[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[dann at wctatel.net]

I fixed something like this by drilling 4 bolt holes through the waist of
the anvil and using long 5/8 inch thick  bolts to run all the way through
.. bolting a healthy pieces of plate steel on each side.  I imagine
putting front and back as well as sides on the new steel base so it would
look more like a pyramid of steel supporting the anvil.  From there it
would be easy to add on a 5th base steel plate.

I was dealing with steel being joined  to and old cast iron, so I elected
to grind / clean the joint and fill it with "liquid steel" just prior to
tightening my bolts to my patch / splice.  So far it has held.

DAnn

> 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
> post them safely on here.
>
>
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