Abstract: A hydraulic impact mechanism includes a housing with a cylinder bore, a forward working chamber and a rear working chamber, a hydraulic fluid supply passage connected to the forward working chamber and a drain passage connected to the rear working chamber, a hammer piston reciprocally guided in the cylinder bore for delivering blows to a working implement attached to the housing, a pressure accumulator pre-loaded to a certain pressure level, and a distribution valve for alternatingly connecting the rear working chamber to the supply passage and the drain passage to thereby reciprocate the hammer piston, wherein a sequence valve is provided in the drain passage to keep up the pressure in the rear working chamber so that the resulting forward directed force prevents the piston from being moved backwards in the cylinder bore at pressure levels in the supply passage below the pre-load pressure level of the accumulator.