well thank you Mech! Thats how I learned to curse like a truck driver.....as I threw tools across the garage....LOL

Your welcome

 

BTW i never throw tools and cuss just ask Duncan

So are you going to leave it like that, or will someone spills the beans?

right .... hes a little !

NOT!!

In the old days his boss would tick the Mech off. well to be fair he would tick everybody off, then the mech would go clean his work bench in a very efficiently manner.

One sweep of his arm and everything would be in the floor.

Oh and we wont get into how far sledge hammers or other tools can traveil...all by them selfs!

cussing? why hes an example!! oh ...I mean hes good... o wait thats not what I'm trying to say.

The Hammer

The origins of throwing the hammer have never been in doubt. Wherever hammers were used - blacksmiths, quarries or farms - a diversionary pastime would be throwing the utilitarian wooden-shafted sledgehammer. The sport's long history can be judged by the following extract quoted by author David Webster from an 1826 games poster:

To the best at throwing the

sledgehammer - a large silver brooch.

To the next best - a set of patent

leather sword belts

Throwers used to gain great momentum - and distance - by turning the body rapidly to build up speed before releasing the hammer. Instances were very common of throwers losing their grip on the shaft or of releasing it a little too late with the hammer flying over or, even worse into the crowds. This soon brought about a ban on that method!

 

The old hammer has been replaced by an iron sphere on a rotan or male bamboo shaft, measuring 4ft 2ins (1.27m) and weighting either 16lbs (7.3kgs) or 22lbs ( 10kgs).

 

The thrower stands with his back to the trig (the throwing mark), swings the hammer round his head to gather momentum and then releases it over his shoulder.

 

 

The event certainly needs exeellent timing and whilst the conventional image of a hammer thrower is of a Herculean figure, some past record breakers have been short and slight which proves that knack is very much a secret of success.

..................so who would get the brooch and who would get the belt guys?

I being a humble Mech would get the brooch :D

 

Because of years of pratice i have gotten pretty good at placing the hammer were it is aimed (sometimes were its not aimed)

ouch.

Anyone helping out?

Yea probly me :D lol!!!!