I am embarking on a number of repair / remodeling projects this year and have enough shoulder pain issues that I decided to treat myself to a new nail gun. I considered a new Paslode gas powered one but the weight has not come down all that much. It is also impossible to buy the gas paks here without going out of town. That means that if you forget to stock up a new project means a trip first. They now make those guns with the onboard battery powered compressor but heavy and I'm not sure it would keep up suitably when bump nailing roof decking.
Then I just stumbled onto the Paslode "Compact" framing nailer. It weighs 2 pounds less than most of the others. 2 pounds doesn't sound like much but is a surprising percentage of reduction and you can certainly feel the difference. It should also feel like much less weight at the end of the day. Its main market is for interior remodeling where space is often more limited and a big nail load capacity usually isn't needed. It doesn't have that long tail of nails sticking out the back to hit stuff. I think it is just what this old geezer needs.
I don't work nearly as fast as I used to and I need to work smarter, not harder...One funny thing I spotted was that they actually bragged on the box about the "Free nails" that came with it... Yeah, 2 sticks... I'm really excited.
This old house already has 5 outside doors and I am going to add 2 more. A 6' wide south facing bow-window in the kitchen is going to become a sliding patio door with blinds built into the glass. A small wooden deck close by is still good at the frame but the deck boards have degraded on their flat surfaces. I was just going to coat the bee-jeebers out of them with some of that new 10-X paint but we are going to expand that small deck over in front of the new door so I will just replace the old deck boards at the same time.
The north side of the house is getting a new entry door that will open onto a deck that will sit above the walk-out entry to the basement woodshop. A ramp from the door end of the deck will create a wheelchair access over to one of those steel 2 car carports to eliminate any steps to climb there. We already have 2 wheelchair accessible entries at 2 sliding patio doors at the east end of the house, 1 at the living room and another at one bedroom. That door will give an entrance to the main hall that leads to a bathroom, the living room and the kitchen. It will have a small area at the side for coats but farm / gardening traffic will still enter from the south into the existing "mud hall". That one may also get a ramp later. I'm also building a lot of shelves in both the attic and the basement. Those will be just common construction, not furniture like but they will get painted as I go.
We still have one rental house (currently unoccupied) and we are slowly working on it as well as a 30' X 43' concrete block garage/shop building that I would kill to have here at home.
High ceiling, lots of big windows... Kind of rough but will clean up nicely.I'm doing a lot of barn work this year too. Three very old timber frame barns, an open face implement shed about 28' x 64', a small barn about 20' x 34'. and a very small little barn about 18' x 20'. The 3 TF barns are 36' x 64', 36' x 40' and 36' x 50'. All need some work but all are in use. I hope I have a few good years left to get much of it done.
The larger TF barn has 2 old horse stalls in it and I want to fix those up and add 3 more there and the open face implement shed is to get 5 new stalls. We currently have 12 pasture boarded client horses and the stalls will give us another market.
This may be the year I have to hire some jobs done in order to get a little caught up.
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