[TheForge] I don't think so

Sat Feb 22 17:39:01 2003

I get paranoid if Im about to wail away on the horn with a sledge but then I
think that the anvil body is wrought iron which is a lot less brittle than
carbon steel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 23 February, 2003 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] I don't think so


> I've never heard of anyone breaking an anvil due to extreme cold either.
> Other forms of abuse? Oh yeah, but not cold.
>
> On the other hand I have personal experience with steel and extreme cold.
At
> one time, many years ago, I worked for a masonry contractor who ended up
> working too late in an early winter. On one job at around -25f I had a
piece
> of #5 rebar snap off in my hand with much less force than it'd take to
break
> a surveyors lathe. On another occasion, working for a service station we
> were pushing a dead Ford Galaxy into the shop at around -35f. The customer
> jumped in to help and pushed both hands right through the trunk lid.
> Everybody at the station knew to push on corners only but the customer
> didn't and moved before we could say anything. His trunk lid had two
> shoulder spaced holes about 5" dia, almost perfect circles, both "slugs"
> broke in almost perfect half circles.
>
> One last example I didn't see happen but saw the pieces was a 16' length
of
> 13" wide flange that got dropped off the truck deck and broke in several
> pieces in Fairbanks, temp was around -45f according to the driver. I was
> working for the supplier who shipped the steel north and subsequently got
> the pieces back for exchange.
>
> All that said, perhaps no anvils have broken in use at extremely cold
temps.
> Is this because the effects of extreme cold are a myth or perhaps nobody's
> worked one due to the cautionary tale? Doesn't matter to me either way,
it's
> too easy to avoid finding out. Better safe than sorry.
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Franklyn D. Garland" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] I don't think so
>
>
> > 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!
> >
>
> >
> > Franklyn D. Garland
> > The Celtic Knot Forge
> > The Elektric Anvil
> > http://www.celticknot.com
> > http://www.elektricanvil.net
> > ICQ #7171572
> >
>
>
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