Anyone recommend a decent cordless nailer?

[doobin]

Im now leaning towards the dewalt 18v nailer, no gas or air ,2 x 4ah batteries, 600 nails per battery with a 1 hour charge,50mm-90mm headed nails. Just over £500

 

Lean back towards air for a moment. You'd have a lot of change (£250 at least!) for nails from an air framing nailer, small compressor and hose. Plus the compressor is a useful tool in it's own right.

 

Once you have your air framing nailer then a little air brad nailer/stapler for doing the closeboard panels is only £35. You can't really do closeboard panels with a 50mm framing nail. 40mm staples work best.

 

Batteries wear out and are expensive to replace. But it depends if your work is back garden work where you will be plugging into the leccy for radio and kettle anyways

 

If you do larger fencing jobs, then there's nothing like an umbilical of air (from a larger 2.5 or 3hp compressor on site for a few days) to supply your nailers, air drill, impact gun for timberlock screws and finally a spray gun to treat the panels once you're done. I tend to stick it in the customer's garage, it's worth the small hassle of bringing a larger compressor for a few days.

 

My recommendation is Wolf for airlines (still going strong after 6-8 years abuse for my two, and they're cheaper than any other brand spec for spec) and Silverline for nailers. I can't comment on long term reliability for the nailers but they're cheap enough and seem good so far.

[s.varty]

Good points there doobin, I have a wolf compressor and leads and a couple of cheap headless nail/staplers, looks like a wet day today so hopefully I can get out and have a look around the tool shops.