A Brief History of Hydraulic Hammers

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Are you familiar with what a hydraulic hammer does?  Hydraulic hammers are modern descendants of pile drivers.  These are not the pile drivers that you’re associating with pro wrestling matches, either.  The updated, modern pile drivers we see today are actually mechanical devices used to drive poles into the soil and provide support for structures.  Diesel, hydraulics, and pneumatics all drive the force behind the pile drivers you see out on large construction projects.  As you can imagine, without pile drivers, large construction projects would never be completed.

You might not think much about how hydraulic devices work or why they are important, but without them, we’d have a lot of uncompleted construction projects out in the open.  Hydraulic devices have their root in a simple theory of fluid mechanics that is based on the works of both Blaise Pascal and Daniel Bernoulli.  Their theory posits that a pump, a motor, some pipes, liquid, and an output device are what’s needed for the process to work.

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At Hydraulic Breaker Services, LLC, we carry a full line of hydraulic breakers for a wide range of construction needs.  If you need a used hydraulic hammer for your business, then stop in and find out what we can do to help.  Hydraulics are used to provide power to activate heavy machinery. This is completed with the conversion of pressure exerted on a confined liquid medium transformed into mechanical output. The pressure exerts on the enclosed, incompressible liquid to transfer equal pressure into all areas of the hydraulic system, which is then transmitted to the hydraulic hammer.

As you can see, without hydraulic breakers, we’d be pretty far behind in our ability to complete major demolition work when it’s needed.  If you work in the industry and you are in the market for some new or used hydraulic hammers, then check out Hydraulic Breaker Services, LLC and find out what we have that suits your needs.  Hydraulic hammers are important pieces of demolition equipment in the world of construction.  If you have questions about how they work or about how to purchase one for your company, then give Hydraulic Breaker Services, LLC a call today at 800-940-8517.