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I think its a tool for adjusting the camber on the front axle of a running gear for a Katydid!

I got my 118# PW off the stump and onto a more stable stand. It is a piece of 14" pipe with a 1/2" base plate with 3 pads under for stability, filled with dry sand and topped with another 1/2" plate floating on the sand. I just need to make anchors to pull the anvil and its base plate tight to the sand. I am sort of hoping for some ideas from members, I am considering a plate under the heel and horn with a large diameter set screw with dogs along the anvil base to keep the anvil centered. lIf I need to remove the anvil I can loosen the set screws and turn it 90* and lift it out.Mostly reason for that is to eliminate knee busters on the outside of pipe. I got the basic idea from being in Frank Turley's shop for a week, thanks Frank. I'd appreciate any better ideas or any reason not to use the set screws. Thanks in advance.

Judson, they do remind me of a RR rail cross section but are not tall enough. And they depreciate in size as you go to the other end, on opposite side they are rectangular slots depreciating in size as well. It did actually come from an old driller, but I haven't a clue if that's what it was made for. His son claims they would heat the old cable drill's bits in a huge forge onsite and then forge the bit's cutting slopes back to profile. I hope to get more feed back to learn about it! And if I get a chance to tip it over, means I have taken my forklift along and its on its way home!! But that isn't likely to happen.

notice the different slots on the bottom, they are different from each side. And the hardy holes are 1.5" thru

This anvil belongs to a fella I know that just has it sitting in his yard. Not for sale as of now :) Can anyone tell me about its origination? I know what he told me it was used for by its last owner, I would just like to know more about it. It measures about 36"L 14" D 18" H

Im not sure I could find a flaw in that. Awsome job.

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I sure like your knives, someday I gotta take a road trip to SA and watch you. If you let me!!

Alan, anyone that can make something as slick at what is on your profile photo is surely a "free wheeler" I like it.

I guess as long as you are happy thats the goal. I just started in this craft after a life of welding and fabricating and have all the tools to make tongs that way. My goal is to make them like the masters someday, so every chance I get I will make a pair, and when I get this chicken pickin carpenter work done at home, Im going to keep after the "deliberate practice".

Money well spent to spend some time with a master smith....... as Frank says, "ever a good weld" and he makes it so easy and effortless.

who is Gordon and where are you?

Very nice Frank, what size material did you use?

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boy what those guys would make out of a scrap iron pile!!

Mike, that is very nice, creative ideas as always.

Mike, that is outstanding. Someone will be getting a treasure.

get a "pancake" welding hood. They fit like goggles and are protected on the high side of your head, if you are welding pipe downhand with cellulose coated electrodes which spatter bad they protect from that. They work moderately ok for fab work.

I get mine at Thompson Brothers Coal in New Springfield OH. My gf has family out there so I just take some steel drums with banded covers and haul it home.

I have been using W1 from McMasterCarr, It was a referral from a member. I live 90 miles from any reasonable sized town and I bought quite a bit of tool material for what a trip to town costs in fuel.

Buy coal, its very easy to light and you will have a forging fire as fast in there as I can in my 2 burner propane. Frank Turley showed me how to light a coal fire by wadding up a few pieces of newspaper into a "NM mushroom cloud shape"!!! light it and put in the fire pot, add a little coal until the paper is covered and start cranking your blower. I prefer this to my gas forge a hundered to one. But thats just my beginners attitude.

That is nice work.

That is amazing. Nice job.

Anytime Sam