Nails are traditional for jobs like fencing. I remember my father doing jobs like this. He was a very skilled man, a patternmaker who used a lot of screws in precision work and nails for functional joinery. He could knock most nails in with two blows and knew how to remove them. I inherited boxes of every screw size and type, and quite a variety of nails, brads and panel pins.
What has changed is the ease of putting screws in. I'd use screws because I can't knock nails in like my dad and I have suitable tool and bits for screwing 'em in.
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Fences - screws or nails? new
Fences - screws or nails? new