April 15, 200818 yr Saw this on craigslist a few minutes ago. Looks interesting, I think it is a cut out from some major fabrication shop. Any ideas?WHAT IS THIS?? DO YOU NEED IT???
April 15, 200818 yr it looks like an industial door stop to me...i've seen them alot at places with big swinging doors such as loading docks and the like. just plain steel. would be a decent starter anvil though... son
April 15, 200818 yr Looks like an anvil to me.........but then again, all large chunks of iron look like anvils to me.........
April 16, 200818 yr Well, shoot . . . Anyone can see that's art! Look how beautifully they've captured the tension of our struggle to maintain balance as we ponder the unknowable universe . . . . . . or it's a door stop . . .
April 16, 200818 yr Well, shoot . . . Anyone can see that's art! Look how beautifully they've captured the tension of our struggle to maintain balance as we ponder the unknowable universe . . . :confused: Dude... that is SOOO deep..... Looks to me like it might be the worlds largest scroll starter.... just heat up your 1x3 flat, slide it in the slot, a good square blow with the drop hammer and instantly you have a beautiful start to a battleship sized scroll... Or.... a door stop. -Aaron @ the SCF
April 16, 200818 yr Take not of the nice handle with the finger hold, its a dieignated curling weight for blacksmiths to strenthen their tong arm to the same size as their hammer arm.
April 16, 200818 yr looks like just a steel drop to me. I agree. Having ran CNC flame cutting, I saw tons of stuff similar to this in the scrap hopper. Could have been a test cut. OR they were making a sky-hook and thats the drop However, as Jayco said, it would make a good make-shift anvil Below is a drop that followed me home just because I thought it was interesting. My wife called it something else!
April 17, 200818 yr Dodge.... If you had 2 you could make 1 heck of a rocking chair! Spacing looks about right....:D
April 17, 200818 yr Hey! why not make another one and tell your wife its for a rocking chair! (remeber to make the rocking chair)
April 17, 200818 yr Or saw it down the middle..... May have to beef up the porch before you place and use it though....
April 17, 200818 yr Looks like fuller starting pieces or pieces to fix up a hoop bender for a screw press.
April 17, 200818 yr mostly it just sits in my shop as a conversation piece and something else to trip over or move out of the way to reach whats behind it, LOL I have considered welding it to a base plate and call it "art", but I told you what my wife called it;)
April 17, 200818 yr Author Actually, you did not SAY what she called it, but the implication is perfectly clear! :)
April 17, 200818 yr Being an old farm boy from the midwest, I'd have to say that looks like a counter weight for a tractor that we used to use to keep the front end of the tractor on the ground while plowing heavy soils. They were designed to slip on easily. They came in all kinds of shapes. Of course, I've never seen an elevator counter weight, so I could not say if it was not used for this or not. It certainly looks like a usefull tool in the blacksmith shop!
April 17, 200818 yr I would think viking-sword was spot on! I think it's a logical guess but the item in question is a drop, not the part. Still, the piece they kept might've been the piece of iron a counterweight hangs from. Frosty
April 17, 200818 yr Below is a drop that followed me home just because I thought it was interesting. My wife called it something else! While most likely a very intelligent woman, she obvioously has no taste for the finer things in life.... :D
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