[TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil

[A Vida]

Looks like a torch job?  Could welds at the waist have been gouged? 
Gouging can look much like a torch cut.  The basic process isn't much 
different

Jonathan Barnhart wrote:
>>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.  
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