Judson Yaggy Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 The kitchen in our old farmhouse is a work in progress and when I needed to add a steel post my wife requested that it be mounted on an anvil. Then she went out and found one to use! Everyone needs a kitchen anvil. Fixing bent spoons, cracking walnuts, crushing ice, etc. 101 uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 See, I tried to convince my wife how useful an anvil was to have around the house. For twenty years, I tried to convince her, but no, I had to keep it in my closet or under the arm of the sofa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 UH. . . . You really have my curiosity up. I get a steel post in the kitchen I can think of lots of reasons. However none involve the kitchen table as the foundation. Not to mention WELDING it to an anvil. . . DRATS I mentioned it and I was trying sooooo hard not to. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matei campan Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 My first anvil, my little austrian JEB, serves as foot rest under my computer desk so I can have it at reach and in sight, so my wife cannot comment. That's until I'll made a nice stand for it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ede Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 You be careful, as I was once publicly reprimanded on this very sight by PETA. Yes, I mean People for the Ethical Treatment of Anvils. Watch out for the hooligans that will say you are destroying a usable tool, even if it's yours! You know, it's akin to burning books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Cracking walnuts? I thought blacksmiths did that by hand, with no help from the cracker/pliers that were always present in the nut dish. My son can crack walnuts by hand faster than someone using the cracker/pliers. Makes them upset when he says here let me do that for you. Anvils can be pressed into service (pun intended) for holding the cooking books open to a specific page, or for pressing the flowers or leaves for the homework assignment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Some of the rail track anvil guys are going to hate you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwayslearning Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I am just miffed that your wife found one that fast at a price that you could use it for decoration! Ah, but one more anvil IS better.. than one LESS anvil.. Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 12 minutes ago, stan said: Some of the rail track anvil guys are going to hate you I expect them to start railing about it any minute now. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I hope they don`t get too steamed up about it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Nothing to get chuffed about eh? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 They'll see the light at the end of the tunnel one day and find their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwolfforgeca Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 10 hours ago, ede said: You be careful, as I was once publicly reprimanded on this very sight by PETA. Yes, I mean People for the Ethical Treatment of Anvils. Watch out for the hooligans that will say you are destroying a usable tool, even if it's yours! You know, it's akin to burning books. LOL Ha Ha You could go to Jail for that kinda thing ! There Watching you now ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozenforge Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I would be stoked to have an anvil in the kitchen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRS Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Before the thread goes completely off track, what is under the anvil? Is the steel post continued? looks like it is sitting only on half of the table Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Krs- Like I said it's a work in progress. There are 4 @5/8-11 studs welded to the bottom of the anvil, those are thru bolted to a ledger below the counter that is lagged to a pair of heavy posts. Those go down to the timber sill of the house. The current counter that you see half way under the anvil is temporary, eventually there will be a concrete counter top poured around the base of the anvil. Design intent is to wrap the steel post with wood Greek Revival trim to match the rest of the house. Frosty and all, I'm not really worried about being called an anvil abuser! Wouldn't have posted this if I didn't think the majority of folks wouldn't like it. I welded the post onto the middle of the face, and ran a little cold on the settings, if someone decades from now removes the anvil they should find it only moderately affected by the heat, and not near the edges. Structural loads are all vertical, the welds are little more than locators, if we need something to resist lateral loads in the middle of the house then everything has gone wrong already. There are a LOT of this type of anvil in our part of the country, it's an average size (130#), common maker (Peter Wright), medium quality (chipped edges). There are better anvils being made every day. This anvil will get far more appreciated and talked about here than in the back of someone's barn or getting occasional use in a garage. Besides, it's my WIFE'S anvil. If she want's it in the house who am I to argue. Win win. AlwaysL, are you still looking for any gear in particular? I have a few things I could send your way, drop me a PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I'm a little confused, isn't PETA People who Eat Tasty Animals? I look forward to seeing the finished kitchen Judson. I like your wife, good taste in decorations. Do you have a fridge, stove and oven in the shop? I have a coffee maker, fridge and toaster oven in mine, sometimes we roast steak a bite at a time in the forge. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Of corse you have a fridge in your shop, Jerry. How else do you keep your beer from freezing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 So in Alaska they call 'em beer heaters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I imagine so, but then again mom tells stories of leaving the milk out and it freezing in Oklahoma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 Shoot there was one Quad-State where I camped onsite and woke up to ice in the top of my wooden bucket. Now my mother, 80 this year, tells me how her father in Oklahoma used to buy a barrel of cider in the fall/winter and let it go hard and then freeze it outside and use a red hot stove poker to tap the freeze concentrated stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Not actually a beer heater more like a beer melter. However if you let GOOD beer freeze and pour off the liquid it makes a stiff brew. Winter beer so to speak. No drinking in the shop with power running to anything but lights and radio . . . well okay, the fridge, no tools though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanglediver Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 All respect to the interior decorator, but WHAT weldor would DO such a thing? Oh, sorry. Steam pipe just ruptured.... is there a steamfitter in the house? I keep thinking I can get that off clean with a carbon arc torch and re-quench it, and uh.... Beautiful anvil btw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Welcome aboard tanglediver glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the Iforge gang live within visiting distance. If you're around here very long you'll see far worse and stupider things done to anvils by . . . "people" who think they're "restoring" or "repairing" them. for instance taking an air arc to an anvil face when a grinder would cut the welds WITHOUT doing further HAZ damage to the heat treat. It's his Wife's anvil in HER kitchen she can do what she likes with HER property. Sometimes you just have to cringe and realize it isn't ours so we don't have any say. Were we asked I'm sure using an ASO instead would've been suggested. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanglediver Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Thank you for the welcome! To be certain, I hoped to pass along all due respect to the owner! Surely, I jest. Actually I've cut welds even more delicately by die grinder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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