SReynolds Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Read on a popular community blacksmith forum that all anvils employ the English Hundred Weight system. That sounds alot like bunk. There is alot of information out there and I know it can be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latticino Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Steve, I'm pretty sure you already know that is incorrect. Many anvils are marked in English hundredweight, but hardly all of them. I've personally seen some marked in pound weight as well as kilograms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Someone's been listening to too much Dylan: every anvil must be stoned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 A Little Learning by Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ; While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind, But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o’er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ; The eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ; But those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way ; The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes, Hill peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SReynolds Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 Well said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Yup we run into a lot of 1 book wonders and nowadays 1 show; or 1 youtube video wonders as well. Blacksmithing is full throng with a multiplicity of "right" ways to do things and is an excellent example of the old saying "If it's crazy and it works---it's not crazy!" I have around a 410# Trenton that was used in a copper mine by the welding crew and came to me with pretty much no markings, (save the caplet in the bottom), I think I just have to stamp it to suit myself, hmm troy oz? Carat weight? Slugs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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