[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[dan tull]

Key words "long and narrow"  make it a Trenton Farriers anvil shaped object.
It WAS a good anvil. Not worth the work to make useful. My advice----
wait till you can find a whole 150# worker.   As I sold two nice anvils this 
weekend
@ Tannehill.




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> Find the heaviest piece of plate you can , 2" or 3" thick would be nice, 
> and weld it, on edge,to the the cut off waist of the anvil. Orient the 
> plate so that the maximum mass is lined up directly below the face.
> Some other big mass of steel would work too. Be careful not to blow thwe 
> temper on the face with welding heat.
> Bury bottom in the shop floor or a box full of sand and some clay mix...pf
>
> Jonathan Barnhart wrote:
>> I've been looking for a bigger anvil to work from lately.  My 70lb. 
>> Swedish Kolswa is a nice anvil, but I need more working space.  While 
>> digging through a and selling scrap from my Grandpa's old farm we found 
>> the top of an old anvil.  When I say top, I mean the base was cut off of 
>> it at about the point where most anvils neck in.  The narrow spot between 
>> the top and the legs of the anvil.  So, it has no base to mount it.  Also 
>> it has no maker marks visible on it.  They must have been cut off with 
>> the base.  It's somewhere around 2-2 1/2' long.  I'd guess that at one 
>> time it was between 125 and 150 lbs.    The working surface is long and 
>> narrow.  It has a small offset working surface on one side of the horn. 
>> It has one hardie and two pritchel holes.  There is no step on the horn. 
>> I can't afford a new anvil right now, but I might be able to put a base 
>> on this one using scrap that I already have.  Or at least devise some 
>> sort of cradle to mount it
>>  solidly.  Any suggestions or tips?  I have pics, but I'm not sure how to 
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