How to Use a Hammer

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By George A. Finn III
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George Finn is an expert in mechanical systems. He has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. George is a licensed engineer and licensed...read more

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"Hi! I'm Drew Finn here for Expert Village. We are going to talk about standard hand tools and how to use them. This is a hammer, a most common hammer that you would have around the household. It is a claw hammer. It's called that because it has a claw on the back of it. There are other types of hammers but this is the most common one for nailing wood and stuff and the claws for removing nails. This is a hammer that's got a metal handle with a rubber grip on it which is very good if you are going to be doing a lot of framing. It isolates the vibration better so your hand does not get as tired. This is a wood one which a lot of people prefer the feel of it. Again, so much personal preference for that kind of stuff. Now one of the big differences between these two particular ones is this is a much steeper curve to the claw part. You can get a wood handle with any type of claw. Some of them come straight back but the handle can be on any type of head. It's just a different type of handle system. So what the claw is used for is for pulling nails. You can pull the nail out. Now one thing that I wanted to point out was when you are pulling a nail out, the least force to pull it out is going to be straight up and down and if you start pulling it to the side, how that can happen is with the claw itself. If you have a claw here and you are grabbing the nail way up here, once you pull it up part way it really goes at an angle. So what you are doing is you are bending the nail and pushing it into the wood at the same time. Ideally you pull it straight up but you don't get a lever action by pulling it completely straight up. So the thing to do is when you are pulling a nail, is you go down when it is low you pull it up some and see it is starting to go sideways. What you want to do is take a hammer, a piece of wood, stick it underneath and grab the nail again. So you are pulling more straight up with it and that way the nail will be easier to withdraw from the wood. "

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