Before you grab the phone and ring PES to complain about asking personal questions can I just confirm that only those with a slightly deviant personality would think the worse. Now, I know you have to have a slightly deviant personality to be able to work in the construction industry but we are talking about Epiroc SB hydraulic hammers here and not other ‘tools’.

There is a bucket load of cheap hammer tools out there, most coming from China or other far eastern countries, and probably made from recycled bake bean tins or old bicycle wheels. As my Dad used to say ‘if it’s cheap it’s cheap for a reason’. When you’ve gone to the trouble of buying an Epiroc SB hammer, the UK’s most popular and biggest selling hydraulic breaker, why would you buy a cheap tool? Here at PES we sell Volvo excavator and you wouldn’t consider buying a wooden bucket to go on it because it’s cheaper than a metal one so why would you think putting a tool made of baked bean tins is a good idea to put in your SB breaker.

At PES we stock and sell genuine Epiroc SB tools to go in your Epiroc SB breaker. These tools are designed to withstand the rigours of the power developed by the Epiroc SB range and therefore should last providing the operator uses them properly. When you think that an Epiroc SB102 hydraulic hammer fitted to a 1.5 tonne excavator is producing from 750 to 2300 blows per minute on a tool diameter of 45mm with a maximum of 9kW of hydraulic input power that’s an awful lot of work the edge of the Epiroc SB tool is having to do. If you think all tools look the same and therefore must be the same try the following experiment.

  1. Fit an Epiroc SB102 hydraulic hammer with either a point or a chisel on to say, a Volvo EC18E 1.5 tonne mini digger. Select a piece of concrete and try breaking it with the hammer.
  2. Go into Sainsbury’s (other supermarkets are available) and buy a tin of Heinz bake beans. We’ve used Heinz as they would probably be the market leader and superior to other lesser brands. Go to the same piece of concrete you used the Epiroc SB102 on and trying breaking the concrete with the tin of beans.
  3. Compare the results.

So the moral of the story is if you have enough savvy to purchase an Epiroc SB hydraulic hammer try and have enough savvy to use a genuine Epiroc SB tool in there as well. You know it makes sense.

PES normally stock the following:

Epiroc SB52 point                             Epiroc SB102 point                          Epiroc SB152 point

Epiroc SB52 chisel                             Epiroc SB102 chisel                          Epiroc SB152 chisel

Epiroc SB202 point                          Epiroc SB302 point

Epiroc  SB202 chisel                         Epiroc SB302 chisel

All other points and chisels for Epiroc SB, Epiroc MB and Epiroc HB hydraulic hammers are available but are normally on special order terms.