[TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil

[Jonathan Barnhart]

>From what I remember it looks like it was cut with a torch.  Unless it was trimmed a bit to make it easier to repair after it broke, I'd have to say it was cut.  For what reason I don't know.  Maybe some idiot was cutting it up to make it easier to recycle as scrap.  I personally have no idea why anyone would cut up an anvil for any reason(even a crappy cast iron one doesn't deserve such treatment).  I do own a 35lb. cast iron Vulcan anvil that a previous owner used for drilling things.  They laid out things on the horn and drilled through them into the horn.  The horn is riddled with holes.  I thought I might fill it with iron welding rod, but then I got my 70 lb. Kohlswa.  So, I just let it go.  


--- On Wed, 9/10/08, A Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:

> From: A Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 8:28 AM
> It just occurred to me that many Trentons were of 2 piece
> construction - 
> the top half wrought iron and the bottom half mild steel. 
> These were 
> electrically welded at the waist.  My friend Marshall has
> one like this. 
> Great anvil, but the weld is a possible failure point.  If
> the welder 
> was having a bad day, a job may have been botched, yet look
> OK and pass 
> QC.  Perhaps this is what happened here?
> 
> is there any evidence of failed electrical welds?
> 
> 
> Jerry Frost wrote:
> > The only thing that might cause a problem would be
> silica/slag 
> > inclusions but I don't know how much problem
> it'd be.
> > 
> > Frosty
> > -------------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> > 
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > 
> > 
> > From: "dan tull" <dantull at numail.org>
> > 
> > 
> >> The bottom should be wrought and soft for
> drilling.
> >> Only the top 1/2" of plate is steel.
> >>>
> >>> As to drilling it, I'm not sure that I
> have anything heavy enough to 
> >>> drill it out.
> >>>
> >>>
> > 
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