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The smallest, brad nailers which shoot brads up to 1-1/4 in. long, often sell for well under $100. You might be better off buying one.Roofing nailerCOST: $50 per day with paslodeairnailer 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 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 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 in Mississippi paslodeairnailer had a happier outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., contractor paslodeairnailer 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. TIPUse the jackhammer to crack the concrete, paslodeairnailer not to punch holes. If the chisel bores into the paslodeairnailer concrete without cracking it, stop and try another spot. Getting a stuck chisel out of solid concrete is a cursing waste of time.Rent the jackhammer''s smaller paslodeairnailer cousin, a "chipping hammer" paslodeairnailer ($30 to $40 per day), for lighter tasks: breaking up a few square feet of basement floor for plumbing work or chipping ceramic tile off a concrete floor.Brad nailerCOST: $50 paslodeairnailer per day with compressorBENEFITS: Better results with less time and effort.
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