehammer with fewer blisters and muscle aches.If you have a big stretch of concrete (like a large driveway) to break up, rent a 60- or 90-lb. jackhammer powered by a trailer-mounted air air compressor ($120 per day). But for a smaller job--like steps or a sidewalk--a 60-lb. electric jackhammer is less hassle ($75 per day). A nailer and bostitch series of accidents involving air-powered nail guns last summer brought home the fact air that the productive and powerful tools are also highly dangerous and need to be handled with respect. In the most tragic case, a framing nail punctured the heart of carpenter Camillo Juandelos on a home construction site in Ocean View, Md., in July, ending nailer the man''s bostitch life at the age of 25. Police said Camillo''s brother Jesus was holding the gun that fired the deadly nail.According to reports in the Delaware News-Journal, the accident took place as the two men were framing air new homes in a development nailer in Ocean View. Jesus had been bending over a stud wall using bostitch the air nailer, and then air straightened up and turned to call his brother. But Camillo was not on the other side of the room as Jesus thought; he was already standing right behind his brother. Camillo made contact with the nose of the nail gun, triggering the bump-nail mechanism and taking the nail in his chest. Haslob nailer and bostitch has no hard feelings, he told the Register: "I don''t air think he meant to do it." But Dupont was fired after the incident, and police have reportedly charged him with reckless nailer endangerment. bostitch With the right equipment, you can work like a pro, and make air lots of noise, dust and progress.Last nailer week I noticed bostitch my neighbor breaking up his sidewalk with a sledgehammer. I strolled over to see how it was going. He had only been at it for an hour but was already air sore, exhausted nailer and bostitch and thinking about hiring air a pro to finish the job with a jackhammer. "You don''t need a pro," I told nailer him. "All you need is a jackhammer."
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