Hayden H Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Is this thing even an anvil? It looks like an old bridge anvil, but is it? And from what I can tell from the pictures its got 2 hardie holeshttp://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/2754106848.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Nowak Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Yes, that is a Bridge anvil. Typically found in oil-field forge shops and used for dressing drilling bits. Several members here have them. Patrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden H Posted January 11, 2012 Author Share Posted January 11, 2012 Dressing drilling bits like, derrick bits? I won't be doing that, but a few oil field peices would come across it if I knew for sure it had 2 hardy holes, and the money to spare. I'd make 2 hardies for knifemaking and make it my knife/tong/whatever anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Great price for an anvil! Even without hardy holes, I'd be hardpressed to pass up something that big for that cheap as it would have a dozen different uses in the shop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 Some of them were not steel though they were often used hard and put away wet. I have one and found one for the local Fine Arts dept at the Uni. They were used for reforging cable tool drills that worked by raising and lowering the bit to smash a hole through the rock. Predates the rotary tool bits now used in the oilpatch though water well drillers still sometimes use them---my neighbor had one done that way last year. I'd check the hardness of it before I made a bladesmithing anvil out of it. If it's just a ductile iron it will mark fairly easily. The 5th generation blacksmith in Stroud OK had one that he had flipped over to get an even larger flat surface for truing plow points on. (when I visited with in in the early 1980's...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden H Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 If I can come up with the money, I'll buy it. I'd just like a large anvil. I've got a Kohlswa 75 and a Fulton (Made by either Hay Budden or Fisher. More than likely a Hay Budden). I know someone looking for an anvil so I wouldn't mind selling that Kohlswa for $300. (Its got some edge damage, the rest is pristine flat and true with no welding or repairing. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden H Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 Can you tell what brand it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans138 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 thats a pretty good deal. anvils get so much more expensive when you get over the 180 lbs range. id say get it and put the hardie pritchel hole yoourself, plus its a rather unique anvil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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