Perfect Farm Welder

[Mat4644]

If you want a 12 oz hammer buy a steel one. The stick the hammer is attached to will determine vibration transfer and not the head. Some are going back to wood.

 

[dragoneggs]

If you want a 12 oz hammer buy a steel one. The stick the hammer is attached to will determine vibration transfer and not the head. Some are going back to wood.

I've got a stable of hammers... almost always gravitate to my wood handled ones without thinking.

 

[Hay Dude]

Since hammers were introduced---

Have U noticed the race for the most $$$ hammers?
LOL, 20 oz titanium hammer? @ $150' ???
I always thought 20 oz was 20 no matter what it was made from.
Heck does the nail know the difference as to what hit it?

AND hanging from your tool belt is the 20 oz titanium feel lighter?

No, different hammers have a different feel for sure. Its not about the weight, its about the feel in your hand, the control and even the sound...
I frame with a steel 28oz mill faced Estwing. I like the feel of the tink-tink-tink it makes while driving nails. If it had a wood handle, it would feel different....more of a “ whack-whack-whack “ sound and a more soft feel.

Does that make sense? :laughing:

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

No, different hammers have a different feel for sure. Its not about the weight, its about the feel in your hand, the control and even the sound...
I frame with a steel 28oz mill faced Estwing. I like the feel of the tink-tink-tink it makes while driving nails. If it had a wood handle, it would feel different....more of a “ whack-whack-whack “ sound and a more soft feel.

Does that make sense? :laughing:

The sound some hammers make is more of an "ow, ow, ow! **%#$%$##!*) if the user isn't comfortable with it.

 

[dragoneggs]

The sound some hammers make is more of an "ow, ow, ow! **%#$%$##!*) if the user isn't comfortable with it.

And on some rare occasions, a primordial scream!

 

[Gary Fowler]

Um... Titanium is considerably heavier than Aluminum.

Aluminum 168.48 lbs per cubic foot
Titanium 283.39 lbs per cubic foot
Steel rolled 490.0 lbs per cubic foot.

While I think using titanium for hammers is pretty ridiculous, There must be some reason it is being done.


Thinking about this, maybe you meant to say "since titanium is lighter than steel" Of course hammers (at least the faces) are made out of steel not Aluminum. some might have an aluminum handle, or fiberglass etc. But I don't know of any framing hammers with aluminum faces. I have seen plenty of brass and plastic and some aluminum faced hammers for precise light work like gun smithing, but not nail driving.

Sorry , I must have been thinking about my HF Titanium welder. Getting old is a *****, things get a bit twisted in the mind sometimes.

 

[kydick]

back in the old days blacksmiths could weld with a hot fire and a heavy hammer. wonder what they could have done with an old tombstone welder and their know how?

 

[user.69169]

back in the old days blacksmiths could weld with a hot fire and a heavy hammer. wonder what they could have done with an old tombstone welder and their know how?

Probably got a lot of people and animals hurt and even killed.

Blacksmith weld takes full advantage of every bit of faying surface while an arc weld generally just grabs the edges of the piece. Big difference in work strength.

I been ruminating on the idea of a "Perfect Farm Welder" a couple days, and I'll just call it as I see it.

Even allowing how every farmer is a golden elbowed Nuke certified welder in his shop/barn, Tisn't generally so, and contrary to opinion they generally don't have PHDs in Metalurgy even if there is a Post Hole Digger propped in a tree by the barn.

That established probably the BEST, bar none 3 process machine ever to come off an assembly line was the Airco DipStick back in the late 60s. Sliding core transformer delivered exactly what the welder ordered, good rectifier, sweet arc. Only problem was they came to market too early with only a 7 foot MIG whip and a screwy plastic wire bushing in the drive that melted when the gun got shorted. Sweet arc for stick too, AC or DC, and with 5 minutes practice you could walk a TIG arc off a copper penny and do some nice heliarc too. Ran on single phase and had a solid 40% duty cycle.
Still see a few around with new whips on hem and still going strong.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I think Mark was not being too conceited when he said they had created the perfect welder. I would have preferred three phase, but most farms do not have that, so I can certainly see why he kept it a single phase machine. It is not like it is a big deal to split 3 phase down to single phase...

That being said, it is an inverter, and that makes it a nice machine. While I appreciate the older machines for what they are, and how solid they are built, I also appreciate the newer features of the inverters. Hot start, anti-stick, lighter weight, arc-force, smoother arc...what is not to love about them?

Sure I have fond memories of my Grandfather's old Ford 900, but I like the power steering, four wheel drive, positraction, and smaller size of my 1999 Kubota tractor too. It sucked to have parted with the money to buy my tractor back in 1999, but it is also a purchase I never regretted.

It is the same thing with inverter welders, there is so many features to love, and once you do make the purchase, it is only money, so you never regret the purchase.

 

[aczlan]

I'm one of those too. I had one for years, grew up on one was hesitant to replace it with a DC inverter machine, I mean my old Lincoln AC225 was a good welder...... about the 4th rod burned through my Powerarc 200 I had decided the Lincoln wasn't really needed anymore and found someone really happy to have a good welder at a very good price. A few years later I don't miss the Lincoln.

Same here, I liked my Lincoln Tombstone welder, but now that I have a inverter (Power Arc 200STi), the two Stone went to my brother's house a couple weeks back as I haven't turned it on since the inverter showed up.

Aaron Z