ROOFING NAILGUN, HITACHI OR BOSTITCH?
Hi all, I’m kind of between the two favorites roofing nailguns, which are Hitachi and Bostitch. If any of you have used one of them please share experience.
Thanks
Tung
Hi all, I’m kind of between the two favorites roofing nailguns, which are Hitachi and Bostitch. If any of you have used one of them please share experience.
Thanks
Tung
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Hitachi
Used both and liked both. The Hitachi is a better gun, lighter and fewer jams. But the new Bostitches served my roofing crew well. We could buy a pallet of coil nails and get a free gun! Since we used the nails (and got them for a good price by the box) anyway getting a gun let us keep more guns than roofers which meant than when one went down we had another to keep working. We worked them pretty tough too, between drops, emergency shingling in a drizzle, freezing winters, hot and humid summers and knuckleheads leaving them on a bumper or toolbox and driving away. The economics would sway me to the Bostich while still yielding that the Hitachi is a better tool.
I got a great deal on my Bostich (Roofing Gun, Coil Siding Gun and two "manual" Estwing framers for $400), but it did seem to jam or misfire at least twice every square, and at the most inopportune times, even with the bostich nails. I sold it on Ebay for like $275 and bought a used Hitachi at the local used tool store for $200. I'd get a Hitachi.
edit-man, I can't type today!
Edited 9/7/2005 6:33 pm ET by Demon
Edited 9/7/2005 6:35 pm ET by Demon
As much as I hate roofin,
I hate it worse using a Bostich!!
EVERY Bostich nailer I have ever used, was a POC!
and whats worse is you gotta buy "special" nails for 'em...
like they are some kind of thouroughbred nailer that only likes the best!!!
Years ago Bostich may have been good nailers but since they got yeller and Stanley they are HO quality crap.
Htachi
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Thanks everybody, I just print the price from Amazon this morning and I'll go to Lowe's today to get a Hitachi and use it tomorrow.
Thanks again
Tung