Pete Buchanan

joe has a valid point... hard refrac will hold up to real use (everyday use) while blanket will work it wont last like the hard will....  so if your a hobbist like 90% of the folks on here, blanket will work for you

ive run fryer oil in a homemade burner set up... it works pretty well,  a couple of issues....first it burned best when preheated... and second soot(until forge body came up to heat)...   would love to see pics of your project..

i have to side with stu here... that hammer if sound will far out perform most  mechanical hammers... most folks undervalue them,not really understanding how robust they are.. soild hard hitting hammers... get it !!! you wont regret it!!! as for it being a champion.. its a good chance,but my money would be on a hercules

i heard that the kolswa's that centaur forge sold for awhile where a lil soft... but as a rule, most ive seen where very very hard (including the 75lber i owned for awhile)....most that ive seen have had badly chipped edges due to that hardness..... radius the edges on yours and youll have a work horse!!!

hey  is that some sort of burner on the right side of the bed of the truck???

k morgan is soooooooo right, if you dont own that book .you should.   honestly any smith should have a copy of it.........

first off.... thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.my sister amy is four years younger than myself, she was 39 years old...the kids father is not in the picture, their stepfather is.  this is sumthing a forgeweld just wont fix...

no i'm not say its wrong to collect anything.....  as i understand at the heart of this site we are here to share and learn.  tools that are useable being hoarded drives up the price to average user... thats good and fine if your the seller(if your selling)... but to the end user, the price is raised to a point only very successful smiths or rich folks can afford to buy a quaility tool.... its also my feeling that anvils are very different thing, unlike other collectables,people make a living using these tools, unlike stamps or guns  whatever..    anyway  FISHER KING, making your collection open and usable to our community is a very cool thing.... collections walled off and hoarded not so much.... great that theyve been "saved" not so great they are hidden under a bushel basket......

greed and glutteny are a sin...

and so is envy  lol : )

Today i lay my sister down in a field of stone........earlier this week my sister died from complications due to bone cancer,leaving behind 4 kids ranging from 9 to 21....morgun,molly,keegan and kimber.... i would ask that you keep these kids in your prayers...     

I went to the Quad States meet in Sept 2012 for the first time.  I came home with 4 anvils, all purchased at fair prices.  There were at least 250 anvils there for sale.  Many sold, but many more went home with the sellers who brought them.

 

Anyone who really wants an anvil can find one.  They are out there.  Just look and have some money ready to buy when the opportunity presents itself.  Don't complain about having no money:  cut grass, flip burgers, babysit, do chores, make something to sell.  If you have the passion, you will find a way.

really fisher king???   did i mention money in my post ???  no....   want and need are two different things...NOBODY NEEDS that many anvils...sure most of us that come to this site would love to have a collection like that,but none of us need it...

i'm with jm custom...stoody rods are the way to go... 

geeze, talk about a anvilblocker..... no wonder young smiths have a hardtime finding good anvils.... this guy has half of them...

the only picture available of the bement at this time, is posted on the anvilfire power hammer page....  its the hammer jock is standing in front of...

hello one and all.... i'm looking to trade off my 350lbs niles bement steamhammer.... its a 2pc machine... comes with a non running sulair 75hp tow behind aircompressor.... this hammer  shows no signs of being used hard, its missing its anvil,but comes with anvil stock( a 2500lb 18'' round that fits the hole).... with all thats going on in my life i cant afford the time or money to set this machine up......   looking for a trade of..a plug and play airhammer in the 50lb -150lb range.....would consider a mech hammer(bradley or fairbanks)... any questions please feel free to call   four3four sixsix0 nine011     peter

a maze ing!!!!

sure sounds like a guided helve to me...

danger  ... those machines you have pictured,have they been modified in anyway ???

i'm interested in talking to anyone that owns and is running a niles bement in the 300 to 400lb range....

has anyone had any first hand exp using nickle mig wire as a base ?

nice looking stump danial!!!   hows that anvil holding up for you ??? wore it out yet ???

great looking vice!!!!!  great score!

these are amazing hammers for their build and size.... ive owned one ,that ive now sold to the guys @old moneta ironworks.... seems to me to hit much harder than an equalsize little midget... hammer was built to portable( break it down and carry it down into a mine).... fyi saw a recent posting here on an unidentifed power hammer... looked to be a HEAVY 100lb shop built verison of the boss......edit... pic of shopbuilt boss in post in hammer forum under "interesting hammer"

what kind of steel is it sambo? you looking for a square block that size??? if you are i have a 265lb block of fx...

ha!!!!!   i just doubled my foot print too(from 600sq ft to 1200)... what thomas said!!!

omg!!!!  its "the boss" on steroids...  while the action of the hammer is w&w/beldon/scranton/champion/star.... that frame style is a boss all the way!!!    is it me or does the ram on that thing look HUGE????/