With Ryan's kzfaq.infoUgkxy_pn55PK60wAV3X_C_RoLS_67mNonoCE plan I was like one taken by the hand and led step by step from start to finish. Thank you very much Ryan!

I'm not an expert but the mechanism of each one were explained clear and detailed. Very useful for decision making. Thank you Kyle.

only things i can say for sure 100% is ; Hitachi (Metabo HPT) is the best framing nailer to me. i tried all three nailers in this video. I dropped all other two nailers. I was so frustrated with jamming, misfire, non-flushing nails, etc issues. i will never go back again to other two nailers, even someone gives big money to use them. Those issues while you are working, takes away your precious time. Only Hitachi framing nailer is the one that makes me satisfied. No jams, no misfires, all nails you fired flushed through so far. I love this nailer. I have been using hitachi nailer about a year.

*Used this nail gun for framing my basement and it worked great **MyBest.Tools** Two downsides are weight and its not a 30 degree. For the cost it was perfect for completing my project. Worth every dime.*

some tools come out every few years that make you think wow how did i ever do without this, like impact drivers, tracksaws, etc, the hitachi nail gun is my latest one

The Hitachi is my favorite cordless tool i've bought to date. Quick tip, I oil the spring and slides monthly. Working around dirt will make the spring to snag when it gets dirty and the nails don't feed right causing blank fires and the nails to shoot sideways.

Hitachi has a 21 degree battery nailer too. If you have 21 degree nails for your air nailers, you can use them in the Hitachi 21 degree battery gun.

Your Toolsday tool reviews are getting better. The first over was a bit shaky but now you seem to be getting the hang of it. Keep on keepin on!

I bought the hitachi a couple of weeks ago, it’s a freakin beast, shoots 90mm nails into high grade lvl all day long never leaves one proud, will never use my paslode again

I got the Hitachi and absolutely love it. It's bulky and slightly heavy, but no compressor and air hose is amazing. Doesn't have a large capacity which is a negative. Also appears to be a pain to clear a jam which I have yet to have. Great review!!

Excellent in depth look into the hows and whys of these three major nail guns. Thank you.

I teach building trades class and we purchased a couple of the Milwaukee M 18 framing nailers and they fire the nail as soon as you pull trigger, No waiting to spool up. The nailer has a very large rafter hook. It also can be adjusted for depth of the nail, in pine lumber they will drive nails about a 1/2 '' in depth. Good nailers!!

Great comparison and demo of the various technologies over the years. I remember seeing the Paslode nailer on This Old House years ago when they first came out. It certainly was a game changer.

Bought the Hitachi a month ago. It’s a little on the heavy side but I love it.

I tried a Milwaukee cordless finish nailer and returned it. Bought a Dewalt framer and returned it. Bought a Bostitch cordless framer (28-degree wire weld as thats what I have pneumatic nails for) and returned it. The Hitachis are the only ones I like. It feels very similar to a pneumatic gun, and has NO problem sinking 3-1/2" framing nails even in the hard dense woods of my barn. They're great! In the last week got a 15ga finish, 16ga finish and a 18ga brad nailer.

I remember back in the day, when a Hitachi NR83 was around $400, and most guys were still swatting nails the hard way. Nowadays, anybody can afford a pneumatic gun, even if it's a brand no one's ever heard of. We've come a long way. I bought a DeWalt about a year ago, and I could barely believe that a battery-powered framer was even a real thing. The mechanical system that makes it work is a miracle unto itself, and it still amazes me that it actually *does* work. I've got a few dozen DeWalt tools and plenty of batteries, so I'm hesitant to buy anything that runs on a whole different battery platform, but I must admit, if the DeWalt ever craps out on me. I'd be really tempted to go green.

I do like my dewalt so versatile with other tools in the same platform, Hitachi have always had great pneumatic nailers and this gun looks to keep that trend going 👍

Great video. Love the Paslode but it does jam and get dirty a lot. LOVE my Paslode trim nailer

great video i have both Paslod and Dewalt love both but the cost of gas and your right always runs out when you need it

DeWalt just released a new framing nailer yesterday. Seems pretty nice. Hitachi is now renamed Metabo here in US. I'm hoping Hitachi does not start carrying Metabo prices. I hate yet to see a cordless nailgun work as fast as a pneumatic. But I dont frame or roof for a living so I dont need speed.

Is that a Christmas Tree in the background??? Good information and thanks, always useful..

Didn't understand that rafter hanger at first, but it hangs nicely on window sills, headers, ladder rungs, top of walls, ladder blocks and other random blocking. All those places we wished we could hang the typical rafter hanger in the past. I think its great, I didnt think so at first.

good comparison explanation ... had all 3 guns and still use the DeWalt most often for convenience.

i have the hitachi, great unit but yeah, heavy. it uses a closed loop compressor system which is the noise your hear after you fire a nail.

Oh yeah, ive been waiting for a cordless nail gun review.

I’ve used the Paslode nailer and didn’t like it at all. While it is the lightest of the hose-less nailers and works decently well, there were too many cons. Expensive, constant maintenance, and the gas smell and refilling is not my cup of tea. The nailer also jammed regularly; strangely enough hitachi nails worked best in it as all other nails would constantly jam. I’ve also used the Bostich battery framer, for like one day before taking it back. Really can’t say anything good about it. It was slow firing, heavy, took long to spool up, and didn’t sink nails fully. The best thing I’ve done is to buy the hitachi nailer. Right out of the box it worked like a charm-quick firing, maintenance free, and the 3Ah batteries charge super fast. So fast in fact that you’ll only ever need 2 batteries, as the second one will be fully charged before you drain the one you’re using. While it is labeled as a clipped head nailer, I’ve also fired full head nails out of it without missing a beat. The auto-off feature can get a bit annoying but I think the biggest drawback to it, which is something that affects almost all current hose-less nailers, is the weight. Using this gun daily in a production environment could get very tiring. On the plus side, you won’t need a gym to build forearm muscles.

There is nothing more satisfying than working with cool tools

That hitachi rafter hook....😂😭😂hillarious, im a 20 year renovator and a " professional" youtuber , and i just found your channel ! Awesome content and god dam that garage of yours is what dreams are made of

Thank you for your review. I'm looking for a hoseless framing gun at present. I have a dinosaur paslode. I've been holding out for Senco to make a framer like their hoseless fusion line up. I absolutely love my fusion trim gun. It's similar to the Hitachi in that it uses a recycled nitogen filled cylinder. I'm new to your channel but you might be interested in the fusion gun.

cool video, amazing tools!

You're the 2nd reviewer I've watched that has the hanger wrong, you can use it wide for throwing over joists etc or just rotated it 180 and it becomes thinner on the other side. Serves to protect the battery as it wraps over it also.

Hi, A good addition to your talk on these battery guns, is to advise when you buy one of these battery / flywheel/ belt driven nailers, buy a few parts like the drive belt, drive pin etc ( parts that are likely to need replacing) Reason for this is when your gun stops working in 5 years time, some parts might not be available / hence throw it away. But if you had those parts , you could extend the life of the gun x 2 . Then throw it away.

Look at the way that the paslodes hook is attached. It's kinda swivels so when you want to hang it on the rafter it is long and when it's closed it makes it possible to hang on your pants, just like a drill. It's pretty smart.

Great review! Looks like Hitachi for the win! Lifetime warranty is also a big plus..

Oh great. I’m in the market for a cordless nail gun!

The crazy framer was using the dewalt in some crazy below zero weather and the dewalt failed miserably. He has beat his pasload to death and he is an animal when it comes to framing. Pasload in his hands looks to reign supreme. He is on KZfaq and frames houses by himself. CRAZY FRAMER.

I love Toolsday, and Merry Christmas lol

I just switched all of my framing crews over to complete battery milwaukee. From nail gun to 7 1/4 saws. Best decision every. Takes about 3months per crew to be back in the black on tool purchasing. Time saved on rool up and roll out is great. Air is just now a backup resource.

I picked up that Hitachi for $25. Very impressed with it.

We now have 2 Hitachi guns, best investment. Another thing to mention is the power of the Hitachi compared to the paslode, especially when shooting into LVLs or glulams. Hitachi wins any day of the week. We also have 1 gun with big rafter hook for hanging over brick walls and 1 with small hook for hanging on rafters. The small hook comes off the 16g brad gun.

Most kiwi builders have been using the Paslode battery/gas nailers 10-15 years now... only on the really big commercial sites you may see the odd compressor and pneumatic nailer, but even then most are cordless. Only in the last few years are we now starting to switch to the battery compressed air nailers, like the DeWalt or Hitachi. I have the Hitachi nailer and love it

Man I’ve just come across your channel and I’ve been watching your videos flat out for days. Your gun review is spot on, I run a prefab panel operation and we use pneumatic hitachi nailers in the factory and I have 2 that have done probably 6 million nails and only had to replace one hammer so far. We have some paslodes but they won’t sink a nail into lvl which we use exclusively so for site erection I end up having to set up the compressor and run lines. Tried the dewalt and took it back after an hour as it left the nails 15mm proud and it jammed ALOT. I’ve been looking at the hitachi and think I’ll be off to get one now.

cordless framers are good for punchlist stuff. For any real framing you still cant beat a pneumatic coil framer. Ive been running my Bostitch n80 coil nailer daily for over 20 years. It has never let me down. I just do a yearly o ring replace as well a new trigger.

i bought the Hitachi and i love it..

So glad you went with Toolsday.

I frame for a living, I never had any luck with cordless nailers. All toys that just didn’t last in a production setting. I wasted a lot of money for these over the years. I will occasionally use a cordless when bracing rafters. Otherwise a pneumatic is the way to go.

Great video. Big thumbs up👍👍

I run a dewalt framer for punch work, I’ve fired 1000’s of nails through the first one before it went down. Ended up buying a 2nd definitely worth it. I use dewalt and Milwaukee tools so I have plenty of batteries. Don’t know why people don’t like them. I now run 3 for framing punch on huge apartments. I like how the hitachi seems even better just hate how I wouldn’t have extra batteries. I also own dewalts trim nailer 18 gauge and works well too. I still have several paslodes but only run them when I have a bigger crews with now power near by.

Good job brotha nailed it!

The Hitachi, now called Metablo (Got mine at Lowes 399) may be cheaper somewhere else, it is a incredible gun so far, one of the best as of 4/8/20. No ramp up time, a little heavy, but drives the nail incredible.

Still have the old Bostich air gun for big nail days, have the same paslode and still love it for interior walls and last year i bought the new dewalt spiker, very good working gun, bit heavy and your right the rafter hook sucks. Not so bad I don’t use it every day, you just have to be aware of it. Funny how we had the same framing nailer transition....lol

I have the very first Paslode they came out with and its still going strong. I will admit I don't take the best care of it so its been tough. I think I have cleaned and oiled it 1 time since I bought it. It is aggerating having to make sure you have the battery charged but I bought and extra so I always have a hot one.

Even though it's Wednesday I like how you put that.

That’s hilarious! I have the same bostitch, and it was my first gun. Aaaaaaand it looks just as rough as yours 🤣

I like the big rafter hook, I can hook it on 2x or the 4x when the framing interior 2x4 walls. It holds on. Who cares if the gun leans sideways?

Thanks for a honest opion..

The bump fire is essential for me lol

10:34 The battery compresses the cylinder by driving the piston into the cylinder and squeezing the trigger releases the piston which then shoots out due to the high pressure

this was really helpful thanks!

Thinking about getting the hitachi framer. Where did I purchase the new rafterhook?

I just bought a Hitachi collated screw gun on close out at Lowe’s. I was really concerned that my Hitachi tools would be useless since they got bought out. The customer service staff at Metabo assured me they are keeping all of Hitachi’s parts in stock for at least 10 years and that all the batteries will be the same on both platforms. So if you run Hitachi batteries, scoot down to Lowe’s and buy them up at close out costs.

Great video! Thanks

Also need info on that replacement rafter hook you swapped out !!! 😎

I love my hitachi , I just wish it was lighter lol. I hate the rafter hook as well .

I really enjoy your videos, thank you

Hitachi for the Win I believe! I’m a Dewalt fan but man it’s loud and slower.

Dang theres two Tuesdays this week, its gonna be a rough week

Hi Kyle, great videos, learnt a lot from these. I’m going to buy a framing gun shortly but I will be using it constantly in a workshop framing cabins , if having a cord ( airline) wasn’t a issue would you recommend pneumatic over battery??

Just like the guns the show has evolved! Toolsday is even better then Casey's donuts😎

Looks like Amazon shows the Hitachi framer as discontinued by the manufacturer, yet it's still for sale. Not many to choose from other than what you have, all good n the 350 range, good video man, Jimmy is awesome btw

Should talk about the degree of nailer & why chose it..... Would be interesting to hear that, along w/ availability of fasteners etc... Also, maybe a new vid w/ new Milwaukee nailers coming out....update to this vid, maybe? Thx for vid👍🏻

Great review. Can I ask where you got the replacement rafter hook for the Hitachi? Thanks

I use a cordless hilti nail gun and i love it!

I'm 53 and have invested in Senco framers as well as my old Porter cable framers from years ago when they were still quality. I run a nice oiled compressor and also have Senco, Bostich and PC finish nailers. I'm just not going to invest thousands of follars replacing guns at my age. I have a lot of battery tools, but I'll stick with air and hoses even though I know they can be annoying

Great video 👌

when paslode first came out problematice 84-85 when i first used one framing apt

Thanks for sharing.

Great video!!!

Try all into oak or in 1 inch exterior ply . Try nailing a timber into a block wall . All are fine on soft wood or general work . But very hard materials like 1 inch exterior ply the paslode is the best

I wish Milwaukee had a battery operated framing nailer. I think it will be the best of the best

I have the Paslode framing nailer and everything you said is true about it. Then I also have the trim nailer which the battery looks the same but will only work in it's own machine, This is my second Paslode framing nailer. I noticed on trimming nailer the gas bottle should be remove or it drains away.I had a coil nail gun which ran off an air hose, that thing was so touchy might have 3 nails back to back come out

What are you using for a cordless 1/2 crown stapler? Paslode discontinued the one you use in your videos.

Got my Metabo (Hitach) cordless nail gun and its awesome!

Hard to beat the Passlaod if you don't mind buying the gas....I still use an air nailer for everything except framing my roofs...Nice vid...

I bought the Hitachi nail gun last year or as it is now called hikoki, only because the warranty purpose which is 6 years, used it for a lot of tasks making decking, renovations, can say it is a beast eyes closed however it is very heavy compared to the paslode but that is not a bother due to not using it consistently

I really want that hitachi framing nailer

I owned two Paslodes. Sold both of them. Initially very handy. But required constant servicing and was forever cleaning the chamber and ports due to the gas process forming soot that clung to the internal parts. Went back to air.

When you hit 100k subs you should lay out every power tool, battery and charger you have.

I’m gonna get me one of those hitachi framers. I currently wear the paslode on my belt do you think I’ll be able to hang the hitachi one from my nail bag so I can put joists and things into position then grab it and fix things in?

Where does one find that aftermarket rafter hook for the Hitachi nailer?

That Hitachi design is similar to hydraulic breaking hammers that you see on larger excavators, they have a nitrogen chamber that allows them to fire. If that tech works for giant jack hammers then I think it would be ok driving nails lol.

I purchased the dewalt 30 deg Thurs morning by 20 clips of 2 3/8" nails it lock jammed (nail missed going out and locked upd) 6 times on a roof decking and it wouldn't set up to flush for my zip board ...it WAS returned by evening and purchased the Hitachi 30 deg.....due to a storm, I haven't gotten to use except testing. It sounded and felt much stronger. I just started using the Zip board and this "flush nail" recommendation I couldn't consistantly acquire with the 2nd gen Paslode 15 deg framer.

Bought a Milwaukee 16 gauge, one thing I like is no ramp up time like I with noticed with makita. I'm not sure about others ramp up time, but Milwaukee has zero. I wish the tip was more narrow,

Good info thanks

I need advise on a siding coil gun nailer. I'm going to be doing a lot of cedar shakes but I also want it to be able to do roofing shingles. so I'm thinking pneumatic

I've used a Paslode before and I actually like the smell of that gas!

Good tutorial

@RR Buildings where did you get the smaller rafter hook for this?

Mate do you happen to have a link as to where I can find the smaller hook for the hitachi. The big one is bloody ridiculous.

great vid over here in new zealand we arent allowed the bump fire for some reason on the hitachi but they are still a great gun none the less they fire from the prechambered gas being released kind of like a air powered bb gun and the battery and motor are what drive the piston back which chambers the air again