littlemus2000 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I was lucky to find an old fisher anvil, havent checked the weight yet but found what looks to be a date on the base. Any answers would be greatly helpful. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLMartin Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 answers??? you have not asked any questions, fisher is a nice anvil brand, they have a cast steel face with a cast iron base, early made fishers and little anvils tend to not have the two bolt down holes on the base. but all the rest have them. a quit anvil to work on because of the cast iron base Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlemus2000 Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Here are some pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Fishers are very nice to work on as they're quiet. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 MLMartin15; also *large* Fishers don't have bolt holes. (My 515# one doesn't and it's not an early one) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLMartin Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 O i dident know that, acutely i dident know they even regularly made anvils that large, ive seen a picture of one that was like 1400 or something but i think it was at the worlds fair or something and that it was just made for that show. ive never seen a fisher bigger than 300lb other than above mentioned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlemus2000 Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Sorry bout the question I ment comments and maybe I can get more than 1 pic this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I've seen several of them just like mine as they were used as the anvil for the Blacker powerhammer. Mine came out of an old RR repair shop---they junked the hammer but saved the anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKForge Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 My 100# Fisher has bolt holes. Here is a 450# Fisher I picked up a couple of months ago. No bolt holes. I was told large ones with bolt holes were meant to be used on ships and those without were meant to stay on land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 DK, My Fisher is about that size but has the bolt holes and the fellow I bought it from got it at a ship salvage yard that had dozens of them setting around all painted grey. Almost every ship had one. Even when I was in the Navy in '66 my ship had one and I don't know for what except for the first class machinest mate to sit his coffee mug on. There was no forge to heat metal only cold forging. The o/a torch set up wasn't even in the same space as the anvil, not even close, it was in damage control.:cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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