found this a few years back it is cast and about 11 inches log by 7'' wide 9'' tall weighs about 80 lbs maybe someone knows what it is

I've never seen one, but it looks like it would make a nice little anvil.

In all respects save one, it looks like what Richard Postman calls a bridge anvil. It is quite small compared to the larger ones used in the railroad shops and oil fields.

ref: "Anvils in America" pages 406-407.

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Yeah it definately looks like an anvil to me. Sweet find!

Thanks Frank- I need to get that book, this guy had a lot of neat stuff I also picked up an anchor there about 3 ft long bronze probably weighs about 60 lbs I think I gave him $40.00 for the anchor and $30.00 for the anvil, its been laying in my back yard for the last ten years, I knew this was the place to come for answers

I have seen a few of these at farm auctions and been told that they are a counterweight for the header on old grain combines. I can't confirm that, but two different old men have said the same thing. That is all the information I have!

Bill Davis

I think that is my Aunt Opal's milk stool, she weighed in at 450 pounds. The traditional wooden ones kept breraking under her massive weight

My grandmother had something similar on the end of a stick for 'dollying' the washing.

counter weight, press die or . . . I like the Aunt Opal's milking stool theory myself. Who cares what it used to be? I'd use it for a portable anvil or whatever I needed it for at any given moment.
Nice score.

Frosty the Lucky.

Congratulations! Whatever it is, they are rare and you have one of them!

Aunt Opal's milking stool is the best explanation I have heard so far. Think I'd go with that.

Nice hunk of metal there - whatever it is, it looks like it needs to get into the shop and be put to work!

Let us know what you end up doing with it!

I think that is my Aunt Opal's milk stool, she weighed in at 450 pounds. The traditional wooden ones kept breraking under her massive weight

Aunt Opal! Are we related?

I know what that is. That's a standvil.

I was gonna say it looked like a cast iron step stool, like the little wooden ones you see for kids to brush their teeth and such, no worries about that one tipping over.

But kidding aside I'm also gonna say bridge anvil, are there any markings or words of any type?

Great find by the way.

welder19

Paul Bunyan's key fob.

It's a "boot" in case you park your tirehammer in the wrong spot!

Alaskan fishing weight if you have a couple and the grip to close the split shot on the line.

Frosty the Lucky.

Hey Clinton, Brian, i wonder if it's made of un-obtainium!

Hey, Ironstein. I think it is unobtainium now. I'd sure like to have that piece.