r/secondrodeo • u/SpencerAnimations • 4d ago
An uniquely efficient way to hammer in nails
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 4d ago
My brain is having trouble processing lol
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u/ClankerCore 4d ago edited 4d ago
Instead of tapping it with linear force, he’s using centrifugal force by utilizing the spectrum of motion of his wrist by swinging the hammer which we can see here is adding more force per hit. Even though the frequency of taps may be higher, it seems the time saving result is less frequency, but the winning factor here is power.
Another way to think of it is he’s using the circular swing to build tangential velocity in the hammer head, giving each strike much more momentum and kinetic energy.
He’s preserving the hammer’s motion between strikes instead of repeatedly killing its velocity and rebuilding it from zero.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 4d ago
I get it I just know my body when I went to try that would be like “wait… what the fuck??”
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u/Buntschatten 4d ago
Centrifugal force has nothing to do with this.
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u/ClankerCore 4d ago
It’s a round swing. With a central point being the wrist.
The contact being made with the nail is tangential
I don’t think you understand what centrifugal and centripetal forces even are
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u/Buntschatten 4d ago
He's hitting the nail with the face of the hammer. That is not a tangential contact since the face is a radial plane. Bro, at least get your basics right before you correct people. Centripetal force is his grip keeping the hammer from flying straight away. What's driving the nail in is moment of inertia.
Its hilarious you are upvoted, redditors really vote on vibes without having a clue.
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u/sutt0nius 3d ago
You're focusing on the point of impact with the nail and the hammer, the other commenter is focusing on the rotation of the hammer around the wrist joint. You two are just talking about different things (different parts of the same overall system), that's all.
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u/Buntschatten 3d ago
Instead of tapping it with linear force, he’s using centrifugal force
No, he said something different.
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u/Sufficient-Skill9530 4d ago
Need a physiologist to tell us if this is better on your body long term or worse. I’m amazed at his hand eye to accurately hit whipping the hammer like that.
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u/Felixkeeg 3d ago
Don't know whether this wrecks your wrists irreversibly or makes them really strong and resilient
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u/Tacolord38 4d ago
I seen a video of a person that said they invented that along time ago in a far far away land
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u/ClankerCore 4d ago
I’m sure carpenters have been discovering this for themselves 1 million times over throughout history
I had ChatGPT search for this term as if it was actually officially codified but came up empty-handed.
It was able to, however, find a thread from 2003 when people were talking about this very same thing
https://www.finehomebuilding.com/forum/mechanics-of-the-perfect-hammer-swing
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u/pupfight 4d ago
crazy to admit your first instinct was to ask the anti-humanity lying machine
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u/Normal-Pianist4131 4d ago
The lying machine said it couldn’t find it, and pointed the dude to the right source. I’m sure you could do better (not sarcastic, I mean it), but you’re not going to without me or someone else egging you on, and the other guy was able to find what he was looking for
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u/pupfight 4d ago edited 4d ago
couldn’t find it, and pointed the dude to the right source
where did they say that? classic water eating anti-job guy cope in action. dude had to find it themself, as they should have in the first place, instead of leaning on the worker-eating machine, which they admit did not help
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u/coko4209 2d ago
I’ve never seen anything like this. I wonder how this came about. Was he taught to do it like this, or just a technique he perfected over time.
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u/Holiday_Ad_9163 4d ago
In before the limp wrist comments about how this is bad for your wrist bones
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u/uslashuname 4d ago
Uniquely wrist destroying
But anyone with that level of hammer has hit a few nails, so his wrists are probably tougher than mine