On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 12:13:43 -0600, "LLBrown" wrote:

I have to redo the fence I put in 25 years ago and somehow I have gotten
older? There is no joy in the prospect of handnailing each plank. I see
nail guns in many price ranges and guages.. including staples. I have a
compressor, no problem there.

What would be the proper guage and length of nail to put up 1/2 inch treated
fencing?

Thanks,
Leonard

What they all said, Leonard, "screw it"..

My last fence was 230 6" redwood pickets and was built in one day by 4 of us..
I didn't even use my tools, Home depot rented a screw gun that would have been
way out of my tool budget for about $10 a day..

We drove over 1,000 screws that day and it was SO nice not to mess with nails..

If you want to nail, I'd say that you want at least 1 1/4 or 1 1/2" nails... My
dad always said to make sure that the nail went further into the board that held
the picket than the thickness of the picket.. YMWV


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