[AT] Thanks!

[Steve Sewell]

--On Friday, October 09, 2009 7:20 AM -0400 Stephen Offiler 
<soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would be my solution.  I don't have anything bigger than 8#  and
> haven't found anything yet that I'd want it for.  Kinetic energy is
> 0.5 x mass x velocity squared.  It's all about the speed, folks.  I
> can accelerate the 8# a lot  better than I could  hope to do a 16#.
>
> Steve O.
>
  Steve O. : I understand the engineer in you about kinetic energy.  I also 
know you well enough that we have around the same mass and energy of swing. 
The former Cat, dealer mechanic in me knows we can swing that 16# sledge. I 
have the bad back to prove it. )-:
A D-9 track master pin won't ever get up enough energy to laugh at an 8 # 
hammer. But I have taken many out with a 16# with a helper holding the B&O. 
Of course it that's me twice as many blows as someone twice my size. (-;

Note. A B&O is a form of a sledge hammer. Same size handle. Head is around 
a foot long on each side, around 2" in diameter. About the same size as a 
track master pin. Called a B&O because it was used to help drive railroad 
track pins. Set the B&O on the in and drive it with the sledge.

-steve

Steve Sewell
Albany, Ohio USA
sewell at ohio.edu
sewell at atis.net