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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad loves to tell a story about a friend of his who worked a summer job roofing. Every single shingle was hammered in by hand. The whole summer was spent swinging a hammer.

Now the same job would be done with a nail gun - a lot less physical.

In the 70s and 80s there were lots of tasks like that, a lot more things that we do now with machine power that used to be done by hand.[/quote]

Nail guns have been around since the late 50s.  Your dad's friend might have used a hammer, but that doesn't mean that nail guns weren't common or available in the 70s and 80s.

This whole thread is ridiculously full of non facts.[/quote]

Different PP.  While this is true, they used to be a lot more expensive and so were much less common.  They were only common for professionals and only a very small number of DIYers.  Even professionals, only the really busy professionals had them.  If you used a smaller company, they were not as likely to have them.  These days, they are pretty ubiquitous to anyone working in the home improvement industry.  But I had a roof done in the 1990's and I used a pretty normal roofer.  He was a one-man roofer that did smaller homes and townhomes himself.  When he got a larger SFH, he had a friend who he would hire for a day or two to help him work.  Neither of these guys had a nail gun and did the work by hand.[/quote]

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