[bruce wilcock]

to re forge a anvil to take sway out and to get the edges back into shape ,isnt as big a job as you might think, most of the time is spent sitting around telling stories ,and as you need 3-4 handy lads with the hammers the stories bigger and less belivable as the job soaks ,make a big deep fire in the yard on the floor ,we called them floor fires, get it near to welding heat ,hook the hardy hole and drag it out of the fire and set about it with men and if you have your wits about you get the flatter and let the others use the hammers, then use a 2 ins water pump , years back old anvils were at scrap price ,so we had nothing to lose if we hashed it up ,though we allways got away with it ,and if you think the small anvil is cast iron you will soon find out i nearly forgot when you get it back onto the fire to take the quenching heat throw all the old casenit casehardening powder you have into the fire ,we used a lot for the brick yards so there was always plenty of bashed up tins around,