Hope the picture is big enough to see.

That's an oldie, fer shor. Wonder what the power was. Manual...like a hammer? Surely not steam.

Might be a flooring gun, they were set on the correct angle to drive square nails into oak flooring just above the tongue on the T&G flooring.  They used a hammer for that.

 

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Herb

The old roofing guns like that worked well but anything longer they just set the nail and had to be driven the rest of the way.  Here is a video restoring one and it is shown using it at about 10:00 minutes.

 

 

Edited April 26, 20188 yr by HandyDan

2 hours ago, HandyDan said:

The old roofing guns like that worked well but anything longer they just set the nail and had to be driven the rest of the way.  Here is a video restoring one and it is shown using it at about 10:00 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Yup, I think you nailed it ,Dan, the handle is on the bottom, the OP  picture is upside down.

Herb

Edited April 26, 20188 yr by Dadio

On 4/26/2018 at 4:34 PM, HandyDan said:

Here is a video restoring one and it is shown using it at about 10:00 minutes

 well that was cool.  Unfortunately the restoration destroyed the antique value.

He better stop wasting the nails.

It wont be long before you wont be able to buy them anymore.

I've seen tons of going to the junkyard. People don't want

them if they can't shoot them anymore...