Today’s Modern Hammer
March 17, 2006
The Stanley FatMax® Xtreme™ Fubar™ Functional Utility Bar was released yesterday. As far as I’m concerned this is the new hammer. If you’ve done any construction work recently, you’ll realize how far the status of the hammer has fallen. It’s place as most important tool has slipped to the pneumatic hammer which puts out more nails, faster, more consistently, with less work for whoever is running it.
So, why are people still carrying hammers? Occasionally the pneumatic hammer misses so you have to knock a nail the rest of the way in. Or, sometimes you need to pull a nail. Or, you need to adjust a 2×4 that’s twisted. Or, you need to knock down, destroy, or rip apart a wall.
These are all the tasks the Fubar has been custom designed to be ideal for. This 4 lbs solid bar is the perfect tool to ‘F’ up beyond all recognition whatever you set it against.
Tags: fatmax, fatmax tools, fubar, functional utility bar, hammer, stanley, tool, tools
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I now have hammer envy. Although the pry-bar end looks like it would be uncomfortable if one was swinging it repeatedly at maximum force.
I’m getting one for wrecking duties around new orleans
PICK
ps $49 at abita lumber
thats a lot dadgumit
I picked up one of these to try it out at work (largish demolition site). It works comparably to a mini-sledge for brick removal, and the pry bar end means you aren’t fumbling with multiple tools at the top of a ladder.
I Love this thing!! I would like to see some improvements though, for instance, I’d like to see a version with a longer handle slightly curved a bit like a short axe (not a hatchet which is about the current length of the FUBAR) also a way to use the “Claw” end to remove nails as well making three ways to remove nails (different kinds of leverage neededd you know) and one last thing (this is a weird one) a “web” like drop from the hammer face. I use an Estwing 28 oz smooth faced straight claw framing hammer and have noticed that if the neck (which is thin and flat and in an odd way, a little like a hatchet blade) was great for hacking through things in an almost hatchet like way. This could be accomplished with the Fubar by creating a thin concave curved “web” like connection drawing from the face down to the lower part of the neck (good for making 2 ways to split wood?) Let me know what you guys think.