Nailguns

[desertrat]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

How many hammer injuries though?

 

[kom526]

Now there will be a nailgun safety course at Lowe's every Sat @ 1 pm for all new and prospective nail gun owners.

 

[onebdzee]

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How many hammer injuries though?

Depends on how many people are around me when I'm using one

 

[smoothmarine187]

It amazes how stupid people can actually injure themselves with a nail gun. The things have safetys on them and won't fire unless it's pressed in. I have pushed in the safety before and fired off a few rounds........uhhhhh nevermind....I guess that's how stupid people get hurt....lol

 

[desertrat]

It amazes how stupid people can actually injure themselves with a nail gun. The things have safetys on them and won't fire unless it's pressed in. I have pushed in the safety before and fired off a few rounds........uhhhhh nevermind....I guess that's how stupid people get hurt....lol

 

[Midnightrider]

It amazes how stupid people can actually injure themselves with a nail gun. The things have safetys on them and won't fire unless it's pressed in. I have pushed in the safety before and fired off a few rounds........uhhhhh nevermind....I guess that's how stupid people get hurt....lol

I was working with a framing crew years ago and a guy was holding a nailgun down by his side, holding the trigger absentmindedly. A laborer walked by not paying attention and bumbed into the business end of the gun. He took a 12 in the thigh straight to the bone, about 1/2 inch of the nail was sticking out. After putting a block of wood on his leg and trying to pull the nail with a claw hammer, the boss took the guy to the hospital.

 

[Homer J]

They need to enact some sort of nail gun control legislation. And they really should ban assault nail guns. Oh, and every one sold should require a five day waiting period and be fitted with a trigger lock

 

[smoothmarine187]

, After putting a block of wood on his leg and trying to pull the nail with a claw hammer, the boss took the guy to the hospital.

I love working with construction workers, they are always good for a laugh

 

[Lenny]

They need to enact some sort of nail gun control legislation. And they really should ban assault nail guns. Oh, and every one sold should require a five day waiting period and be fitted with a trigger lock

...and if there is an uprising on Constitutional Bill of Rights defenders, there needs to be a $1000 tax on nails.

 

[Ponytail]

I'm just golad that I bought two REALLY nice nailguns that will last a LONG LONG time and that I got them before teh CDC mandates any kind of special training or licencing requirements prior to buying a nailgun.

These accidents happen alot, and a surprising number of them are injuries to the head. Finish nails particularly ony leave a pin hole, so it appears to the victim at first to be just a "nick". Days later with splitting headaches and a trip to the x-ray office they find that they have a nail in their brain. I have heard NUMEROUS stories of this. In my post highschool/pre-college days, I used to sell them...and wow...the stories that would come back. Roofers were knocking themselves off the roofs left and right.

 

[Dead Eye]

I was working with a framing crew years ago and a guy was holding a nailgun down by his side, holding the trigger absentmindedly. A laborer walked by not paying attention and bumbed into the business end of the gun. He took a 12 in the thigh straight to the bone, about 1/2 inch of the nail was sticking out. After putting a block of wood on his leg and trying to pull the nail with a claw hammer, the boss took the guy to the hospital.

Was this a modified nail gun? Speed trigger?

 

[Ponytail]

Was this a modified nail gun? Speed trigger?

Once the switch is hit to allow you to hold the trigger in and just bounce it, they are ultrasensative and fire NUMEROUS nails in no time flat. BUT, in this case I think what he meant was that it was a 12D nail, not 12 nails.

 

[Midnightrider]

Once the switch is hit to allow you to hold the trigger in and just bounce it, they are ultrasensative and fire NUMEROUS nails in no time flat. BUT, in this case I think what he meant was that it was a 12D nail, not 12 nails.

sorry talking about the size of the nail.

But most of the ones i worked with could fire several if you bounced it with the trigger held down. each time the safety hits something hard it fires.

 

[Dead Eye]

Once the switch is hit to allow you to hold the trigger in and just bounce it, they are ultrasensative and fire NUMEROUS nails in no time flat. BUT, in this case I think what he meant was that it was a 12D nail, not 12 nails.

My passload has the speed trigger. Hold in trigger and bounce one and sonetimes two will shoot. I cant remember if it was possible to shoot one by trigger unless poked in place before triggered.

 

[smoothmarine187]

My passload has the speed trigger. Hold in trigger and bounce one and sonetimes two will shoot. I cant remember if it was possible to shoot one by trigger unless poked in place before triggered.

Damnit! I saw your name in this thread and was hoping for a great story

 

[Dead Eye]

For a good story Join the Axe Grinder and read about my head injury

 

[Ponytail]

My passload has the speed trigger. Hold in trigger and bounce one and sonetimes two will shoot. I cant remember if it was possible to shoot one by trigger unless poked in place before triggered.

It SHOULDN'T be possible to do shoot one without the safety tip being pressed against something if the nailgun was manufactured after about 1990.

Folks that have never used one before for some reason have a hard time being hard on the guns. If you are easy with it and try not to damage it when doing the "bounce method", you wind up with nails all over the place. I HATE using mine when there's folks around me that have never used one before. "let me try, let me try"...you just know that you're going to be pulling nails, and filling holes.

Almost as bad as someone that has never used a airless sprayer before when house painting. Effin contractors used to drive me crazy when I was painting. "Hey, that looks pretty easy...saves alot of time, doesn't it. Mind if I give it a shot?"

 

[Dead Eye]

Ummm I didn't explain what I ment very well. I know a speed trigger gun will shoot a nail by holding the trigger then pressing the safty tip to the wood. But will a unmodified out of the box gun? I think you must depress the safty tip before the trigger thus making it unable to shoot a nail when a careless worker is holding the gun trigger depressed and someone then hits the tip.

 

[Ponytail]

Ummm I didn't explain what I ment very well. I know a speed trigger gun will shoot a nail by holding the trigger then pressing the safty tip to the wood. But will a unmodified out of the box gun? I think you must depress the safty tip before the trigger thus making it unable to shoot a nail when a careless worker is holding the gun trigger depressed and someone then hits the tip.

My Hitachi strip framer allows that. Pull the trigger at any time, then hit the safety tip, or vice versa. And I've only had it about a year. My Hitachi finish nailer is the same way. It doesn't matter in what order, as long as both are depressed.

 

[wileyCoyote]

My Hitachi strip framer allows that. Pull the trigger at any time, then hit the safety tip, or vice versa. And I've only had it about a year. My Hitachi finish nailer is the same way. It doesn't matter in what order, as long as both are depressed.

When I worked on a framing crew a few years ago we always held the trigger and bounced the gun to quickly secure sheeting to the joists, walls, and rafters. It was much faster than push, pull trigger..push, pull trigger,..etc.