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

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I know what you are saying about weight, I feel confident in swinging a 10 without any trouble for a while. The powerful force you can generate is also suitable for demolishing brick and studwork walls as well as driving home stakes. The 16 is my go to for setting cable wedges on the draglines, but the short handled 12lb works dandy for any work where the 16 is uncomfortable to swing due to mass or handle length, actually cut the handle down to about 30ish". 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.

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.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). 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. The energy argument seems right until I use something heavier and the mass/inertia just seems to take care of the job. This 20 lb sledge hammer has a long handle and a large flat head to deliver powerful blows to concrete, wood and steel.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Your hands will thank you if you ever miss a post with the head and instead hit the handle on the post. If I had to use a tapered head because of restrictions I could do ok but I developed a feel for the square heads and could maintain accuracy better with them. It comes with a non-slip grip vulcanised rubber handle for a secure grip and a safety plate for preventing head dislodging. I think a lot depends on the person swinging the hammer as well as how many times you would be swinging it.You can't swing one all day unless you some kind of anima, and if you can, old age will probably be rough.

So assume I am a homeowner intending to use it for light to mid duty home improvement work (breaking up a concrete walkway, cinder block walls, occasionally splitting some firewood with a wedge, etc. I have looked at lots of sledges, I am pretty set in my decision on the Wilton line, they seem to be built the way I would build a hammer. I can't see any place a 20 lb hammer fits into automotive work unless maybe your working on the 200 ton coal mining dump trucks. 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.

I should have stated that I currently have numerous hammers in sizes up to 8 pounds, so I have the lower end covered. 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. The size of the head allows additional force to be applied and distributed over a wide area with a variety of head weights available to suit the task at hand. It would have been far harder or impossible to swing a lighter sledge with enough force to do what this can.

At the checkout you are able to see your text for each item please check they are correct and make any amendments necessary before completing your purchase. Sledge hammers are suitable for heavy pounding tasks, including breaking through masonry or drywall, fracturing concrete or stone and dislodging trapped objects. Rule of thumb - if you've ever played the classic carnival game where you whack the pad to ring the bell, the general weight of those mallets is the typical maximum you can tolerate swinging. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I also think the wise ones saying that accuracy goes down based on the weight increase is probably true, even for big brutes. Standard Industrial grade Sledge Hammers are suited to all general purpose heavy striking applications. Excess weight may have two downsides - one is more wear and tear on you the operator, and the other is that you may get lower velocity on your hits - and since energy is mass times velocity squared, a hammer weighing 12 lbs still needs to make at least 81% of the velocity of the 8 lb hammer to get the same "hit" - so you have to swing 50% more weight only 20% slower.