"Propane Hammer" - the hand held pile driver!

[Squankum]

For once in my life, one of the ads google stuck before a youtube video was for something cool:

http://propanehammer.com/video.php

OK, not a pile driver, but a fence post driver.

I'm assuming it's a wee, and non-smokey version of the ol' two stroke diesel pile driver, such:

Google tells me it has not been discussed on the GJ before. At least under the exact wording, "Propane hammer", so 'ere it is. Pretty neat!


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[zkling]

That's awesome. It would be the perfect thing for those have every accessory campers to install their tent stakes with.

Interesting, looks like it might be the same company as the paintball people. :

 

[ADSR]

looks cool!

 

[theoldwizard1]

Electric jack hammer with appropriate adapter. They also make gas powered jack hammers.

 

[NUTTSGT]

OK, not a pile driver, but a fence post driver.

I'm assuming it's a wee, and non-smokey version of the ol' two stroke diesel pile driver, such:

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I've seen pile drivers being used but I never really gave thought as to "how" they worked. Learn something new everyday on GJ.

 

[sometoyotaguy]

They used the diesel powered one on the new building at work.

 

[Squankum]

A better link I couldn't find last night, how works the two stroke diesel pile driver:

http://www.piledrivershop.com/en-GB/16/technology/how-a-diesel-hammer-works.html



I got to watch a new building go up next to mine at work, they rammed some 1' x 1' square concrete pilings into the hard clay/bauxite soil, it looked like 30-40' deep. A lot of them. And I got to watch the pile driver and slowly figured out that it was a two stroke diesel. They started it up with a large air hose hooked up to a construction-site compressor. A couple of attempts and the combustion chamber was warmed up and they were off to the races. It was an annoying background noise, unless you were like me and raised on the Clash's first album. (As Joe Strummer put it, the sound of seals barking over jackhammers.)

 

[honcho]

There was, once upon a time, a pogo stick that worked on the same principle. I think product liability took it off the market. Here for more info

http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html

 

[Squankum]

There was, once upon a time, a pogo stick that worked on the same principle. I think product liability took it off the market. Here for more info

http://www.bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html

Well, in those days, you needed anything you could get your hands on to get out of the path of the lawn darts!

 

[Finky198]

Concepts been around for like 25 years Hilti makes them
We have a similar set up for doing grounding rods but they also make an adapter an exact copy of that propane thingy sometimes I don't understand why people have to reinvent the wheel. As Hiltis combi hammer with avr is almost vibrationless and doesn't bounce around like a Mexican jumping bean

 

[volleyball]

I guess using a hammer drill might not work easily far from electricity.
If you only have to drive a few posts, doing it manually might be just as quick.

 

[Strouty]

It comes in green, now I just need an excuse to buy one!

 

[Finky198]

trust me we have a Hilti Te70 and run it off a 2000eu honda gen and you can carry the whole system by your self it super quiet and light weight an much faster then doing it by hand

 

[fatboy99]

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Interesting, looks like it might be the same company as the paintball people. :[/QUOTE]

Yes it is the video is shot in front of the plant in Fort Wayne where the Paint Ball guns are made.