Wilton B.A.S.H 30" Sledge Hammer, 20 Lb Head (22030)

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Features an indestructible handle made with four spring steel bars that run all the way through the full length of the handle to resist overstrike without breaking. Having said that, and not knowing what your house/property looks like, if you find you are having to take a bunch of wacks using the 8 lb or ten lb hammers, you might find going up in weight to be useful. I mainly use a 12 for driving iron rod property corners, and if you are setting very many of them a heavier sledge will wear me down. This subreddit is temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit's recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, effectively forcing users to use the official Reddit app. I could probably swing this thing at concrete all day for a year and it'd look brand new at the end of it.

A bigger guy may prefer a bigger hammer but I could swing that thing all day knocking pins out of excavator booms over head or driving bull pricks through hard pan at ground level. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I guess it performs like brass, yet it could still create a spark, so it is not considered safe for certain environments.International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Another question for you guys, if I am using it for more repair work, rather than demo, should I get a soft faced style? Use the tools that work the best for the job at hand and choose the tool that will best get the job done quickly and effectively. I owned a 10 pounder when I was a six-two, 275-pound weightlifter, and swinging that thing from over my shoulder for more than ten minutes forced me to take a long break a catch my breath.

In a professional environment you shouldn't be using a sledge hammer unless you're breaking rocks of course.

I know there's an urge to feel macho and swing a giant hammer, but you'll get more done with one that's easier to swing. Also I find that using sledge hammers with a fiber glass handle to be better in general then wooden handles. If you are a stronger person, someone who does manual labor a lot, and you find that you are breaking stone/concrete or driving post in to permafrost ground, in an area where accuracy is not important, then you might want to increase the weight to get done quicker.

An 8 and 16 sounds like a good compliment, or if you and/or the material you are working with are large, a ten and a twenty. This 20 lb sledge hammer has a long handle and a large flat head to deliver powerful blows to concrete, wood and steel. It comes with a non-slip grip vulcanised rubber handle for a secure grip and a safety plate for preventing head dislodging. Groz Indestructible Handle Hammers meet ANSI specifications "Hand Tools - Heavy Striking Tools Safety Requirements", as well as BS 876 specifications for material, hardness and performance. pound hammer is gonna be real awkward to swing unless it's underhand in my opinion, I'm short though so this might not apply to you.

The head will not become loose, as steel bars are locked with a steel plate on top of the hammerhead, ensuring the head will never get dislodged. In fact, I don't see any real evidence of the head deforming either (the head on my 16 pound hammer has noticeably deformed over time). I’m positive I would have broken the head off a wood handled sledge with the job I did today (having done that a couple times previous on other jobs with a lighter sledge and a splitting axe). This year I'm clearing an area for a shed, and decided to get something a little bigger to (hopefully) break things up a little faster and with fewer hits. I should have stated that I currently have numerous hammers in sizes up to 8 pounds, so I have the lower end covered.

The powerful force you can generate is also suitable for demolishing brick and studwork walls as well as driving home stakes.

I also think the wise ones saying that accuracy goes down based on the weight increase is probably true, even for big brutes. I was used to swinging 8-12 lb hammers and figured the 20 wouldn't be that much different and I could not have been more wrong. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I preferred the square design over the tapered heads because if you were banging 2x4 stakes in the ground you could use the square head sideways and it wouldn't split the wood so easily as it hit the whole flat surface of the stake. I used every thing from the one handed sledge hammer, '4 pounder', to the heavier 20 lb sledge hammer.