applause applause! for accomplishing such a smooth, quiet & useful build from recycled parts. Takes plenty of smarts and guts. GREAT JOB

Much more impressive than buying the latest and greatest that is available today. Never tire of looking real close at the details of a custom creation such as this. Thank you so much for letting us in on your recycling project.

I hate it when viewers give advise. Yes the spring can be bitchy. But the POINT is that you took a pile of scrap and created a functional hammer. What did the advise givers do today? Great job! Creative!

Super nice work, really great, very creative. That spring / lever arrangement driving the hammer is brilliant!! At first it looks loose as a goose, but that's part of the charm and usefulness of it, you get great control from light tapping to full out Thor blows, and the way you put the vertical ram onto ways that keep it going up and down without sideways play or scuffing forward or back or rotating, for that matter, is outstanding. Thanks for showing it, and after watching your video it is now clear to me that I HAVE TO get a pickup truck and start making a PILE of junk, you just can't do anything really good without a great pile of junk to start with.....

Necessity is the mother of all inventions. I tip my hat to you. This is awesome!

I watched the video... then immediately replayed it. Beautiful hammer! Will be watching more of your videos. Thanks for the inspiration. Mark

This is amazing! So cool that you built this from scratch but you get extra points for using scrap parts and ending up with something you can be proud of. Thanks for sharing

Good job , I’m getting things gathered up to build one myself, just haven’t made up my plans yet. Helps to watch videos like yours Thanks. 👍

Hats off to you Sir. I admire folks who can build things from bits of scrap. Skills like yours are what build this world and probably what will save it. Thank you for sharing.

i stumbled on this when i was thinking of building one. great, simple design. mine took three evenings to build and runs off a floor buffer motor i got for fifteen bucks. think I'm into the whole thing for around forty. thank you so much for posting this. didn't have a big thick round for a flywheel, so i used a plow disk and welded chunks of axle on until i got good counter balance.

This hammer construction represents a very clever blacksmith where his innovation & creativity from every day scrap items have now the form of a very functional & practical power hammer. It’s a wonderful piece of work. I have spent a considerably amount of time researching homemade power hammers where I can honestly say this is very satisfying to watch where I have learned a great deal from this man. I can now start something similar for myself. BIG DOG FORGE; - thank you so much for a very inspirational piece of work. One of the fundamentals of a talented & gifted blacksmith is the ability to work with what you have and you have just proved that very point with your hammer construction. Extremely well done and thank you again. Greetings from across that big span of water, from Ireland. Good health to you Sir.

I like the shaft up there on top as opposed to the rocking beam style. simple and efficient and balanced. very cool

This is the thing every smith who does it by hand wants (that and room to put it in!) and you built your own. If you're lucky you might find one for a grand or two somewhere and have to drive it back yourself in a truck or pay out the nose for shipping. This was $60. An added bonus to building it yourself is you actually know how to fix it when (not if) it breaks.

This is a beautiful work of art. Kudos for your creativity. I wish I could make something like this.

I have been looking at power hammers lately and finally gave up on buying one due to the prices I've been finding. I don't have a stockpile of scrap to draw from but your video has certainly inspired me to start looking for odds and ends in the hope of putting something like this together at some point down the road.

I've seen a lot of DIY power hammers on YT vids, your's is definitey the smoothest operating and has the most style. Kind of a steampunk power hammer. Very cool =)

Well there you go again, now you got me looking at my junk pile again. Thanks for the video I did enjoy it much.

You must be part MacGyver. Impressive building a power hammer out of spare scrap and from seeing one used on a KZfaq video. I'll be watching your channel. Thanks for sharing.

what a great piece of equipment,nothing more satisfying than building something from scrap. My hats off to you,thanks for sharing.

Just came across your hammer. Pretty impressive for a scrap hammer. Looks like it will certainly get the job done. Great walk around and explanation of parts etc. Thanks for sharing.

That is so damn cool. I want , no I will make one.lol . 53 years young and just starting to do a bit of smithing to go along with my wood working. I really enjoy your channel sir. Thanks for sharing.

im so torn for what style hammer to build... this is by FAR the most simple design ive seen, and that is a complement because a lot of them seem overly complicated... you found a way to be rid of all the excess and have something that still works as its supposed to. this may have changed my plans... i was leaning more towards a leaf spring style hammer before, just because of the spring mechanism for the dupont style looked really intricate...

You mean to say you figured out the spring loaded what Chama call it just from photos of a factory machine I wish I had them type brains. Glad you posted this video

this is just brilliant. your engineering skills are amazing

Thank you soooo much- now I understand how it works!

That's an awesome dohickey. Good job Tim. Thanks

I have a friend who made a tire hammer like this, used a bogie from a Stuart light tank as the hammer assembly.

Very ingenuitive, great to see the piece running.

Love your build, it seems like it is more easily controlled than anything else I have seen. Thanks! :)

beautiful working piece of art.. and you made it out of scraps. wow amazing..cheers from mexico brother..

Clever, cunning, creative ... and Brilliant. Bravo! It seems to have a good feel to it ... really nice feel to it. There is a quiet and relaxed sense about it. I hope the metal likes it too. || Yes, i understand and agree, having some additional mass below the bottom Rail anvil will help provide a countering to the inertia of the hammer rail, but that is not a hard thing to turn into an ongoing (adjustment project) experiment. Hell, a large metal box filled with melted lead would work under the big metal round you already have in place, i would suppose.

Excellent job! I love your ingenuity. To create such a functional machine out of the scrap is truly amazing. I really like the design of the hammer part - very elegant IMHO. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Oz.

I really wish I could build this. I would love to have a forge some day I could actually work on but as it stands now I'm only allowed to have a soup can as a forge due to bylaws and I can't really afford to move. I hope I can really get into it later on. Would be great if I could have someone to teach me but the closest person who does this type of stuff is about 3 hours away. Anyway, enough griping. AWESOME stuff man. I love your design and your workshop.

Id say its absolutely beautiful. An economically sound piece of engineering. Very well done. :) Id be thrilled to have that.

that was a great looking power hammer and looks great and simplistic and the fact that you made it from scratch from other parts is awesome. i wish we had salvage yards they would let us loose to find and get scrap but where i am from they are more afraid of liability then anything and i understand but man i just want to play! would love to see things you have used this hammer on!

I’d rather have a tool that’s sinfully ugly and works amazing , than something new off of Amazon that’s looks shiny and is junk. Great repurposed parts. Good design ideas.

Hopefully by the time I'm 150 years old I'll have plenty of scrap to build my power hammer

very creative and ingenious

Very nice design, and it seems to work really well.

helping yourself with intelligence and being diligent at the same time!!...cant be bad, well done:)

If you use a flux core welder and clad your dies with 11018 wire they'd last forever. Im sure you know that. Beautiful job.

Pretty cool!

can never get enough. Fancyest Scrappy ever..👍👍

that is a very cool power hammer nice job !!!!!!

Thats the nicest one of those ive seen..................Fantastic, thanks for showing it

Great work! It seems to perform very well, watching your other videos. I'm looking forward to building something similar. Easiest sub of my life.

fantastic build. thanks for posting it.

That's awesome! I would be a little concerned about the huge spinning part and accidentally getting body parts stuck in it, but I'm clumsy as crap and hurt myself on things that nobody else can.

Excellent build!

Very nice job!

beautiful machine, cool design not to big. it runs really smooth

Hey big dog, I love your videos very much! :-) and I've got to say that is one of the smoothest running units I've seen ! I'm about to embark on the same ideas for my hammer. I've thought of making some videos on the build as I go. love ya work mate cheers from Australia :-)

This build is fantastic!

Very well done and super resourceful.

Super idea Maestro!

That my friend is quite the invention! Very cool!

I would be very PROUD to own that! GREAT job!

no your right on the target the beer plus the barring would increase the hight so thank you for your time and if i have any more ? i will contact you

Гениально и просто!

A quick comment, A piece of railroad track on end withe the round plate on top might work out. You could use a chainsaw and plung cut the center of the wooden beam to receive the track. brain storming lol love the videos!

This is awesome. Think this is how I want to build mine.

Hello Big Dog Forge, Thanks for the fast answer! Both links however, does not function on youtube.....

Your video did it. I'm making a hammer like this. I think this is the most efficient one. No other model. But I think everyone bloat about how cheap it cost! I don't believe that. But anyway thank you.

I GOTTA BUILD ME ONE --- WHAT A GREAT DESIGN Thanks

Great work , to me is a excellent machine, craftsmanship raw, awesome

Awesome build my friend especially because you scavend most of it

Hello young man, you have an interesting channel so after watching a few videos I thought this guy is clever man and worthy of subscribing too because I might just learn something. Cheers!

Maybe not the best power hammer out there, but certainly the most impressive :)

Alexander Weygers would be proud! awesome work!

Best one Ive seen so far

I can’t believe you never show the whole machine... sure would help!

I wish I had the ingenuity to build something like this

Good job, Big Dog Forge!

Pretty smooth action

Very Good!..

OUTSTANDING, man!

Well done on a quality build

Great job , thanks for posting.

That looks very good

It looks really smooth and quiet. Great work, maybe I'll have to order pillow block bearings and take a second look at my own junk piles. That really is a great build, most are over complicated and end up clunky and wobbly. Is there anything you found really vital to getting the results you did?

Hi, it looks great. Have you made any plans at the beginning? I´d like to build one myself but don´t have any idea where to start. could you give me an advice or some hints how to build something like this nice peace of a hammer? I´d be thankful for any help :)

that is the coolest friggin thing.

Great Hammer. Dimensions of the Du Pont Linkage?

You need to put a guard in front of the coil spring. Blacksmiths have been killed and injured when that spring gives up. There are videos on u-tube that can help you figure out how to do it.

That looks exactly like what I would like to build.

great looking hammer... in the process of several expansions myself and about to start on a power hammer... wondering what kind of spring you used in the power head... have been looking at various strut springs but they all seem too stiff for proper timing.

I'm impressed with all of these tire hammer designs, but I'm stuck between these build designs and the ORIGINAL JUNK YARD HAMMER.

That's awesome mate well done

So I am trying to figure out a design for a power hammer and I have seen several videos. I like your design a lot but I have a question. I am not even exactly sure of the terminology to use to ask it. There is obviously something I would want to refer to as throw in your hammer mechanism. If you were to manually place the hammer at it's lowest position with the flywheel shaft down how much space would be between the anvil and the hammer? Am I making sense? I am thinking there is a space there and the "spring-action" in the mechanism throws the hammer and closes then gap when running.

good morning, thanks for sharing, how many hp has this engine and what is its rotation?

Do you have a build video of this, I have similar ideas but yours seems better, my idea will be heavier and bigger and I now wonder if I’m better going smaller!

So Beautifully Epic!! 🔨 🗽

very nice I like junk I was wondering if you had a design you based your hammer off or just had an idea of the mechanics and ran with it

Cool, I was the 777th thumbs up. Praise Jesus. A great looking machine Big Dog by the way. God bless.

Greetings from Aus! Love this hammer. I'm struck by how stable it is. Doesn't look like it moves at all. Can I ask, is the fly wheel exactly the same weight as the ram and that the reason why? and is that old 750 spring attached to the linkages by weld?

Amazing! Good work

I love the idea, its simple yet effective. are the tracks mild or hardened steel? I'm a beginner and was told hard steel will chip and cut me with a miss hit

awesome job...

ha ha looks like a happy dancing robot :)

I think it's beautiful