October 10, 200718 yr SWEET MITHRAL! Nice wrench and good find on those tanks! *grin* I started askin' around at work, turned out they didn't know how to get rid of them. I could have told them that the local scrap yard would have gladly paid money for them, being steel and all. But I've been wanting a new grill.
October 10, 200718 yr NICE!!~!!~!~ See how many more you can get! if you rune out of space, cut the bottoms off and weld a chain to the top of the tank where the regulator used to be, they make great bells! Also, you can do that with old oxygen bottles too.
October 14, 200718 yr I just bought the one on the left......Glen just posted the picture in the disscusion in the "show me your vise" thread...... since he already had the pic up (and the gallery isnt working for me) I just snagged his picture.
October 23, 200718 yr Just got home with a 1964 Hyster 4000# forklift. Gravel parking lot traction tires. Drove it 12 miles down the highway to the house, ran like a top. I've been moving big stuff with prybars and pipes for way too long, my chiropractor is going to have to find someone else to make payments on his boat.. I was going to add a picture, but the manage attachments button doesn't seem to be working. Try to imagine an old yellow forklift sitting in front of a shop, it looks a lot like that.
October 24, 200718 yr Mike-hr, I got the visual: "an old yellow forklift sitting in front of a shop". Although Mike, I see it sitting outside of My Shop instead. As long as we are visualizing, I may as well see pin stripes and my name printed on the side also. Sorry Sam! He he he Good for you Mike! Be safe! Old Rusty Ted.
October 26, 200718 yr I did a 10 day demo from Oct 12 to the 21. One day a spectator asked if I was interested in buying "one of those things". Later that night I drove home with a 308# anvil, A blower in real good shape, A forge of unknown origen and a bucket of tools. The anvil has a fairly annoying ring to it and has had cold steel hammered on the far side and needs the resulting mushroomed edge either ground off or reforged. The near side edge is still fairly sharp. I can't find any identifying marks except the 308lb letters in the picture. It has an 1 1/2" Hardy hole and a 3/4" pritchel hole. The Blower says Tiger on it at the base but thats about it. The forge has no ID marks. It has a repaired crack on one side and is mounted in concrete. The ash dumps original hinge bolt is broken and someone has drilled the center of it and put a piece of plate at the top with a piece of althread from top of grate to ash dump. I haven't cut the bolt yet to see how the grate looks. If anyone can identify the maker of the anvil or the forge please let me know. And yes I feel lucky:D
October 26, 200718 yr What does the base of the anvil look like, picture please. Often a general look can be nailed down by the shape of the depression on the bottom of the anvil.
October 26, 200718 yr Well a lady was cleaning out her late husbands junk in the garage and had a box of misc hunting knives. I picked up two with stacked leather handles, a PAL and a Marbles; also picked up a hobo knife to keep in the glovebox, (Solig-M, Japan are the only markings I have seen). US$3 apiece...I estimate that they were from the 1960's.
October 26, 200718 yr Thomas, Here are some pictures of the bottom of the anvil. As I was rolling it around and trying not to let it slip off the base onto my toes I thought to myself "Thomas just wants to see if I'm dumb enough to turn it upside down and drop the blasted thing on my toes." Hope this helps and try not to chuckle to much at the thought of me trying to reach a hammer to prop it up with while trying to balance it with the other hand. Felt like I should have been on the ED Sullivan show. LOL;)
October 27, 200718 yr It followed me home! Took a lot of driving, but i'm happy! Now i just need to find someone to help me get it out of the back of my truck so i can use it.http://www.tharkis.com/images/hammer1.jpghttp://www.tharkis.com/images/hammer2.jpghttp://www.tharkis.com/images/hammer3.jpg
October 27, 200718 yr Got if off the truck and in the shop =) I need to make a flat die for the bottom , but most of my other hardie tools fit the hole already.http://www.tharkis.com/images/treadlehammer.jpghttp://www.tharkis.com/images/treadlehammer2.jpg
October 29, 200718 yr Doesn't look like an HB, (hourglass) or Trenton (pill) base; I'll have to bring in Anvils in America and see what a base with no indent might be.
October 30, 200718 yr My new 400# (182kg) anvil. Make is as yet underermined. Got it at a farm clearing sale on saturday. It belonged to the fellows grandfather. Condition is nearly perfect, barely a mark on the face. Cost AUD$999.http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=4981&cat=500
October 30, 200718 yr With the shelf on the front and back faces of the feet, looks like either a peter wright or a henry wright
October 30, 200718 yr Rusty, that looks an awful lot like the 308# I just posted the other day.http://www.iforgeiron.com/forum/attachments/f7/3909d1193429646-followed-me-home-anvil3.jpg
October 30, 200718 yr This rolled into my truck at the ABA Fall conference earlier this month. Weight: 110 lbs Size: 9 1/2 inches diameter 3 1/2 inch bench vise for size comparison. Cost: Nada, Zip, Zilch (traded an old axe head for it!) Cast steel, baseball-size hollow core, should be good for something around the shop!
October 30, 200718 yr From what I have heard the steel ball is used to crush coal into finer pieces to be burned as fuel....as they tell me these balls roll around in a circle track as coal falls down on them. When the balls get under size from all the wear and tear they are discarded........not sure if this is a true thing but it is cool to think about! Ha! Lucky find Key! well done. Peyton
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