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Originally Posted by devodave
Ok, vernacular is confusing. When I referred to “sledge hammer”, I was referring to a short handled striking tool with an approximate 2 lb head, also know as a drill hammer or an engineers hammer. What you know as a “sledge hammer”, I have always referred to it as a maul, a long handled tool with an 8-lb to 10-lb head. This is different than a splitting maul, used to split wood. These are how I learned from my dad and I am sure that’s what he learned from my grandfather.
You’d have to trust 2 to 3 guys swinging Lind handled tools while you were holding the steel!
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Interesting
. The short handled hammer has never been referred to as a "sledge hammer" in my experience. The little ones were just "small sledges." In my experience a "sledge hammer" had at least an 8 pond head and a 3 foot handle.
Anything called a "maul" was used for splitting wood.