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Walked through a housing development in Fort Worth last weekend and counted 11 crews using cordless framing nailers, not a single hose in sight
I was in Fort Worth last weekend helping my brother-in-law look at a new build and we walked three streets of houses going up at the same time. What got me was that not one crew had a compressor running. Every framer had a cordless nailer on his hip and a couple batteries in a pouch, and the job site was dead quiet except for the guns popping. I started in the trade 19 years ago and my first framing job was dragging a 100 foot hose around all day fighting kinks and tripping over it. I asked one of the guys how the battery guns hold up on a full day of sheathing and he said he gets about 600 to 700 nails per charge and just rotates three batteries. He also said the guns cost him around $400 each but he quit buying hose, fittings, and compressor gas, so it evened out in a year. Part of me wants to jump in and part of me wonders about torque on the bigger stuff like 16d into engineered lumber. Any of you switched over full time on framing? How are they holding up after a year or two of daily use?
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thomas_brown26d ago
Reminds me of when guys ditched corded saws back in the day.
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