I just spent a hundred thousand dollars building the world's largest Thor's hammer.
But it's not this one... It's this one!
And the plan is to drop it from a giant crane in our next video
which is now available for our YouTube members to see early
But let's rewind a little bit
A few months ago I had a really dumb idea. What if we made a giant Thor's hammer?
I mean we've made pretty much every conceivable Thor hammer so far, giant's the next step, right?
I hopped into Solidworks and threw together a design,
this thing is going to be massive and heavy
Leave a comment below with how much you think it'll weigh
We'll tell you how heavy it is at the end of the video
Once I exported all the files I handed it off to be fabricated in my shop.
First we laser cut all the pieces out of 1/8 inch thick stainless steel plate. We laid out
the parts to make sure we had everything and then we welded them all together. We installed
a really thick pipe as the handle and of course a Hacksmith plate on the bottom. To finish it off
with a handle strap and some decorative pieces and our giant hammer is done. Let's take a look
Tyler this is supposed to be a giant hammer, this is 60 centimeters
it's supposed to be 60 inches tall. Did you check the drawing?
Yeah
All jokes aside, the pieces of this hammer are actually too big for us to make in-house,
so we had to outsource it to a local company
The steel's just been delivered, which means we can start building our giant Thor's hammer
And holy cow is it big! Over 4,000 pounds of steel,
nearly 20 thousand dollars worth of raw material
This is crazy!
Now we just have to put it all together
This project has the most welding we'll have ever done,
even more than our Power Loader that took three years to build
And it's not gonna be easy, we're gonna need the whole team working 24/7 to make it happen,
we're probably going to go through hundreds and hundreds of pounds of welding wire
And even though pretty much everyone on the team knows how to weld, none of us are actually
properly trained welders, so I think it's time we bring in a pro to help. And I know just the person
I've been a welder now for seven years all thanks to my friend Mike over there,
I used to watch him weld in his shop all the time.
He let me try it out and fell in love, went to school for it and never looked back
I am now the welder's helper
Here's the plan, we're going to try to take some of these lifting eyes
and we're going to weld it into the body of the hammer so that way it gives us a
lifting point so we can actually pick this thing up and rotate it because
you can't just flip this thing over, you know what I mean? It's a little on the heavy side so...
You got lots of room there
This might make a rather large bang, ay Boggy?
Nah if we keep going over slowly it should be okay
So next time we're gonna do that different
We did our best designing the slots and tabs so it goes together nicely,
but the problem with welding big pieces of metal is they warp from the heat.
There's 30 tabs that need to fit perfectly for this to sit flat
I need a nap
Why does it feel like we've been working on this for about a week and we've barely made a dent?
Uh... That's because we have and uh yeah, yeah, so if you're done
wasting my time here I'll get back to work then yeah that's good okay yeah okay bye
Every plate is a fight, each one an absolute battle,
you do one battle at a time you win the war
Like to lift one piece into position, like you can't just pick this up and move it.
There's a whole lot of uh, not using your back to lift this stuff, believe me.
That was way better than the first time we attempted this
Well the other thing is how we're gonna pick it up after the pipes in?
What? We're not supposed to think about that now,
we're supposed to think about that later when it's a problem
Oh okay sounds good
Thread the needle... You gotta be kidding me Bogdan!
Yeah, yes all the way, all the way, perfect!
Yep there, that's it, we're good, we're good
With the entire team working on it we were starting to make some serious progress,
but the deadline was fast approaching.
I've rented a giant crane for the end of next week so we can drop this
thing from over a hundred feet and I'm not getting my deposit back if we aren't ready
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The hammer's finally finished which means,
now it's time to get it galvanized so it doesn't rust and so it looks a bit more consistent
I've sent Bogdan on a 100 mile quest to dip this thing in molten metal
and I told him to suit up for the occasion
Let's go!
So currently, our hammer is in the hydrochloric acid and is getting all
of its mill scale removed so it leaves a nice shiny steel finish
After the hydrochloric acid dip they're gonna put it into a tank of water just
to clean off all the hydrochloric acid and then we'll see the full zinc dip
The steel is looking so much cleaner
Yeah but I'll try to take it up as far as I can
Okay
All systems go, it's hard to imagine that this thing weighs over 4,000 pounds
That is literally a pool of molten metal that our hammer just got dipped into, like that is insane
We're about to see the hammer come out of the zinc pool for the first time
It's looking so sweet, that is exactly what I was hoping for
That was incredible, the last time I saw a giant pool of molten metal was in Terminator 2
I'll be back
And we dipped our entire hammer into it
Now unfortunately it did something that we weren't quite expecting
Because the filler wire we used for the welding is actually a slightly
different alloy than the steel, it actually attracted more zinc than the bare steel
So even though the team spent weeks and weeks and weeks grinding all this down to a perfect finish,
you can see that all the welds just revealed themselves because the zinc built up
At this point we're behind schedule,
over budget and I have a crane scheduled for the end of next week
We need to get this thing done
While the team spends a few more days grinding each spot down again,
I'm going to make sure we can pick this thing up from the strap
I found an 18,800 pound lifting strap that we
can cover in leather so it looks just like the one from the movie
But we want to grab it from an eye bolt so I've designed this little coat hanger to pick it up by
But to make sure it'll hold I ran a simulation and
it shows that it bends less than 0.2 millimeters so I think we're good to go
Ah beautiful
One of the final touches are these awesome decorative plates
We didn't want to show the fasteners so we actually welded on studs in the back
but that means we need to put nuts on from the inside of the hammer
Oh it's tight
Gentle love taps
After a few more finishing touches the hammer is complete with just a day to spare
Time to load the sucker up and find out how much it weighs
Are you sure it's gonna hold?
Oh yeah, it's a ford, it'll hold all right
Fortunately there's a weigh station right down the street from us,
hit that subscribe button and leave a comment below with your guess
on how much it weighs and we'll reveal it at the end of the video
Yeah how much do you think it weighs?
4,253. You?
What are we at?
Thanks a lot
With the hammer built there's no better way to enjoy it than sharing it with our fans,
so we set it out front of our showroom which is open to the public every Thursday
Thanks to all who came out
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Now showing it to the fans was great, but let's see what some random strangers think
So we drove it downtown for some candid reactions with unsuspecting passerbys
Let's see if anyone will be able to guess the weight of this giant Thor hammer
How much do you think it weighs?
More
How much do you think it weighs?
Am I worthy?
Yeah I would estimate between four and five thousand pounds
We're renting a crane tomorrow to drop it from 100 feet so we're hoping it survives
Close
That's a nice guess!
Looks like a heavy hammer
Well, how heavy?
How heavy is the big question
Can you believe this? Right here in Victoria park
Bingo!
This is a mini-saber
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Get yours at hacksmith.store
Have fun guys!
Thanks very much
I hope you guys enjoyed this build video of our giant Thor hammer, the test video is now
available to our YouTube members with early access and for everyone else it'll be out next week
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