Tire Hammer Build

It is finally complete!
In this video i hope to answer alot of questions that i had when i embarked on this journey. Some parts of the hammer is pretty straight forward but there are other parts or "concepts" that takes a while to figure out. My hope is to ease the struggle of figuring out what the different parts do and how they work. Remember that you can always pause and go back to look at different parts and copy and/or imporve what i did.
Good luck!
If you want to see more of what i do please go to my instagram
/ nilsogren
#Tirehammer #Tyrehammer #Powerhammer

[@redmimic5532]

You're a good man and people should tell you that every day

haha! Thank you :)

[@Suicidekings_]

The beauty of being a metal worker is we can build and modify things to how we want them to work. I have a mountain of tools that most people wouldn't even be able guess what they're for, some were built for one single job and are waiting to be repurposed for something else. Love the video man, can't wait to build my own.

Totally agree! good luck with the build!

[@YaMomsOyster]

Absolutely customisation of tools, and manufacturing your own tools is definitely part of the job.

[@jrocks1971]

Nils - I love this vid. Love that you're a humble guy who's making a point of explaining the problems you encountered and how you solved them -- that education element is super helpful! I've been wanting to build one of these and your video explained more of what I actually need to know than any other I've yet found. You have a like and a new SUB. Keep up the inspired work.

Thank you very much!

[@stefanmierke4801]

So the wood is a sort of "shock absorber" to prevent cracks in the concrete. The only issue I see, it will get wet, or moisture and could rot away over a short period. Then you have to replace it and this looks not like fun at all. You will have to lift that whole construct. But it looks fantastic. It works like a charm from the videos and pictures I saw. Can't wait to have my own some day.

[@richardmccann4815]

You can simply pry the machine up in the air to replace the wood. Not a real problem.

[@jasonbelanger7525]

Your English is very good, even though I can see you sometimes having to think about the word you want to use. I'm a native speaker from Canada, and I know people born and raised here and in the States who don't speak as well as you do. Congrats on a fierce little hammer and excellent language skills :)

[@audiblebites553]

Great video. The one thing I would love a better explanation on is exactly how the spring is attached. It’s the one thing I find is rarely explained

[@sam_lada]

Great video Nils! Would be great to see how the hammer holds up over time. Keep us updated🙂👍

Ill do that!

[@malikalabd7816]

@ ..... How are you? Can you tell me how powerful a motor is in a horse?

@@malikalabd7816 the motor is 0,75 kw

[@malikalabd7816]

@ Thanks for your interest رمز "تم التحقق منها بواسطة المنتدى"

[@paultembreull1858]

Thank you Nils , I'm a scrap hound myself and I am currently rounding up parts for my own hammer . Thanks again for the incite , also looking at forging some axes and enjoy your vids on making axes .

[@dwayneburbridge3283]

Great video! I especially like the use of scrap. One recommendation is that you use triangles to reinforce your I-beam...not the simple cross braces that you have now.

[@BBForge]

Nice Job Nils I know thats going to make you work a lot easier

Thanks! Yeah it really helps alot!

[@aidanstevens5345]

So how do u control how thick u make the piece? Do u adjust it somehow or just careful footwork on the control pedal? I’m planning on building one myself and wanna make sure I understand it. Thanks in advance!

you can adjust the height of the ram by tuning the bolts on the linkage arms, since they are made out of threaded rods. If you take aclose look you can see that. ALso you can adjust how hard you hit by how much you press down the pedal. hope that helps!

[@dakotamax2]

A power-hammer seems somehow more attainable now. New subscriber here, thanks for posting!

[@Ukenick]

Great video and great build. Also, congratulations in giving such a complex description in a second language. Brilliant and thank you.

[@ajknives4192]

I just build a own beltgrinder and I have often the same feelings like you describe

[@Zogg1281]

That is a cracking little hammer! I hope she serves you well 👍

[@odinallfather4560]

Awesome video Nils, been waiting for this since you first posted it to instagram.

Thank you, i wish i filmed the process!

[@vegoil]

A hundred bucks! Great work!

[@naturalworld1027]

Very good explanation

[@outbackladas]

Top job! You have done a very good build here !

[@Esther-dk5nd]

Thinks for your advice

[@mustafasaid5857]

Nice your power hammer..i like its

[@davidsilberman8268]

What an excellent job! Well done . I believe that there are a couple of aspects of the structure that you might have modified over time. So it moves less and things like that. The weight ratio between hammer and anvil is perfect and the the fact that you used uhmw is great

[@Kratos_God_of_50_BMG]

Incredible job! It's great to see the process that you took and how things worked out for you in the end. 😁👍🏽

[@YaMomsOyster]

Yeah I thought that as soon as I saw your base, it needs reinforcement all round . A few more bolts to hold it down and in place. But £100 is bloody brilliant.

[@juanhortelano7379]

This is a great video, explain all details to make a power hammer, greetings from México city

[@stefanmierke4801]

How much horsepower does the motor have? Okay, 1 HP. Didn't get that in the first place. Or where did you get it from? Could one use a lawnmower motor or is it from a old grinding wheel? How many welding sticks, if you used an arc welder did you need ... approx?

I have seen a guy who uses a lawnmower motor. The only thing is that they are very lound and run on gas, so it will probably release the fumes in your workshop. So an electric motor is sager that way IMO. And if you look around you might find a used one just like i did. I got mine from a childhood friends company. They had alot of old motors and they thought it sounded like a fun project so they wanted to help me. Our comunity here were i live is very helpful that way!

[@arthayadawa8544]

I realy enjoy watch this video. Good job.. Bro

[@muratbasarir6046]

Great project brother.its very effective, cheap,can build.I hope so I will do this own workshop.greetings from Turkey

[@r.b.s.india.6699]

Very good hammer machine very super job and work very nice👍👌💪

[@erosihusah7856]

Nils, really love your vid. your illustration was perfect. keep up the good work.

[@ruatarengsicolneyrengsi8924]

Many thanks for this. Your explanation and encouragement is unique and really inspiring. If you could I really welcome a more detailed explanation on the mechanism of the hammer.

[@codymcdaniel5090]

A very good vid. I really like the pedal system

[@YaMomsOyster]

Bloody great build and I draw inspiration from you.

[@graemewhite5029]

Just curious, looks like you left the shock absorber part of the motorcycle spring in situ, wouldn't that slow down the action that the spring imparts to the hammer ?

[@botapreta454]

How many beats per minute do I need on the hammer, thank you.

[@kimdejbjergjensen2201]

You forgot to film the spring, triangle and wheel in action ... but nice crude build

[@pavelgradistanac8499]

I'm building the power hammer of Bigunas, and I need Your help: on one picture I noticed something I cannot explain: the hammer is in down position but between the hammer and anwil there is some 50 mm space. It is a still picture. You see the same thing on the youtube.video Tire hammer no 39. Can You explain me that? thanks.

[@caseybb100]

Nice work! I wanted to see it run though👍👍

[@ThePsychoNad]

I sat through the entire ad(s) so you could get paid😀

[@keithclayton9927]

G'day nils, love your work mate. Your axes are beautiful. I know this is an old video and that you have upgraded your equipment, did you have any issues with the one you built? i have recently built a tire hammer. Just after some thoughts and opinions. Thankyou for your time. Keith.

No issues, however it wasnt hard hitting enough for my kind of job, hence why I bought other hammers

[@keithclayton9927]

@ thanks mate, much appreciated. Keep up the great work.

[@DH-xw6jp]

Really neat hammer! I'm a new subscriber watching through your older videos and i have two questions on this build: 1: would railroad track steel be a suitable alternative for the round stock that makes the anvil post? (I live in an area where we can occationally buy track segments after the RR companies replace them, and currently use a 1 foot length and a normal anvil) 2: have you considered using rubber matting (such as the heavy rubber pads that are put in horse stalls/trailers) as the shock absorber material under the body instead of wood? They probably wouldn't need to be replaced as often.

You want rhe anvil part to be as big and heavy as possible. To be honest i think a railroad track is to small. Well, it depends what you want the machine to be capable of i guess. I have seen people use square tunes for anvils, but thats not going to be very useful. When it comes to the matting thing, sure that would perhaps be a good option. But i dont im going to have to change the wooden part until i get a bigger workshop anyways. Thanks for watching and asking questions!

[@DH-xw6jp]

@ thank you for the information! Knowledge is power and your videos are full of it, keep up the awesome work :)

[@bartweijs]

Railroad track is more difficult to use as anvil, BUT it's better than anything hollow. I know a thing or two about railroad tracks; so listen: If you need say 90 cm of "anvil"; you need 2 section of 90 cm, preferably the 60 or even beter the 70 kg /m , and 8 matching fish plates (one plate is about 45cm). Fish plates are those really heavy plates with boltholes for connecting 2 tracks without welding them. Railroad track (modern anyway) is the rough equivalent of C80 steel with a LOT of manganese and some added silicon in Europe anyway. Weld the two pieces of track back to back, and put all fish plates in them. You'll have about 250 kg steel anvil, it will cost you about one box of 3.25 mm electrodes to stickweld it together. If you can get plenty railroad track; if you avoid the top 5 mm (it's full of surface cracks when trains have been driving on it), it makes great mono-steel axes.

[@DH-xw6jp]

@@bartweijs thanks! I was thinking of taking a 30 inch (roughly 75cm) lenght and standing it upright and welding a 2.5cm plate to the face of it so that i can bolt the various tooling to it (hammer, fuller, swages, etc). The ram would be a mirror of it, with the plate and tooling on the bottom of the track piece.

[@mikegracia1475]

Has anyone done a parts list for a tyre hammer like this?

[@adroaldoribeiro4529]

Let's say I have no idea how to use a welder... Can I still make one of these as cheap?

Depends how cheap you can find the parts!

[@johnjude2685]

Maybe I'll ask for more information Thanks great video Sir

[@younasdar4183]

Wood is there to absorb the pounding impact .... Great idea and an awesome built SIR GEE

[@ericmoore2236]

Good work Sir 👍👏

[@Downsouthsurvival]

Great video thanks for sharing!!!!

[@matejzidek4612]

Awesome machine

[@seangere9698]

The wood under the ram are shock absorbers.

[@DinkBonk509]

It looked like you put something on the backside of the wheel. Is that lead to help with balancing?

Yes

[@iam2nd2011]

Great presentation Nils, and thanks for sharing the details. One question, what's the center offset of the arm?

I think it was like 5 cm. Not 100% sure

[@Hooiser2142]

Thanks for the info very nice hammer

[@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740]

Great project and I'm sure you will get good work out of it. So could you increase the ram weights by adding sand or lead shot to the tube? Or would that adversely affect the spring and or other things? 🙏 Blessings to you sir Crawford out ⚒️🧙‍♂️

Yeah i totally forgot to mention that i filled the ram with led!

[@dragonstonegemironworkscra4740]

@ oh ok kuul

[@jabr991]

Awesome video dude

[@sc1386]

thank you for sharing, I have question: how much the car axle is off center from the middle of tire? and does it matter a lot?

[@darrenaxford2635]

2 inch off center

[@reckless8404]

How many hp is the motor?

[@michaelclark2840]

Nice build. Just curious, what pressure do you use in the tyre? Cheers.

This was a while ago, and I sold it. But i think it was quite loose

[@sambaggins2798]

Yes Clay Spencer designed the original and continues to improve the design.

[@contactperson2108]

Mate great work! This is the Kiwi again just thinking about the weight in the hammer.. if its round and hollow have you thought of filling it with sand and capping it, it's free and heavy

It is filled with led half way up the tube. Filled it a little more yesterday, i am getting a press quite soon

[@contactperson2108]

I love the primative side, I'm off grid so I'm interested in treadle etc I'm just starting out so I'm starting with your podcast while I work and hope to see some blacksmith farms in Norway once we visit family there are very few Smith's in new Zealand

[@NamBui-ot2ox]

The hammerhead body is hollow, isn't it?

[@shubhamd1387]

Bro what is the name of that mechanism which consist that arms and spring

[@userx4286]

Do you have plans for this hammer?

[@ricardooscar9674]

Ótimo trabalho parabéns.

[@Pattseh]

Thats a very economical power hammer

Indeed!

[@harutharut3937]

a photo of the movable part of the mechanism can be sent a few friend can send on meil?

[@yuvarajkrishnasamy2851]

Please tell ur tyre hammer power

[@yuvarajkrishnasamy2851]

Sir pls give design of the machine

[@botapreta454]

Good afternoon friend. you can pass dimensions of this tool pramim can help me i will be very grateful

[@botapreta454]

hello friend help me please pass as measures of this hammer pramim.

[@almar2490]

why don't you show us the thing in action?

Watch more of my videos. I use it on the carpenters axe build

[@user-mj6cq9jx4p]

ماهذا الوجه المشرق

[@user-yd3ir4wb1m]

Слабый молот, у меня на канале посмотрите какой должен быть!. МПЧ 40 кг

[@alusitem]

15 minutos hablando y no se sabe si funciona, mejor que decir es hacer. malisimo el video.

[@Esther-dk5nd]

Thinks for your advice

[@Esther-dk5nd]

Thinks for your advice