50lb home built power hammer

50 lb guided helve hammer, home built
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[@joesmith6199]

Thank you. I mean to build one, at least if the place I am currently doing my forging will allow it. Vibration might be too hard on the building for all i know

[@_BLANK_BLANK]

Stuff like this is just so cool to me.

[@mrbluenun]

Hi Joe, Like the ingenious design of with no huge top steel and incorporating a wheel as a gear reducer. Nice project, good luck.

[@jeffsandling5981]

Awesome looking build, thanks for talking about actual cost. Get tired of seeing videos talking about making stuff for free...keep on keepin' it real. Checked out your channel, pretty cool content...Subscribed!

[@palero123]

Buen trabajo Joe, estaba buscando modelos para fabricar el mio, ya lo encontre. Gracias por Compartirlo

[@jameshelm9979]

Awesomesauce, Joe. I just posted link to the video on Iforgeiron. Those of y'all searching for the hammer he mentioned basing his build on at the beginning of the video, the name is "Gunnhilda". :) I've seen Joe's shop in person, and this is a nice homebrewed hammer.

[@joecalton1449]

Thanks James! I don't know how to do the link thing, so that should help folks find "the original" {for me anyways} hammer! :}

[@marty01957]

Nice hammer ,Joe! I hope to build one this year. thanks for the ideas.

[@njrasmussen5515]

I love the design is simplistic yet it looks like it delivers quite a lot of work saving your arm I just wish it didn't cost $600 and scrap material which I don't have LOL awesome design and awesome implication

[@jeffsandling5981]

BTW...love the toaster tempering oven! Any "Joe" Blow blade beaters that haven't seen it go check it out!

[@randallsummers6551]

Look nice, works good! $600.00 is cheaper than buying one online!!!! Why buy what you can build. Keep hammering away!!! Nice job.

[@phill3789]

Great job! I admire your drive assembly more than mine. I see very little vibration, if any, which is a sign of good craftsmanship and design! If you're not happy with your ram guide, you may want to consider lengthening the ram guide and having a slightly open face, rather than full front plate. That may help.

[@joecalton1449]

Phil L, I took a long time getting it to run the way I wanted to before I bolted it to the floor. my thought was that when it was not bolted, that it would show me where it was fighting itself. and the smoother I could get it to run while it was loose, the better it would be after I bolted it down. and it seems to have worked out that way.

[@hillbilly4christ638]

Runs like a watch!

[@RickRabjohn]

Nice hammer !! Thanks for sharing the details!

[@CamberLucyBella]

That's badass Joe. So cool you built it yourself.

[@zanelile2991]

Looks good to me handy to have around the shop.

[@Kittani1977]

My biggest issue here in Colorado is sourcing the various scrap components to build one. Things like the C channel and I beam parts. Most scrap yards I've found don't allow picking and don't sell. It's all off to the crucible for them.

[@joecalton1449]

+Kittani1977 wow! that sounds horrible! a scrap yard that doesn't sell? I couldn't imagine not being able to just drive to the nearest scrap yard for parts. can you either find one that does, or maybe even make friends with a couple of the guys that work there and have them find a way around that rule and keep an eye out for the parts that you are looking for? the local scrap yards seem to love us tinkerers, as they usually sell to us at whatever they are getting at the place they take it to, without having to spend the gas to haul it there. and some of the folks that work there are amazingly knowledgeable about metals, some have a spectroanalysis gun that can tell you exactly what alloy a piece of scrap is and will shoot things with it if you ask nicely or are a regular.

[@Kittani1977]

Its part of some of the new "green" laws the hippies came up with. Apparently they get kickbacks from Blowbama if they don't re-release the scrap they've collected.

[@Kittani1977]

I have a parts list for a massive welding and forging table i designed... its a proprietary thing. New steel price is 1600 cut and delivered... but it would be fir a prototype. If only i could get me some of those corporate sponsers, hint hint western steel :p

[@richardisdorky7411]

+Kittani1977 So have yeah checked Craiglist or did you need to blame Obama for something? I live in CO. and have no problem finding more scrap then I can use. Hell talk to the Guys at Surplus Tools for five seconds and they'll tell you where to find near anything you can think of.

[@outwhitu08]

nice machine, it looks like you thought it out really well, good job! i like the way you engage the motor. i have been wanting to build one but have wondered if my old shop floor could take the hammering, so i guess thats what the wood under it is for? to dampen the impact?

[@joecalton1449]

yes, that was the idea with the wood. it seems to be working. there are no cracks in the concrete around the hammer. I don't know about under it though. and my shop floor is just a 4" thick slab if I remember right when I drilled the holes for the anchors. I do know that a lot of guys will cut a square of the floor out, then dig a bigger hole and then pour a thicker portion for more support, but I haven't seen a need for that so far.

[@reforgedcriterion1471]

$600! ouch! it figures when you need metal it's expensive as hell, but when you don't need it you can find it practically anywhere.

[@robs9574]

That thing is wicked! Nice build man. I can't get on I Forge Iron has anyone else had problems with that site? I bet you watched that Gunnhilda vid about a thousand times to figure this out. Great job. Is there anyway anyone has a sketch up of this with some basic measurements? Spring pack specs? Thanks for posting this for us all.

[@joesmith6199]

Could you send me some of the dimensions? Not being an experienced machine builder, I don't want to screw it up. Thanks.

[@joecalton1449]

I have been thinking of doing another video on it, so might do one soon. the dimensions are based on what you can find in your junk pile or at the local salvage yard. when I went to build this one, I was after something about half its size, but everything I found at the salvage yard was more suited to this size so thats what I built. as far as screwing it up.... it was a pile of junk before you started working on it right? so whatever you do can only make it better :} keep at it until it works like you want it to and you will get better the more machines and tools that you make my friend :}

[@loveofallmusic235]

That's genius. I like It!

[@9q7a5z]

Good speed. I like this one a lot. Any idea how much force is applied in one hammer blow?

[@michaelrogers7581]

nice job! thanks for the video

[@tarts9767]

Nice hammer! 3600 rpm !? Really ?

[@joecalton1449]

thanks! yes the first motor I had on there was a 3600rpm motor, and I had a 2" wheel if I remember right. now I have a 1750 rpm motor and a 4-5" wheel, so about the same speed on the hammer. i have never counted the beats per minute that the hammer can do running flat out.

[@prudentbuyers7974]

I would love to build one of these. Question what type of problem to you have with the guide that needs improvement?

[@towelltom]

Hi Joewhat size is your hammer ram. I am build a hammer and do not know what size to get on the ram for a 50 lb are greater

[@cliffwilson7258]

Love it!

[@rickz7657]

how long is the main leaf spring, over all ?

[@LiveFreeRunHard]

How much does the anvil weigh?

[@gateway8833]

Thank you for sharing this, do you find a 50# hammer is enough weight?

[@joecalton1449]

yes, it is a good size. and hits hard enough that I can work 2" round stock when I need to. it is a bit slow for doing thin bladed kitchen knives, but I think ill probably build a lighter, faster hammer for that sooner or later.

[@gateway8833]

+Joe Calton Thank you.

[@mfranciotti1911]

Just wondering what the size of the leaf springs that you are using?

[@joecalton1449]

Michael Franciotti 54" OAL, 2" wide and they are 3/8" thick, there are 3 of them of different lenths.

[@patrickjobling8676]

Fabbo ..😁