[TheForge] Re: Top of a Broken Anvil

[Jonathan Barnhart]

Looks like a torch cut to me.  But, I can't say for sure since it's been sitting around for so long and has a nice coat of rust and dirt on it.


--- 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: blakkpawss at yahoo.com, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:58 PM
> 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.  
> > 
> >