Can a Concrete nailer be used for wood on wood?

[lowster]

I was looking at getting a nail gun and stumbled across a "concrete nailer" I know the description makes its use pretty clear, but ultimately is it not pretty much the same as any other nail gun other than it has more power? It's practically half the price of it's 16ga equivalent...

Here are the two guns in question:
Hitachi NT65GS
HITACHI NC40G

 

[gavingreyling]

concrete nail guns can be used for wood, but not wood nail guns for concrete. the concrete nails are usually a lot stronger than the nails generally used for wood. this is why the wood nails wouldn't work for concrete as the nails are too weak and the nail gun doesn't usually have enough power.

 

[Norcon]

Its foolish using a concrete nailer on wood.
It's tantamount to buying a cheap hammer and using expensive concrete nails.
And the shaft breaks before the weeks out.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Concrete nailers drive nails which which resemble masonry nails. These nails are not only too short for timber framing (typically 15 to 40mm with some guns taking 60mm nails), but they are also way too expensive for timber framing at, typically, 5p to 12p a shot. They also have more of a tendency to split dry timber near the edges and ends than conventional 1st fix nail guns meaning that they are best used with sklightly damp timber, as in 1st fix work. The nails are also much larger diameterand with full heads than the finish nails fired by 16 ga second fix nailers like the Hitachi Nt65gs finish nailer you refer to and so would be completely unsuited to work such as fixing architraves, skirtings, the normal province of a 2nd fix gun

Good for nailing battenning to concrete and steels, though, which can't be done by any other type of gun