[TheForge] broken anvil

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Fabricating a base shouldn't be too hard, unless you want it to look 
original. Getting that much steel up to forging temp would take a lot of 
special equipment and experience.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

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I have the top half of an anvil my Grandpa salvaged from somewhere.  The 
face is good and so is the horn.  It's missing it's base from the waist 
down.  Looks like somebody used a torch to cut it off there.  I was trying 
to figure out a way to put a base back on it and mount and use it, when I 
found the anvil I have.  I believe the broken one is a Peter Wright like the 
one I bought.  Although, I think it might have been a bigger anvil if it 
were whole.  Still kind of want to fix it and use it.
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Subject: [TheForge] broken anvil

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


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