I picked up a campers axe and 14" hatchet, the hatchet feels so nice with the leather handle. Tomorrow morning I think I will split some kindling, just can't wait to use it. It's also pretty **** in a lizzy bourden way, lol.
I hear you on the ****. Honest truth, I dreamed I bought a house a few nights ago and I found an estwing axe in the back porch. It's a good thing something woke me up or I think I'd have had to get up and change the sheets soon after. I used them when I was falling timber and building log homes when I was younger. I really liked those axes and still have them on my mind a lot.
That rocks!
How many professionals actually break hammers?
Bent a claw once. Also have seen them broken off.
Exactly!
It's built to take abuse, go on any big construction site & most hammers are either the 20 or 22 oz straight claw. When doing concrete formwork you need a soild steel hammer, it has to hammer, pull nails or pins, chop, dig, pry you name it. Estwing is the only one I've seen really hold up.
Vaughan is nicer.
For a carpenter. Not for lots of other construction, especially concrete.
There's no doubt that if you're going to swing a hammer all day a wooden handle is way better. Back in the very early 80s I framed houses for a summer and I knew after two days why the rest of the crew was using wooden handled hammers, mostly Vaughns. Even at 20 years old my Estwing beat me up and made my elbow hurt, and you sure can't choke up on the handle for close or precise stuff. They kidded me that Estwings make a great pry bar--most of them had one for rough use but they used the Vaughn for nail driving. The third day I had a nice new 24 oz. milled face Vaughn and it made a huge difference. I've still got it with original handle--and I've still got the Estwing but they're used for different things.
titanium does not absorb the shock better. it is lighter and can be swung faster. 1/2 mv*v. so hit harder. they typically have sleeve hitting part. So unless they do something special with handle, not necessarily absorb shock better.
Sorry, I guess what someone who has one told me is wrong then. I don't use a hammer anywhere near enough to spend the cash on a titanium hammer.
Are you saying this from actual experience or just saying it?
Husky.
Of what?
This is true. Titanium hammers have less recoil and are less fatiguing to use.
Nobody who's ever been on a jobsite would say what he said.Are you saying this from actual experience or just saying it?
I only used my hammer professionally for about a year, (1977), but there plenty of accounts of folks who for use them for a living, sometimes for decades.
Hard to believe they are just posers and the Estwing hammers do not really have the longevity claimed.
Bomp chica womp womp.Alright you got a chuckle out of me on that.
I’ll respond with some Estwing ****
Just in case I go back tomorrow & there are no more, it will be a rough day if I can't get any,lol.
My 44 year old Estwing rock pick from college makes a great welding hammer.
Vaughan or Douglass.
Are you saying this from actual experience or just saying it?
I only used my hammer professionally for about a year, (1977), but there plenty of accounts of folks who for use them for a living, sometimes for decades.
Hard to believe they are just posers and the Estwing hammers do not really have the longevity claimed.
