Which is the best type of hammer to use to hammer in a Jormax windbreak please?

[Skeggysue]

Hi There,

I have just ordered 2 Jormax windbreaks with aluminium posts that can be hammered into both soft ground and many hard standing pitches too. If anyone has these windbreaks themselves, please can you advise me what is the best / strongest hammer to use for knocking the posts in?

Whilst on the subject of the Jormax windbreaks I just want to say what an excellent service I received when I placed my order with them yesterday. I needed some advice prior to placing my order and Bryn who dealt with my enquiry via their Facebook messenger page was a credit to his profession and so helpful and obliging.

Just received an email from him to inform me that the order I placed yesterday had been dispatched and would be delivered on Monday. Now how’s that for excellent customer service?

 

[pappajohn]

Rubber mallet maybe.
Metal mallet may damage the poles.

 

[DaveNI]

I use a normal metal hammer. Theres a coach bolt that you drop into the top of each pole

 

[Two on Tour]

I use a metal club hammer as your hitting the insert you place in the top of the pole not the pole itself.

 

[Richard n Ann]

Small lump hammer. Nickname "Lumpy"

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[RowleyBirkinQC]

We use a fairly large rubber mallet.

 

[WESTY66]

Snap-on red plastic type mallet with sand inside

 

[rolosroller]

Another vote for a 2LB Lump hammer

 

[Jewellbags]

Yep heavy rubber mallet works a dream with it without the studs (bolts) that they provide . The screens are excellent btw

 

[68c]

Snap-on red plastic type mallet with sand inside

How rich are you? Those Snap On dead hammers are not cheap. Seems overkill for a tent peg.

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[WESTY66]

How rich are you? Those Snap On dead hammers are not cheap. Seems overkill for a tent peg.

Non of my Snap On stuff is cheap!!

I just hope when I die Mrs Westy doesn’t sell it all for what I told her I paid for it

 

[68c]

Perhaps I could meet your wife sometime, and how is your health.

 

[deleted79651]

Small lump hammer. Nickname "Lumpy"

So's my mattress And Elaine's gravy ...

Steve

 

[Speve]

Thor 714 nylon headed hammer 2lb you can replace heads when damaged.
Amazon product ASIN B0001P0YDM

 

[CazPaul]

We were putting our jormax up at the Peterborough show many years ago to try it out and I was hitting it with a rubber mallet whilst Caz was holding the pole
I brayed it and the hammer flew in the air and cracked her on the head, we still laugh now.
Always needed some sense knocking in her that lady.

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[Speve]

We were putting our jormax up at the Peterborough show many years ago to try it out and I was hitting it with a rubber mallet whilst Caz was holding the pole
I brayed it and the hammer flew in the air and cracked her on the head, we still laugh now.
Always needed some sense knocking in her that lady.

Did she day when I nod my head hit it?

 

[joe and sue]

Any good !!

 

[Gerby]

We have 2 x 5 M lengths and a gate which we mainly use as a dog run (our 50 KG Weimaraner can put his full weight against it and it doesn't move) we use a 4lb lump hammer and use a bolt placed in the hole on the pole to protect the end.

 

[brynric]

We use a lump hammer, the rubber mallets just bounce off, that’s what rubber does!
The insert protects the pole, and we bought a couple of spare inserts (bolts) in case of loss.
It’s an easy windbreak to put up, it looks good and it’s still standing when others are sagging. Not something I can say for myself any more!

 

[Skeggysue]

Thanks everyone got plenty of good ideas. Still giggling at CazPaul’s post though! HA HA HA

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[Rob Turner]

Glass Hammer
Toffee Hammer

 

[raysalaugh]

Try Screwfix, £5.99 for a 1.2kg lump hammer.

 

[sparkyvanman]

I like to use a wood mallet , i bought mine at Homebase , cost about £8 i think

 

[Clarky]

If anyone has these windbreaks themselves, please can you advise me what is the best / strongest hammer to use for knocking the posts in?

A big heavy one.
Like lots of others I use a lump hammer. Just make sure you drop the supplied steel bolt into the top of the aluminium poles before whacking them.
The poles have steel tips on the pointy end but not on the whacking end.
They are great windbreaks.

Richard.

 

[Beltie]

Lump hammer and coach bolt as others.

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[Gaston aires]

We were putting our jormax up at the Peterborough show many years ago to try it out and I was hitting it with a rubber mallet whilst Caz was holding the pole
I brayed it and the hammer flew in the air and cracked her on the head, we still laugh now.
Always needed some sense knocking in her that lady.

On a similar note, my next door neighbours were hanging a mirror and it was heavy so he stood behind the wife and held it while she had to hammer in the fixing. On the back stroke she copped him right in the eye, he dropped and smashed the mirror and had a black eye for weeks. I still laugh about it today 40 years on.
Phil

 

[Wabs]

Non of my Snap On stuff is cheap!!

I just hope when I die Mrs Westy doesn’t sell it all for what I told her I paid for it

I have a very unheathly love for Snap On tools, I’ll have them,and won’t say a word,,

 

[busbuddy]

After 40 years off putting windbreak/awning/marquee poles into the hardened hardcore filled ground at racetracks I now use a cordless drill to make a hole and just push them in

 

[carolyn]

We’re thinking of getting a jormax windbreak. We’re at Topsham and have had 50 mph winds. One couple left their jormax up overnight, presumably by accident the first night but it didn’t budge. They didn’t risk it a second night though!

 

[Nirvanauk]

Hi There,

I have just ordered 2 Jormax windbreaks with aluminium posts that can be hammered into both soft ground and many hard standing pitches too. If anyone has these windbreaks themselves, please can you advise me what is the best / strongest hammer to use for knocking the posts in?

Whilst on the subject of the Jormax windbreaks I just want to say what an excellent service I received when I placed my order with them yesterday. I needed some advice prior to placing my order and Bryn who dealt with my enquiry via their Facebook messenger page was a credit to his profession and so helpful and obliging.

Just received an email from him to inform me that the order I placed yesterday had been dispatched and would be delivered on Monday. Now how’s that for excellent customer service?

Funny this as I was in Skeggy last week (well, Sutton on sea) and ordered a wind break from them. Had to make a change of colour and had an immediate response from Bryn. However I still have had no delivery date and starting to wonder what has happened.

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