Me: 1, Staple Gun: 0

[geojane42]

Since the dog managed to get through the fence I built this morning, I went out to build a stronger, more better version this afternoon. Neither of my staple guns would work. Can you imagine trying to staple on chicken wire when you have to hold the staple loader in with one hand and press down on the trigger do dad with the other? I mean... the chicken wire alone requires at least 3 hands. Needless to say, I was getting pretty frustrated. They are mowing the lawn in the park behind us with a little (noisy!) tractor and have a few week whackers going so it's pretty noisy out there right now. I don't think any of the neighbours noticed me cursing and beating the snot out of the staple gun with a hammer. It is in pieces on the ground bleeding staples all over the place now but I feel much better.

 

[Southernbelle]

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Oh my!

Thanks for that

What a visual!

 

[SarahFair]

Staple guns are not weak friendly!
Ask me how I know....

 

[4-H chicken mom]

I feel your pain. You have to have a rather large hand in order to work those stupid things.

 

[Tala]

I got a cheap light duty staple gun at WalMart when I started building chicken pens. It's been my best purchase ever. Ok, after the power drill anyway.

Anything that you can safely use chicken wire on will be just fine with the light duty staples.

One of my first chicken wire projects involved me cutting the chicken wire and it going "twang" back at me, and stabbed me in the lip (could have been worse....) and the next day I had a job interview, and a fat lip.

Lets just say that I'm faaaaar more skilled with chicken wire now, however the cattle panels still manage to kick my butt occasionally.

 

[MandyH]

Well let me just go ahead and tell on myself. Last Summer I was doing something with the stupid staple gun and it jammed. Well after beating it ten different ways with whatever was handy, I grabbed it up and tried pulling on it and WHAM. it unjammed AND sent a staple through my belly. If I wasn't such a healthy lady, it probably would have done some damage LOL. I had to pull on my t shirt to get it out. Now I have an air powered staple gun (yeah, DH is nervous) and I am a little more careful!! The bad thing is that I am very handy with tools and my husband usually buys me new tools to tinker around with, and a $10 staple gun is what's gonna do me in LOL.

 

[gryeyes]

My staple gun is just slightly wonky off center. I have put MORE staples into things because the first one in a spot doesn't catch the hardware cloth or chicken wire. Pretty soon I'm swearing and slamming the thing against objects.

My hand gets tired anyway, so I have to quit and shake it out a while before resuming stapled projects.

I've got a great ergonomic hand pruner that doesn't take strength to operate, why can't a staple gun be built the same way???

Now, if we were talking about glue guns, I'd have to admit I'm really dangerous with those things. Need a special weapons permit to operate it. Glued various bits of my clothing into every craft project I have attempted using a glue gun.