Just to blow off some pain. In the last day and a half all I have done was hammer in 3000 brass nails. I don't want to see another one for at least a week :P
I figured it out I can do 125 an hour. I never had that figure to work with before some something good came out of it besides the project.
I don't think I have ever installed that many before in my 30 years of tacking things.
My hands are killing me.
I bet they are. I have never come even close to that number.
They need to make a pneumatic gun that shoots those things. I rarely drive a nail anymore and use my guns for that chore. I guess we have gotten spoiled with all the pneumatic guns and staplers on the market.
I can remember using a hand stapler that you had to squeeze and that would make your hand sore after a half days use.
I know who to call now if I need help with putting in brass nails. :)
Chris
QuoteThey need to make a pneumatic gun that shoots those things
They do. I got to work with one during that Lethbridge experiment of '08. Sweet piece of kit --- but you need to use a lot of deco-nails to justify the $$. The ones I looked at on line when I got back were $1500-2000.
Quote from: Darren Henry on May 10, 2011, 04:54:05 pm
QuoteThey need to make a pneumatic gun that shoots those things
They do. I got to work with one during that Lethbridge experiment of '08. Sweet piece of kit --- but you need to use a lot of deco-nails to justify the $$. The ones I looked at on line when I got back were $1500-2000.
Good Gawd........... You have to be a Canadian to afford that. :)
I think I will stick to my original plan. f it has 3,000 nails I will hand them Paul's phone number. :)
Chris
Yuck. I had a day like that a few years ago. 3 of us tacking away for 8 hours. I invented a pneumatic tacker in my head that day, glad to hear they exist.
Yea I've seen the pneumatics they must be nice. Obviously I don't have one. I wish I had a couple other guys helping on this one but it was just little ol me.
I'm not by any means trying to solicit nail trim work Chris ;D
Here's one:
http://www.stapleheadquarters.com/decorative-nail-gun.html
Not only is the gun expensive, but of course, you gotta buy their nails.
But why should I buy one when all I gotta do is call Paul? :D :D
That gun shoots collated nail strips. I'd like to see how they look in bare wood. Are there little tabs sticking out on the sides, or are the tabs small enough not to be noticed?
They work our to be about 2 1/2 cents apiece.
If I bought that gun I would certainly want to scrounge up some decorative tack business.
gene
Dang that's a lot o nails. What was the project Paul.
The job was 2 portable walls 3 panels each. Nail trim on one side (close nailed) panels are 20" x 96".
I;m not convinced any mortal man can knock that many tacks in per hour.
Simply do the math....take an hour and divide it up by however many minutes, then subtract 4 from that, divide the mileage of a hybrid car by a box of a thousand dec. tacks and it doesn't even come close to 125 miles per hour...or wait...how many hours per tack did you say? What I'm trying to say here is I think your math is a little off. Now be honest Paul, do you even drive a hybrid?
Quote from: fingers on May 12, 2011, 02:33:36 pm
I;m not convinced any mortal man can knock that many tacks in per hour.
Simply do the math....take an hour and divide it up by however many minutes, then subtract 4 from that, divide the mileage of a hybrid car by a box of a thousand dec. tacks and it doesn't even come close to 125 miles per hour...or wait...how many hours per tack did you say? What I'm trying to say here is I think your math is a little off. Now be honest Paul, do you even drive a hybrid?
A hybrid. I don't even associate with such peoples. I did the math and I was absolutely wrong. 225 per hour or mile (I think), whatever way you want to look at it down there.
You know where you can put that finger :P
Well, I did the math and seems yo me you were right Paul. 125 per hr = 1 per 30secs right? I could be + or - 5 beers or so..
It wasn't that long ago I actually had occasion to time myself knocking in dec. tacks. Don't have that info right in front of me but I will check. I'd be willing to bet you got me beat by at least a few.
a tube of 'No Nails' glue would have been quicker
if you didn't want to use it you could always sniff it
and then you wouldn't care how many nails there were heheh
Rich