Palm Nailers

[rebocardo]

>  when nailing sheathing is not to overdrive the fasteners

I was redoing an old house that had clapboards and people thought it was amusing because I went to the trouble and expense of using 3.5" deck crews to put on the new shealthing on and to secure the old stuff. It just might be standing another two hundred years, longer then the other houses when a hurricane/north easter comes through.

I also had the roofers strip all the old shingles off and do hurricane nailing (4 per shingle) too.

It takes a lot more effort to pull a screw out then two nails.

[PawNature]

I got one from Harbor Freight and really liked it. Then wife bought me a framing nailer for Christmas last year, and I haven't used it since.

[Raider Bill]

Check these babies out!
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2006/product_75.html
I did some work with them a couple months ago, you can forget pulling them out!
I have all kinds of Air nailers, brad, staples, and palm nailers. I like the palm nailer for those *DanG simpson clip nails,it is somwhat rough on the palm but I don't lose my thumb nail. My thumb loves it too. I think my favorite gun is elcheapo T nailer, shoots through a 2x4 into hard concrete no problem.

[low_48]

I would buy the framing nailer and a palm nailer. I put up a short section of cedar fencing and loved the idea of using double dipped galvanized nails in the palm nailer. I only needed about 1 1/2 pounds of 8 penny nails and would have hated to pay the cost of a full box of fancy (stainless?) and only use a fraction of that for the job. I can throw a common nail in the palm nailer, and get the draw-up power of the nail like a regular hammer. A framer gun will not draw up a twisted board, and the resin on the nail doesn't like to take a hit from a hand hammer to draw it up either. You also know if you hit the "board behind the board" with the feel of the palm nailer. For example if you use an air nailer for putting down sheating and miss the rafter, you don't know it till you look under. Don't ask how I know that :D I also like the palm nailer for it's ability to nail fast or slow or for a single hit, with different pressure on the nail. Just can't beat the speed, or single hand nailing of the framing nailer.