Having stayed with cabinetry and furniture building for most of my years, I haven't had much exposure to general carpentry types of work. I am planning a shed beside my house to get all the non-woodworking stuff out of my garage once and for all. Luckilly my brother in law is a superintendant for a construction company and is helping me out. I'm so used to a smaller scale that when I pick up a 16d nail, it feels like a railroad spike in my hand.
As always I'm looking for a 'requirement' for a new tool that I just 'must have' to do this job and I thought a nail gun that would shoot these nails for constructing my shed might be just the ticket. Working with only brad guns and staplers in the past, I really don't kow what I'm looking for. A quick trip to the catalogs shows me nothing about the equivalent of a 16d nail.
I'm guessing that the gun for these nails won't shoot much of anything else (e.g. smaller, headed nails or finish nails). Is that a good assumption ?
What am I looking for ?
jim bailey