Abstract: A pallet size nail having a comparatively small gauge shank whose surface is pitted with contiguous minute pits bounded by small sharply shaped wall convexities as provided by grit blasting the surface with approximately 80 mesh grit of aluminum oxide, which protuberances imbed in wood fibers and provide a substantial increase in holding power against withdrawal compared with sandblasted nail shanks, the nail preferably being spirally fluted.

Abstract: A nail and nail clip arrangement in which so-called common nails may have their shanks grit-blasted and the edge of their heads flattened along equal parallel planes to provide a minor diametral dimension of the nail head that is approximately twice the diameter of the nail shank. The heads are alternately offset laterally in contact with each other in two rows and with the heads of the two rows alternately cross-engaging and the shanks of the nails interdigitate at an acute angle adjacent their points. The end nail at the feed end of one row extends beyond the next adjacent nail of the other row far enough for a powered driver to nip off and drive the lead nail upon actuation of the power mechanism.