let's go Brown here how many nail guns does one person need the answer is seven
if you couldn't already tell this exciting episode is about framing nailers and I basically Drove All
Around Nelson collecting as many nail guns as I could from different Builders so I could do
an overview of framingellas that are available to you now and we're going to talk about all of that
in today's exciting episode this is a Paslode battery now why am I starting with the password
that is because I started with a password I started building in 2004 and one of the first
tools I bought was a password framing nailer much like this so I used one of these for many years up
until about three or four years ago when I got this the hikoki framing nailer and I've pretty
much been using this ever since now why did I change why'd I go from the password to the cookie
the hikoki only needs this battery to operate no gas and the other big thing about it is it's
much more powerful so before we go on let's talk about the evolution of the nail gun back in the
40s or 50s they started commercializing the use of pneumatic nail guns ones with manure compressor
and a hose and then somebody came along with the idea to get a gas cartridge and a battery and with
the combo of the two they could drive the nail and the advantage was they could get rid of the
hose you don't have to Lug around a big compressor an in Battery Technology got better so they were
like hey we don't need this gas anymore we just need the battery yes there's more weight but you
don't need to buy gas finally the last step in the evolution is we don't need a battery anymore
we don't need a compressor kind of we don't need gas we just have a air filled gun and you just
refill the Air Canister so on the surface of it this is just like a natural aggression of
Technology from basic level to better but that's not the complete truth that's not the truth at all
actually there's still a place for every one of these guns it depends what you need a nail gun for
pneumatic nailers are the best for firing a nail that is what this is all about after all firing
Nails in pneumatic nails are the way to go as long as you can put up with the fact that it has a hose
attached to it at all times that runs to an air compressor that you have to get on and off site
hi Chris what is your go-to now going Chris what yeah it could have changed do you have a favorite
at the moment I do yes it takes two magazines so you don't have to reload it as much and it's
like and with a small compressor you don't mind the hose no not the small compressor and what
do you use it for batters um well above my head so it's quite handy first feet because all my work is
like this all day long yeah yeah so so the battery power one will get a bit better after a while you
if you're doing a lot of work with it yes it's a bit sore on the shoulders if you've got a big
compressor you don't want to be as mobile small compressor around here can be quite mobile and
just so that's the small one yeah oh yeah that's pretty compact get about um with 150 nails at
a battery oh yeah yeah and it's a 10 amp battery Metabo 18 volt if you want to really Hammer Nails
in yeah it's a big one okay yeah stuff like that ERG is a big one it almost feels like it's empty
it messed up with the air compressed gun hikoki air compressed gun with
the regular compressor going into the softest wood this is H 1.2 Pine
straight in oh my God
oh yeah that's like no resistant zero resistance now this is native Timber notoriously hard to nail
into again no problem oh my God this is satisfying and the final test for the egg and press gun LVL
it's like I can't even feel the difference between the Timbers it's just going all the way in no
worries I think I want an air compressed gun it almost feels like a hollow nail gun because this
virtually what it is the air is doing all the work the compressor is doing all the work so it doesn't
need anything up here which means servicing the thing is going to cost you less and will happen
less often it's going to be lighter in your hands but you still have to deal with that setup but you
just need to nail a few Nails in pulling out an air compressor making sure it's filled with air
you need a power source for that by the time you've done that a gun like this is done back
in the van and you're off to the next job powered with gas cartridges that go in the back here and
a battery that goes there how long have you had this come from a few months now much use so the
password probably the most popular framing nailer in New Zealand most of the framing we use is this
pink stuff and it's this color because that's the color of the treatment they use this is very soft
no problem getting rid of the pesto wasn't a slam dunk it wasn't like yeah that thing is history and
there's no reason to buy it I lost a few things by buying this namely the weight and maneuverability
this is the gun you want if you're going to hang it on your belt all day maybe work above your
head all day because it's nice and lightweight the weight difference is right there because I don't
know the weight difference the weight difference is very obvious as soon as you pick it up so if
you were choosing a nail gun to shoot into a soft Timberlake Pine all day like maybe that's all you
do and you have to carry it around with you for eight hours you're probably still going to want to
get this because I have to nail into that native Timber and sometimes LVL I have to have a battery
powered nail gun and also another big one for me is the gas cartridges themselves if you work for a
company that is already supplying the gas anyway maybe all the crew is on password it's probably
not a problem but if you're starting out on your own you will notice the difference of price
between the nails that come with cartridges and the nails that don't and we are self-employed that
little cost adds up and that's why it's worth it for me to get this the power and the cheaper nails
foreign
since then and uh doesn't seem like they've bridged the gap
look at that doesn't want to go let's try the password again with the Rima
again but then the pesto with the pain
no worries that's what this gun's for
no worries
hey that's doing better doing better than it did the other day maybe I just needed a rest
come okay
so what's your go-to nailer Chris not into gas anymore yeah you're like me do you start
off with pest load yeah I did actually yeah yeah it's all we had really I don't really
use these much the dewalts yeah we've got the type one so this is the first of this
the style of model nailer and the most recent type three big differences this has the motor
that they've got in the the concrete nailer yeah so just shooting down tracks and concrete yeah
so they put the same motor in here because the model in between they had trouble with
power right so by adding the more powerful motor this sold I have those problems yeah
Champion I appreciate it good times all right have fun foreign
light means it looks like this though
oh yeah the light's gone
doesn't like the lvm you have a few choices of battery nailers but with all of them you gain
the fact that you don't need gas you just need a battery and generally speaking they're all fairly
powerful in the last week using LVL the Milwaukee definitely held up better with the LVL framing
potentially The Best of Both Worlds air powered but not hose connected and before we get into
the unfortunate story of the Airboat I'm really really hungry I want to eat my lunch
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should we get back to the nail guns now the Airboat this is interesting but unfortunate
story four or five years ago they started this in Auckland so I went and got in touch with the
people and asked if I could check it out and they ultimately gave me one and they gave me a couple
of their prototype compressors ending with this compressor this was like the best compressor they
made do you have a tank here that this fills up then once that's filled up it's filled with this
highly compressed air and then you can fire the nail in just like that no battery needed
beautiful it has an interesting weight to it it's kind of somewhere between the past side and
the battery framing nailer it's just like a good all-round framing gun and especially a good one
for their first nailer but then what happened well they were going to do a finishing gun
um they didn't do that they're going to do a concrete nailer they did do that but then they
stopped and the reason they stopped is because they were developing what they call Hammer Force
technology that's the thing behind this and they've licensed that hammer Force technology
to another company and I don't know which company that is so be interesting to see if this comes out
inside a Hilty gun or inside a Milwaukee gun in the future who knows but for the time being I have
one of the few nail guns left you could probably pick one up secondhand if you live in New Zealand
other than that you can't buy them
Jess here has never bought a nail gun never used a nail gun and doesn't really care it doesn't really
care let's see what your first impressions of each nail gun ah you just wanna it's heavy yeah
are they all that heavy well some more heavier than others honey you'd lying down just okay
that's about it all right Chase holy what did I do it wrong no you seem to get a fright did
you that was awful next is the DeWalt now again now this is similar battery powered but it has a
different sort of motor on the top oh that's very top heavy oh yeah interesting I think
I've also injured my shoulder so this is like really not ideal yeah shoulder as well it's my
right shoulder yeah I don't know trying to do an ambitious yoga move and it didn't pay off
so that's the whirling motor inside it just starts going as soon as you engage I don't like that
this keeps happening with me as well oh okay so there's not just I didn't like that but
that one it was both scary and unsatisfying and the koki is very much similar to the Milwaukee
oh that I didn't test it to weight of that one first
also heavy but kind of just feels like the Morkie heavy all over okay all right
I don't know where these noises are coming from sorry
am I doing this wrong why are none of these nails sinking in um lvo was pretty hard for
a nail gun to nail into but it is also you need to really drive like really push it in
pull it away all right Milwaukee's the winner but from my perspective if you're buying a machine
to do a job why should I have to work hard to make it work if you know what I mean why
should I have to push harder isn't that what the nail gun should do yeah and yeah put a
bit of effort in but um the only one that I could think was the Milwaukee the Milwaukee
I want to hear from you though I want to know what you think is important in a framing nailer what
brands you prefer and why maybe if you have any info on some of the technology behind it I'd love
to hear more um what do you think what's the best framing nailer available and do you have any idea
where Makita is going to come out with a 40 volt framing nailer that's what I want to know we'll
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