Fence staple gun
- Thread starter William G
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- Location
- North Wales
Stockade gas ones are good but can be temperamental in hot weather.
The Milwaukee seems to be a better by all accounts than the DeWalt. And both the Milwaukee and DeWalt don't require additional gas like the stockade does.
I'd start by looking what staples are available locally to buy or off your suppliers.
My preference is the stockade pneumatic one but you need a compressor to run it and associated air hose but it just works and is reliable.
The Milwaukee seems to be a better by all accounts than the DeWalt. And both the Milwaukee and DeWalt don't require additional gas like the stockade does.
I'd start by looking what staples are available locally to buy or off your suppliers.
My preference is the stockade pneumatic one but you need a compressor to run it and associated air hose but it just works and is reliable.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Do you have any batteries already?
I have a Milwaukee as I already had the batteries, and like it a lot. I doubt the DeWalt is much different if you already have those batteries though.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Milwaukee has an internal hidden gas canister that cannot be replaced, it’ll do something like 25,000 staples then run out and be thrown in the skip, but it’ll last till the warranty runs out for most people
thats over a pound for staples per post alone without the cost of the gun and batteries
makin clipex look cheaper all the time
makin clipex look cheaper all the time
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I always thought that about gas after having paslodes, but our stockade has been very good and never really been a problem. Tried a Milwaukee and thought it was very inbalanced.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Less than half that
womble8350
Member
- Location
- York
I have a stockade air one I would sell only for the reason I now have a stockade gas.
Hmm. That’s put a spanner in the works. I was leaning towards the Milwaukee due to the staples being cheaper than stockade. 25000s a big number but it’s not really a lot of staples.
The pneumatic as said on here looks the best made of the lot but compressor and hoses put me of it.
I’ve not heard about the international gas problem before. Is that something you have experienced or know of it happening
- Location
- North Wales
Ye I've heard the internal nitrogen canister is a thing to. The design is used In other Milwaukee nail guns so the fault has appeared. Milwaukee aren't very good for getting individual parts so they become obsolete if they stop working as it costs so much to repair. There may be a viable solution in a couple of years if lots of tools start failing and a repair is needed.
- Location
- North Wales
It's circa 50p/post so certainly adds up but time saving far out weighs the additional cost.
- Location
- northumberland
What's wrong with a hammer 
no battery/gas or air lines, puts in any size of staple and nails, can also pull them back out and straighten bent ones to be used again for the thrifty ones among us 
no battery/gas or air lines, puts in any size of staple and nails, can also pull them back out and straighten bent ones to be used again for the thrifty ones among us
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
I know of Milwaukee guns with over 100 boxes (960,000 staples) through them and no faults has anyone here had first hand experience of them failing ?
Go on the fencing groups on Facebook and you could pick up secondhand staplers, most of them are yellow though.....
Go on the fencing groups on Facebook and you could pick up secondhand staplers, most of them are yellow though.....
- Location
- somerset
once you have 1 cordless tool, you pretty well have to stay with the brand, batteries are not cheap ¬
Willie adie
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Yep I've got Makita tools and I just know if i change to de walt or milwaukee. Then makita will bring one out
- Location
- somerset
spent time, educating son, that the differences of distance between barb wire, on a fence, is usually down to the handle length of the persons hammer, than anything else.What's wrong with a hammer
got a lot of fencing to do, keep thinking about one. The neighbouring estate, is using clipex, makes one think, l expect they buy them, by the lorryload.
I’m not on Facebook but what’s the preferred choice on there out of curiosity.
From what I can gather with any research Iv done Milwaukee is better than Dewalt. Stockade is a good tool but more expensive staples due to gas and gas can also play up at times. Which steers me towards Milwaukee.
But that 25000 odd staples limit has rattled me a bit. That’s only around 12km. The job I’m on just now would use up a third of its life if that was the case.
But yeah I’m curious to know what the facebooksts have to say as surely if that’s an issue it must be spoken about on there somewhere.
But I refuse to be a facebookst so I’ll ask you instead
You can get battery adapter plates for all the mainstream brands nowadays.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
Fencing Stapler
I am not a contractor, but have a lot of fencing to do on the farm. I'm thinking of investing in a staple gun for the project, and looking for recommendations. I already have several Dewalt batteries if the Dewalt gun is any good? Thanks
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