Anyone try a tamper bit on a demo hammer?

[Baw335]

What the title says; I have an upcoming project that I need to compact a smallish area over a period of time. Anyone try one and have any decent results?

 

[LXCam]

They work just fine for 16sginches at a time. Are you pouring concrete in these areas or just need compaction?

 

[Baw335]

I'll be pouring concrete over in a year or two. It's an area in the back of my pole barn that is lower than the rest.

 

[kctyphoon]

It alll depends how big of an area... if it's not something small, that's probably not gonna do well.. a bit like that is good for something like a hole left behind from a large post or a pole that was removed, or say a couple sections of sidewalk probably. For any decent sized area, you'll kill yourself with that thing, not to mention you'll be leaning over the whole time using it. For some of us, our backs aren't what they use to be.

For me, if it was something say, the size of a small patio, or a single car driveway, I'd rent one of those jumping jacks or vibrating tampers instead.. with small tampers like that it's hard to get a flat even surface over a large area. I haven't used that exact type of tamper, but Ive used small hydraulic ones and hand tampers plenty of times.

Just guessing, but I'd imagine that would be an 8x8 or 10x10 tamper head at the most, so keep that into prospective.

 

[LXCam]

The only thing these are good for is compaction at the bottom of a hole or around a post and where you've excavated under a structure and need to get soil compacted back underneath. Concrete is cheap and if it's a small area I'd just fill it with mud and be done. After all if it's enough of an area to eat up even a yard of concrete you'll spend way more time playing with that toy then spending at extra hundred bucks. Seriously unless vertical clearance is your issue, just go rent a foot tamper and do a good job if you're dead set in compacting the fill.

Well whatever you decide good luck and post lots of pics

 

[FigureItOut]

I stared at the title for a full minute before opening it, trying to figure out why the hell you'd want to put a tamper-proof bit on a demo hammer.

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[Baw335]

I appreciate the input; it sounds like I'll be better off with renting a piece of equipment! Thanks again.

 

[jumbojak]

I stared at the title for a full minute before opening it, trying to figure out why the hell you'd want to put a tamper-proof bit on a demo hammer.

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I'm glad it wasn't just me.

 

[Git]

I have one for my Bosch Brute

It's actually two pieces - the shank and then the actual 'tamper plate'. Cost was around $100 for both and I bought it mainly to help fill in a trench that was about 100' long but was pretty narrow. It got the job done but it didn't really work that well. For one thing, if you're using it on bare ground - the dirt tends to clump and stick to the bottom of the plate. Plus the Brute weights around 65 lbs to begin with and with the tamper plate added on - it gets pretty heavy working with it...

I think you would be better off renting the 'jumping jack' or look at buying a hand tamper for $30 or so:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Razor-Back-10-in-x-10-in-Steel-Tamper-30005/100158211

 

[kctyphoon]

Here, look at this.. for my zip it's $86 a day to rent a vibrating plate compactor from HD.

http://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Vibratory-Plate-Compactor-14/0008705/

They have a bigger model also.

Or $94 for the jumping jack.. this might be a better option for you. The vibrating models are usually for thin layers I believe, like substrate for patios or asphalt. If you're adding a lot of dirt this might be better, and not much more money.

http://www.homedepot.com/tool-truck-rental/Jumping-Jack/5200000642/

 

[Milton Shaw]

When I first saw the headline, I added proof to the sentence. Making it tamper proof bit in a Demo hammer. LOL.....

 

[bcradio]

People on this forum must not use demo hammers much.

 

[Finky198]

On something like my Hilti te-70 is no problem to do a small area, Great for asphalt repair and light tasks, but I have yet to buy a tamper bit because we have a small Wacker plate compactor at the shop. Although I use them quite a bit in the past with success on commercial size drills their quite useless on a smaller machine.

As said before
Best to use a jumping jack or rent a small plate compactor.

There is also the old fashioned way by hand...