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good call basher i have been looking into building a heavy fire brick forge backed with kaowool to try and bank the heat but keep it in the forge i had honestly not thought much about the blown burner any thoughts on using compressed air with it instead of a blower

i sanded the out side of it bc i had noticed that the inside of the bend that the chrome was splintering off and after reading a post in here about not messing around with chromed sockets i thought i would play it safe as to this being a free lol only if you dont count the cost of getting a new one put on the tractor my lathe is not up and running yet as i am missing a few parts but it is getting closer to being able to be a tool instead of just dam heavy i should have the time tomorrow to get some forge time in so i am looking forward to trying my hand at some hammer heads

fantastic its not often i come across a nice clean piece of steel admittedly this one has a bit of a elbow in it it gives off a white energetic spark

cutting this stuff up wish a chopsaw is taking forever i dont know what it is but it seems quite hard

very cool good hunting hayden

ok i am looking to make a bit of lemonade today i now have a 3ft long 1 3/4 inch wide piece of steel from a piston that was bent when the piston on the other side blew its line so i am wondering if anyone knows what kind of steel this is and if it is something i can forge i know from having seen one of these break that it had a odd fracture pattern so i don't know if they are made up of more than one kind of metal or if it was just a result of how it was tempered so long story short anyone have any thoughts for it i was sort of thinking hammer heads but i am very open to ideas

please keep us updated on how this goes i have been toying with the idea of trying to do some bricks in a pit fire so i am really interested in seeing how your recipe goes

i sold it for 80$s but still waiting for him to come pick it up the guy is just starting out and $80 bucks seemed not half bad to me i would have liked more but this was a stretch for him as it was and hey its 80 more bucks to put in the buy a bigger anvil jar

well thanks for keeping a eye out i will try to find my photo of my hammer lol

no i thought he was using them so i was not going to bother him sins to me it would be more like the look at the nifty toy i got and me asking him if i could buy it lol plus unless i am mistaken they went through a fire and if i am going to learn about tempering a hammer it will be one where all i am out is my time

that was me but i was just looking for one that was a 2-3lb one like my 6lb one if its not to pricey i would be interested but i am on a pretty tight budget to the point where i am looking into trying to make a similar hammer out of a drive shaft from a tedder that got a bit of a twist in it this year

good stuff that had been my hope after i had been walking with it for 10min or so now just to find a good large piece of steel to make the base out of my thought is down the road if i build it right i can make it into a striking anvil

thats my thought as well fciron i still have a piece of RR rail that comes in handy now and then i like to try and build things so that i can keep on using them instead of saying good enough i will toss it down the road when i get something better

yeah that stuff i am dyslexic and spell phonetically so i am at the mercy of spell check

nothing like fall to show you were there is nifty stuff left in the grass i was dropping off some "clean fill" and i saw in the pile the great weighs well over 100lb and i have been wanting to make a table that had a section that i can clamp things to to grind and or to weld on and this seems like a good chunk of steel to add to that project that other thing is what appears to be a unused scraper blade of some sort its about 5ft long and flat so i know i can find a use for it

if you are going to bolt it down to a stump or some such put some cocking between the stump and the bottom of the RR track it will help cut down on the ringing when you are using it

true basher i have been keeping a eye out of a large drop with just such a goal in mind i saved some large bush hog blades that are beyond fixing with the idea of using one of those for the face of the anvil i know now that trying to weld to the SS is a bad idea so i will keep on going as i am as to your insight rich i don't know if its sarcasm or humor but i think i will pass on this o so witty offer

good to know i have a square one i found last week while cleaning out a shed i will definitely be holding on to it now thanks Danvil

that is a very sweet websight thanks phil rich the anvil i have that i do use i have made a steel box out of 3x4 half inch thick angle iron and then welded it in place with 1/2 x 1 straps but as i have used it more of the bottom has given way and i now have to shim it to get it tight this anvil sat in the dirt for over 40years before i got it and has had some significant rusting out of the bottom as well as pitting along the horn between the the hardface top and the softer body of the the horn that i really need to get around to fixing i have used it for 10years or so but over all i would really like to upgrade i will always keep it though as it will become a anvil to keep over at the welding table and a secondary anvil for if anyone ells wants to do some forge work

i am not dead set on another anvil i am more looking for the large mass to use in the mean time as i have stated i have a fisher but it is not in the best shape this was more of a looking for options as to a rural folks having a better chance thats a nice thought but if you are rural enough things like RR repair yards to exists at least not around me the supplies for the RR are kept at the local grain yard and they only have spare track and no couplings but over all i am going to ask the next times i see some people out working on the track those knuckles are a very handy shape

you can always line it with old brick that worked well on the last charcoal pit i had but that was about 10years ago just make sure to clean any loos mortar off the bricks (i got mine when we took down a chimney)

i have a 125 fisher with bad feet but it was neglected before i got it and while usable it will never really be right this was more i have been looking for a larger 200lb+ anvil that will be my workhorse anvil in the farm shop and i had a small hope that i could take this turn it on end and have a very strong anvil i could do some heavy work on that was the idea behind trying to face it with say a-2 toolsteel or the like but i had not considered that the metals would be so dissimilar and i will just turn it into a light finishing anvil i guess and keep looking for a real replacement but on the plus side you saved me 40 or so buck i was going to spend on a piece of tool steel and yes it would be less work hwoodridge but i the 100lb of SS and i was trying to make a omelet so to speak i live in a very small town with not much in the way of heavy industry outside of farming and while i have had the word out to the large truck garages and several of the farm equipment places to keep an eye out for large lumps of steel for me so far i have had no luck and the nearest "real" scrap yard is a hour and a half away and with a truck that gets 11mpg empty or full that's a bit expensive to keep popping in on as for crossing the border to canada i have been reluctant as the border is a far larger hassle than it used to be .. still there is a fabrication shop i am hoping to get up to one i can track down my passport that i have some hopes to be able to do a trade for the ss or work something ells out anyways thanks for the recommendations guys

its not and it is a bit on the soft side

recently i acquired a 100lb 5 x 5 1/2 by 13 block of stainless steel i think its 4018 or a comparable proprietary stainless steel anyways since i currently do not have a really solid clean anvil i was thinking about getting a piece of tool steel to weld to one of the 5x5 ends and make a small but solid anvil out of it would i be better off trying to find a some place that would take that stainless in trade or just to buy a piece of i am thinking 5x5x1 inch steel and make something that way i have a nice piece of 6x6 steel tubing i am thinking i could fill with sand to make a nice adjustable height stand with anyways i am just looking for any thoughts as to alternative ways to do this or if the SS is better used ells where thanks

this was a lucky find for me i got what is a 100lb 6inch post vice just missing its spring and needing a new handle for 45bucka a while back and now its up and running well hopping i guess it having only one leg