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Thomas did always like those Brobdingnagian words.

I believe it is a mill pick.  see http://trowelcollector.blogspot.com/2015/12/millstone-tools.html

I'd love to have a vise like that!  If I was closer to New Hampshire, I know we'd be talking.  That's a nice mechanical device

Yup - LAF has it right - its a tire split rim tool for wooden spoke automobile wheels like the Model T

I will, Josh.  You have always been helpful to me on my questions about my Fishers -it's  the least I can do, don't mind at all.

Just ordered mine.  Can't wait to read it.

I have 3 fisher anvils-80,90, and a big jump  to 450.  Love 'em all.

I know that uline sells 5 gallon metal buckets on line and you can also get the metal lids for them.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  Whether a bench or tongue vise, it's still pretty neat.  I'll put it back into service.

prayers sent and condolences offered. 

prayers sent and will continue

Well, I also have one that looks like that, but it's much smaller than the one I just got.  It's only about 6-7 inches high, whereas this one is around 14 and is definitely a much more substantial vise.  I was thinking this is a wagon tongue vise because of the limitations on the clamp.  Whatever it clamps to has to be at least 4 inches thick and can be as much as 6 inches. My new vise bears a lot of resemblance to a Brooks leg vise I have because of the vise hinge pin and the octagonal  supports

I thought it might be, but was sure as I hadn't seen this type of mount before.  I have another, but it looks like this one(not mine, just a photo I found on the web).  I have seen probably 8-10 like in the picture, but never seen one like I got with the clamp and pins.

Came across this neat vise and it had to come home with me.  It's about 14 inches high, jaws around 3-3/4 inches in width.  Has two pins on the top part of the mount and the clamp is around 6-1/4 inches wide when fully open, and about 4-1/2 inches closed.  That's what makes me think it might be a tongue vise.  Anybody seen one like it before?  Only marks are "AA" (probably the owner, maybe the maker or both) on a number of places on the vise.  Just hoping someone can provide some insight on it and what its original design/use  was.  Thanks in advance for any and all help.
 

JHCC, I am jealous of those books.  I've been looking for a reasonable priced copy of "By Hand & Eye" for a while.  Cheapest I've found is about $160
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Just got this petite little 357 pound (or so it's marked) Swedish Anvil - believe it's a Soderfors based on the marks.  Some edge damage, but nothing major.  Has been painted black, was for rust prevention according to the fellow I got it from.  Rebound is more than 90% over the middle and around 80-85%r around the hardie hole.  The hardie is 1-1/2 inches.  Anvil is 34-1/2 inches long and 5-1/2 inches on the face.

Not asking anyone to stop....just updating on its effectiveness!

I do help in the garden when I can, but he's 2 hours away for me, 1 hour for my brother, and across the street from my cousins and his brother (only 86) and about a mile from his 90 year old sister.  Family has lived in that spot of the world (total of around 700 acres) since around 1820.   5 houses on the various parcels.  Dad lives on the newest parcel (around 200 acres) purchased in 1898.  He's got lots of family support close by, but I go up as much as I can.  He tilled the garden 3 weeks ago, trimmed all the blackberry and raspberry vines 2 weeks ago, and planted spinach and carrots last week and was cutting small cedars out of the fields before the pneumonia hit.  He's a tough old bird, but at 88, any illness is bad.  I knew he was sick when he said his wife had to cover things up in the garden because he didn't have the strength.  Only took 4 days of fever to convince him to go to the doctor.  Two years ago he was cutting firewood (still heats with wood-has a wood fired boiler) and a branch kicked back and hit him in the face - 2 black eyes and 4 stitches where it tore his left nostril - he said he didn't think he got knocked out, because he stayed upright.  Just walked down to the house and had his wife take him to a Doc in the box.  Funny part to the whole thing - this happened on Wednesday, and on Sunday when he was teaching Sunday School (been doing that for at least my entire life), one of the women in the class said he looked so awful that she had to sit beside him so she wouldn't see his face!

Thanks everyone for the prayers and please do keep him on the list.

Thanks all.  Prayers are working.  Found out he’s ONLY got pneumonia.  Kind of odd to say that, but in these times.....

He’s at home, only went to the hospital for lung x-rays.  He is on some strong antibiotics and his temperature is almost normal.  It’s at 99 right now.  I know he’s feeling better as he is complaining about having to cover everything up in the garden as there is a freeze warning tonight.  

Obviously not out of the woods, but he’s much closer to clear ground. 

Thanks again.

”ask, and ye shall be answered”

He's 88 and still lives at home with his wife and his garden.  However, he's been running a fever for 4-5 days and is really weak.  Went to the doctor today and they did run some tests and took X-rays of his lungs to check for fluid.  The County he lives in only has 6 Covid cases, and he hasn't been away from home in 3-4 weeks or more.  So, most likely something other than Covid, but at 88, even simple things become complex.  So, I'd appreciate prayers sent for his return to good health.

Thanks for any and all prayers.

I bought a small anvil (187 pounds) from Emerald and got it successfully.  He gave me the name of a person near me and I coordinated the shipping of the two anvils to him and then I picked it up from him.  Was it a bit challenging with the language and Emerald, but the anvil did arrive and I do have it.  Again, not the most seamless purchase, but I am satisfied.  If I saw another I wanted to buy from him, I would, but would also be prepared for the effort it was going to take. 

Here's the ARS anvil (August Reflinghaus and Sons) when I first unloaded it in the driveway.

Thomas, being an engineer, I resemble those remarks. While I agree with your father, I would argue that a better saying is "In every project there comes a time when common sense must take over"

Here's a long winded story about that  -I once was involved in designing a decholorination system for a rural elementary school whose septic system discharged  (a maximum of 800 gallons a day) into a swamp, that ended in a creek that went into the Chesapeake Bay, so the Department of Environmental Quality got involved. Since the school treated its discharge by going through a green sand filter and then chlorinating the effluent, the chlorine had to be taken out - problem is, when you dechlorinate, the dissolved oxygen goes to zero or near abouts, so it had to be aerated. Well, there wasn't enough elavation for an aeration ladder, so we decided to bubble air into the effluent to transfer the oxygen back into it.  We assumed a 2% transfer rate and calculated the amount of air we needed for that tremendous load of 800 gallons.  We found the right air pump - a Whisper 950 aquarium air pump.  The State said we needed redundancy, so we specified two, and then said we needed a weatherproof housing - so, we put them in a rural mailbox (the large one) with  holes drilled through the bottom for the hoses.  The State mumbled a bit  about our design, but ultimately had to approve it as it met their regs.  It worked well, and was tested monthly to make sure it was meeting the oxygen levels required.  I remembering looking at the drawings we had to provide with a PE stamp that had the overhead, side and front of a mailbox and aquarium air pumps on them - still puts a smile on my face when I think about it.

Thomas, I once had the same “fewmets” issue in an English class in college when I used the word “scumber” in an essay.  I had to point out that T. H. White used it in The Once and Future King when Wart had to take the dogs out in the morning.  Must be careful with all this scatological discussion though. 

Thomas, just saw your “Bored of the Rings” reference.  Love that parody-like the three types of boggies-the clubfoots, Naugahydes, and stools. 

 Hoffmann and other manufacturers have new anvils at that price.  Do some homework and have patience and you'll get a good one at a decent price.  Remember TPAAT.   I recently got a nice 90 pound Fisher for my daughter for $350 because I kept asking everybody about anvils. 

Where are they located and how much?  Put 'em in the tailgate section

Hope I can make it to Saratoga for the display.  Also, the book.

Maybe we should charter a bus (with a trailer behind)  to help Thomas clean out that unit.

Heck. Thomas, just drop the grindstones, lineshafts, and cone in the mail.  I'll get them out of your way.