hello.

bought this anvil, which the guy tells me is a soderfors, he said he could just make it out from the side, but on the photos i cannot see it, so i trust his reading irl.

i havent picked it up yet, but from the looks of it, it seems like it may well be.

he told me it also said "1818", however, i do believe it is 1918, which it looks like on the picture.

131 or 133kg or thereabouts, so quite a beast

It's really gorgeous.  Blows my mind the amazing anvils people are parading through here lately.  I need to go a' huntin'....

I want to be in the cool crowd that gives Frosty anvil envy.  Speaking of Frosty, his passion for those Soderfors will bring him here sooner than later and you will get some knowledgeable feedback on its authenticity.

Definitely a soderfors. Sweet condition! How much did you get her for?

268€

$294 for 288lb Sodefors, very nice. 

Let's see what Frosty the Unlucky has to say!

 

52 minutes ago, Frozenforge said:

$294 for 288lb Sodefors, very nice. 

That's more than "nice"...it's otherworldly!  Congrats.

I am suffering from acute anvil envy.  congrats on a spectacular find.

it does indeed look like almost new

Looks good, Soderfors anvils don't really wear, they chip but they're so hard they don't "wear."

That's 133lbs. Soderfors stamps weight in lbs. not kg. However I'll gladly accept a correction if I'm wrong. They shipped everywhere so I wouldn't be surprised to see one marked in kg. I just haven't so far.

Congratulations, you can stop looking for a better anvil now, there aren't any.

Frosty The Lucky.

on the first image it looks pretty reaonsably like "kg", and the guy told me it most definitely requires two people to move (i havent picked it up yet)

2 hours ago, redeeman said:

on the first image it looks pretty reaonsably like "kg", and the guy told me it most definitely requires two people to move (i havent picked it up yet)

I see what you're looking at and can't disagree. I guess I assumed what you're seeing as a KG was one of many different logos I've seen on Soderfors anvils. And directly below it looks to be ?37LB.

A little wire brushing and oblique light will make it all clear. I can't wait.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

If that is a real chunk of a 4x4 lying next to it then it looks to be over 14" tall...at least.  If you used a pair of calipers on a printed picture of it you have a way to make a decent estimate of its size.  That would tell a lot about the weight.

pretty sure thats a 4x4, or what they call 100x100mm here, also i believe the pallet is probably a europallet of 120x80cm, though thats pure guesswork, though they are most common here in Denmark

 

edit: well i guess it could be a 3x3 on second thought

Edited October 26, 20169 yr by redeeman

that's interesting.. but it doesn't look very over powering next to those pales to be 288Lbs. though.. kinda more like 131 Lbs.  ????

i dont know, the "standard" sizes of such buckets here are 12 liter or 20 liter.. in the case of 20 liters, that would be a bit over 130kg. i think its easier to compare to the pallet though

His price was in Euros so its not an American market Sodefors so I assume they had it Kilos for the european market. Hard to judge the size from the pictures provided.

yes that true.. maybe the glove is a fair indication to the size ..

I can clearly see 131K. and looking to the size - no way that's 131lb.

I'll buy 131 Kg. I can't see it clearly enough to be sure. Being in Denmark Soderfors products will be a lot more common and unless I'm mistaken it's a metric country.

Good score no matter how you measure it.

Frosty The Lucky.