On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:30 AM, george jannini <georgejoann@gmail.com>wrote:

> http://hooniverse.com/2012/09/24/truth-in-advertising-hazard-fraught-tools/
>

  Good one!

  I like the "cordless hammer"....

  Brings to mind the guy I am working for this week.  He's a 'self-taught'
expert now on building and remodeling, having helped build his own house
last summer and having recently bought and fixed up a couple of houses as
rental units.

  He hired me to help him with a house that had some shingle
walls...replace the gable end shingles, some above a lower roof on a steep
pitch...He says.."You got a shingle nail gun?"  and I go "No, up here on a
rope with every shingle a special cut to fit and all...an air-stapler won't
save us any time.  We only have a couple of squares (Square= 10'x10') to
do, we can just hand-nail"  So we start, him on the ground, cutting each
shingle to fit the roof pitches,  and me on the scaffold nailing...He gets
all frustrated cutting..wrong angles, too tedious...so I put him on the
scaffold and go.."I'll cut, you nail"...but it turns out he can not drive a
nail. Doesn't know how, really! ..after about ten minutes, he swears and
jumps down..."I'm going to Home Depot and getting a air stapler" he says.
An hour later he come back, new DeWalt stapler in hand..."Only $68...on
sale"...and then we set up the compressor and find the hoses aren't around,
find those and swap the fittings to match the tools and the compressor,
string the hoses up to the roof....and we are ready to save some
time.......after about 2 1/2 hrs of messing around with these 'time-saving'
power nailers and stuff.  Dragging the hose up and down the roof, knocking
stuff off, tripping on it...finding a place to lay it when the materials
are passed up,...on and on...

  Cordless hammer... yep!