So i just picked up a Hennry Wright Anvil. It is marked on the side as 179. Does this manufacturer use the english weight meaning its a 317 pound anvil or is that normal pounds so just 179. Either way it was a good deal and a marked improvement in weight over my current anvil but i want to know just how good a deal lol. I will post pictures after work.

In the CWT system  the center number can be 0-4 as it represents quarter hundredweights  so 7 would be an improper fraction.  What did your bathroom scale say it weighed?

8 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

In the CWT system  the center number can be 0-4 as it represents quarter hundredweights  so 7 would be an improper fraction.  What did your bathroom scale say it weighed?

My bathroom scale is made of glass and as strong as i am im not feeling confident in trying to lift this thing and gently place it on the scale. If it does break my GF will be quite upset :p. You answered my question though i think. Must be pounds. It cant be KG because i was able to lift the thing and im not sure i could lift 395lbs lol If it was 317 i would have been super impressed with myself lol

HW marked anvils different methods.  Some in cwt, some in pounds.

I used to go to auctions hunting for that "large anvil", only to find out that to an Auctioneer "large" meant anything over the 9 pound bench cast iron ASO's for straightening nails.

So after a lot of wasted miles and time I came up with a filtering method:  I'd call up the Auctioneer before the sale and ask how many people did it take to move the anvil: 1 = small anvil < 100#, 2 = medium anvil < 150#, a laugh and "we used a tractor/forklift/hoist on it!" = I attended the auction.   Never got a big anvil that way but I wasted a lot less time and gas.  I finally got my 515# and 410# anvils using the TPAAAT

24 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

I used to go to auctions hunting for that "large anvil", only to find out that to an Auctioneer "large" meant anything over the 9 pound bench cast iron ASO's for straightening nails.

So after a lot of wasted miles and time I came up with a filtering method:  I'd call up the Auctioneer before the sale and ask how many people did it take to move the anvil: 1 = small anvil < 100#, 2 = medium anvil < 150#, a laugh and "we used a tractor/forklift/hoist on it!" = I attended the auction.   Never got a big anvil that way but I wasted a lot less time and gas.  I finally got my 515# and 410# anvils using the TPAAAT

Lol that does sound like a heck of a good system. I think this one will do me for quite a while as my home anvil and my old 93lb peter wright will become my portable anvil. As much as a 300lb+ anvil is something i salavate for i will be happy with what i have now. I do need to clean the edges up a bit on it. Does anyone know a video showing a good way to do so? I dont mean like welding up edges. I dont have the skill or tools for that. I mean just trueing them up a bit with maybe an angle grinder or something. Im just not sure what the edges whould look like all i know is that the edges here dont look like they should.

They should look like what YOU need to do YOUR work the way YOU do it.  Rounding off broken edges with an angle grinder is common, many folks like to do multiple radii so as to have different ones to use.  Don't go overboard; better a deckled edge than loss of face!

As promised some pictures of the new anvil. Face is just over 4" wide, its 12" tall and the flat face is 16" long. I didnt think to measure the horn or anything.

179 pounds for sure at that size, not cwt.

1 hour ago, Black Frog said:

179 pounds for sure at that size, not cwt.

Yep thats what i figured after looking at the dimensions of some other anvils. Still super happy with it, if it was heavier though it would have been a crazy crazy deal