[TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil

[Jonathan Barnhart]

Nope, my Grandpa would be the only one to know anything about it, if anyone did.  But, he passed away last summer.  Grandpa was kind of a jack of all trades with no formal education or instruction.  He could weld, cut, layout projects, rebuild tractors and implements, built his own truck one time out of two differant trucks, worked as a carpenter.  If he needed something he made it.  For many years he scavenged things from junkyards, auctions, and contruction sites(many of these he was working on at the time).  So this may have been something he brought home and even might not have known why it was cut in half.  At some point he took up an interest in blacksmithing to make some tools and I assume that he either had this and hauled it out to use or that he found this while trying to gather some tools to use.  Besides this anvil top, I've found a small forge made out of an old steel wheel for the firepot, steel pipe for the legs, and an old hand crank
 blower.  I think he made some oversized bore bits to drill holes in the telephone poles that we used all ove the farm for gate posts in fences and structural posts in our barns and sheds.

As to drilling it, I'm not sure that I have anything heavy enough to drill it out.


--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Brian Reedy <lfpd7311 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brian Reedy <lfpd7311 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 9:23 AM
> Excuse me for my ignorance, but is there anyone in your
> family that
> remembers why the anvil was cut in half in the first place?
>  Also, it seems
> to me that tapping a few holes in the bottom, inserting
> some all thread
> (with loctite just in case) and sinking the rods into
> fiberglass reinforced
> concrete would be quite a suitable base.  Failing that, you
> could taper a
> few pieces of half inch round stock on one end, bore holes
> into the under
> side of your anvil and weld the rods into place.  Then
> drill matching holes
> into a tree stump and drive the whole thing into the stump.
>  Sure, it's
> gonna weigh a ton, but it's lighter than concrete and
> the wood will help
> with rebound where the concrete would probably absorb it.
> 
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