[TheForge] broken anvil

[Bob Ehrenberger]

We stopped at an Amish harness shop to get neatsfoot oil and saw the worst 
abused anvil I have ever come across (except the Tom Clark anvil repair gone 
wrong). I've seen anvils with missing horns, and anvils broken through the 
hardy hole, but this one had the base, horn and about 4 inched of the face 
left the rest was gone. The brake started over the center of the base and 
angled towards the rear of the base.

I asked the owner if had the rest of it. He did not.  He also had no 
knowledge of how it got broken.  For a brief moment  I considered offering 
to buy it, but without the back half the repair would be a monumental job. 
>From the size of the horn, I would guess that it started life as a 170 to 
200 pound anvil. There was about 100 pounds left. I couldn't make out the 
name.

On top of it all, he didn't even have neatsfoot oil for sale.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net