Talk:Jackhammer

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[edit] History section needed...

Having just watched the hand-drawn opening credits of One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing and noticed a picture of a workman with a pneumatic drill, we wondered whether it was an appropriate illustration for a film supposedly set in the 1920s...

So, who invented the pneumatic drill, and when??

EdJogg 23:24, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

About.com says " Samuel Ingersoll invented the pneumatic drill in 1871. Charles Brady King of Detroit invented the pneumatic hammer (a hammer which is driven by compressed air) in 1890" billbeee 11:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC) billbeee has been known to use a jackhammer in the past, and has the carpel tunnel to prove it! (was it the Carpel Tunnel where John Henry met his end?) Removed a section that was a little "How-to". billbeee 07:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Agree - needs some history. For instance, it is called a Jack hammer afer the cornish miners that used it so skillfully in the gold mines of CA in 1849. these men were called "Jacks" in the same way irish were called "micks" HarneyCreek 03:18, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Manual jackhammer

agree on the history. Recently I read Ask the Dust, written by John Fante in 1939, he has a meat-loving character who sneaks into a barn at night, kills a calf with a jackhammer to the head, and brings the carcass back to his hotel. I don't remember where I found the description, but a manual jackhammer looks like a long shaft with a shoulder at the bottom and a heavy sleeve that slides down it to deliver the impact. --CliffC 04:39, 20 August 2007 (UTC)