Originally Posted by
branko_76
Mark B,
As someone who has been using a hammer daily for the past 40 years or so, I can appreciate a well placed hammer blow. Once, at the end of a work-week and after a couple of beers, we all took turns and I could drive a 16D coated nail into a Hem-Fir stud in 1-1/4 blows with a 22 oz framing hammer...

...so maybe I'm the wrong guy to be using a hammer anywhere near a Reynolds frame...

The human nail gun! Yeah, I've seen it done, very impressive. Before the invention of nailguns, I bet framers and roofers swung the hammer more times in a day than I did in a year. Talk about mastery.