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The smallest, brad nailers which hardwood shoot brads up to 1-1/4 in. long, often sell for well under air $100. You might be better off buying one.Roofing nailerCOST: $50 per day with compressorBENEFITS: Easy nailer as pulling a trigger and hardwood faster than a platoon of hammer-swingers.Driving thousands of roofing nails with a hammer is like scrubbing air 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. TIPIt takes a crew of three to get the most speed out of a roofing nailer: one person nailer driving nails, the others hardwood Laying shingles in place.Air compressorIf you have your own compressor, you''ll save about $25 per 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 air a framing nailer probably isn''t nailer worth the trouble. But it will save hours on a big job like a garage or an addition. You''ll hardwood nail studs, joists and rafters air quickly, but nailer more important, you''ll nail sheathing to walls and roofs 10 times hardwood faster air than you could with a hammer. "It was nailer just a strange thing that happened," Ocean View hardwood Police Chief Kenneth McLaughlin told the News-Journal, "a very, very unfortunate accident." The young carpenter died at the Peninsula Regional Medical air Center in Salisbury, Md., after being evacuated by helicopter.A nail-gun accident in Mississippi had a happier nailer outcome, reports the Biloxi Sun-Herald. Stone County, Miss., contractor Duncan Hatten was crouching down to nail a 2x4 block hardwood 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 air station WLOX. "I told my coworker to tell my family that nailer 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.
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