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Reviving the thread because I had an opportunity to visit Holland, MI 2 weeks ago and met the father and son team that is Holland Anvil Co.  Super guys, great story, and great looking outfit - anvils are just a small part of what they do but getting larger. Very interesting selection of anvils and swage blocks.  Picked up a 9"x9".  Building the stand for it now.  Going to try using it under the flypress as a bottom die for some quasi-closed die forming if I can create the corresponding top die.    

Just sharing how I handled this task. Nothing earth shattering, but a way to slide 800 lbs if you're by yourself with minimal equipment.  

Press was acquired over the summer from Terry Estes. Got it into the shop with a small skidsteer but couldn't keep it around to pick it up again when it was time to bolt it down.  Table is 400 pounds and press is about the same.  No clearance to use the masonry drill with table in place, and wasn't time enough to make a template before it get set down.

Finalized position, marked holes, levered press onto 3/4" rebar pins, push, drill, push back, set anchors and bolt down. 

The video briefly shows the process .  Time to squish some stuff.

Cheers! 

Just a heads up for anyone shopping or building presses. Saw this one today 1/16/21  near Buffalo.  Not a lot of details but price is right.  Possibly at Niagara metals. I just bought a mechanical press I'm reconfiguring for hot work else I'd go take a look. 

Electric Hydraulic Press
Craig's list link removed per TOS. if interested send a PM

Added an anvil stand tool table over the weekend and got duct work fitted and sealed for hood. Gas forge testing next. Been sitting mothballed for a year. 

Congrats, Chad.

Nice Christmas present!

Done and back in debt!  Who needs two kidneys anyway!  Good times and I got lucky and picked up a gingery furnace on craigslist. Woo!  

On 7/5/2020 at 2:13 PM, Frosty said:

How's the fishing in Finger Lake? There's no telling if I'll get down that way one of these days.

Slow over the last couple weeks. It's been hot with no rain and the fish have gone deep and aren't moving for much.

Thanks, Man.  And I will. 

Pipe was free..left over well casing from a job years as go. 

Shop build update:

90% there. Moving in. Nothing bolted down yet.

Yet to screw on steel panels for interior. Gas forge area will be concrete board with a parged finish.

Laying out a built-in workbench atm.  

On 3/15/2020 at 11:09 AM, Rojo Pedro said:

Dont know what you are building but that is a monster 

My dream space!  (Had to over engineer the footer to hold a bank in place upon backfill.  

Cool, mallllias. 

I know we're  all getting the same news eventually, but if you haven't seen it..ibuprofen is showing a tendency to worsen symptoms in cases in Denmark and France, especially for people under 50. They're  recommending sticking with acetaminophen for fever and aches if you or your family contract it...just an fyi.

Also some yucks..

Thanks, Thomas..one pour down, three to go. 

Shop foundation excavation. Pouring footers friday. 

Getting there bit by bit.

Congrats, Man. Wife works in the recovery field and what you're doing is fantastic and difficult.  Keep hoeing that row. You're worth this.

Opinions please..

Getting ready to spend on the anvil for the tire hammer.  Since hot rolled 1018 is cheaper than cold, my question is whether the increased tensile strength, brinell hardness, etc. of cold-rolled is worth the extra cost for the role of this part.  Does it matter?  It's a spendy chunk of steel and don't want to throw $ away on specs I don't need.

Colic survivor here..they eventually stop or grow into a new less noisy phase.  Ours took weeks. Only thing that calmed him was taking him for a walk outside in a chest carrier...at 3am etc.  This too shall pass.  Welcome to child rearing, it gets better!

Nice. 

7 hours ago, Matt Matt said:

 Really! The guy is 17!   The read this first clarification is just rude to newcomers.  A simple behind the scenes,  p.m. from a moderator would hold its weight in gold.

I've been a forum member with some group or another for hobbies and trade associations since the early 00s and I'm not surprised at at your reaction, but I think you're unfairly mischaracterizing things.  Maybe you should rethink how you're coming off in here and try to understand that this is a space with unpaid moderators who have to wade through the same posts and requests for the same things for every person who decides they want to make something out of some steel...can you imagine how redundant that would get?  

So, boilerplate answers to brand new people asking a question that's been asked 100 times before is charitable.  New folks are lucky they even get that response for a free forum that I assume pays nothing to the mods and has to do all the behind the scenes stuff out of goodwill.

I'm assuming someone has reached out to you privately to read you the riot act as well, but I think what you've insinuated in your comments is odd, mean, and unfair. 

I love your hammer and your 3-phase workaround. Inspiring, man. 

I'm travelling down the same path.

I ended up buying the Ray Clontz plans when I realized how much tank volume and space needed to house a compressor for any type of air hammer.  Didn't want the  extra infrastructure that was going to entail. 

Having a hammer I build myself will not only give me the jollies, but allows me to be the #1 service tech for it too, no need to hunt down a LG wizard if something is beyond my skill set. Just my 0.02.

'Kukri Carbonara'

I lovevthe idea of going to a park to have a "bbq" when you can't do the quench at home. That's perfect. 

ITS JUST FRYING OIL OFFICER.. or whatever the Italian equivalent is of that.

Angiolino, read up on the hardening process and metallurgy in general as well. For as good a blade may look to you, if your steel isn't up to the task it's designed for, your knives will disappoint you. Over time you'll get so good at hardening and tempering that your only worries will be design and aesthetics, which is a never ending search with many many paths. Make more, make more, make more.

Dont worry about what equipment you don't  have, work with what you have and make the rest. In time it'll  come.

And if you can find a knife maker to shadow, or go to a demonstration, workshop, or clinic, you're skills and desire will advance exponentially. .

Good luck.

Awesome. Thanks, Frosty