Worker nailing shingles quickly - GIF

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Frank,
Looks like your council has heard the song "Little boxes on a hillside and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same".

Hah! I live right near Daly City (just south of San Francisco), which is the town of "little boxes, little boxes" (and they all do in fact look just the same, at least from a ways away; I'm sure if yer actually living in one, it looks a bit different from yer neighbor's, 'specially over time... :-)

That-all said: I'm taking a guess that this guy in this video does not spend all day every day nailing roofing tile sheets like this -- this looks pretty performative, and performED. As in: "let's make a video, guys". Yeah, he's good - 'spect! - but I highly doubt anyone can crank that out for an 8-hour -- or even a 1-hour -- shift. Look: for one thing, those tiles have to be stacked and ready in a pretty convenient location, for him to be able to just swipe them into place Just So -- so either he's got an invisible off-screen helper who's missing screen-credits OR this is a short-term-only trick. For another: nail magazines run out. For another: roof layouts aren't some infinite uniform plane -- I assume as with any job like this it's a combination of some big swathes of uniform areas, as well as a lot of custom-fit bits, around edges, things-that-stick-up/holes, etc.

So his ability to just go "(swipe/position)...pop-pop-pop-pop-pop...(swipe/position)...pop-pop-pop-pop-pop" about 7-8 times in a row, that fast, as here, is probably something that's going to be maybe...30-40% of a job, max? A lot of the rest will be getting more tile packs and cutting them open, then stacking them in place; also trimming them to length or to fit around things; changing out knife blades in the thing to do said trimming; reloading the nail magazines; making sure the extension cord is still plugged in/long enough as he's moving around (or dealing with the compressor hose or reloading the power loads in the nailing gun) -- etc etc etc.

Basically: yep, really cool he can whack out those tiles that fast, and I respect that! But still, pretty sure this is a video, for video's sake...