[TheForge] Anvil height

Fri Mar 8 16:29:54 EST 2013

No, I'm not bragging about the anvil. Just saying how it was mounted. However, I could say that it only cost $10 to buy and a 40 gal tank of diesel to get home. Not unlike the action item that you let Pete Renzetti buy at the Asheville ABANA conference. 

Mark 

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From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net> 
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Sent: Friday, March 8, 2013 10:19:25 AM 
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil height 

Oh beautiful.... still bragging about your fancy schmancy anvil after 13 
years. 

I will never get over this. 

Never, I say! 

On 2/28/2013 11:52 PM, williamsiron at comcast.net wrote: 
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> I mounted my demo anvil, 137 lb Hay-Budden, onto a metal stand made of plate and angle iron. I put a piece of conveyor belt between the anvil and the stand which deadens the sound quite a bit. One of m y shop anvils is from Tom Clar k and rest upon a three legged stand that I've raised using 4 by 4 inch blocks. The other is on a BAM stand filled with sand. The anvil rests upon a plywood piece on top of the sand. I've had anvils on stumps but my feet get in the way when I want to be near the anvil. 
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> 
> Mark Williams 
> 
> Snow Hill, Maryland 
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> From: "Jerry Frost"<akfrosty at mtaonline.net> 
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"<theforge at mailman.qth.net> 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:06:11 PM 
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil height 
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> Sounds like a Sodorfors to me Charles, I have a 125lb and it'll make your 
> ears ring using muffs or ear plugs. 
> 
> Height that I've found works well is between knuckle and wrist but it'll 
> depend on what you do the most. for heavy work I use my Trenton at knuckle 
> height and for finer I use my sodorfors at wrist height. The Sodorfors is 
> morticed into a spruce block, mounted green and allowed to shrink tighten. 
> It doesn't ring like it does just sitting, chained, spiked, etc. on a block 
> but it's still an ear buster. The Trenton is also a LOUD anvil though not in 
> the same class as the Sodorfors but it's on a fabbed steel stand. Three rec 
> steel tubing legs with a flange up angle iron frame, The anvil is wedged 
> tight by light weight angle iron hammer and tong racks. Next time I'll leave 
> room for another little rack frame so I can put a pan under the pritchel 
> hole to catch punched slugs or other hot bits. Oh yeah, I have a shelf about 
> 8" of the ground for handyness. It's also very rigid so there isn't any give 
> when you use the anvil for max effect. 
> 
> I'll be remounting the Sodorfors on a steel stand for a number of reasons 
> that suit me. A steel stand leaves me plenty of foot room so I can get as 
> close as I need/want. It's a LOT easier to move around than a 100lb. spruce 
> block, especially with an anvil on board. While those are enough reason my 
> #1 is noise, the steel stand has a different resonant frequency than the 
> anvil so they self damp. Sure the anvil rings if I miss and hit IT but it 
> goes away with a single note and doesn't hold it. The Sodorfors is a 
> hardened steel face on a cast steel body, both materials have nearly 
> identical resonant frequencies so it rings and holds it for seconds, VERY 
> loud, VERY piercing and it lasts a looooong time. Fisher anvils are so quiet 
> because because they're steel faces on cast iron bodies which have very 
> different resonant frequencies so they damp almost immediately. 
> 
> Anywho, that's my take on it. Knuckle to wrist height or whatever YOU like. 
> Steel stand for quiet, functionality, ease of movement. 
> 
> I bought an engine hoist at a yard sale a few years ago so I don't sweat 
> anything moving, loading or unloading either of my anvils. Hydraulics and 
> wheels! 
> 
> Jer 
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> From: "Charles"<xlch58 at swbell.net> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:48 PM 
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> 
>> I have a 185lbs swedish anvil that will render you deaf in no time at all. 
>> Found it for my son for low dollars. He traded it for one of my more 
>> ragged 
>> Peter Wrights. I tried the magnet, now it rings and buzzes. Obviously I 
>> need 
>> a bigger one. 
>> 
>> 
>> Charles 
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>> ________________________________ 
>> From: Bob<blcksmth at wcnet.org> 
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>> A magnet under the heel of the anvil will also reduce ringing 
>> considerably. 
>> 
>> Bob Willman 
>> The Eagle’s Anvil 
>> Bowling Green, Ohio 
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