toadharbor Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Here's my HB 143 pound Anvil, just got her chained down, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby.B Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Been Looking at your forge can i ask why is the air out-take that builds up the fire at the side of the forge wouldn't it be better in the middle ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Toby, Who is the YOUR FORGE comment aimed at? there are 883 replies to this thread, to which one were you referring? FYI the OP is about anvils. I do not see any photo of any forge there. Have you seen a side blast forge before? What is an air out take? do you mean the tyure ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecclectic iron Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 This was my first anvil. I made it in 1996 after I got my forge working. Used it for about 5 years. Took 3 days of fitting, heating in a wood stove, welding and shaping with a cutting torch. Then another day of grinding. It's 2 pieces of railway track, one up-side down to give a larger work surface. Usually sits on a post of 2X8's Second anvil I paid $100 for. 85# farriers anvil. No markings Third anvil, traded ferriers anvil for it. Only legible marking is "300" on the side. Has other markings but cannot make out what they are. Weights 300#. A buddy wanted an anvil he could move in his shop. He doesn't do any kind of blacksmithing. Current stand is a sand box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Yup those deals are out there. My 410# Trenton was a trade with a fellow who didn'rt do any smithing but wanted an anvil "just in case he decided to" and was tired of moving the 410# around as he moved a lot. So I traded him a 125# PW a screw and screwbox for a postvise that I had to hand----(destroyed vise untouched screw/screwbox???) and US$100 as "boot" Had it for about $1.50 a pound in the deal. (And then I ended up moving it 1500 miles...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I was told this is probably a 1700's model'> I'm afraid the damage is done. I started on the horn before I found this wonderful site and its wealth of knowledge. if I could kick my own butt. it seems the more I learn the less I know.'> Bad form, Haz. Bad form :( The problem of using photo host links is you have to keep the photo there forever. Move it and we can't see it anymore. Uploaded from gallery or your PC and a copy is kept on the site forever. No maintenance required on your part :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusb Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Moving my shop, finally got a group pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McPherson Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 ecclectic iron, reversing one chunk of rail, that is shear genius! If you had 3 short sections, you could make a double pike anvil, with mounting holes fore and aft. A little shoring on the main table and Viola'! Dang, now I have something to add to the notebook thread. As if I don't have enough projects on my bucket list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTF Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 My Peter Wright 305 Pounder. It was ordered for the Tilly cane farm late 1900 and arrived at the port of Cairns , Australia , in 1901 . It remanded with the farm until the farm was sold up for residential development . At that point it became MINE ! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiehampster36 Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Hay Budden #13517 150lb Cost $450. i drove seven hours through bad Michigan weather to get this anvil!!! But I love it! Does anybody know any information about this anvil? I would like to know if you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danguite Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Hay Budden #13517 150lb Cost $450. i drove seven hours through bad Michigan weather to get this anvil!!! But I love it! Does anybody know any information about this anvil? I would like to know if you do!image.jpgimage.jpgimage.jpg According to Anvils in America it was produced around 1894 +/- 2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 Zom, I've never seen an anvil that had the face curved into the cutting table like yours. Looks like a factory job, too. All said, $3/lb, plus the trip... well, a new anvil would cost at least $5/lb so it safe to say you got a very good deal. That anvil looks like it's never been worked on. To have been forged in 1894 and still look that good is absolutely amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiehampster36 Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thanks V&Dan for the info n compliments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Zom, are you sure that is a Hay Budden? All of the HBs that I have seen including my 190# say they were Manufactured Brooklyn NY on the bottom line. Course I could easily be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleetisMorgan Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 I agree with Kal, though if I zoom in on the pic and squint I can see S.D. (Kimbark), making it an HB by default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CleetisMorgan Posted January 28, 2014 Share Posted January 28, 2014 Vaughn, the seller on CL has another 150 lb HB for sale right now with a rounded face by the table. I'm not saying it's not factory, but seems too coincidental. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiehampster36 Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 Cleetis that's the old ad that's the one I bought! If he had another I would of bought that one to ! To fake something it would be way to much $$$ & effort than $450. Plus I can't see any tooling marks that would indicate such. Hmmm I love a mystery!!!!! Once I get a chance ill take more pics its just to nasty outside ha ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 It's a good looking anvil and no matter where it was made if you like and it gives good service that's all that really matters. Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sing_j_ Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/image/38009-anvil-5/ My Great Grandfathers Peter Wright 201 lbs anvil. Also found out my Grandma is giving me her dads anvil from their homestead. Score!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Zom, are you sure that is a Hay Budden? All of the HBs that I have seen including my 190# say they were Manufactured Brooklyn NY on the bottom line. Course I could easily be wrong. In the photo you can clearly make out most of the name Hay Budden Manufacturing and most of "Brooklyn", so I suppose that cinches it as being a Hay Budden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 After all these beautiful Hay-Buddens, Peter Wrights, Fishers' etc. here is my little companion. A little different in his looks, as is an old fashioned German/Austrian design. Weights 114 pounds (52 kg), hardie hole is 2 cm wide. Made in Hungary, possibly prior WW2 as RIMA brand name - as available sources claim - was used from 1883 to 1949 when the collectivisation struck the factory. It shows the marks of being cast although bearing ball bounces quite high back on it. Its face is very untouched except the edges which were almost everywhere chipped - I think - during the cold-metal hitting by previous owners. (You can see the chalk marks on the pictures, I made those to learn where are the usable edge parts.) The bick is totally unused. Covered with thin rust, it needs a good cleaning but I have been too excited to have this and work on it, so it has remained a "must-do-sometimes" call. Also the change of the plastic box under it - which was a desperate choice to stabilize the stump. So is that hook-thing stopping its circular moves during bigger work. I like it very much, and so do my wrist - it stopped being in pain right after I started hit on this anvil. (hehe, I'm not sure this means what I meant.) Greetings Gergely PS: On the 3rd pic on the floor you can see the ASO I used alongside of a railroad piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Beautiful anvil, Gergely! I really like those older styles with the stepped feet and windows. Makes you just want to start shaping armor and swords for the local knights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gergely Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Beautiful anvil, Gergely! I really like those older styles with the stepped feet and windows. Makes you just want to start shaping armor and swords for the local knights. Thank you and :D ! Interesting though that all Hungarian made anvils follow this very shape. I mean every single piece which I've seen and was sure made in Hungary. If you want to buy an old anvil here it's doubtful you can find a different looking one. Although I have layed my eyes on one differnt looking very beautiful two-horned, they just didn't take my offer. And now when I have an anvil it would be very ugly to convince my wife we need an other for surviving :( ANd TPAAAT works here, too. So it's a technique with international applicability. Greetings Gergely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Here are my anvils. 306# Sodefors 1928 260# Fisher 1907 170# Hay Budden 1920 150# Vulcan - no pic as it is loaned out at the moment. 125# JHM Journeyman 50# unknown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caotropheus Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 This is my anvil You can see details in this thread '?do=embed' frameborder='0' data-embedContent>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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