Over the last few years, mechanical tools have come on in leaps and bounds, up to the point where the latest generation of air hammers and other air powered tools are now so far ahead of traditional manual versions that they can make an enormous difference in the workplace, and boost productivity to previously unimagined levels.

Getting a competitive advantage in any industry is essential if you want to get ahead of the game, and one area where many of your rivals will be stuck in the past is likely to be in their choice of manual hammers rather than the latest Air Hammer models, which are available now from Red Hill Supply.

In any job where you might use a traditional manual hammer, you will find that using an air hammer instead will save you time and a lot of effort.  Consider the task of removing a king pin when you are getting a wheel off a truck.  This one task can sometimes take upwards of 5 minutes as you gradually attack the pin from different angles and using different chisels to get the best action on the pin.  Now imagine that you had access to an air hammer like the Chicago Pneumatic CPT717.

This tool, the most powerful air hammer available today is 9.75 inches long, and has a .498” chisel shank in order to handle the extra power that it can generate from a standard compressed air feed.  When you pull back on the positive action trigger, you unleash an unstoppable force onto whatever job you are working on.  The CPT717 delivers an incredible 1,800 blows per minute, the kind of unstoppable force that will get any job done in a matter of