Anyang 88 | Power Hammers and Presses | Forum

Nazels basically WERE Beches, so they look the most like a Beche of any hammer I know-
but aside from the overall design similarities that all self contained air hammers share, I dont think the Anyangs are very Beche - like. I would say they are much more Chambersburg related in styling.

This is what my two piece looks like.

If by cement base block, you mean a separately poured concrete foundation- No, the little hammers dont need a dedicated footing.
A Nazel, like some of Larry's machines, can weigh 25,000 to 60,000 pounds, and absolutely a big hammer like that needs a footing.

But the little hammers usually dont.
My 88 lb weighs 3500lbs, as I said, and has been working just fine just bolted to the concrete floor for ten years or so. I know people with 165 lb hammers who just have them sitting on the floor, as well.

I laid down a horse stall rubber pad, then bolted right thru that, into my 6" slab, and it works well.

As for the steel box on the bottom- thats a workaround for the two piece hammer- yes, I could have dug a hole in the floor, and inset the anvil so the hammer sat flush on the floor- but that would have been expensive, and would have resulted in the working height of the hammer being way too short, with no big gain.
The two piece design was envisioned for HUGE hammers- things like that 750 lb Chambersburg that everybody around here owned at one time or another- and when you have a six foot tall, 25,000 pound ANVIL, you certainly need to dig a hole to put it in. The chinese scaled down the design, which made the little ones sort of ungainly- which is why they sold so few 2 piece hammers here- the one piece chinese hammers are just so much easier to deal with, and most people are willing to put up with the smaller ram to anvil weight ratio for the convenience of a one piece hammer.

I was so dumb I had no idea what I was getting when I bought this machine- I had literally never run a power hammer when I bought it. As it turns out, I am quite happy I did get the 2 piece, but it was just dumb luck at the time.

These smaller chinese hammers are actually, well, small. So they NEED stands, most of em, up to the 88lb anyway. The 165 lb hammers are tall enough to use right out of the box.