The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2012 7:31 pm**

i mainly use a beadle (beetel for the boss).took about two weeks to get used to from when i used to use a maul .would never go back to a maul on 63mm or above thick slabs.beadle much better .maul tends to be better on kerbs for some reason . beadle seems to split alot on kerbs wood flying everywhere.no good on 50mm slabs most will end up like crazy paving.

Posted: **Tue Dec 11, 2012 10:43 pm**

ilovesettsonmondays wrote:i mainly use a beadle (beetel for the boss).took about two weeks to get used to from when i used to use a maul .would never go back to a maul on 63mm or above thick slabs.beadle much better .maul tends to be better on kerbs for some reason . beadle seems to split alot on kerbs wood flying everywhere.no good on 50mm slabs most will end up like crazy paving.

Noticed them using that on the '1950's building site video' LL put up a few months ago.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:51 am**

It's got to be a Thor 957, perfect for edgers and general use etc.

I use a pickaxe with protruding handle at the pick end to knock down kerbs and only bring out the big rubber hammer for really awkward sods.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:03 am**

My owld feller used to go mad if anyone used the shaft on a pick, mattock or especially a hammer to knock down paving. "There's a reason we have the right tools for the job...." he'd say in his considered but stern tone, which you never, ever challenged. I saw him turn away potential flaggers and sett-paviors who had come looking for a start on the grounds that the bottom of the shaft on their hammer was all mushroomed from being used to tap down paving.

He had a beetel. I just about remember being in the workshop with him as a very young child, maybe 4 or 5, fascinatedly watching him heat-up the steel hoops over a gas ring before forcing them on to a new wooden head. I know that at least one of these survived, but I haven't seen it for years. I think our Brendan might have it, as he took custody of most of Dad's tools when he 'retired', exactly 6 years ago tomorrow.

Apols for being maudling - it's that time of year.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:17 am**

Tony McC wrote:My owld feller used to go mad if anyone used the shaft on a pick, mattock or especially a hammer to knock down paving. "There's a reason we have the right tools for the job...."

Too right an all.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:29 am**

lutonlagerlout wrote:I can lay 30 m of stone a day with my trusty wickes Â£2 rubber mallet
getting the bed right is more important than the hammer,
you want to lay the paving,not batter it to death :;):
LLL

With you all the way on that one Tony. I was same as you, I liked to use a mix close to bricklaying consistency. That way there is no need to knock the hell out of the paving to get it down

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:34 am**

I swear by my Thor hammer had it 2 years now and it still as good as the day I bought it. I am a firm believer or right tool for the right job. So have a full selection of hammers and shovels in van to cover all eventualities. :p

Posted: **Sun Dec 16, 2012 6:03 pm**

Thors are the boys. We used to use the lump hammer shafts, way back, and for heavy stuff, a Pick. That was before Rubber was discovered, in the early 90's I believe, if I remember my History. My tool bag is now so heavy with varieties of Hammers, trowels etc I can only just pick it up.:p

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:18 am**

mickavalon wrote:Thors are the boys. We used to use the lump hammer shafts, way back, and for heavy stuff, a Pick. That was before Rubber was discovered, in the early 90's I believe, if I remember my History. My tool bag is now so heavy with varieties of Hammers, trowels etc I can only just pick it up.:p

i will have to post a loving picture of my maul over 30 plus years old wheres hagi my IT manager :p [IMG]http://i742.photobucket.com/albums....MG] ha ha got it

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The Brew Cabin

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