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I found a flower-pot propane furnace locally and bought it on a whim, maybe for casting stuff. In it's normal position it would get about 4" of a mower blade orange in 3 minutes, with a crumbling 3" cover in place. I set it on it's side and fired it up, cover leaning against it: I was able to flatten/straighten a 16" John Deere mulching blade in about 8 minutes. That's cool! The blade is maked '01T', anyone know if that's for 01 Tool steel?
Gonna get cold here in a month or two, maybe propane is the way to go through the winter.......

Thanks very much Mark - that's been a great help.
If anyone wants to see the anvil, I posted pictures on my 300lb beauty thread.
Sam

I'd take it, many interesting applications if one needs them.

I just did an hour of pounding on a piece of wagon wheel rim (a wannabe chef knife) and it's a nice anvil, not loud, and doesnt move around on my stump. Talk about bounce, the anvil bounced the work right out of my tongs a couple of times. I thought cast/steel were not supposed to have that much bounce to them?
Anyone in Mpls/StPaul area interested in a 160 lb Peter Wright?

Trapped tendon happens, takes a while to get rid of, lots of light weight therapy did it for me. BTW there is a 'smith shop in Bozeman, MT with the name Sore Elbow Forge.

"what did you let the missus buy?"

The table was really cool, so were a couple of others, old school stuff but with NuevoRich pricetags on them. We aint that!

Bob,
I have plenty of black powder, a pound may fill that depression and send it up about an inch, but the neighbors are way too close and they wouldnt understand the "BOOM"!

We went antique-store crawling, my wife looking for spendy furniture and I for anvils/blacksmith stuff. Missed this one the first aisle of the store as she distracted me by looking at the price tag of a table but I caught it with a backward glance on the loop-around. 147 lb anvil, no markings other than an 'X' on the side, horn tip is higher than the table, hour-glass shape depression in the bottom with a filled-in hole. 3/8" Pritchel, 1" Hardie hole, overall fairly rough finish, bounce is good. Note how the curve under the rear of the table seems to reinforce the table end. After the pics I washed it down with water, under the grime is a red-ochre paint everywhere but the table and underside, 5-10% remains. Stand is 33 lbs, the story goes that the stand was the first project the anvil was used to work. It landed aboard a train in Great Falls and made it's way to Bozeman long long ago. Maybe 1960 for what could be. I know, I know: buy the anvil/car/gun/house, NOT the story!
Any ideas who made it?

I'd go for it but I just finished a 2500 mile trip (found an anvil too!).

In northern Minnesota several years ago, two less then fully intellegent thieves were stealing the alluminum plates off of a high tension electric tie line tower. Unfortantly they took them all off one side of the same tower leg. End result, tower fell, they fried. Unauthorised recycling is not the way to fame and fortune. I quess they made the in-fame-ous part anyway.

believe it or not, for an anvil in that beautiful condition, the price is fair!

"I wouldnt even think of it, just curious about the maker." :lol:

Oh yes, I wouldnt even think of it, just curious about the maker. It's about 60 miles from me.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/tls/1898900524.html

Is there anything out there to forges as Anvils In America is to anvils, addressing coal/charcoal history of commercial manufacturing in the USA, say from 1800 on?

Yeah, the blower is wrong-side up...if it leaks any oil just use a good grease instead, it'll do fine, after all you dont want to blow sparks all over the neighborhood!

That pic brings to mind "modern art masterpiece".

I would like to know what year my Trenton was made. 148lbs with serial #197636. Could someone with the "Anvils in America" book look it up for me? I'm thinking its maybe somewhere between 1927 and 1933 (cant seem to find any mfg info online) Thanks in advance.

"Anvil content: I am sure that iron from the ranges is in most of our American made anvils. And most of the domestically made steel we work with."
Ya got that right. Actually all those steep ridge-like hills that run for 100 miles across the three ranges are low grade ore waiting for a process to be free!
The same Iron Ore is a commom driveway surface up there in da woods.

So are you MNanvilman now also? My Dad grew up in Virginia, Minnesota. The family farm is now an open pit mine. Overall the area has changed drasticly in the last 25 years.

I've been lurking for bit so I thought it was time to post something. I bought an anvil a few weeks ago and fabbed up a stand for it over the weekend.



Does anyone have any experience with a Duracraft anvil? It was cast in India, it doesn't have much of a ring to it but the face is quite a bit harder than the rest of it.

Ward

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/tls/1884271983.html

No VULCAN logo visible.

Just saw a similar anvil at an antique show, dirtier and beat up for $265.......where's my stash!!

Well the "thunk" is right on for a Vulcan; sounds way overpriced for the condition though.

Found this on craigslist this morning so I figured I'd take a drive to examine it. It fit so nicely in the back of my truck I gave the man some money and kept it there. Unsure about the ID on it though. All I can make out is Sweden 152lb. The face is perfectly flat, has 2 pritchel holes and a roughly 1.25" hardy. 10" from base to face, about 3.75" wide and 28" in total length. Base is 12"x8". There's a some chipping on the edges, the second horn is broken away a bit but the face is defect free. It's definitely a singer although I haven't fixed it on a stump yet which might absorb some of the ring. I paid about $1.30/lb for it. If anyone can offer any more information on it I'd be appreciative. Decent deal?

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