I posted this elsewhere, but it's an interesting old hammer head.   I got my hands on it right before it was going to the dumpster and pitched the handle since it was loose and cracked.   Head is in nice shape and i'm going to re-handle this.

Interesting piece. Was the handle straight or curved?

What are you thinking about for a handle?

Maybe a Large Oval Eye Hickory handle?    Made for the large Ball Peen hammers...

 

Have a 3pound version out in the van...helps when I need to change a tire..

some nice straight grain ash about 3 feet long.   the handle was basically just a straight stick of wood.

I found a few Warren-teed hammers/sledge examples on the web. Everything from a blacksmith hammer to a sledge. I saw one nearly like yours, but no description for its use. You may find yours with some more research

https://machiningtoolie.com/oregon-76

 

When the wedge goes horizontal then it is usually referred to as a Blacksmith Hammer.

Don't brick layers use a similar one? I seem to recall seeing one used to break bricks. 

...Probably got the "Mash" name when someone mashed their fingers/thumb. 

The $1...3 pound hammer...with the $7.95 handle...

Sitting on a seat in the van...

One whack on the tire, usually frees the wheel from the axle

Be sure to use plenty of wedges..1 wooden, 2 steel...

My dad used to have a hammer like that.  It had been in the family since before the Civil War.  It had 5 new handles and 2 new heads.

 

(sorry, old joke)

I found this head in the junkyard...

I made a handle for it.

I have yet to find a use for it.

I have no idea what it's for.

 

33 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

I have no idea what it's for.

 

Is it a left handed hammer or right handed?

For using up all those bent nails you've been saving.

Edited February 29, 20206 yr by HandyDan

I thought to hammer around corners

You should try swing it sometime. Very awkward. 

16 hours ago, Kevin Beitz said:

You should try swing it sometime. Very awkward. 

It is called a Drunken Fool Hammer.  You use it when you are drunk out of your mind to drive a nail. 

 

Works great, so I am told.  

On 2/25/2020 at 7:47 AM, kmealy said:

My dad used to have a hammer like that.  It had been in the family since before the Civil War.  It had 5 new handles and 2 new heads.

 

(sorry, old joke)

I don't get it. Some of you may know by now that I am pretty slow on the uptake with one liner jokes, can someone please explain this one to me?

No markings on it anywhere?

8 hours ago, John Morris said:

I don't get it. Some of you may know by now that I am pretty slow on the uptake with one liner jokes, can someone please explain this one to me?

The joke is that with all the new handles and new heads it can't possibly be the same hammer that's been in the family all that time. 

Maybe think of it not like a hammer but a wedge or driver. To drive in or apply force around a round object such as driving a barrel lid off via a tab. The curve goes against the barrel or round object and hammer is applied to the back.