New Challenge! Design an ANVIL!

[ApprenticeMan]

New challenge, the second to last was to design an anvil STAND, let's see what kind of ANVILS we can come up with!

[Dr Dean]

By some odd stroke of luck I'm in the process of building on now. It will be around 190 pounds when all built up. The stand will be around 100 pounds so total weight 290. 1.25 hardie hole and for now I'm not drilling a pritchel hole. The base iron is 1.25 thick 8" diameter discs of T-1 steel yes I know T-1 is overkill but it was cheap.

[Dr Dean]

Here's some more pics.

[ApprenticeMan]

WOW Dean! That is coming along good, any more done lately?

[Dr Dean]

Wish I could say yes but sadly I can't. I've been buried with paying fabrication and tractor repair jobs. Spring field work is just around the corner and another fab job coming tomorrow so I don't see any progress for at least a month or two.

[Dodge]

Dr. Dean,
Those plates look suspiciously like the center slugs cut from the base plates I use to cut at my old CNC job I used a stack of 8" diameter by 1.25" thick mild steel plate slugs (hmmmm. dejavu, lol) for my power hammer anvil. I like the way you are forming the hardy hole. I have to resort to other uglier means when I finish my anvil cut from plate. Pictures are of my nearly finished anvil and a slightly scaled down version from the same pattern. The large one is from 4" plate (also mild) with 1.5" thick feet and weighs about 150#. The small one is from 3/4" plate and weighs considerably less

[Dr Dean]

Wow those look great! The plates I'm using are cutouts from making a grizzly (it sorts rock to size) and are T-1 steel. I did find out that drilling and sawing are futile efforts on this stuff.

[Dodge]

Nice! I wish I could find harder stuff, but mild is all we used except when the blast bay got relined. High manganese content but only 3/8" thick. I have a few scraps that will become blade material

[ApprenticeMan]

COol, Dodge, for someone who was a bit ambitous and/or foolhardy, it would/might be a fun project to attempt to forge weld some tool steel/carbon steel to the top of a mild anvil base like that. That would be VERY cool, very hard, but cool to atleast attempt once or twice.

[Dodge]

Seems as though you would need more than my forge and/or Harbor Freight weed burner to get the anvil face to welding heat, I suspect.