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Marc, you may find this useful as background reading:
http://www.landscapejuicenetwork.com/forum/topics/paslode-guns-any-...
have you already purchased the timber and stored it because you can't stain/paint pressure treated timber for at least a month after it has been treated. That said sometimes it will have been in stock at your merchant for a while so will be fine but you need to at least consider it.
Hi Marc,
What would yous use the impact driver for? Most fencing contractors use only nails not screws so there might be no need for one.
We use a coil nail gun with an air compressor. In my opinion much lighter and quicker and cheaper than a gas / cordless nail gun. I am sure the cost of a hire would be well worth it from your perspective.
A couple of tips to speed you up. Mark a piece of feather edge at 3" intervals, whack a nail in each end of it and then you can hang it on your arris rails and use it as a template to make off where each feather edge board should go. That way you don't need to fumble around with a chock of timer or a level.
Secondly if a perfect job is required pop a string line up from post to post running at the mid point (horizonatlly) along the arris rail. Use that as a height guide as to where to pop your nails in. That way you get perfectly staright lines of nails plus you don't run the risk of any of them poking out the back of the arris rail.
Hope this helps.
Charlie
Charles, great advice, I really do want to make the job look really good and professional as the lady of the house is very particular - very kind though with tea & cake every hour
ive got paslodes and a coil nailer with an air compressor. absolutley no contst between a coil nailer and the paslode. coil nailer is quicker, lighter and cheaper by far. we actually set up a couple of bays using each and coil nailer won hands down. paslodes great for decking but wouldnt even get it out of the truck for fencing
But if this goes well there's a distinct possibility of a couple of jobs very similar within the neighbourhood.
Thermo said:
we use a 50 ltre compressor oilless compressor that was just over £200. the gun is a tacwise model that was about £200. have a decent bostiich airline on a reel that was another £100. All in all not much more than a paslode, when you consider how expensive fuel and nails are compared to boxes of coil nails. Im not decrying paslodes as we use them and theyre great, i personally think its a better tool for the job, but if you dont do a great deal of fencing then the paslode is probably the better all rounder
If you've got someone else helping you should easily get this done in 3 day, subject to the weather being ok for painting it.
We still just use 50mm nails and a hammer, once you get going it doesn't take that long.