50lb Little giant power hammer - Fernie BC 8500$

[justin1]

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[skippyelwell]

The ring suspended above the base of the hammer, would that be some kind of emergency stop?

 

[Proxule]

Yeah emergency stop - opening the wallet @ 8500$

 

[justin1]

The ring suspended above the base of the hammer, would that be some kind of emergency stop?

Yeah emergency stop - opening the wallet @ 8500$

I thought it was for operating the clutch that drives the hammer.

And ye for 8500$ I could think of few tools I could buy that would be more useful for me. Mind you I don't blacksmith. but I do have interest in forge presses as I see them being useful for forming blanks for odd shaped stock for machining.

 

[Tom O]

I hear he revised the design and came up with the new design for the mammogram.

 

[PaulL]

That is sorely tempting. It would be an upgrade of sorts from my air hammer - half again the weight and much more efficient use of electricity. Air hammers have a lot of compression loss, so you need a larger motor to drive the same hammer mass.
But I am not driving to Fernie at this time of year.

 

[crittermutt]

I wonder if I put my two 25 lb Canadian giants side by side if that would be the same?

 

[KeeponDragon]

And here I'm pondering selling the behemoth I built cuz I haven't used it in 3 plus years, it's heavy enough to rattle the kitchen cupboards roughly 40 feet away, and when I have used it, the neighbors complained...
The "pondering" is due to a plan of us moving 4 hours away. And I'm hoping to find a rural area where that kind of racket is more easily tolerated...
If I do sell, there's more to go with it, like a forge, a rail anvil, and some lengths of 2 inch wire rope if someone is good at twist damascus...

 

[BenoitL]

That's a nice looking hammer that appears to have had a proper rebuild with a lot of new parts.

 

[trevj]

The ring suspended above the base of the hammer, would that be some kind of emergency stop?

Foot control to operate the clutch, as suggested above.

The hammer looks to be mounted on a timber base plate, and the attached hardware to the ring, looks to be an expedient solution to avoid having to lift your leg up like a peeing dog, to step on the clutch (it engages the drive to the hammer, relative to how far down you press the ring or extension).

 

[trevj]

That's a nice looking hammer that appears to have had a proper rebuild with a lot of new parts.

Needs a grenade screen or other barrier, in between the spring and the operator!

Not a real common failure, but one that has happened, and has made a right mess out of a few guys faces, when the spring fails in use.