macbruce

Gaww!!...... :wub: ....Must be a 6B, Love the tractor seat for the driver..... B)

I think having the pipe envelope the anvil at the base is a mistake. It will fill up with slag and it blocks access to the feet where your best oportunity is to push DOWN the anvil. Once clear of the 'skirt' a loop of chain around the anvil that fastens outside the pipe below the horn and heel with a static hook for the chain on one side and a threaded hook that passes through an eye welded to the pipe on the other will cinch it down hard....

Mild steel is no longer mild imo, they add too much scrap to the mix so it's kinda like burning medium carbon steel at the very least, which ain't cool.

After he was nearly killed by a car walking near his home by one I reckon Steve has a real fear/horror of moving objects on four wheels by now..... :unsure: http://bangordailynews.com/2010/08/29/news/bangor/woman-crashes-car-into-gate-of-stephen-kingrsquos-bangor-home/?ref=relatedBox

Doc MB sez, take one of these and call me in the morning............... https://www.google.com/search?q=blacksmith+power+hammer&sa=X&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=2LvBUd-_BoXJigLWsIHwCw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1262&bih=822

I feel your pain, but 36'' plus the die height will make it pretty darn high. Just make sure that saw cuts true before hand or you'll need to face that honker off and that will be a booger..... ;)

I'd hazard a guess and say Hay Budden. Nice one at that....... B)

Never use single cut burrs. The chips/SHARDS these produce have sharp pointy ends which are nothing but trouble. Double cut burs make granular chips which you still want to keep out of your eyes but won't make you need to change your underware..... ;)

Yes you were....I guess if you had dropped the drill you would have been literally screwed..... :P

I've told this story before and perhaps will again because it's a mistake that can kill/maim in the blink of an eye....My friend Bobby (Bear) Garcia RIP could get pretty casual around the shop and never was without a Bud in easy reach and I was guilty of that too on occasion (25 yrs ago)........He had a BIG 3hp 1725 rpm pedistal grinder with a 10-12'' wire wheel for burnishing whatever and decided to pretty up a piece of 1/4'' chain about 5' long with it one fatefull day.....Anyway, presented the chain to the wire wheel and the beast ripped it from his hands, wraped it around the arbor and the tag ends merrily beat his face to a bloody pulp at the rate of 30 wacks a second. He lost his right eye and was never the same. Chain and pedistal grinders don't mix, large or small. 3/8'' chain likely would have killed him outright but people doing smaller chain, jewelers especially, get their fingers ripped off. Chain MUST be firmly wrapped around a board and secured at each end, then and only then it is relatively safe to wire wheel it this way.

''All things come to he who waits''.........AND you got smokin' deal....... B)

How could any process that uses earth,air,fire and water in unison not be spiritual? It's the Grandaddy of ALL crafts and key to rize of civilization itself....Primative and raw...I love beating hot metal...... B)

I cut it with my bandsaw, a Roll-In, with no problem. I set the speed at it's lowest fpm with light to medium pressure and use a 14/10 bi-metal blade. It takes around 10-15 minutes.

A guy on the ''Practical Machinist'' forum is very proud of this repair on an anvil that was broken at the hardy hole I think... I think I would have just ground the break even with the inboard side of what was left of the hole and left it some dignity..... :lol:

If you need that anvil an got the bucks, $375 isn't a bad deal on that one.....Something better may NOT come along.....

Yeesh, This is one itty bitty thread out of thousands Tim. Seems to me there's plenty of threads here about forging tools. Fabricating tools is often the smarter/faster way to go when you don't want doink around and get to work on a project asap. Alot of the tools I fab get used once and then get hucked into the pile....Not every bit of tooling you make in your shop has to be an heirloom........ :)

Don't toss meat to a tiger and ask him not to eat it..... :P :lol:

Looks good to me aside from some chipping on the edges. $3 a pound tops......

You've got allot of time and money invested, correct? Have em professionally done......

Why can't your local foundry use some ''good stuff''?

Beautiful tool!

Sure, grade 8's would work. Sucker rod, junk shock absorber rods, or even mild steel.....I'd superquench that before I used it though.

Bending forks. Aside from tapering the handles to be a bit more user friendly, forging is not needed. Just drill two tight fitting holes (sometimes a press fit can be achieved requiring no welding) in a bar that has sufficient mass and plug weld the backside only. The bosses can be mild steel but the better the steel for the pins, the better the tool. The tool with no handle is for use in the vice....

Bravo! Great effort and video.

Let's see, You spend $385 for an anvil, then you have to have to face it and mill it flat then you are left with a what???? If you value your time and money go to plan B........... I'd sooner go fishing ..... ;)