Unpopular opinion: cordless nail guns are still a joke for real framing work

I was reading a trade magazine at the supply house last week and saw a stat that the average cordless framing nailer only gets about 400 nails per charge. I found that out from a test report in 'Pro Builder' magazine. That's maybe one small wall before you're swapping batteries. For a big deck or a whole house, you'd need a truck full of charged packs. My old pneumatic Paslode never runs out of air. Has anyone actually made a full shift on a single battery with one of these things?

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aliceharris1mo ago

Ever tried framing a whole garage with one?

karenwest1mo ago

My garage project, @aliceharris, was a real comedy of errors.

corap611mo ago

Comedy of errors" sounds a bit dramatic. It's a garage, not open heart surgery. A few bent nails or a door that sticks isn't exactly high stakes tragedy. Most of that stuff you can fix with a hammer and some patience.

casey26816d ago

... but see that's kind of missing the point though. It ain't about the nails or the door, it's about everything going wrong at once. @karenwest's project sounds like one of those days where nothing lines up and you're redoing the same corner three times. Sure you can fix most stuff with a hammer, but when you're already tired and the lumber is warped and your level keeps falling off, it gets old real fast. Nobody's saying it's brain surgery, just that some projects fight you every step of the way and that's frustrating even if the stakes are low. It's like... comedy is fine when you look back at it later, but in the moment it just sucks.