JT

HaHaHa !! that's funny Lou !!

This will be following me home tomorrow !! oh the ease of moving heavy anvils and any other heavy items... even it close tight areas !! this is the smallest forklift ever made !! its a Clark Trucloader !! made from 1945 - 1967...  it weighs 2500 lbs. with a lift rating of 1000lbs. and 9 ft. max lift height.. its 28" wide and 52" long not including the forks.. takes up about as much space as two trash cans !! and fits through a man door  !!  the orange one is mine, the other two are to show the size better.. the man standing next to his is 6' tall..

thank you guys !! I'll have to try and look it over and make a decision ...  it does have 7" jaws.... JT

I see, what causes a vise to unscrew a few turns before the jaws start to open ? I noticed that large one does that..

what price ranges do these large vises generally sell for ??

13 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

I don't know; it would seem a useful addition to something to hold rough castings though.

yes it does.. I see no makers marks on this vise but is so massive in person..

4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Some of the old "chipping vises"  were HUGE to hold castings while they were dressed with hammer and chisel back in the day...

the one I'm looking at has a swivel rear jaw .. did chipping vises have these swivel jaws ??

1 hour ago, G-ManBart said:

240lb, 8" jaw American Scale I picked up last year.  Some 8" models were 300lbs+.

They actually look smaller in pictures than in person 

that's nice !! photos just don't do the size of them justice  !!  the are so giant in person !!  

yes its cleaning up nicely.. and it does weight in at 105lbs.. I think I may put it up for sale and get my money back.. I found a very large 200lb. bench vise I'm thinking of buying..

I'm a little disappointed in this vise, it was misrepresented in the description.. its actually a no.975 but hard to see clearly with the rust and built up paint. which means its a 5" jaw.. well it is what it is and I will be cleaning it up today and post more photos..

I won this old Chas. Parker bench Vise at a small local auction for $158.00 .. its a No.976  6" jaws and said to be 157 lbs. I'll be picking it up tomorrow, then the cleaning process begins. I will post photos of the progress..

5 hours ago, hamerhead73 said:

it could be a table lighter such as a zippo lighter

 

 

that indeed was my first thought as well.. or maybe a match stick holder ?

here's a internet photo of a steam hammer in a railway shop in Argentina during the early 20th century !!

these leg vise's may have been posted before.. but if they were.. they are so lovely another look doesn't hurt !!  and a nice big Chas Parker bench vise !!

4 hours ago, Thief_Of_Navarre said:

That

luckily there was a business across the street that had a fork truck and truck scale, ( where I got the weight from )  they set it in my truck.. I took it back to work and lifted it back out with our fork truck .. then loaded it on a borrowed low deck trailer, took it home and carefully rolled it off !!

10 hours ago, Lou L said:

That safe is a piece of art.

thanks Lou ! it couldn't cause that much damage it was FREE !! lol I could only find one other just like it on the internet and it was in a banks basement. here's a photo of it... very good deal on your mandrel !! what are the measurements on it ?? JT

this 1880s Diebold solid manganese square cannonball safe was at one of our closed up plants in a very small town.. our company is getting ready to have the plant torn down and said there is nothing out there but junk.. I asked if I could look through it before it was torn down and was granted permission.. once in the old office I immediately spotted this old boy and couldn't believe it !! I told my boss I wanted it and would buy it... after a few months he told me they are getting close to tearing it down and if I wanted it just go get it !!! I went out just to measure it to see if it would fit through the doors... and ended up getting this 2000 lb. safe it in my 1/2 ton pickup and it followed me home !! the guy in the photo is a friend that helped me move it .. my co-workers tell me I only like stuff that's heavy !! JT 

5 hours ago, Lou L said:

This isn't too far from me.  I'm considering a low offer...I do t believe many people will be interested in it.  If a can get it for $125 it will, in the very least, make an excellent beater.  It would be cheaper than that weight in mild steel around here.

Make him the offer !! find out the story of how he found it !!

1 minute ago, JHCC said:

Amazingly good? Or amazingly bad?

don't know that answer !! lol   

I don't know any more about it.. the seller just says the condition is amazing !! and he has only done a little work with a wire wheel.. and it may have some value to a beginner blacksmith !! he is accepting offers between now and the beginning of August..    

here's a lovely anvil advertised on craigslist in New England.. said to have been pulled out of the water in Florida and sailed back home !! not a barn find but a ocean find !! probably Blackbeard's anvil !! lol   

not mine.. but a interesting looking stand !! looks to be stacked up steel ...

38 minutes ago, jlpservicesinc said:

A great high quality anvil..  It really all depends on how much you want it.. 

I would pass as I want and need good corners.. 

I have the newer editon of the Peddinghaus and while i like the anvil overall there are a few things which mess with me.. 

I don't like the abrupt shoulder at the horn. I worry as i use the horn a lot for drawing out and the  distance between face and horm proper  is greater than I'd like to have.. 

Other thing is the hardie hole is over the feet.. This makes it very stable but you can't pass a rod through or a long drift through vs  having the hole over air.. 

I will as some point put in another hardie hole at the heel where the pritchel hole is now and will make punch /upsetting jigs for it.. 

hello jlpsevervicesinc .. so in your opinion the chipped edges are to bad to dress them or radius them  ?? thanks, JT

I have been offered this very early PFP Peddinghaus Forged Anvil. its 568 lbs. has a few chips on the edges.. its said to have remarkable rebound and offered to me at just under $2000.00. any thoughts or concerns about this anvil would be appreciated either good or bad.. I don't know much about Peddinghaus... only what I've been finding to read.. seems mostly positive.. thanks, JT

sorry for the mistake its PFP not PHP ..

1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said:

I think the difference is that the drop forged anvils are done with closed dies and so are all the same.

The "hand forged" ones were actually forged under open die steam hammers and not with hand hammers; but they were controlled by hand.  Postman's book has a picture of an anvil being forged using an open die steam hammer.

Hello Thomas ! that makes sense to what I was thinking.. I was looking at what was described as a early hand forged PHP Penninghaus anvil that was said that only the earliest PHP's were hand forged ( this one you can see the hammer marks on ) and then the rest were drop forged.. I thought that's what they were talking about but really wasn't sure what the drop forged was.. Thanks, JT

Thank you Scrambler82 and Marc1 !! Scrambler that was very informative and explained a lot of what I was looking for.!! and Marc I had began to read that once before but didn't finish as it seemed to be turning more about the term "fake" more then anything.. so I had quit reading it.. but this time I got past that and read the entire posts and it ended up being more informative then I thought is was going to be.. thanks again JT