[TheForge] I don't think so

Sun Feb 23 09:59:01 2003

I seen an anvil broke intwo right around the waist many years ago so I get
paranoid using a big hammer on the horn in any weather.
 Randy Mundt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] I don't think so


> 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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