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When you need to pound something into the ground, there's simply
no substitute for a mallet. Unfortunately, mallets are, by
necessity,
relatively heavy. There are lightweight mallets, for camping and
such, but they're naturally less effective.
If the mallet head were hollow, it could be made
very
lightweight. If the head also had a removable plug, you could fill
it
with water as necessary, providing an easy to transport yet
highly effective pounding device.
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I've made three deadblow sledgehammers using square tube
for the body and square sections of head steel from used
railway rail for the
strike faces. I squish a short cut of 1 1/4" pipe to receive a
wooden handle, drill and tap a hole to fit a storebought
allen plug, and fill it about 9/10ths full of lead shot. I only
know the dry weight of my largest, which is 16 lbs loaded
(my partner at the railroad called it "The Punisher") but
only 7 lbs empty (including 30" handle, ~1 lb). I bet the
head
would weigh around 10 lbs filled with sand. [+] |
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<later edit for future reference> |
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I call them deadsledges. I'm very proud of that bit. |
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Cool. An adjustable weight on the shaft would be good too. |
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The only flaw in my design, if you want to call it a flaw, is
that when empty the hollow head is basically a very
overbuilt box spring; this is irrelevant since the last step of
construction is the filling it with shot (and a handful of
dessicant crystals) and once loaded never emptied. |
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I suppose that if I _were_ to empty all the shot from my
medium deadsledge ('The Solution') and give it a good
whang on my anvil, somewhere in the state of Maine an
oral surgeon would spontaneously ejaculate into his khakis. |
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And for rock concerts there is the hollow mullet, again
subject to portable pounding via head-banging sessions. |
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A good idea. Sand or dirt might indeed be better
(denser, less sploshy). You'd then need a removable
end cap
or similar, but that would let you put anything you
like in there. Even water. |
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The old-school way is to carry a brace-and-bit and a
saw and make a wooden maul. |
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// When you need to pound something into the ground, there's simply no substitute for a mallet // |
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//the last step of construction is the filling it with shot (and a handful of dessicant crystals) and once loaded never emptied// |
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Mmm, if you did empty the shot out, the hammer would be lighter and therefore easier to carry. You could pour the shot back in when you arrive at your destination. |
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" … and thus we submit, M'lud, that the case
against [pocmloc] is proven beyond reasonable
doubt,
although we entirely accept the defendant's
plea of
Diminished Responsibility …" |
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// if you did empty the shot out, the hammer would be
lighter and therefore easier to carry // |
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Yes...that is sort of the point I was making, that I have
built something like this halfbake, and the theory is
sound. However, if I wanted to use the lead shot in the
hammer, I would have to carry it with me, so why not carry
it in the hammer? |
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After we take over your planet, the variable
speed limits on the M25 will be abolished, and
traffic flow will be encouraged by random
strafing runs by a variety of classic and
modern ground-attack aircraft. |
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Black cabs travelling at 43 MPH in Lane 2 will
specially targeted. |
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//so why not carry it in the hammer?// Because that would make the hammer heavier and therefore, contrary to this idea, harder to carry. |
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[+] good idea. You can fill it with rocks or dirt or anything else available. |
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