You all liked that last one so much… .<\/p>\n
You sometimes see nail guns used as weapons in movies, but it’s a preposterous proposition because the safety, the gizmo which has to be pulled back for the nail to fire, requires great force to retract. If you want to play Mel Gibson in Mad Max with my framing (as in nailing the studs that make up the frame of a house) gun, which uses good, lethal-sized nails, you must use the claw end of a hammer to retract the safety. Which is good because it keeps your fingers away from those projectiles as they go whizzing after pigeons. I mainly fire nails into the air to watch the bright steel tumble and glint against the blue sky. <\/p>\n
However (I am a however guy) , I have a smaller finish nail gun, which is operated by a battery and gas cartridges, and I can pull that safety back with my left thumb and forefinger. The nails I commonly use are two inches long and about a thick as the center of a toothpick.<\/p>\n
This day I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finished my eight hours of hard labor, and as a salute to quitting time, I aim my gun not quite straight up, pull the safety back and fire. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure that nail tumbled into the wild blue, but I doubt it reflected the sun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s light. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say for sure because I was bent over, knees on the ground, holding my left hand in my right as if I were back in Cincinnati praying for my juvenile-deliquent soul at St.Catherines. When the scream of pain passed I peered down at my thumb, at the two small drops of blood on either side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You all liked that last one so much… . You sometimes see nail guns used as weapons in movies, but it’s a preposterous proposition because the safety, the gizmo which has to be pulled back for the nail to fire, … Continue reading