Quick-fire fencing nailer

Duo-Fast just recently introduced a brand-spanking new air-powered nailer--the Model DF225C Coil Siding Nailer--that's specifically designed for installing siding, decking and fencing. And while this new high-performance tool will certainly save you the drugery of hand nailing, that's only part of its appeal.

The DF225C has an easy-open cylindrical magazine that accepts coils of plastic-collated nails. The tool can fire three types of nails--smooth-, ring- or screw-shanked--ranging in length from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches.

It has a tool-less depth-of-drive mechanism that you can easily adjust to ensure that you don't over-drive or under-drive the nails. And the DF225C weighs just 4 1/2 pounds, which you'll appreciate at the end of a long day of nailing.

The big advantage that a coil nailer has over a typical stick nailer, which accepts strips of nails, is nail capacity. Most stick framing nailers can only hold 50 or so nails.

The magazine on this Duo-Fast coil nailer can hold up to 300 nails. That means you could nail down a 200-foot-long deck board, driving two nails every 16 inches, before you'd have to reload. The DF225C retails for about $379.