Beltron50 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I was buying some tools off this guy a few months back and I came across this. This was before I started getting into blacksmithing and metalworking, but I knew it could have been a hardie tool or something used by blacksmiths. It has a few numbers marked on it, check out the photos. You can see the size in comparison to the spray paint can in the background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Hale Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Fyi......Two holes in most anvils,,but not all. One is a hardy hole,,all of them I have seen are square and the other smaller round hole is a pritchel hole...They each have different purposes,,,or not depending on how they are used. A pritchel as I know it is a tool farriers use to create or clean out the bottom of a nail hole in a horseshoe. And when they do that it is over the pritchel hole. Hardy tools are placed in the larger sq hole and used as,,mostly bottom dies. like a hot cut etc.I do not know wot your tool is in the pic..but if I had it I woul put it in the vise and use as a bottom die when forming a compound curve in metal...hot or cold as needed.....In the last pic..it almost seems like a grease zerk....Which would make the large part turn on the small part... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltron50 Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 I dont get what you mean by a grease zerk? Its all one solid piece. I didnt think it belonged to an anvil because of the little knobs sticking out the sides, have no idea what those would be for... Does anyone else have any idea as to what this is or what it is used for? Or if indeed it is a tool used in a very large anvils pritchel hole?? Thanks Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Dave Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 My wild guess is leather work. Shoe repair, or saddle work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Ivan Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 The shape on the end looks like the horn on a saddle. Maybe used to work leather for a saddle's horn? -Crazy Ivan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beltron50 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Interesting.. That makes sense to me.. I thought maybe it belonged to a really big anvil for doing round work. -Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 This isn't a foot to hold a leg of something up? With the nice flat surface on one end. The smaller end slid up inside another piece of pipe. Can't see the thing that looks like a Zerk good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy k Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 I would like to see the anvil that has a pritchel hole large enough to accept that!!!. My guess is like that of the bottom foot of something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I agree with the folks saying it's a leg/foot. Whatever it held up must have been a beast! I think I've seen similar legs on the huge industrial machinery at Greenfield village. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Ivan Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 I don't think it would be a leg for something because when mounted, the serial number would be positioned upside down (unlikely though still possible I guess). It may be usable in a swage block or stake plate however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 20, 2014 Share Posted January 20, 2014 Looks like a variant on a shoemaker's last to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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