Wilton B.A.S.H 30" Sledge Hammer, 20 Lb Head (22030)

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I think a lot depends on the person swinging the hammer as well as how many times you would be swinging it. In a professional environment you shouldn't be using a sledge hammer unless you're breaking rocks of course. You can't swing one all day unless you some kind of anima, and if you can, old age will probably be rough.Remember, force equals mass times acceleration and continued use of higher mass often leads to forced acceleration (to get the job done and let your muscles rest). It would have been far harder or impossible to swing a lighter sledge with enough force to do what this can.

If you are a stronger person, someone who does manual labor a lot, and you find that you are breaking stone/concrete or driving post in to permafrost ground, in an area where accuracy is not important, then you might want to increase the weight to get done quicker. Strouty I think 20 is too much, in fact 12 is probably as heavy as I would go nobody swings a really heavy sledge anymore. I use(d) a 20 lb to break asphalt for patching work, and found a 20 lb in conjunction with a mattock worked great. Being 40 and not quite the shape I was once in, I took a few more breaks than I expected due to the weight of heaving this hammer.

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I mainly use a 12 for driving iron rod property corners, and if you are setting very many of them a heavier sledge will wear me down. This year I'm clearing an area for a shed, and decided to get something a little bigger to (hopefully) break things up a little faster and with fewer hits.I know there's an urge to feel macho and swing a giant hammer, but you'll get more done with one that's easier to swing. In fact, I don't see any real evidence of the head deforming either (the head on my 16 pound hammer has noticeably deformed over time). I was used to swinging 8-12 lb hammers and figured the 20 wouldn't be that much different and I could not have been more wrong. You want something massive enough that its weight dropping does most of the work, light enough that you can lift it as many times as necessary without exhausting yourself. I have 2 of the Bash 20's at work for hitting some enormous jacking bolts to adjust some very large support rollers.