hammer history

Argyle the Wanderer · Post by **Argyle the Wanderer** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:00 pm

was there any recorded use of a large wooden hammer to crush the enemy? such a weapon would be immense i know. i seem to remember seeing somthing about one somewere.

images would be great

Cian of Storvik · Post by **Cian of Storvik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:18 pm

I really like the tag line that was with this photo:

"When you carry around a giant hammer, everything you see looks like a nail!"

-Cian

Cian of Storvik · Post by **Cian of Storvik** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:28 pm

No wait...I've got it...
http://www.armsoftheworld.com/images/Conan001_0.jpg

Total spoken lines in Schwartzenegger film: Zero
Screen shots of your Man-boobs: to many to count
Super hammer that breaks stone columns...Priceless...
or 139 euro.

Some people are just really into Giant Hammers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbswYDl9p8k

-Cian

Eamonn MacCampbell · Post by **Eamonn MacCampbell** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:38 pm

Woodhammer guy gets defeated by guy in good armour and steel weapon..... :lol:

Sounds logical right??? :wink:

Argyle the Wanderer · Post by **Argyle the Wanderer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:37 pm

either that or by the 6 foot goliath with a mace against a newbie in loarner armour :lol:

Argyle the Wanderer · Post by **Argyle the Wanderer** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:56 pm

i am thinking of making this for a wood shop project. of course i am not going to call it a hammer but a "mallet wich is use to drive wooden pegs into other peices of wood( i hate all the rules and regs school "need" nowadays")

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:10 pm

When you are fighting for your life, and your sword breaks, and you are left with two choices...

Coleslaw, or bigass wooden mallet?

Mallet wins. UNLESS there is wasabi in the slaw and he is wearing a bargrill. :twisted:

Didn't they drive some French tentpegs at Crecy/Poitiers with the mallets they used on the stakes? Or is that not documentable, but just 'need a weapon now' documentation?

Three beers tonight, I'm a cheap date.

Andrew Young · Post by **Andrew Young** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:22 pm

thats one of those types of hammers that you dont want to miss and hit your thumb with.

I...I...Im just saying.

justus · Post by **justus** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:29 pm

Very large hammers are used in Timber frame construction they are called commanders.

http://www.loghomestore.com/pics/st0040.jpg

Might find it's way to a battle field, but probably not very useful. much like a huge axe, swing and hit great! swing and miss, you're done.

-Justus

Alcyoneus · Post by **Alcyoneus** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:09 am

If you are playing croquet with French bascinets?

Destichado · Post by **Destichado** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:36 am

http://destichado.deviantart.com/art/Re ... r-18190485

Mine weights in at 14 lbs, and is one of the more all around useful tools I've made. I can and have used it for hours at a stretch.
Like most things I make, I wouldn't want to stand in front of it! But I wouldn't care to use it as a weapon of war.

AaronCarter · Post by **AaronCarter** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:53 am

If you can get your oponents to stand still while you hit them it'd work great, but if they want to dodge and whoop your arse, you might be better off with a sword. :twisted:

Argyle the Wanderer · Post by **Argyle the Wanderer** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:12 am

perhaps it may have been used while mounted? a fourteen pound hammer being swung while traveling at a full gallop on a horse. the inertia bing trnasfered to the target would have to be immense. :shock:

it would be like running up and shoving someone( experence from school i have personally)...albiet shoving them with a fourteen pound wooden hammer...

Thomas Powers · Post by **Thomas Powers** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:19 pm

Unfortunately if you compare real medieval/renaissance warhammers designed for use on horseback to those used on foot; the horseman's hammers tend to be *MUCH* smaller and lighter. Anything more than "enough" is likely to help you get killed!

The Wallace Collection Catalog has several examples of horseman's warhammers and those used by people on foot as well.

Thomas

chef de chambre · Post by **chef de chambre** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:30 pm

The giant wood mallet is a fantasy, at least in a European context, unless you were a carpenter putting together the frame of a house, and you had to defend ytourself in a hurry.

At Crecy, they dug holes to disrupt the cavalry, at Agincourt, they planted stakes. They used 'mallet de plombe' - the had a lead head, not a wood one.

chef de chambre · Post by **chef de chambre** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:33 pm

And one could NOT use that as a weapon from horseback effectively at all - it isn't a bloody Polo Mallet, it is so top-heavy, you could not effectively wield it one handed - you would have to choke up the the point it would be ineffective.

Argyle the Wanderer · Thu Jan 17, 2008 12:00 pm

true...

sha-ul · Post by **sha-ul** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:31 pm

whack a mole?