You would have been hitting down on the post, like any sensible person.

Some years back a multi-storey hotel was being converted to apartments & I watched a crew assembling units the size of buses into the framework for a lift (elevator) One of the blokes was on one knee while swinging such a sledgehammer horizontally to knock the peg of one into the hole of another - he could have been swinging a tennis racket!

sandra (who needs help to open a fruit juice bottle)