Roastbeef Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Hi, I live in France and these sort of hammers seem to be readily available for sale second hand at around 1000 to 1500 Euros (about 1200 to 1750 dollars). I have never seen one in action, or even up close, just seen them on internet auction sites. Has anyone any experience in using one ? Cheers Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Buchanan Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 is that a industrial rusty krusty dusty??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basher Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I witnessed one working in belgium but did not get a chance to play on it. I was not overly impressed , it did however go all the way from soft hits to hard hits . There is the adage that any power hammer is better than none and they are cheap enough often a lot less than 1000 euro have a look on leboncoin "le tyro" hammers often go as little as 500euro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmike Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Hi Phil, where are you in France, I'm from there too and know several guys owning this kind of hammers... Feel free to PM me ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reinier Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Hi Phil, Last summer I was in France for holiday and near our place there was a blacksmith shop, what a coincidence. They made most of their products using scrolls they had forged themselves combined with prefabricated stuff. I asked them if they forged their own tools, because their tongrack seemed a bit empty to me. He told me they didn't so I offered to forge them a pair of tongs they could use. The next morning I went overthere to forge the tongs but in stead of forging inside the shop, they took me to a shed somewhere on their property. There stood a springhammer just like the one on the foto and we forged a pair of tongs using the hammer. Though I prefer airhammers for their control, a springhammer is a nice hammer to be forge with aswell. The power of the hammer was good to control using the footpedal, all in all a nice hammer. I've added a link to my google-account where I've uploaded an album called France. There you can find pictures and a short movie of that kind of hammer in use. And for those of you who speak French, forgive me! I've tried speaking French and abviously did not succeed. Luckily for me my girlfriend speaks better French so she could act as a translator. Link: http://bit.ly/V1MJE4 Enjoy! Reinier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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