Anvils???

[dragoneggs]

275

The 125 stamped in is Kilograms


I don't know much about anvils other than always hearing an old timer talk about his Peddinghaus

Here is the website. Ridgid bought the company a while back but they are still made the same
Anvil Peddinghaus | Blacksmith Anvil for Sale | Blacksmiths Depot

Aha. That 125 was confusing me judging by its size on the pallet.

 

[oosik]

I'm over here on the "dry" side of WA state. A respectable anvil is scarce here also. I have an 18" chunk of "standard" railroad iron welded to my welding table. It works OK - except when the point of an anvil is needed.

 

[ArlyA]

Yes please.

Here is mine. Might be one of the crudest castings I've ever seen and the only visible number on it is a 78 which I suspect is its weight and can be seen in the 5th photo. No other letters or ID can be made out. I'd guess this is turn of the century or earlier.

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm over here on the "dry" side of WA state. A respectable anvil is scarce here also. I have an 18" chunk of "standard" railroad iron welded to my welding table. It works OK - except when the point of an anvil is needed.

Exactly my situation except my two hunks are 12in and squared off. One heavier gauge than the other.

 

[BukitCase]

A CL search in my area

corvallis tools "anvil" - craigslist

Back in the early '80's when we still had horses, I took a farrier course (I was still young enough to DELUDE myself into thinking I was ALMOST invincible)

Part of the final test on the course was to fit a shoe to a foot (not attached to a horse, school had a deal with a "glue factory", so just a lower leg) - you then had to lay the shoe on the concrete floor and draw its outline; then,(in ONE HEAT) you had to turn that shoe INSIDE OUT and fit it to the original outline, WITHOUT any of the nail holes closed up - by that time we'd had a fair amount of anvil time, but it STILL took me a second time to do it. Funnest part of the course

Had everything but an anvil, money was kinda tight - at the time, we were just riding on our place so I just trimmed all but wife's and my QH's, paid a REAL farrier to shoe those two. I kept waiting for money to get looser or anvils to get cheaper (the 120# I wanted was right at a buck a pound back then) never DID get one

Fast forward to today, a POS excuse for an anvil tends to run $3 a pound and typically looks like it was beat to death, dumped in a swamp, and dug up 100 years later - a REAL one starts around $5 a pound, some in the above search are over $10 a pound. Don't like it? Buy NEW, if you can find a couple of "co-signers" :thumbdown:

I too have a couple pieces of RR iron, probably will 'em to a friend when they "pat me in the face with a shovel"... Steve

 

[dragoneggs]

Ha ha... good story Steve!

 

[Big Barn]

Hi Mark

Coincidentally this just left this AM.





And someone messaged me looking for a propane forge so if I sell it too I may have an extra anvil or two available.

 

[Big Barn]

275

The 125 stamped in is Kilograms


I don't know much about anvils other than always hearing an old timer talk about his Peddinghaus

Here is the website. Ridgid bought the company a while back but they are still made the same
Anvil Peddinghaus | Blacksmith Anvil for Sale | Blacksmiths Depot

^^^THAT ^^^ is a beautiful anvil.

 

[ray66v]

An anvil would be nice. But, I have always gotten by with a piece of railroad track, or steel I beam.

 

[dragoneggs]

Hi Mark

Coincidentally this just left this AM.

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And someone messaged me looking for a propane forge so if I sell it too I may have an extra anvil or two available.

I didn't realize you had my address! :cool2: