[TheForge] hardies and other accoryies for the anvil

[Michael Horgan]

Yup.More fun to do it yourself.  Should have seen the crowds gather 
Saturday. My buddy Lamont was drawing down 2 1/2 inch truck axle to 
fit the 1 inch hardy hole on his new anvil.  Holding the bar with 
heavy pickup tongs in one hand and swinging the 8 pound sledge with 
the other. Tough steel. Let it cool just a bit below yellow, and 
instead of moving the metal, it would bounce right off the anvil 
.  Crowds loved it.

At 08:43 PM 5/22/2006, you wrote:
>Ummmm...Dan....Buy?
>You have a hammer, an anvil and a means to heat steel...presumably.
>Given that, you have leapt over the big hurdles in tooling.
>You now have the means to make your own hardy tools ( from scrap 
>steel to save money).
>The only remaining problem will be defined by your ability to use 
>the stuff....(grin, that's understatement.).........PF
>
>

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