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   YesMaam27577 | Sep 12, 2007 07:39pm | #1

   Doesn't look any more useful than my ripping hammer.

    

    

    

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   nater | Sep 12, 2007 11:16pm | #2

   Found this interesting:With the HomeWrecker, you only need one tool instead of a Hammer and a Cat’s Claw.Above that it saysHit the HomeWrecker hammer with another hammer to dig the claws around the embedded nail.So instead of carrying a hammer and a cats claw, you get to carry two hammers! That's so much easier!

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   JTC1 | Sep 12, 2007 11:33pm | #3

   My rip hammer + Dead-On Exhumer wieghs less and is smaller than my rip hammer + this do-dad.

   Think I'll stay with my current set up.

   Jim

   Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.

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   Danno | Sep 13, 2007 12:01am | #4

   Hope the Home Wrecker hammer is soft or it, or the hammer you hit it with, could shatter and that is not good at all!

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   xxPaulCPxx | Sep 13, 2007 12:13am | #5

   Mythbusters tried to get a hammer to shatter by doing that, and couldn't.  Even freezing them with liquid nitrogen first, they would bot shatter as described.  At worst, the metal handles broke. Rebuilding my home in Cypress, CA

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   lmuellerjr | Sep 13, 2007 07:49am | #9

   One of my friends in Lawrenceville, Georgia is recovering from an eye injury after attempting to drive the claw of a hammer under a nailhead by hitting it with another hammer. A shard of metal went into his eye and the blood ran freely. He is expected to not regain much vision in that eye, but he is more concerned about dealing with the pain. The ironic thing is, he saw that episode of Mythbusters the weekend before he had the accident.

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   MikeSmith | Sep 13, 2007 02:19pm | #10

   the homewrecker looks just like my yamaguchi... or did i rename it my Dice-K ?

   i ferrgit... anyways.... the claw is almost a rip-off of japanese style hammersMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   basswood | Sep 13, 2007 03:10pm | #11

   Perhaps too obvious to ask, but was he wearing safety glasses?

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   lmuellerjr | Sep 13, 2007 03:20pm | #12

   No he wasn't, and he normally does - the safety glasses were downstairs and the boards he was taking apart were part of the back porch off of the upstairs kitchen. To top it off, he says he thought about getting them moments before he had the accident.

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   dovetail97128 | Sep 13, 2007 03:26pm | #13

   Had a small sledge head hanging in my shop for years .

   About 1/2 of one face chipped off from using it to hit another sledge."Poor is not the person who has too little, but the person who craves more."...Seneca

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   moonmlns | Sep 13, 2007 09:50pm | #16

   The mythbusters missed it on that one. Twice I've seen chunks of hammer head fly. Once was my own, and the other was a co-worker. It happens.

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   nater | Sep 13, 2007 09:54pm | #17

   I think it really depends on the hammer having a flaw in it to start the chip. Can be a casting flaw, or a bunch of blows on a condensed point, with more pressure on a single point. Mythbusters was based upon two hammers hitting dead on flat, if I remember correctly. An angled hit probably has more potential to shatter.

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   BillBrennen | Sep 15, 2007 09:46pm | #18

   A well-used hammer with metal fatigue in the head is more likely to chip than a good new hammer. Every hit takes a miniscule toll in the life of the tool.Wanna bet that the Mythbusters used newish hammers?

   Bill

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   eleft | Sep 13, 2007 12:16am | #6

   Just chop away until the head of the nail can be caught

   is #4 onthe list of how to use!

    

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   eleft | Sep 13, 2007 12:24am | #7

   ps

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   SBerruezo | Sep 13, 2007 07:27am | #8

   Haven't seen it before, but I'd still stick with my hammer and cat's paw setup, much as I like new tools.

    

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   JDRHI | Sep 13, 2007 06:09pm | #14

   Interesting?

   I guess if you mean interesting in the irony of its name.

   Hammers aren't typically used to wreck homes, but rather to build them.

   And what the hell are they talking about "the hole in the head can be used to move foundation bolts into place"?

   What a joke.

   J. D. Reynolds
   Home Improvements

    

    

   
   

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   rasconc | Sep 13, 2007 09:41pm | #15

   I am not advocating this beast, I just saw it on one of the building newsletters that flood my inbox.  It did not seem a worthwhile choice.  I bought one of those Ridgid right hand hammers a long time ago and while it is comfortable it was a pain to try to get into any toolbelt hammer loop I have.