[TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil

[A Vida]

Jonathan Barnhart wrote:
> 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.
> 
	Grandpa sounds pretty cool.