Full-On Framer
I love tools that keep pace.
For framing — and I mean force-framing, not just tacking some sticks together in a partition wall — a tool needs to show up ready to red-line.
Paslode’s new pneumatic full-round-head PF350s PowerFramer is just such a tool, and one that lives up to the marketing hype it’s name implies.
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