It followed me home

[JWBIRONWORKS]

Thomas,
Yes it is a colombian vise. At 5-1/2" it is the largest I have. I will take the 5" I have on my shop work bench off and make another "portable" base for it and mount this one on my shop bench.

John

[KYBOY]

I just noticed today that one pair of the tongs I bought are wrought iron ..Man, Id like to know how old they are...

[ironrosefarms]

Thomas that is why they are getting the smaller one, even the worse of the two bigger ones are better than this small one. Even being small it has a decent amount of work area so I think it will work for some time. Doesn't mean I won't take it with me now and again for demos or other needs, I might later on put it on my vice table?

I told my daughter I bought a mouse hole today and the puzzled look was priceless. I still haven't revealed what a mouse hole really is yet.

The anvil is still riding in the passenger floor board of my truck... Thought it would be good to spend some time with the little thing before beating on it???
Oh and yes I have told my wife... I think she is somewhat numb to big metal objects coming around, she shrugged it off and didn't say a word.

[Sabre]

i got a file$2, a sledge hammer head 8 pounds $3, ball pein hammer $2, hot cut type thing $3 and a sears craftsmen beltsander for $25...works great

[Frosty]

I'm not commenting on anyone's driving, anybody can get blindsided but. . .

Have any of you considered what'll happen if you roll your rig with an anvil riding shotgun?

Frosty

[ironrosefarms]

Thought of that, I put the anvil in and then slid the passenger seat up wedging it between the seat and the firewall... I know it won't guarantee it to stay put... but I've also seen what an anvil in the back of a pickup can do. I know a guy who put a 300# Hay budden in the bed of his truck. Someone pulled out in front of him he hit his brakes. The anvil turned and went horn first through the front of the truck bed, then through the cab wall, you could see the pucker of the horn pushing the bench seat forward just 3 inches from where he was sitting.

As it is the anvil will come out this morning and I'll try to take some snap shots to post. By the way, I'd almost be more concerned of the two hammers I have laying right next to the anvil right now They are probably more likely to get out from under the dash than the anvil is.

[happycat]

The latest is a cute little antique bench top table saw with a nice sturdy fence and miter gage. I stopped at the auction yesterday at lunch and they had it in back for me. I put in a 20.00 absentee bid about three weeks ago and won it, but they lost my phone number. This will replace the little 10.00 table saw I got there about 6 months ago (no fence or miter gage been using angle iron clamped to the table). these little saws are real handy for cutting handle slabs for my knives.
Ed

[ThomasPowers]

My wife made me swear not to pack things like anvils inside the cab even though it did help weight distribution a lot. I guess I need to make an anvil holding bracket for the front bumper; but then if I hit anybody there might be some problems...

When I travel with anvils they go *flat* against the front of the pickup bed, often with a 2x8 slid between their sides and the metal of the bed, helps move the weight forward and makes it harder for them to come visit in a crash. (Their stumps are usually next...)

BTW I haven't had an accident yet with smithing equipment in the truck; but want to be back forging ASAP if I ever do...

[JWBIRONWORKS]

Picked this anvil? up this afternoon as well as 5 pairs of tongs. The side has RAOLA stamped in it and the junk shop I found it at said it was made by Indianapolis Harware in 1898 (he has it scralled on the side in white paint). Not sure If it broke, If it did it was a pretty clean straight break. If it was saw cut I can't see the saw marks. It has two holes drilled all the way through the body side to side that look like they are for mounting and if you look real close you can see the wear marks where it was mounted that way at one time.
The stand it is welded to woobles and the anvil is cocked and will have to be changed before it is usable. The anvil from heel edge to horn tip is 26" long and the table is 4-1/2" wide and 16" long. It has a1-1/4" Hardie hole and a 3/8" pritchle hole.
Anyone ever seen one like this before or did it break and several hands have came up with different fixes over the years?

John

[Sam Thompson]

The face doesn't look like it's had the kind of abuse that would have broken it.