[TheForge] I don't think so

[Dann]

The trick is hammer control.  It is  my intent to actually hit the hot 
steel,  rather than  hit the  anvil hard (hot or cold)  with my hammer.  I 
bought one of those wonderful Harbor Freight weed burner torches that 
attach to a 20 pound barbecue size propane torch.  If is really cold:  the 
torch  preheats  my  anvil,  and helps take the chill out of the air while 
the forge is bringing the steel up to  working temp.

Freezing temps aren't a big problem, but I agree that I wouldn't want to 
whale on a sub zero chilled anvil.  Frosty covered some of what I was 
trying to say.   I don't think it often gets cold enough in Georgia to be a 
consideration.

I think that Franklyn D. Garland 's post  below matches what I was trying 
to say.

Dann Johnson



At 06:16 PM 2/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>Well this may start another round...
>
>I have always viewed the "break your anvil in cold weather" concept as a 
>fable.  To date, after
>over ten years of working through Chicago winters, I have yet to break an 
>anvil.  I have, on the
>other hand, been really frustrated when my #200 heat sink sucked the heat 
>out of the metal I
>was trying to work on.
>
>During the winter I actually try to work the big pieces first.  They hold 
>the heat longer and warm
>up the anvil for the smaller stuff later.  Granted, the hammers are no 
>bigger than about #4, but
>I ain't busted a single anvil yet!



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