About the Framing Nailer

Series Summary

It is reckoned that in the Stone Age the first tools were born, and by extension, machines and technology. Though the basic principles behind altering physical matter have not changed much, some amazing advances have been made in tool technology. For instance, with the advent of consumer power tools, mankind has the ability to increase productivity and complete more projects in less time. The nail gun is one these amazing inventions; capable of allowing the framer to finish the job in a fraction of the time it would take with a hammer and standard nails, the nail gun is truly a modern marvel for construction workers.

In this free video series learn how to use a nail gun from master carpenter Robert McMahon. Learn about the framing nailer and its features, and the different types of nails for your nail gun. Watch these video to learn through-nailing technique, how to toenail, how to troubleshoot problems with your nail gun, how to adjust the depth gauge, how to avoid splitting the wood when using the nail gun, and how to use the nail gun to pin headers and trim, and how to maintain your nail gun.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

"This is Brad McMahn for Expert Village. We're going to talk about framing nailers. But first I'd like to get into the different types of framing nailers. This one here is a D-head or a clipped nail, as you can see its got one edge that's cut off and they're all in a tight clip. The other type would be a full round head and they're separated. The Clipped head has a shorter magazine and the full round head comes out about another good 6 inches. I prefer this one because it gets into tighter spaces. The use of a framing nailer is to shoot framing sized nails or eight penny nails, basically common nails that you would buy. It saves a lot of time from hand driving and you load them into the magazine, click it in and it's as easy as that. There's a lot of different types of tools, this is a Senco, one of the top of the lines. It comes in various different makes, models, along with the round head nailers, there's coil nailers, where the magazine here is basically a cylinder that you'll load in a long coil of nails and that takes up even less space than this."