The ratchet-hammer. What a world we live in!

Sporky

Amazing! It's a ratchet and a hammer!

http://www-uk.wera.de/fileadmin/products/img/products/380/8002_c_set.jpg

maltingsaudio

Brilliant shame they didn't put a laser pointer in the head and a gaffa tape dispenser in the handle

VimFuego

what effect would all that hammer have on the ratchet mechanism.

tell you what I'd like to see, a hammer that with one side you drive in nails and the other you can pull them out. That'd be sweet.

Sporky

I think this has replaced the FatMaxx Fubar as my favourite implement of destruction.

Sporky

VimFuego said:

what effect would all that hammer have on the ratchet mechanism.

Apparently none - they claim "it is absolutely impossible to damage the ratchet mechanism through hammering".

tell you what I'd like to see, a hammer that with one side you drive in nails and the other you can pull them out. That'd be sweet.

Too much power for one tool, I say. Too much power.

FX_Munkee

I think somebody has been spying on me whilst I work on my car....

VimFuego

hah, they said that exact same thing about Titanic.

 

 

On the subject of hammers, back when I was with the NT, for 2 weeks a year, Goldman Sachs in London would send up people to conservation/team building type work (for which the paid us). The year I was there it was rebuilding a long line of fencing. One of the things they provided were hammers that cost £75. I didn't think it was possible to spend that much on a hammer. Sadly I never got a chance to find out why they were £75 hammers as I was working on a different job and by the time that was over all the hammers had been nicked.

CabbageCat

I quite fancy one of these. One end is a useful pointing device during meetings or lectures and the other is a handy chopstick. I think it's called a "chop-pointer":

 

maltingsaudio

chillidoggy

Ratchet hammer? Pffft! Us proper engineers have been using ratchets as hammers for years.

boogieman

VimFuego;48810" said:

hah, they said that exact same thing about Titanic.  On the subject of hammers, back when I was with the NT, for 2 weeks a year, Goldman Sachs in London would send up people to conservation/team building type work (for which the paid us). The year I was there it was rebuilding a long line of fencing. One of the things they provided were hammers that cost £75. I didn't think it was possible to spend that much on a hammer. Sadly I never got a chance to find out why they were £75 hammers as I was working on a different job and by the time that was over all the hammers had been nicked.

It was probably an Estwing hammer. They are beautiful looking things. Whether they actually hammer things better is a moot point.

Sporky

chillidoggy said:

Ratchet hammer? Pffft! Us proper engineers have been using ratchets as hammers for years.

Oi! I'm a proper engineer. I've got letters after my name wot prove it.

boogieman said:

It was probably an Estwing hammer. They are beautiful looking things. Whether they actually hammer things better is a moot point.

I've got one of them! It's lovely. No use though; I can't bear to hit anything with it though. It might get scratched.

monquixote

You need a double clawed PHP Hammer 

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7226/7095238893_5000f6e57d_b.jpg

ICBM

If you think £75 for a hammer is expensive you're clearly not in the world of MoD procurement...

I prefer the tools of the proletariat. My favourite hammer is a communist one, made in East Germany, looks pretty much like the type you see in Soviet-era worker art. I find it handy for smashing the chains of capitalism.

Sporky

Oooh, hark at the proletariat. Pleb tools not good enough for you?

bertie

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maltingsaudio

boogieman said:

VimFuego;48810" said:

hah, they said that exact same thing about Titanic.  On the subject of hammers, back when I was with the NT, for 2 weeks a year, Goldman Sachs in London would send up people to conservation/team building type work (for which the paid us). The year I was there it was rebuilding a long line of fencing. One of the things they provided were hammers that cost £75. I didn't think it was possible to spend that much on a hammer. Sadly I never got a chance to find out why they were £75 hammers as I was working on a different job and by the time that was over all the hammers had been nicked.

It was probably an Estwing hammer. They are beautiful looking things. Whether they actually hammer things better is a moot point.

Now only £35 from screwfix http://www.screwfix.com/p/estwing-curved-claw-hammer-20oz-0-57kg/71360?kpid=71360&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=CMvmq8in_bkCFebJtAodIR8AwA

mike_l

Sporky said:

Amazing! It's a ratchet and a hammer!

http://www-uk.wera.de/fileadmin/products/img/products/380/8002_c_set.jpg

I NEED one of these, it'll save my hammers being used as ratchets >:)

bertie

loads of rat shit out in my garden

bastards

mike_l

bertie said:

loads of rat shit out in my garden

bastards

Well try shitting in a toilet

PolarityMan

Did you see the episode of scrubs with "knife-wrench"?