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I have read 250 on your anvil, I wonder if it's perhaps the weight ? 250 Kg (551 lb). The weighing is 628 lb, so the difference will be 77 lb ?

With my example below, the difference is 740,5 - 681,6 = 59 lb.

77 lb and 59lb are pratiquely the same

thank you for this quick and clear answer

Thanks Benona Blacksmith,

Perhaps may you give us more advices

Emerald ship the anvil directly to your house ?

or to a terminal ?

how far is the terminal from your house?

how much are the shipping cost ?

how much are customs duty ?

Do you use a customs broker ?

how much are the fees of the customs broker ?

what do you use for the payment ? paypal ? bank wire ? other ?

thanks Jeremy

Thanks a lot Benona blacksmith

May you post the weighing when the anvil will be at your house ?

42 minutes ago, Benona blacksmith said:

If it's old french paint then why is the face the same color as the body. The face show evidence of use so the face should be different than the body. Ironically it's the same color as rust?

 

because it is an old anvil with several life.

The first owner use the anvil to forge, the second owner don't use the anvil to forge but as a decoration probably outdoor and paint all the anvil.

have a look the picture below, it is the same but with different color

42 minutes ago, Benona blacksmith said:

 

That's not the one I'm buying but its identical....oh yeah and mine was weighed with chains but weighs the same?

please, may you post the picture of the weighing with chains of your anvil

5 minutes ago, pnut said:

Maybe they didn't want to walk across the shop to get the straps? Maybe the chains were closer,maybe the strap was holding something else.  What difference does it make? 

Pnut

 

I am convinced that you are able to understand the difference if you read again my first message in the topic

14 minutes ago, Benona blacksmith said:

Seriously....you have no clue what your talking about. That anvil isn't  covered in paint. That's rust. I repeat the anvils I got were as described and weighed exactly what the scale said. I am buying another anvils from emerald as we speak. This one is 628 lbs. We will see if the weight is the same when it gets here. I would put money that it is exactly as described!!!

no rust but old french paint

if it is yours below, the weighing is done with straps and not chain so no problem.

14 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Easy to tare weigh a chain and then use it to lift an anvil and get the correct weight.  Shoot the 9-10? year old grandson of my local scrapyard owner knows how to do that.

Of course.
The good question is "Why using sometimes a heavy chain to the weighing while you have light straps in stock ?"

when you sell an old anvil, it is an absolute necessity to remove the old paint because the old paint may hide crack or repairs

for example the anvil below is completly covered with paint.

The paint probably hide a repair of the top of the horn. The color of the paint is not the same probably because the iron of the top on the horn is not the same that the iron of the anvil. It is not a problem to sell an anvil with repairs but it is a problem to sell an anvil 7000 euros and leaving the paint and therefore preventing the client from judging the anvil. Especially if the client only has the pictures to judge.

43 minutes ago, Old Crew said:

559# sexy south german with excellent rebound and beautiful lines for $3.25 a pound all in.  What is to complain about that? People on flea pay are asking $10 per pound for boat anchors shaped like an anvil!

that's exactly the problem, with a price per pound, if the anvil is heavier the price is heavier too.

The price is 3500 Euro / 3800 USD and the real weight 681 lb, The price is $5,58 a pound

11 minutes ago, Old Crew said:

I received exactly what I was sold

I'm not saying that all weighings are wrong. In any case, a part of the anvils have their weight engraved on the anvil, therefore impossible to have a bad weighing. But some weighings are wrong because the weight of the chain is added to the weight of the anvil. I gave you an example.

On 4/4/2020 at 10:02 PM, Frosty said:

I'd be very surprised the person who owns the fork lift, scale and sells anvils would be so stupid as to pull a stunt like that. Word of mouth would kill his chances of selling anything.

How many blacksmiths have a scale and a fork lift and will have the curiosity to reweigh their anvil ? Not a lot, I think...

On 4/5/2020 at 8:10 PM, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

I certainly hope you have proof of that statement.

Emerald's anvil weighs 740.50 pounds. Another anvil found on the internet weighs 681.6 pounds. The two anvils are not ALMOST the same but EXACTLY the same because they are not forged but cast iron built with the same mold.

On 4/4/2020 at 3:33 PM, Jonnytait said:

I would have thought a fancy set of scales like that would have the ability to be set to zero after the chains were fitted, giving an accurate reading of anvil weight?

Yes of course but if you don't press the button to set the zero you add the weight of the chain to the weight of the anvil

When the weight is not engraved on the anvil, the weighing of the anvil is sometimes wrong because he use heavy chain (about 60 lb) to increase the weighing of the anvil. The weighing of the anvil is not the number writen on the screen, on the screen is the weighing of the anvil and the chain. So the weighing of the anvil is lighter about 60 lb.