Hydraulic cylinder pin driver tool

Hammer to hammer is not a problem. Working on rail road stuff we were always cutting bolts with chisel sided hammers and a ten pound sledge. Hammer to things like cutting edges, ripper teeth and frozen track pins can be problem. Brass is not safe either. I exploded and inch and half piece of hexagon brass bar stock with a twenty pound hammer which sent shards as sharp as glass all over the side of hill one time working on a shovel logger. I was lucky that time but learned my lesson sometime later.

Most railroads require using grade B alloy hammers so they won't throw dangerous chucks.

http://www.wiltontools.com/us/en/c/b-a-s-h-striking-tools-grade-b/1486354380739

I always called those hammers a B&O hammer. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is what I was told many years ago.

I found these, going to order a couple different sizes

http://www.hammersource.com/Maul-and-Punch/3lb-Backing-Out-Punch-7/8-face-diam.-16-Wood-handle/

I have a couple council tools back out punches. Mostly use them for getting the blade bolts out of rotary mowers.

I use a piece of 1 3/8" x 4' round mild steel. It is heavy enough you don't need a hammer or a helper to drift out a pin. And it's cheap. try it!
Bob

SARuger said:

Okay, I have used one of these before but I have googled until my fingers are bleeding! Can't find it.

It looks like a mallet but with a long snout on one end, a large head on the other, wooden handle to cut down on vibrating the holders hands. One tech puts the snout against the pin, while another tech swings the sledge hammer.

Where can I find one? In fact I remember having 3 sizes of these.

I would love to have a slide sledge but no money for that right now.

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They are called "B & O" Hammers, they were invented by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road for driving railroad track spikes. The B & O was the first commercially successful railroad in the USA opened in 1830. There is a museum in Baltimore Maryland that will blow you away.