Framing Hammers

[Clackb@]

Estwing 28 oz all metal. Once you get into a rythem it sings if you're doing it right.

 

[Johnmn]

After being a carpenter for 15 years now and drove countless nails the best I have found by a long shot is a stiletto! Now I know it comes with a price

 

[Dolmar Junkie]

Eating 28 oz all metal. Once you get into a rythem it sings if you're doing it right.

Has to be rough on your teeth!

Welcome to OPE!!

 

[Clackb@]

Has to be rough on your teeth!

Welcome to OPE!!

LMAO. Autocorrect strikes again!

 

[Dolmar Junkie]

LMAO. Autocorrect strikes again!

That's what happens when you shop at the discount electronics store like I do. After closely inspecting the programs on my computer, it turns out that I didn't in fact have autocorrect, I actually had the cheaper knockoff version, appropriately titled, Autoincorrect...

 

[Dustin4185]

Thought I would update this thread. Just purchased TWO Martinez Tools hammers. Mark was the founder of Stiletto. These are Ti handles with steel heads. The heads can be interchanged and replaced if you break a claw. Side nail puller like the old Tibone.

I also scored a new set of pouches from Diamondback. Love their hammer holster!

 

[Al Smith]

Not being a carpenter but not a bad builder I have no idea how anybody could swing one of those long handled hammers and hit a nail . I'd smash my thumb for sure . Then some use a waffle head which is more like an ancient weapon than a tool to me .As for hammers I use is a couple of "Blue grass " one straight claw one curved hickory handles but I must have 20 others .A few fiber glass and a few like Eastwings with steel .One of the glass hammers has a tuning fork inside it .I wasn't impressed and have no idea where it's at .

 

[Dustin4185]

Not being a carpenter but not a bad builder I have no idea how anybody could swing one of those long handled hammers and hit a nail . I'd smash my thumb for sure . Then some use a waffle head which is more like an ancient weapon than a tool to me .As for hammers I use is a couple of "Blue grass " one straight claw one curved hickory handles but I must have 20 others .A few fiber glass and a few like Eastwings with steel .One of the glass hammers has a tuning fork inside it .I wasn't impressed and have no idea where it's at .

That’s why I bought both. You can order the bigger head on the short handle and vice versa. We build a lot of post frame buildings and driving ring shanked 60s all day, you better have as much handle as possible!

 

[Al Smith]

I've got part of a box of 60D commons .On the rare occasion I use them I have a short handle 8 pound sledge .They are a smaller version of a rail road spike .

 

[Dustin4185]

I've got part of a box of 60D commons .On the rare occasion I use them I have a short handle 8 pound sledge .They are a smaller version of a rail road spike .

Drove 120 lbs of them in the last two weeks. Three different shed projects framed up. We drive them through the 2x4 purlins on edge as well as the wall purlins. I’m thinking a Fasco Jumbo nailer and 20s would be sufficient on the wall purlins! But that nailer is $1500!

 

[crowslayer17]

I switched to metal after I broke the wood handle on my first framer. Wood just has too much vibration for me. Tried Estwing, great hammer, but the balance always seemed just a bit off for me personally. Finally found the Craftsman 19oz framer same as Vaughan / made by Vaughan. For the bigger stuff I have a couple of their 23oz which also has a longer handle. I thought their original grip was a little nicer, but that was about 20 years ago.

 

[Bigmac]

Drove 120 lbs of them in the last two weeks. Three different shed projects framed up. We drive them through the 2x4 purlins on edge as well as the wall purlins. I’m thinking a Fasco Jumbo nailer and 20s would be sufficient on the wall purlins! But that nailer is $1500!

You run a 60d through a 2x4, don’t they split at the ends? Post some pics, we do purlins differently here, I think?

 

[Bigmac]

I like steel shank hammers I finally retired my original plumb 20oz I bought it in 1995 while in high school, got over 20 years out of it and I retired it because I didn’t want to lose it! It is in my tool box at home. It has build a lot of houses! I replaced it with a longer steel 22oz Stanley, I don’t like waffle hammers, don’t like seeing waffle marks when framing. But the larger nails we use are 16d hot dipped galvanized box nails, hate commons! Lol splitting wood leaves almost no holding strength, so I’m not a fan.

 

[CR888]

One USA brand I really like that's a small company making good honest hammers is Trusty Cook hammers. Sure they don't make the best in every class or type of hammer but they produce good tools worth owning at fair price.

 

[Bigmac]

The old plumb, not a framing hammer, but I used it that way

 

[Bigmac]

One USA brand I really like that's a small company making good honest hammers is Trusty Cook hammers. Sure they don't make the best in every class or type of hammer but they produce good tools worth owning at fair price.

Got pics?

 

[Dustin4185]

You run a 60d through a 2x4, don’t they split at the ends? Post some pics, we do purlins differently here, I think?

We pre drill the purlins. Same way Morton does and some other post frame companies. If the trusses are on 3’ or narrower we lay flat. Only on edge for wider span up to 8’

 

[Dustin4185]

You run a 60d through a 2x4, don’t they split at the ends? Post some pics, we do purlins differently here, I think?

They are also a small gauge 60 from Maze.

 

[Aciera]

Drove 120 lbs of them in the last two weeks. Three different shed projects framed up. We drive them through the 2x4 purlins on edge as well as the wall purlins. I’m thinking a Fasco Jumbo nailer and 20s would be sufficient on the wall purlins! But that nailer is $1500!

$1100 from amazon
My nailer does 4,4 1/2,5”......that one goes to 6 1/4”!!!!!

Bostich 5 1/8” is $470......best deal.

 

[5155]

Working with oak for years I wore off the waffles on an estwing, it wore out the gaskets in my elbow. Took a year for my elbow to stop aching. I switched to fiber and wood. Like Vaughn Cal. framer.
The Estwings still get used for demo.

Some of these modern ones you guys use look awesome.
When I bought a paslode impulse I thought, GREAT. Then quickly realized I now did more of it in a day.

Been working with yellow pine here, I like green oak better.