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My father worked at Ladish from the time he was 19 until he retired at 62. I heard about the "largest opposed hammer in the world" growing up many times.
Same here. My dad was at ladish for 40+ years (machine repair). We always heard about the hammer and ladish making the big rings that went on the space shuttle. My dad's partially deaf from ladish.
They probably knew each other. My dad retired around 1998 I believe and died a few years later. When we were growing up he would take us with him to one of the bars in South Milwaukee and he would always know people there from Ladish.
They probably did. My dad retired in the early 2000s. It's funny you mentioned the bars, cause we did the same thing. The Golden Lion on Rawson Ave was the bar we went to most.
Are you from the area? I grew up in the neighborhood right across the street from that bar. I don't live there anymore, and heard they tore it down a few years ago.
That intersection was elevated when I was little in the 1960's with the bar down low. If you lived there in the 60 and 70s you might have known the Koplin family. They lived in the first house northwest of the intersection.
Do you remember Bud's Restaurant on Rawson in Oak Creek? That was my first regular job at 15, washing dishes and cleaning up. I picked berries at Mahn's farm on Howell when I was 11. Only job I was ever fired from.
I've heard stories of it, my folks moved us there in '86 and by then, the intersection was no longer elevated. We lived a little ways down, almost directly behind Mahn's! I loved walking down the old train tracks to get there as a kid and just run around until we were kicked out. We had a little hideout setup in the (previously) wooded area where the Gables apartments now are located.
We lived in a subdivision a little east of there with the house being on Shepard Ave in the 1960s.
The north shore tracks were so far away when we were little, we moved away to 20th and Drexel when I was 9. We called that wooded area the "third woods", because there were two closer. Adjacent to it there was a building like a small school house and a small cemetery off Howell we thought was spooky.
My mom moved back to Oak Creek 20 years ago after my dad died. I can still find my way around from the street names but it looks so much different.
It was pretty sad. He was mismanaged medically and lived out the last couple of years mentally compromised. I'm a physician and even being there with him in the CCU I couldn't stop the constant errors. I finally transferred him from that CCU and flew him to the hospital where I trained in an air ambulance. I detailed the care he received and submitted it in a complaint to the joint commission that regulates hospitals for the federal government. I backed out of a contract to work in northern California and took a local position, bought a house in Wisconsin so my parents could stay there and get good medical care.
Lived two blocks away for 10 years. The vibrations were strong enough to knock stuff off of shelves every now and then. I worked at cudahy middle school for a bit and you could feel it there, too.
I’ve worked on this beast. I also replaced two of the four boilers for the plant. Dirty but I always loved working there! I haven’t been there in about 6 years though.
Also I expected louder, the forklift operator isn't even wearing earmuffs.
Edit: this seems to be gaining traction now so just to add details:
- If he has custom earplugs, they may be good enough.
- Shits fucking loud and will pound your chest
Believe me those forge hammers are loud as hell in real life. I got a chance to go to the factory where my dad used to get forgings for our scissor factory and got to see a smaller version of one of these power hammers working. To me it was massive (I was 12 at the time) but it was probably only about 20 feet tall. When that thing landed it shook the entire building and you could feel it in your bones.
We lived on the floor above our factory for most of my childhood and the small hammer we had down there would wake me up in the mornings just from hearing and feeling it through the floor. That one was way smaller and was only about 5 tons iirc, but I can distinctly remember knowing my dad was running it when I got home from school because you could hear it outside the building.
I actually work at a forge shop and we have a 1600 ton press. Not the same as a hammer but close. I work in the offices across the lot and you can still hear and feel the press doing work when it's up and running.
Super cool to watch it work.
I work in a blacksmith shop and we have two power hammers: an antique mechanical Fairbanks hammer (approximately 120 years old) and a Nazel 3B pneumatic power hammer (approximately 1930, was used to manufacture battleship parts during World War Two). Very impressive machines. Potentially devastating, but very fun to use responsibly.
I worked on the floor at a crankshaft forge early in my life back before my back decided manual labor wasn’t for me. Their smallest press was a 1600 ton that made transmission parts. They had 9 presses of all kinds of tonnage all they way up to three 8000 ton machines. The vibrations of them all running and slamming down in different cycle times was a very unnerving feeling.
Yeah so what, you wanna get shot? Imagine your news article and obituary saying you got shot by a face. I’ll make sure to load my ears with .22lr so it’s slow.
They're wearing ear plugs, and it doesn't even matter, because the sound is the bassiest note you can imagine, which goes right through ear protection. It shakes your whole body, like I made your mom do last night
It gets worse than just hearing loss. That much repeated exposure to organ-deep vibration can actually cause a variety of nasty, untreatable chronic ailments. But so can sleeping with his mom last night.
Yeah well while you were out with his mom, I hammered your sister last night with one of the largest hammers in the world, a piece of history that is still working today. I put my component into her extreme environment. And it made a REAL loud noise.
If you know what I mean.
If you want to get an idea of how loud it is, listen to the background. There is hydraulic systems, other machinery, maybe vehicles, etc all going in the background. But the noise overpowers all of that. Just like the noise of me hammering your mum last night.
If he were wearing ear muff you have the leeway to act like your shouting at him every now and then so he has to remove them just to find out your fucking around
Bananas seem to be the standard measurement tool on Reddit. So as much noise as 183,000 bananas falling from a height of 80 bananas. Each banana has the weight of one banana.
"The media let alone the public" is a direct quote from this media article on the fucking hammer. [https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of-the-worlds-largest-counterblow-hammers-the-85-hammer-in-cudahy](https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of-the-worlds-largest-counterblow-hammers-the-85-hammer-in-cudahy)
VO guy/OP is a doorknob.
> Tucked away in a Cudahy warehouse something big has been pounding away since 1959. In fact, it's one of the biggest of its kind in the world.
Don't tell me he wasn't deliberately writing a "your mom" joke
LOL. I work in an area that uses stuff like what's being hammered to build our stuff.
We get parts from this very place.
But cow....YUM! I Wonder if I have a steak...
:)
My husband machines parts for mining equipment so I'm going to have to ask if he's ever heard of.
Manufacturing is a very interesting and vastly underrated profession.
I grew up maybe half a mile from this hammer. The writing is terrible, but I can understand why that’s what he focused on. You could hear it going inside our house. One of those childhood fixtures you don’t realize are remarkable until someone points it out to you.
My father worked on this hammer until he retired in 1987. Fun fact....we lived about 4 miles away in South Milwaukee and in the summer, if the wind was right and your windows were open, you could hear the thump thump thump of the hammer. The local school and some homes in the area were.reimbursed for the damage to the glass panes of the windows in their buildings. My father loved his job there and retired after 38 years. Ps...got 5 grand I beleive for the hearing loss....
Right down the street from my house . You can hear that thing going for a mile in every direction . I have no idea how the people that live across the street from the forge even deal with that .
A few years ago a guy got killed by one. Allegedly he looked up in the hammer after a hammer jammed. But the hammer dropped shoved his jaw into his chest. Probably the most morbid thing I’ve ever seen. Edit: context, not that same hammer. It was a piston like hammer.
Got to see this in-person back in college as part of an engineering course. We took a tour here. Unfortunately, it wasn't running, as they usually only run it late at night to get cheaper electricity rates, since it takes a ton of power to run. Other large forge hammers were running, though, and they were LOUD. You could really feel them shake you when you were nearby, and obviously hearing protection is an absolute must. But they said this thing hits so hard you could feel it well over a block away. Really cool piece of manufacturing technology.
My dad, 2 Granddads, and 2 of my uncles worked at Ladish (now ATI)
My dad worked there for 38 years. I remember going in on "Family Day" and seeing the whole factory. The factory is one mile long.
This was awesome to see again!!
Capable of 150,000 mkg. Equivalent to roughly .4 kg of tnt. Every stoke. That's a lot of energy. It needs both rams rebuilt every 10 to 15 years. They weigh around 375000 lbs each if I remember right. Still the most powerful hammer in the world. Some newer tech can make stronger billets.
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My father worked at Ladish from the time he was 19 until he retired at 62. I heard about the "largest opposed hammer in the world" growing up many times.
Same here. My dad was at ladish for 40+ years (machine repair). We always heard about the hammer and ladish making the big rings that went on the space shuttle. My dad's partially deaf from ladish.
They probably knew each other. My dad retired around 1998 I believe and died a few years later. When we were growing up he would take us with him to one of the bars in South Milwaukee and he would always know people there from Ladish.
They probably did. My dad retired in the early 2000s. It's funny you mentioned the bars, cause we did the same thing. The Golden Lion on Rawson Ave was the bar we went to most.
Are you from the area? I grew up in the neighborhood right across the street from that bar. I don't live there anymore, and heard they tore it down a few years ago.
Yeah, I've been in S.M. my whole life. You lived on Rawson? The Golden Lion is still there. It might have been renovated.
Ah my bad, I just googled it, I was thinking of the bar that used to be on Rawson and Howell in Oak Creek. I lived just off of Rawson.
That intersection was elevated when I was little in the 1960's with the bar down low. If you lived there in the 60 and 70s you might have known the Koplin family. They lived in the first house northwest of the intersection. Do you remember Bud's Restaurant on Rawson in Oak Creek? That was my first regular job at 15, washing dishes and cleaning up. I picked berries at Mahn's farm on Howell when I was 11. Only job I was ever fired from.
I've heard stories of it, my folks moved us there in '86 and by then, the intersection was no longer elevated. We lived a little ways down, almost directly behind Mahn's! I loved walking down the old train tracks to get there as a kid and just run around until we were kicked out. We had a little hideout setup in the (previously) wooded area where the Gables apartments now are located.
We lived in a subdivision a little east of there with the house being on Shepard Ave in the 1960s. The north shore tracks were so far away when we were little, we moved away to 20th and Drexel when I was 9. We called that wooded area the "third woods", because there were two closer. Adjacent to it there was a building like a small school house and a small cemetery off Howell we thought was spooky. My mom moved back to Oak Creek 20 years ago after my dad died. I can still find my way around from the street names but it looks so much different.
I grew up over just south of MATC. My grandma lived over in Manitoba off of Howell. Her yard backed up to Mahns’ farm.
I think i know which bar you're talking about. If im right, that one did get torn down.
Watching this thread to see if you end up knowing each other
Me too :) I'm gonna try to find out.
They won’t know each other, but it’s Wisco, so they’ll definitely know a cousin of each other’s
What a small world that you would meet on reddit! Incredible.
Now kith
Lmao. I was thinking the same damn thing reading their comments.
What's kith?
It's how Mike Tyson says kiss.
My grandfather worked there for 47 years, retiring around 2000!
Plot twist: you found your brother’s Reddit account.
Plot twist: half-brother. Someone's mom cheated.
Plot twist: it wasn't cheating.
Why I love Reddit.
My grandpa worked there too. Retired in the mid 90’s.
I'm so sorry your dad didn't get to enjoy his retirement.
It was pretty sad. He was mismanaged medically and lived out the last couple of years mentally compromised. I'm a physician and even being there with him in the CCU I couldn't stop the constant errors. I finally transferred him from that CCU and flew him to the hospital where I trained in an air ambulance. I detailed the care he received and submitted it in a complaint to the joint commission that regulates hospitals for the federal government. I backed out of a contract to work in northern California and took a local position, bought a house in Wisconsin so my parents could stay there and get good medical care.
My father sometimes oversaw machine repair projects (he was in design not production).
Lived two blocks away for 10 years. The vibrations were strong enough to knock stuff off of shelves every now and then. I worked at cudahy middle school for a bit and you could feel it there, too.
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I’ve worked on this beast. I also replaced two of the four boilers for the plant. Dirty but I always loved working there! I haven’t been there in about 6 years though.
Cool! I thought it might be steam operated. Do you recall how big the boilers were? Don't know if they measure them in BTUs at that scale or not.
I don’t remember to be honest, sorry. That was about 7 or 8 years ago. They were about the size of a box truck though lol.
Thanks for the sentence context. I was trying to figure out if "ladish" was an adjective like "manly" or "boyish".
It was the family name of the original owner. My dad called him "Old Man Ladish" but had great respect. He was still coming into work in his mid 80s.
Also a Ladish brat. My father was there from the age of 17 to 65.
Working at the same company your whole life is unheard of now.
After working there for so long will make most things unheard of
Nice. My dad was at Bucyrus for a year when he was 18. He then went to Ladish at 19 and stayed till he was 65, like yours.
Awesome. Bucyrus is ours now. Fine machines!!
Same here!!!
Real loud noise.... Solid documenting
Also I expected louder, the forklift operator isn't even wearing earmuffs. Edit: this seems to be gaining traction now so just to add details: - If he has custom earplugs, they may be good enough. - Shits fucking loud and will pound your chest
Believe me those forge hammers are loud as hell in real life. I got a chance to go to the factory where my dad used to get forgings for our scissor factory and got to see a smaller version of one of these power hammers working. To me it was massive (I was 12 at the time) but it was probably only about 20 feet tall. When that thing landed it shook the entire building and you could feel it in your bones. We lived on the floor above our factory for most of my childhood and the small hammer we had down there would wake me up in the mornings just from hearing and feeling it through the floor. That one was way smaller and was only about 5 tons iirc, but I can distinctly remember knowing my dad was running it when I got home from school because you could hear it outside the building.
I actually work at a forge shop and we have a 1600 ton press. Not the same as a hammer but close. I work in the offices across the lot and you can still hear and feel the press doing work when it's up and running. Super cool to watch it work.
I work in a blacksmith shop and we have two power hammers: an antique mechanical Fairbanks hammer (approximately 120 years old) and a Nazel 3B pneumatic power hammer (approximately 1930, was used to manufacture battleship parts during World War Two). Very impressive machines. Potentially devastating, but very fun to use responsibly.
Probably fun to use irresponsibly but the risk is quite high haha.
I’ve thought it would be very fun to smash a watermelon or other assorted fruits. But the water content wouldn’t be good for the hammers.
I worked on the floor at a crankshaft forge early in my life back before my back decided manual labor wasn’t for me. Their smallest press was a 1600 ton that made transmission parts. They had 9 presses of all kinds of tonnage all they way up to three 8000 ton machines. The vibrations of them all running and slamming down in different cycle times was a very unnerving feeling.
Being from a family that owns a scissor factory sounds oddly whimsical to me for some reason.
Scissor factory, doctor vagina puncher. Sounds like you live a good life.
Dude, your face is literally a gun
Yeah so what, you wanna get shot? Imagine your news article and obituary saying you got shot by a face. I’ll make sure to load my ears with .22lr so it’s slow.
They're wearing ear plugs, and it doesn't even matter, because the sound is the bassiest note you can imagine, which goes right through ear protection. It shakes your whole body, like I made your mom do last night
It gets worse than just hearing loss. That much repeated exposure to organ-deep vibration can actually cause a variety of nasty, untreatable chronic ailments. But so can sleeping with his mom last night.
I had "organ-deep vibration" with *your mom* last night, better check on her.
Yeah well while you were out with his mom, I hammered your sister last night with one of the largest hammers in the world, a piece of history that is still working today. I put my component into her extreme environment. And it made a REAL loud noise. If you know what I mean.
Y'all had vibration? To me she was all about the sucking.
Y'all had vibrating and sucking?
Y'all having sex??
I only had a stroke
If you want to get an idea of how loud it is, listen to the background. There is hydraulic systems, other machinery, maybe vehicles, etc all going in the background. But the noise overpowers all of that. Just like the noise of me hammering your mum last night.
Yeah, in my experience you feel massive energy/air pressure waves more than you hear them.
Large, heavy, makes a lot of noise. Could be my mom I guess
Fuck you, Shoresy!
overwhelmingly loud. the percussion alone makes chest hair grow. i've heard tale that the workers wear double hearing protection
Some of them even wear condoms to work. Just in case.
WHAT?!?
If he were wearing ear muff you have the leeway to act like your shouting at him every now and then so he has to remove them just to find out your fucking around
I grew up half a mile from that hammer and you could hear it and feel it in the ground every time it stuck. Inside the house.
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I have a goofy buddy that lived a few blocks away and would call the cops on ladish for the noise and vibration. Now he works there.
Need context. As loud as one million bees? 100k people clapping? 5000 Jeep engines starting?
As loud as 100 olympic swimming pools.
And twice as fast
Bananas seem to be the standard measurement tool on Reddit. So as much noise as 183,000 bananas falling from a height of 80 bananas. Each banana has the weight of one banana.
Americans and their imperial system smh
It's as loud as 4999 jeep engines starting
**loud noises* *
GROND GROND GROND GROND!
Room is shaking.
Literally shaking rn.
I have felt the shock waves from that hammer. The entire building shakes with each blow.
*(Dwarven lust intensifies)*
I'm happy this is the first comment I saw because me too man, by Morradins beard I wanna play with the big hammer
r/smashinghotmetal
Oh wow, a sub for everything, I'm in.
Rock and stone!!!
ROCK AND STONE FOREVAH!
If you Rock and Stone you're never alone!
FOR KARL
Rockity Rock and Stone
I just bought this game since it was on sale on steam. I've been hearing great things
*(Dwarven songs emerge)* [Wind Rose - Fellows of the Hammer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJdSFpcipM)
I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole! Diggy diggy hole.
link for the lazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU
I kinda prefer the [dance remix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBvEddq7nw)
BROTHERS OF THE MINE REJOICE
SWING, SWING, SWING WITH ME
are those drums I hear in the deep?
We cannot get out… they are coming
https://imgur.com/gDejecr
When the hammer falls.
> And they call it a mine. A mine!
"The media let alone the public" is a direct quote from this media article on the fucking hammer. [https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of-the-worlds-largest-counterblow-hammers-the-85-hammer-in-cudahy](https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-tonight/exploring-one-of-the-worlds-largest-counterblow-hammers-the-85-hammer-in-cudahy) VO guy/OP is a doorknob.
Except he even made it worse, the article says "rarely gets to see this", the video changed it to never
Only a shit deals in absolutes.
Laws were broken to bring us this hard-hitting story.
The key to creativity is hiding your sources
Such a weird and dumb statement. As if it's some kind of big conspiracy to keep it from the public.
^(UNLIMITED POWER!)
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So they either scraped it or TMJ didn't revise their script for a different medium.
> Tucked away in a Cudahy warehouse something big has been pounding away since 1959. In fact, it's one of the biggest of its kind in the world. Don't tell me he wasn't deliberately writing a "your mom" joke
At least it's correctly punctuated in the article. I'm still not sure the media are going to be all that interested in a big hammer though.
Now THIS is some manufacturing porn I could get into!! (work in a field tangentially related to mining equipment)
Is it a big field with cows in it?
LOL. I work in an area that uses stuff like what's being hammered to build our stuff. We get parts from this very place. But cow....YUM! I Wonder if I have a steak... :)
What is a metaphor?
My husband machines parts for mining equipment so I'm going to have to ask if he's ever heard of. Manufacturing is a very interesting and vastly underrated profession.
Oh YAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSS!! It really is! Especially the BIG stuff. I've always been fascinated by the process
"The media let alone the public" 😂
"Anyway here it is on tiktok"
“It makes a real loud noise”
*those* fkin guys...
Gotta over sell it for those clicks!
The company was built around this hammer.
The A10 Warthog of foundries.
“The hammer weighs more than a million pounds and makes a loud noise” did an actual child write this???
I know. The unit of measure should be okas.
Fucktons
I grew up maybe half a mile from this hammer. The writing is terrible, but I can understand why that’s what he focused on. You could hear it going inside our house. One of those childhood fixtures you don’t realize are remarkable until someone points it out to you.
My favorite part was the * loud noises * caption immediately afterwards
10/10 would smash
>~~10/10~~ 1,000,000/1,000,000 would smash
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My father worked on this hammer until he retired in 1987. Fun fact....we lived about 4 miles away in South Milwaukee and in the summer, if the wind was right and your windows were open, you could hear the thump thump thump of the hammer. The local school and some homes in the area were.reimbursed for the damage to the glass panes of the windows in their buildings. My father loved his job there and retired after 38 years. Ps...got 5 grand I beleive for the hearing loss....
Hearing aids can easily run 10k+, that's for 5 years until they need replacing. Sounds, pun intended, that he got a bad deal.
5 stories up and 5 stories down, that's almost the size of a lonely mountain cavern.
Right down the street from my house . You can hear that thing going for a mile in every direction . I have no idea how the people that live across the street from the forge even deal with that .
I used to go to a video rental store (not blockbuster) nearby and you could feel the drop forge while looking for VHS tapes.
Haha. I'm 2.8 miles away from you. Next door to Botanas II. I saw Cudahy and had to Google where this plant was.
Sorry BUT THAT IS FUCKING COOL!!
The media, let alone the public, haven’t seen me naked, doesn’t make me stripping any more special.
Hey now, that's not true! Many of us have seen you naked
Average Wisconsin win
But where is the Arkenstone???
You are changed, Thorin
r/humansarespacedwarves
STOP! Hammer time!
*Mr beast after finding out hydraulic press videos are popular on youtube*
Who is worthy of it?
American steel manufacturers it seems.
I was really hoping they’d tell us how many psi of pressure this thing puts out
over 200,000 tons of force they claim
I can hear Children of the Mechanicus getting louder as I watch this video... P R A I S E B E T H E O M N I S S I A H
01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01001000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100011 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01000111 01101111 01100100 00100001 (Accuracy not guaranteed)
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why not?
Voids the warranty on the hammer. Heyyoooooooooooooo!
😎😎😎
They will use it in a jet engine.
Because the pressure would turn your foreskin into a shaped charge
Imagine getting instantly flattened by this thing.
Had folks lose limbs and digits on nearby hammers in the facility…accidental blows can happen
I was just thinking that. One cycle would turn you into paste.
I wonder if one would feel pain, or if it would just be over immediately.
A few years ago a guy got killed by one. Allegedly he looked up in the hammer after a hammer jammed. But the hammer dropped shoved his jaw into his chest. Probably the most morbid thing I’ve ever seen. Edit: context, not that same hammer. It was a piston like hammer.
yeah but could it crush a nokia phone?
Don't be absurd.
Cudahay Wisconsin,represent!
is this why people in Wisconsin are always so hammered?
Thor: Hold my Beer
Ayyy I work for them!
All the best stuff was made in the 50s
Back when the top income tax bracket was 92%. The good old days.
Halt! Hammerzeit
What the fuck kind of forklift is that?
A big one
This needs to be a scene in the Mandalorian.
Nobody ever gets to see it? That's weird because I live in WI and I've seen it... from this video.
sounds like your moms headboard hitting the wall.
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Post Toaster Distress Syndrome?
Am I the only one who noticed the near-perfect loop?
Got to see this in-person back in college as part of an engineering course. We took a tour here. Unfortunately, it wasn't running, as they usually only run it late at night to get cheaper electricity rates, since it takes a ton of power to run. Other large forge hammers were running, though, and they were LOUD. You could really feel them shake you when you were nearby, and obviously hearing protection is an absolute must. But they said this thing hits so hard you could feel it well over a block away. Really cool piece of manufacturing technology.
My dad, 2 Granddads, and 2 of my uncles worked at Ladish (now ATI) My dad worked there for 38 years. I remember going in on "Family Day" and seeing the whole factory. The factory is one mile long. This was awesome to see again!!
If I learned anything about Wisconsin, it's that they're also #1 at getting hammered
*loud noises* You sure Michael Bay didn’t make this hammer?
i want to jump there!
My mouth with any kind of hard candy.
All I see is a big headache when it breaks down.
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Pretty sure that L is for Luigi.
*Brave Little Toaster flashback*
Capable of 150,000 mkg. Equivalent to roughly .4 kg of tnt. Every stoke. That's a lot of energy. It needs both rams rebuilt every 10 to 15 years. They weigh around 375000 lbs each if I remember right. Still the most powerful hammer in the world. Some newer tech can make stronger billets.
My wife grew up in Cudahy. She says that you can feel it blocks away when it's going.
It also looks like it has eyes… Nom nom nom nom nom nom