Tubalcain2

i've done that same thing for large culvert pieces. it worked well for me.

nice. i'm having shop envy.

maybee you should drive it into by backyard and leave it.

13 hours ago, C-1ToolSteel said:

It helps me to do both sides at the same time. You can keep holding them up to each other to check for symmetry.

not to be contrary but i find it easier to make one side then make the other side to match it. just my 2 cents though.

i no a guy who hardens his by letting water drip onto the center of the face hardening it but not the edges. i duno if it works but it is an interesting id.

yeh c-1. that was pretty bad.

6 minutes ago, njanvilman said:

 

 

Gentlemen:  Please start a new topic on this anvil.  This thread is about Fisher anvils.  Please do not continue this discussion here.  Thank you.

sorry.

we are about to move to, so i can sympathize. nice welder. 

1 hour ago, Daswulf said:

with rebar it could go well or it could go terrible. it's a mixed bag. Read up on some of the many posts on here about it.

 

yup. i think 3/4 might be to big anyway. i use 1/2''.

wow. super cool.

if i ever meet any of u in person you'll find i've changed a lot since that profile pic was taken. i'm a lot less handsome.

that anvil in middle tn where i live would be in the 450-500 dollar range.

7 hours ago, Marc1 said:

That is a mooring Bollard. A cleat is smaller and has horns and goes on the boat. That bollard is concreted to the pier or bolted to it if it is a wooden pier. They make bollards of all shapes with and without horns, square cylindrical, that is definitely a bollard. It may actually double up as an anvil of sort, but they are cast and usually not the best sort.

from my research i would tend to agree.

aw shut up.

good job. you make me wan't to try one. i've never done a hammer before.

4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Wandering across the desert once I espied a low pile of rotted wood, metal rods and rattlesnakes.  Turned out to be the remains of a wooden RR car that had a number of real wrought iron braces from 1/2" rod; thanks to a friendly rancher I ended up with about 100' of 1/2" real wrought iron. snakes were not amused...

wow. wish we had that kind o' thing laying around here. all you find in the wilderness here is old whiskey stills. 

19 minutes ago, Prentice said:

i got all of my dads blacksmith equipment when he passed

i have a big hydraulic press im willing to sell and a 25ld little giant in great condition for the right price

$5? 

no thats tubalcain. i'm tubalcain2. i have no fame that i know of.

2 hours ago, C-1ToolSteel said:

The duckt tape thing works for that kind of blower too.

yup. duct tape fixes everything.

nice work. i'm guessing you used a power hammer?

harbor freight! shame on you!

beautiful. well done.

true.

if you have nothing else to use, than rail road track is definitely worth the bit of time it takes to clean it up. if you already have a none cast-iron anvil that you are using than i wouldn't bother with it.

as long as it is not galvanized, it should be fine to forge. likely A-36 like TP said. if not that it would be 1020 or 1018. they are all very similar.