Show me your anvil

[Sask Mark]

Here's some shots of my anvils.

http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0601.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0802.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0621.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0631.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0681.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0774.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...icture_071.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...icture_073.jpg
http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/da...cture_0651.jpg



Right now I have:
1) a 103 pound trenton (I think-all the characteristics point to it being a Trenton but it is not stamped)
2) a 100 pound Lakeside (Hay Budden)
3) an 88 pound Peter Wright
4) a cast steel anvil with the heel broken off (too bad as the rest of the face is flat with excellent corners). I think it may be a Columbian. I haven't cleaned it up very well yet. Maybe someone can provide more info from the pic? I think I will use it for upsetting.
5) a thoroughly thrashed Canadian Blower and Forge. It has a nice wrought iron ring to it when tapped so I think it was a decent quality anvil. Someone must have had a hate on for it in a previous life to destroy it this bad.

[ThomasPowers]

Send that picture of #5 to Postman! I have never run into a lugged base that wan't a Fisher before!

I don't think that one with the broken heel is a columbian. The center of the horn seam makes it look like one of the Mexico specials cast using a real anvil as a patttern but not one designed to be cast iron and so prone to failure. Columbian would have sent it out the door with a visible seam on the horn.

[Sask Mark]

Thanks for the info Thomas!

I will have to take a wire wheel to the cast steel one to see if I can discern a maker or any other info because there is definitely some script cast into the side. You are right about the seem on the horn. It is a quite a large ridge.

Do you have Mr. Postman's email address? I haven't bought a copy of AIA yet (I hope to soon, it sounds like an incredible resource). Feel free to PM if you have it.

Mark

[millwright]

The small anvil is a 100# Peter Wright the big boy is a 527# columbus tool arm and hammer.

[rcs7]

My 150# Hay Budden.

My wife and brother got it for my birthday. Gotta like birthday gifts like that.

[longhunter]

This is my 127 Haybudden

[Sask Mark]

Originally Posted by millwright

The small anvil is a 100# Peter Wright the big boy is a 527# columbus tool arm and hammer.

That big Arm and Hammer would be the ultimate shop anvil to me. I find the lines of the Trentons and Arm and Hammers the most aesthetically pleasing, and a big 527 pounder would be large enough to do pretty much anything on. Very nice! Congratulations!

[millwright]

Thank you. The anvil is a beast, it will suck the heat out of anything that touches it immeditaly, not as bad in the summer but in the winter you dont want to try welding on it untill you have worked on it for a couple of hours. I bought a magnetic engine block heater to use this winter, hopefully it will do the trick. I found it in my friends barn, his dad got it out of a steel mill in ohio. He was only using it to straighten his sickle bar on. I had a firearm he wanted and a deal was struck. I am very fortunate to have found it. The far edge is a little chewed up, I think I am going to try working the on the anvil backwards (horn to my right) to compensate. I am still new enough to the hobby that I can switch, and if it dosent work out I will break down and fix the bad edge.

[jwmotley]

Here's a link to mine--- a 112lb english unknown maker, (it'd be great to find that out if anyone knows) and my 280lb Fisher that was found in a neighbor's garage--- it was hard not to drool when I saw it! LOL

[http://http://www.iforgeiron.com/gal...10/ppuser/2616

Having trouble w/link--- photo in my gallery as 07-07-08_1610--- there are others there of the Fisher as well. My apologies for the inconvenience

[Sask Mark]

Originally Posted by millwright

Thank you. The anvil is a beast, it will suck the heat out of anything that touches it immeditaly, not as bad in the summer but in the winter you dont want to try welding on it untill you have worked on it for a couple of hours. I bought a magnetic engine block heater to use this winter, hopefully it will do the trick. I found it in my friends barn, his dad got it out of a steel mill in ohio. He was only using it to straighten his sickle bar on. I had a firearm he wanted and a deal was struck. I am very fortunate to have found it. The far edge is a little chewed up, I think I am going to try working the on the anvil backwards (horn to my right) to compensate. I am still new enough to the hobby that I can switch, and if it dosent work out I will break down and fix the bad edge.

Those big ones are very rare around here. There hasn't been much industry in the area that would have used large anvils in their shops (rail yards, mills etc.). There's quite a few smaller ones (100 pound range) as many of the farmers and rural blackmiths in the area used/abused the smaller ones.