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Switched from nail guns back to hand driving after a dumb mistake
I used to fire off my framing nailer like it was going out of style until last Tuesday when I nailed through a live wire in my own shop wall. The spark scared me half to death and cost me $150 to rewire that section. Has anyone else gone back to manual nailing for certain jobs just to slow down and be safer?
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sanchez.sean3d ago
Read a thread on Reddit about a guy who switched back to hand nailing after a similar close call with a pipe. He said it made him think about every swing instead of just pulling the trigger. Slowing down a bit seems worth avoiding that kind of scare again.
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Funny how that works, isn't it? We all get in such a rush to finish things fast that we forget the basics. I've noticed the same pattern everywhere - people speed through stuff to save time, then end up spending twice as long fixing the mess they made.
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