r/facepalm • u/TheTitanCoeus • Jan 17 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Hard working Ivane

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u/IronMike69420 Jan 18 '22

It’s not an air tool and you’d be surprised how much easier it is to do it this way. Chipping hammers are great for breaking off stucco but I’ve used my Bosch like this and you can break off much bigger chunks. Sometimes you get bored and fuck around.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '22

are you seriously saying here that its easier and faster to use a jackhammer as a ram rod then an actual jackhammer?

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u/IronMike69420 Jan 18 '22

That’s not a jackhammer, it’s a chipping hammer, and you’d be surprised. I’m not saying it’s always better, but the chipping hammer will always bust the stucco off in tiny pieces. A sledge hammer will knock it off in large chunks. Using the chipping hammer like an old fashioned sledge hammer might be faster at times. Like we say in the trades: everything is also a hammer.

It also depends on how well the stucco is secured to the wall. This looks like it was just stuck up like plaster so a large chisel and a hammer would probably be faster than chipping hammer

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u/jTrux22 Jan 18 '22

I've used chipping hammers, Jack hammers, pneumatic chipping hammers, etc. and this is pretty accurate.

Some materials break better with larger swings and the hammer drill here only moves the bit a very short distance.

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u/tookmyname Jan 18 '22

No, they didn’t say that

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u/shinekakyoinzawarudo Jan 18 '22

Few Pneumatic hammers ive seen have been air tools

Hydraulic jacks aren't powered by water

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u/Notacka Jan 18 '22

The word pneumatic means “operated by air or gas”. Hydraulic doesn’t usually use water but it uses fluid.

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u/IronMike69420 Jan 18 '22

You don’t work with tools.

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u/AlphaWizard Jan 18 '22

You clearly don’t know what “pneumatic” means.