Mag Nails

Bought some once, went back to PK's, don't have much problem finding them.
jud

I think it's you "Muscles the Surveyor!" (oops, that's not name calling is it?)

I don't use them so I don't know. 60d's work fine. You just have to "love them in" really hard roads and not knock the snot out of them every time.

Drill a hole first, squirt in some epoxy, bada-bing.

-JD-

> I don't use them so I don't know. 60d's work fine. You just have to "love them in" really hard roads and not knock the snot out of them every time.

Can you even get 60d's that have any ferrous (iron) signature in them anymore? Nowhere around here has stocked those for years. The stuff you get around here has got none... you can drop one on the asphalt and the buzz box won't pick it up if you are sitting on top of it. That don't help for trying to find them in 6 months (or more) when you need use them again. May as well use wood dowels then.

Carl, seldom use anything but eye to locate PK's. Sometimes need to get the broom out and put it to work.
jud

> Carl, seldom use anything but eye to locate PK's. Sometimes need to get the broom out and put it to work.
> jud

Yeah, yeah... I was talking about 60d's in Kris' thread... But sometimes roads get treated or resurfaced... and sometimes 60d's are set in yards and countersunk on shoulders. I'm not a hack, I know of what I speak.

I pick things up and put them down!

Joe-

Sometimes, on some asphalts if you pound the *not out of the asphalt first, it can break the stone component and then I drive in a hinge nail which is a fat spike about 3" long with a bottle cap.

Cheers

Derek

Carl,

We use the 60ds that Home Depot sells in bulk. They are Hardened Shank Spiral Pole Barn Nails not the Common Bright variety. They have a great mag signal and hold good.

Hmmmmm...

Ditto the spiral shanks from home to pot...

Love the spiral shank pole barn nails. They can make a metal detector sing like Ray Charles 15 years after you put them in the ground.

Pole Barn Nails

As for Joe's original question, still using boxes we've had awhile. The only time I ever had any problems is when trying to drive them in fully cured concrete. Never an issue in asphalt.

I think the earlier commenter must be right. You got some big muscles thar, man. 😉

Larry P

> Love the spiral shank pole barn nails. They can make a metal detector sing like Ray Charles 15 years after you put them in the ground.
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> Pole Barn Nails
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> As for Joe's original question, still using boxes we've had awhile. The only time I ever had any problems is when trying to drive them in fully cured concrete. Never an issue in asphalt.
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> I think the earlier commenter must be right. You got some big muscles thar, man. 😉
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> Larry P

Roger those barn nails. I'll look into them.

Thanks!!

I've never heard them called spiral shanked. Ring-shanked is what we called them back when I built pole barns. We had 2 crews of about 4 or 5 of us each. We built about a dozen of them one summer.
God help anyone to try to pull one out of PT lumber. They break off long before they budge.

I am trying my first 50lb of galvanized 60d nails from HD or Lowes, I forget which.

They are stronger and hold their shape when driving into asphalt and pavement.

They ring out better than the commons.