The handle is the lever which allows you to pull nails or pound a nail with equal ease.
The handle is the lever which allows you to pull nails or pound a nail with equal ease.
The function of a claw hammer is so that you can efficiently pull or lever out nails that went cactus on you when you were trying to hammer it in.
The function of a claw hammer is so that you can efficiently pull or lever out nails that went cactus on you when you were trying to hammer it in.
A steel head and a handle
On a standard claw hammer you have the head which consists of the face for driving nails, and a claw for removing nails. The head of the hammer is attached to a handle or shaft to give it leverage.
the head with a face and a claw, the shaft with a handle/grip.
To remove nails.
A claw hammer is a pair of levers perpendicular to each other. When you exert force on the handle of the hammer, it transfers it's work to the second lever, or the head of the hammer. That then creates work at the claw, where you are pulling that nail with much greater force than you could exert without the hammer.
A general purpose hammer that comes in many sizes and shapes. The common one weighs around 24 ounces and has a 12" handle, The 'framing hammer' is a larger version with a long fairly flat claw and a heavy head mounted on a handle 16-18 inches long. These are used for heavy pounding of long nails, and the claw for removing same. In all it's varieties this is possibly the world's most common hammer
it is a lever because it has the effort, fulcrum and load official
part of claw hammer that strikes the head of the nail
The claw hammer can not only hammer a nail into wood but can , by way of the claw , grasp the head of the nail and be used to pry/leverage the nail from wood .