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Everything but the anvils...
Bought an anvil today
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Everything but the anvils...
I'd like to have an anvil....
For some things I make I just need something heavy to pound on. And if I had one I'd probably break the ice on that blacksmith hobby that I always wanted to pursue.
I think that the designation is the weight but some of the (I think English anvils) are by 'hundredweights' which is 112 lbs.
Something like a 1-0-6 would be a 118 lb anvil. Read across:
1 hundredweight + 0 + 6
But I don't know what the 'E' is on yours and there are only two numbers after and they don't seem to add up to anything that resembles your anvil.
For some things I make I just need something heavy to pound on. And if I had one I'd probably break the ice on that blacksmith hobby that I always wanted to pursue.
I think that the designation is the weight but some of the (I think English anvils) are by 'hundredweights' which is 112 lbs.
Something like a 1-0-6 would be a 118 lb anvil. Read across:
1 hundredweight + 0 + 6
But I don't know what the 'E' is on yours and there are only two numbers after and they don't seem to add up to anything that resembles your anvil.
I'd hate to be the UPS driver delivering the anvil.
The anvil in OP sure looks like it weights more than 67 pounds.
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My cousin who found it & gave it to me is deceased, so I can't ask his opinion.
My thought is, it was in a shed that eventually fell apart after my great-grandfather died in 1954. The weight of it caused it to bury into the ground. My cousin farmed the old property fields & he eventually plowed it up.
I'll never use it for its intended purposes, I have a new one to be beaten upon. I'll just clean it up somehow & display it in the garage. It's the only thing my great-grandfather owned that I have. Lots of stuff my great-grandmother owned, mostly furniture. But I was named after my great-grandfather, so the anvil means a lot to my sentimental old ***.
I have my paternal grandfather's single bbl 12ga & all of my dad's guns. None are worth hardly anything, but they were family-owned so that means something to me. Sadly, my nephew could care less & I have no kids. I think my cousin's son might get them but he's in the Navy these days. Ah, well.
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Your right. I weighed it and the very accurate , calibrated digital scale said 74lbs. I thought it was 67 because that's what the sell said.
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A true Anvil is something I lack in my workshop. I get by with an old section of Rail Road track that I picked up many years ago. Not an Anvil, but adequate for the small metal jobs I do. At this point I doubt I will ever have true one. Space in my workshop is very dear and there are many other things I'd rather take up that space with that would get used more often.
I have always wanted one - but could just never justify the space I'd need around it and the cost of a really good quality Anvil for the small jobs I do.
I have always wanted one - but could just never justify the space I'd need around it and the cost of a really good quality Anvil for the small jobs I do.
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Well Chief, I may not have one after all. I finished up the light resto on anvil and stand. It was sitting in garage when my wife came home from work Friday. She says "what are you going to do with that?" I said I'm going to beat on it with a hammer lol. She suggests it might look nice near fireplace in living room.
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If ever you want your anvil broken I will send my great grand son over.
I think my anvil has the arm and hammer on it. Covered it up with a tarp couple years ago and forgot about it. I'll check it out tomorrow. Got me curious.
I agree with your wife. It'll look good next to the fireplace with a plant sitting on it. You watch Forged in Fire?
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CH4,I've never watched that show. Blacksmithing and forge work was never an interest of mine. I just needed something to hammer on to straighten metal occasionally. But after buying this anvil I started to research the company and went way down the rabbit whole. Suddenly I'm interested in anvils. It's the history and story that gets me every time. I'm attracted to all things old. Especially if it's mechanical or a tool.
You NEED this book! When I bought it, the cost was about a quarter of what it is now.
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Yikes, even a quarter of that is an expensive book
I know most on here know the term a loose cannon, well here is a loose anvil vignette!
Back in the late 60s I was at the local legal 1/4 mile drag strip. A older heavily modified Vette was making a time trial.
He made it down to just past the 1/8 mile and something happened and the car went crazy. It ended up rolling over and was very seriously wrecked.
The driver for some unknown reason survived with only a couple bruises. After we got him out of the car in a rather hushed voice he said I put a heavy anvil in the trunk for traction, I guess I should have secured it. We opened what was let of the trunk and there was a large anvil
FWIW the anvil survived with no apparent damage!
Back in the late 60s I was at the local legal 1/4 mile drag strip. A older heavily modified Vette was making a time trial.
He made it down to just past the 1/8 mile and something happened and the car went crazy. It ended up rolling over and was very seriously wrecked.
The driver for some unknown reason survived with only a couple bruises. After we got him out of the car in a rather hushed voice he said I put a heavy anvil in the trunk for traction, I guess I should have secured it. We opened what was let of the trunk and there was a large anvil
FWIW the anvil survived with no apparent damage!
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