Types of Hammers and Their Uses: Mastering the Toolbox

Tradesafe ^ | Last update: October 9, 2024 | Herbert Post

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJag19WoAe0

[Orosius]

That’s the deluxe model!

[TexasGator]

"But is it a left-hand calibrated metric Crescent hammer?"

It can be used by either hand and adjusts to both SAE and metric sizes. Calibration should only be performed by a professional.

[imardmd1]

I have one of those dent-pullers, and some other special ones like a tack hammer. and framing hammer, etc. But the most-loved hammer of my life was the spike maul, with which I became aquainted in the summer of 1957, when I was 20, young, strong, six feet tall and 175 pounds, and got the job as a section track hand--a "gandy-dancer"--on the Erie-Lackawanna railroad.

That is the tool of the spiker. I teamed up with another to drive more than a thousand spikes in replacing the track in front of the Hornell, NY train depot. My partner taught me all I needed to operate that ten-pound maul that when properly applied, resulted in a flat spot of about the size of a dime on the head of a railroad spike when it is driven home. That maul and its use has quite a story behind it.

[MosesKnows]

If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer all problems will look like nails.