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Been away down south for a couple of weeks and called in at a second-hand store near Canberra. This anvil was for sale. Obviously made from an old wagon axle. Handy I suppose, but I don't think it's worth the asking price. There was a forge too, but the blower was in poor shape and I wonder how long that grate would last!

 

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Well, there is clearly a career in making blacksmithing equipment just waiting to be capitalized upon down under!  You could seriously make much better equipment than that on your own.  I would buy a block of mild steel and pound on it before I would pay that much for that anvil...and a similar forge could be made for a fraction of that price.  I guess if steel is hard to come by where you are those prices would make sense.

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Correct. That's why I sourced my 300# Hay Budden from the U.S. Just fortunate I had free freight to Australia.

P.S. Peter, the traffic in Sydney is outrageous too! I was there last week  - Hornsby, Penrith, .... what an experience!

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20 hours ago, Jackdawg said:

Which is why I might go $50 for it to put in the front garden :)

Hehe... I ship you one from here for that price :lol:;) Oh, wait, no, the shipping costs more:o

By the by, when I saw Ausfire opened a thread with the title axle anvil, I thought he found - again - a new pile of scrap treasures of his own and noticed an old piece of let's say 10" dia axle. But - thank god - life is much more unpredictable.

Bests to you all!

Gergely

 

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Peter: We had a container load of vintage John Deere tractors coming over from Ohio, so my Hay Budden sneaked a free ride under the Waterloo Boy tractor.

Gergely: Well, we do have dozens of those big axles on display and throughout our scrap piles but I've got better things to do than spend hours making dodgy anvils out of them!

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1 hour ago, ausfire said:

Gergely, Hey! Absolutely no offence taken! How did you get that idea? Funny how words can sometimes be misconstrued. :) :) 

glad to hear :) well, you know, although I do understand written English pretty good, often I find very difficult to read between the lines. (Or if I can put it like this: I can easily get the denotations but connotations can be slippery for my mind.) So while I was only smiling on your answer because of its direct meaning, it just got to me: what if you used those exact syntactic and vocabulary choices because my assumptions about your actions were too irritating. So :) that's how... (I could tell what those particular choices were that made me think it, but as this is a blacksmithing site, let's just leave the stylistic analysis there :) )

All the best!

G

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All good. And back to the photos - how about that gauze in the forge. I reckon with those galvanised washers and (shock, horror) cadmium screws, you would take your life into your hands just firing that thing up. The mesh is probably gal too. A dose of ZFP waiting to happen. :(

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Ausfire, I looked on wiki, do your dirt daubers like forges too?   The mesh over the blower intake would at least keep out mud wasps; have to remember that one.....  Our little blue ones will jam up a blower between forging weekends. 

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