[TheForge] charcoal

[Ralph Sproul]

	The T-slots appear to be undamaged like it was held to something like a
huge platten or grid floor.  The edges appear to have been struck or had
something working on them.  Interesting how the two hardies are at the
ends - my thoughts were it was a fixture for a giant press or table where
shapping was done and it could have been used as a riser block with
insertable tooling.  Sliding it on a large table seems like the best way to
move something of this size unless they had a crane - which could also be
how the used the two holes as pick points.
	To bad the seller didn't have a better description besides a blacksmiths'
anvil.  My guess would be heavy industry or ship yard ......but that's just
a guess as well.  It certainly would take some doing to use slotted T-bolt
hold downs of that size......and obviously if it was used to hold it down -
you had to walk under the grid or table to tighten them up with a large
wrench.  Also odd how the T-slots went in descending order of length......so
maybe it was a way of forming angles on a grid table?  Anyone know what it
really is?  I'm definitely curious.

Ralph

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> I think they've got it upside down.  Those T-slots on the "bottom"
> are probably what this thing was made for. Bruce NJ
>

Looking at it more closely, I'm wondering if, instead of an anvil, it's just
a Heluva big swage block...

Phlip
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