Thread: I got a power hammer!!!

The ram is only 32 pounds. 700 is the total machine.

As to the crane: those are fairly typical for building contractors. They are convenient to move as well. When they remove the counterweights, the arm drops. When all the weights are gone, they fold the entire thing in half. It has wheels at the base. When it is folded in and the support struts are retracted, they keel it over and hitch it like a normal trailer.

You have to keep in mind that Belgium is brick and mortar country. Our houses are all brick and mortar, and the floors between levels are all reinfoced concrete slabs, with iron webbing on top and then another couple of inches concrete poured onto that. Interior walls are brick as well.

that's why building contractors use those cranes. They have to haul hundreds of pallets of bricks and large buckets of mortar back and forth. Doing that by hand would be too costly. So whenever a contractor starts his work, first thing he does is to raise his crane. At least, he does for large projects. For small modification jobs they obviously don't bother.

A nice windy day to move the hammer.

Wouldn't have been pretty if it fell off the pallet with that swinging.

Originally Posted by Thug

A nice windy day to move the hammer.

Wouldn't have been pretty if it fell off the pallet with that swinging.

The wind wasn't that bad compared to other days. I had strapped it to the pallet but of course, if it starts to go, it's going.

Kinda gives a new meaning to the phrases "Air Freight" and "Special Delivery."
Looks like the hard part is over.
Can't wait to see it up and running.

Pete <:-}

congrats on the new hammer!! ive never seen one like that one, but it looks about the perfect size for making razors and kitchen knives!

I found myself in the same boat awhile back. I was worried that a powerhammer might be too noisy for a residential neighborhood where my shop is. and the cost of powerhammers is nothing to sneeze at either. so I went to the salvage yard and built one. mine is a guided helve hammer, and the ram is about 50 lbs. total weight on the whole thing is around 1200 pounds. if I ever have to move it, ill just weld an axle onto it and tow the thing wherever it needs to go.

the noise thing I found that surprisingly it cut down on the noise. sure it is much louder when it is running than hand hammering, but you get SO MUCH more work done in so much less time that the overall noise coming out of your shop is much less. in fact I can run my hammer for one day, and not run it again for a month or more.

plus you can work larger stock, make Damascus, and your right arm will shrink to the size of your left, so that when you walk you aren't all lopsided anymore :}

here is a old video of my hammer not too long after I built it....

https://youtu.be/lWATNVCaaBc

3 phase is now available in my shop.
Hopefully the contractor who is working on my house finally gets his act together and finishes his job so that I finally don't need to worry about the renovation anymore, and can start thinking about using that hammer.

Nice, is that Maarten's old power hammer? Good stuff!!