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4 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

Or rout out a 2" deep hole for it to sit in.

Great idea

198 lb Peter Wright.

It's 2 inches taller than the 120 lb anvil I was using, so I need to cut off about 2 inches from my stump and mount it.

On 1/29/2018 at 8:25 PM, BangBang said:

My boss bought a house on old coal strip mine in coal city Illinois!  It was full of ravines and a huge waste pile next where house was built on now flooded lake!   I was running a 963 and close to house!   I took a bucket away to fill in ravine and when I came back he said look what you dug up , it rolled off edge of bucket! You can beleive what you want but pictures tell all anvil is real and so am I!

So that's where I left it!

4 hours ago, Steve Sells said:

Hardening without enough carbon is imposable

We don't really know what the carbon content is though, do we? "Weldable steel" can be anything, and the chinese factories that make "weldable steel" most likely melt down anything that stuck to the magnet and sell it back to us.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it will harden. I'm saying we don't know if it will. Chances certainly are not in our favor, but I'm willing to let him at least try. We learn more from experience than by accepting someone else's word.

10 minutes ago, ohdougles said:

I messaged you. Thanks!

Replied.

You can still give it a shot at trying to harden your blades. If nothing else you will at least get to experience the process of heating and quenching.

I'm not far from you. If you like you can use my forge to heat treat, and while your over maybe we can build you a proper burner. Let me know if you're interested, I'll be in the shop tonight and tomorrow night.

Hello everyone. I am looking for some feedback/advice on this anvil. It's a new manufactured anvil made from ductile iron, I'll refrain from naming the brand for now.

My concern is with the face rapidly exhibiting divots. The divots are voids in the metal which seem to have popped off of the face, not dents which would be displaced metal. So far I have about 20 hours of use on this anvil, all working hot steel with a fairly small hammer (1.5lb). My hammers are dressed and rounded.