[TheForge] Weight of pw anvil

[Saint Phlip]

On 2/25/07, Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> Was an anvil, would be more accurate; it looks like
> someone went to lengths to get a broken anvil back in
> the ranks of working tool. I'd be more interested to
> know what the mods were made for than buying the thing.

Just showed it to Rob, and he said he saw one modified very similarly
in the shipyard in Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, so
it may have been a specific modification for a specific purpose. The
anvil he saw was not in the blacksmith shop- it was in the older part
of the wood shop, where they used to do things like bent wood for
ships' wheels and wagons, adjacent to the farrier. Only difference he
could see was the one in Portsmouth didn't have the extra welded
braces on it.

> Anyone think 31. 12. 28 translates to Dec. 31, 1928?
> Were PWs still being made then? Anvils in America may
> be on my wish list but it's not too close to the top.
> Finishing the shop holds the top four spaces on that
> list. <grin>
>
> Frosty


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