poppaclutch Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Greetings Pop, Thanx for the picture.. Two of my favorite things .... Anvils and Motorcycles.. And at the same time.. Forge on and make beautiful things Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Ideas? Yeah. Don't bank the coals....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Yes the *best* way is to tell the staff to move it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ausfire Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 I hope he shoves that anvil inboard a bit before he rides off to the next job. Weight and balance is seriously compromised there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil H Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 My best guess for the motorcycle is that it is a mid '30s B.S.A. J11 v-twin. This is based on the clutch cover shape, and also the knee-pad shape. Any other takers? That stumpy anvil, however is a mystery. Shouldn't be much of a likelihood of the sidecar wheel coming up unexpectedly with all that ballast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quick60 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Well not the best way, but whats cool about this is this is the first real load I had on my GMC since purchasing it and getting it on the road. Prior to moving we pushed the anvils as close to the front the bed as possible. I would think he would have forged a prop to go under the cart where the anvil sits. Can imagine hed be getting much work done per hammer blow with that cart flopping around under the anvil like that. I have a 8' trailer envisioned in the near future. However this little gem in the second pic is the mac daddy of blacksmith operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Well heck, ... if you just tap the brakes a time or two, ... the Anvils will move right up front, all by themselves ..... :D . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 may even come nosing into the cab! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Smith Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 kept my anvil on the passenger floor board and the 12V forge chained in th back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I used to do that as it helped shift weight forward; but my wife gave me what for fearing for the results of rolling the truck. Can you say "ball mill"? Now if I could only mount a bracket to the front bumper that I would trust... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 may even come nosing into the cab! Wouldn't that be horning in, Thomas? Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 If it's hitting the truck's horn *you* are in deep kimchee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 If it's hitting the truck's horn *you* are in deep kimchee! Ayup, that's why I travel with the heavy stuff against the cab. I don't want to find out personally, who or what's in anything or body's kimchee! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Yup I heard a story about a smith that would just dump the anvil in the bed---until the day he "accidentally" got a custom anvil armrest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 When I was drilling I usually drove the 20' van. I'd installed a headache wall against the front of the box, 4"x12" on edge bolted to the frame across the box and stacked waist high. We loaded the casing on the deck against the headache wall and packed the drill rod in the casing. Then the samplers, sample boxes, misc tools and gear to the back of the box. Camping gear went on top. Hitting a ditch at speed always worried me and was the reason for the overkill headache wall. During the pipeline years too many trucks hauling drill steel hit ditches on the haul road. Unless the driver could jackknife the rig before it hit the ditch to get out of the line of fire it was almost always a sure fatality. The steel would clean the tractor off frame up and not leave much but stains. One proposal was to mount a magnet to a boom truck to clean up the wreckage, sometimes even the frame and engines were mulched. Unless it's light weight, dirt or similar bulk cargo, I load it from the cab back. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptree Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 my fold-a-forge. Had $43 cash money invested in 2002. Made from old Datsun truck bed. Still in use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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