have you ever been shot by a nail gun? those f*ckers are dangerous!! i'd call the cops too...
does any one remember that guy that shot himself with a nail gun in the face a couple years back. if I remember the story correctly he didn't feel it go in and continued to work the rest of the day. when he got home he got a killer headache and went to the ER. they found he had like a 4" nail in his brain.
does any one remember that guy that shot himself with a nail gun in the face a couple years back. if I remember the story correctly he didn't feel it go in and continued to work the rest of the day. when he got home he got a killer headache and went to the ER. they found he had like a 4" nail in his brain.
yep i saw that on ripley's! there was also an old lady in europe who was stabbed in the neck @ a grocery store and she didnt realize. she walked all the way home before noticing there was a knife in her neck.
does any one remember that guy that shot himself with a nail gun in the face a couple years back. if I remember the story correctly he didn't feel it go in and continued to work the rest of the day. when he got home he got a killer headache and went to the ER. they found he had like a 4" nail in his brain.
How? Most of the nailers require you to depress the front of the nailer against material. In this case he would have to have pushed the nailer up against his head and pulled the trigger.
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How? Most of the nailers require you to depress the front of the nailer against material. In this case he would have to have pushed the nailer up against his head and pulled the trigger.
well speaking from experience if you place the nail gun at the edge of a board, just enough to trip the safety but not enough to shoot a nail into said board, while the nail gun is pointed back at yourself and pull the trigger it will fire and stick in your LEG about 1/3 of the length of the nail.
Also just like with real guns safeties are no guarantee. I have used the air hose to set brad nailer/staple guns down and it fired when it hit the floor.
well speaking from experience if you place the nail gun at the edge of a board, just enough to trip the safety but not enough to shoot a nail into said board, while the nail gun is pointed back at yourself and pull the trigger it will fire and stick in your LEG about 1/3 of the length of the nail.
Also just like with real guns safeties are no guarantee. I have used the air hose to set brad nailer/staple guns down and it fired when it hit the floor.
OUCH !!!
I've played around with nail guns too. You can easily (if you're and idiot like me) reach up and pull the trigger safety back with your free hand (just be sure spread your fingers apart to straddle the nail's exit path) and then fire away with the trigger. Crank the pressure up on the gun, and those 16d nails go pretty damn far!! ...and yes they'll stick even after flying quite a ways.
PS. just don't let your dad (the contractor) catch you doing it....that ended up hurting too!
well speaking from experience if you place the nail gun at the edge of a board, just enough to trip the safety but not enough to shoot a nail into said board, while the nail gun is pointed back at yourself and pull the trigger it will fire and stick in your LEG about 1/3 of the length of the nail.
Also just like with real guns safeties are no guarantee. I have used the air hose to set brad nailer/staple guns down and it fired when it hit the floor.
I see what you are saying, but we are talking about someone shooting themselves in the head not the leg/foot.
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^^^back to your question. I do remember hearing something like that but I don't remember if it was self inflicted or he was walking past someone that got him.
If you've ever spent much time nailing off plywood, you can get to the point where you just leave your finger holding the trigger(bad habit) and then just press the gun tip to trigger the nail to shoot. (It gets tiresome pulling the trigger thousands of times) I can see if he just left his finger on the trigger as he's holding the gun and then inadvertently bumped the safety on something. He could have been nailing shear panels up over his head or something, so the gun may already have been near his head. ??
If you've ever spent much time nailing off plywood, you can get to the point where you just leave your finger holding the trigger(bad habit) and then just press the gun tip to trigger the nail to shoot. (It gets tiresome pulling the trigger thousands of times) I can see if he just left his finger on the trigger as he's holding the gun and then inadvertently bumped the safety on something. He could have been nailing shear panels up over his head or something, so the gun may already have been near his head. ??
My dad's Bostitch (sp?) nail gun won't allow you to hold the trigger and bump the safety, it sucks...You have to pull the trigger every single time, like I said, it sucks
