This baby is is pricey, not mine nor do i know them
http://swmi.craigslist.org/tls/4821788356.html
http://swmi.craigslist.org/tls/4821788356.html
Anvil peter wright 360lb on c/l
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drivesitfar
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Tedsters: if i was you and had time i'd head over to see that anvil in person. you don't see 350 pound anvils every day and if he has something that big in his shop just imagine how big his vise is that you will want to buy?
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Mohawk Dave
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This dude says his is 400-500lbs for $1400....
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/tls/4811560449.html
http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/tls/4811560449.html
jakemac
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Anvil Envy.
just thought i would post it i ain't got no extra cash at the time still waiting for a guy to call me back on another pick i have lined up, it never seems to end
warmpancakes
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I'm pretty sure I know the seller, if it's who I think it is that's his small anvil
chrisbowles
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If either of those anvils were near tuscaloosa al my wallet would be lighter and my truck heavier. I got a 130.... you can never have an anvil or vise that's too big
That's a lot of cash to be beating on.
Chris, I am sure you can find an anvil around Bham. I was just in Ttown earlier today
http://montgomery.craigslist.org/tls/4794068725.html
Chris, I am sure you can find an anvil around Bham. I was just in Ttown earlier today
http://montgomery.craigslist.org/tls/4794068725.html
Canoe50
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IMO either one would be good buy at $3 per lb. They both appear to be in great shape.
Good thing that Fisher isn't local, otherwise I'd be checking that out. Those really big ones don't pop up too often.
Well, this is interesting. I just bought an anvil.
I did a google search for my anvil to see if they are a common size or anything. Utter newbie, first piece of blacksmithing equipment I have ever bought. A this thread poped up near the top of the list for "360 pound peter wright anvil" Yep. The EXACT one from craigslist above.
Is my toy now!
drivesitfar
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Crazy Bear: we have sort of a rule on our forum that you are not allowed to brag if you don't post pictures and lots more details. we all thought that the back portion had had a repair done to it. did you notice anything like a weld or ??
welcome to our group and just an FYI since you say you are a NewB to anvils. they were only made for hot metal pounding so if you need to beat on some cold stuff buy a piece of RR track and get to pounding.
cheers and happy new year
welcome to our group and just an FYI since you say you are a NewB to anvils. they were only made for hot metal pounding so if you need to beat on some cold stuff buy a piece of RR track and get to pounding.
cheers and happy new year
Sorry! 
Ok, shot a short video of it before my phone died. Ignore my voice, yes, I'm a ****. And yes, COLD out, 20-30 MPH winds, and it reads 14.3F on the thermometer.
Does have England kind of half *** stamped on it too, guess from reading elsewhere, that means it was made after 1910
Without doing some maybe acid cleaning or something it is hard to tell how big the repair is on the heal, but doesn't look very big to me.
Not sure what would made such a round pit in the face of the anvil, flaw in the steel maybe? Either that or many many years ago someone drilled through their material and into the anvil? Does not have a look of a drilled hole, but maybe with enough years and use it's rounded off so much now, not certain.
I have a friend that is an expert welder, could have it repaired, but it does not seem like a big deal to me.
Ok, shot a short video of it before my phone died. Ignore my voice, yes, I'm a ****. And yes, COLD out, 20-30 MPH winds, and it reads 14.3F on the thermometer.
Does have England kind of half *** stamped on it too, guess from reading elsewhere, that means it was made after 1910
Without doing some maybe acid cleaning or something it is hard to tell how big the repair is on the heal, but doesn't look very big to me.
Not sure what would made such a round pit in the face of the anvil, flaw in the steel maybe? Either that or many many years ago someone drilled through their material and into the anvil? Does not have a look of a drilled hole, but maybe with enough years and use it's rounded off so much now, not certain.
I have a friend that is an expert welder, could have it repaired, but it does not seem like a big deal to me.
Hardy hole is 1.25" so it may be a pain to find hardy tools pre-made it seems. Guess I will have to learn to make my own.
Either that or I could go buy some 1.25" square tubing with 1/16" wall thickness and braze that onto the 1" standard shank tools.
But first, I need to recover money wise. Totally nuked my hobby fund getting this anvil, no money to buy any kind of tools. Have enough scrap steel here to weld together a forge, so guess that is my next project.
Either that or I could go buy some 1.25" square tubing with 1/16" wall thickness and braze that onto the 1" standard shank tools.
But first, I need to recover money wise. Totally nuked my hobby fund getting this anvil, no money to buy any kind of tools. Have enough scrap steel here to weld together a forge, so guess that is my next project.
drivesitfar
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CB: Your Peter Wright anvil says England and also says Patent which i think dates it from 1880-1920's and if it just said England without that Patent it would be before 1880 if my memory doesn't have that backwards.
the face does look pretty decent, but that heal still has me worried that you bought a broken and repaired anvil for good money. if you are happy then i'll let it be. i would be very careful about doing any welding on an anvil unless your friend has done so before because you can lose the rebound if not done correctly. i'm guessing you need to heat up the anvil before welding, then apply the weld, then put it in hot sand, BBQ or oven that is warm and cool down slowly. I'm far from the welding expert and just relaying some information so you will do more research or until an expert makes a post.
nice video and that little hole behind the hardy hole wouldn't concern me at all so i'd leave it. if you can't see a definite line from a weld or repair and the rebound is fine maybe PW just made the bigger anvils with a bigger back portion so they wouldn't break.
welcome to our forum and if you have a 360 pound anvil do you also own a 300 pound old vise or what other old tools do you own or collect?
Happy new year
the face does look pretty decent, but that heal still has me worried that you bought a broken and repaired anvil for good money. if you are happy then i'll let it be. i would be very careful about doing any welding on an anvil unless your friend has done so before because you can lose the rebound if not done correctly. i'm guessing you need to heat up the anvil before welding, then apply the weld, then put it in hot sand, BBQ or oven that is warm and cool down slowly. I'm far from the welding expert and just relaying some information so you will do more research or until an expert makes a post.
nice video and that little hole behind the hardy hole wouldn't concern me at all so i'd leave it. if you can't see a definite line from a weld or repair and the rebound is fine maybe PW just made the bigger anvils with a bigger back portion so they wouldn't break.
welcome to our forum and if you have a 360 pound anvil do you also own a 300 pound old vise or what other old tools do you own or collect?
Happy new year
Hardy hole is 1.25" so it may be a pain to find hardy tools pre-made it seems. Guess I will have to learn to make my own.
Either that or I could go buy some 1.25" square tubing with 1/16" wall thickness and braze that onto the 1" standard shank tools.
But first, I need to recover money wise. Totally nuked my hobby fund getting this anvil, no money to buy any kind of tools. Have enough scrap steel here to weld together a forge, so guess that is my next project.
Congrats on the huge anvil score, I picked up a 260# Hey Budden a while back and plan to build a forge also, be sure to post up when you start yours!
I have a very only tiny hobby size Atlas Lathe 4" chuck, don't remember the age anymore, but she's old. Restored that a decade ago.
I have a handful of vices, none very large. Mostly machinist type's. Got the standard workbench type vice that is my largest, but it's pretty modern and not real quality.
I have a 1930's Stover CT2 Hit&Miss gas engine. (Big cast iron beast with flywheels) I restored myself when I was a teenager.
My brother had me rescue an old vertical steam engine and a steam powered injection pump and told me to hang onto them for a while. Been over a decade now sitting in the pile in my barn, never mentioned them again, so I guess they might be mine now, but no idea what they are, said they had all the parts there. The injection pump I think has it's water jacket with a long freeze crack in it, he mentioned a long time ago about me fixing that, but never gotten around to it as he has never mentioned it again. Figured I would build a big bonfire on top of that large casting to get it nice and hot and then pull it out mid-burn and braze the crack closed and then put it back into the fire to slowly cool overnight as the fire burns out. Maybe if he didn't live on the other side of the country he would be wanting it back.
I talked him down a little on the price, so got it for just under $3 a pound. I am happy with it, if I have to avoid using the heal on the anvil that's ok. This beast has lots of real-estate I have plenty of other area's to use.
I did look into anvil repair, they make special electrodes for this kind of thing, and yes, they say to take the entire anvil to 400F, make the welds and then pack it up for a slow cool.
Oh, and I don't know what kind of BBQ you have, but I don't think a 360 pound anvil is gonna fit inside it, let alone have it not be crushed flat by the weight.
drivesitfar
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CB: you are right it would have to more like a fire (BBQ) pit with the size of your anvil. here's a couple nice wood stands i liked and saved the pictures so you might have a good idea what to look for if don't already own your own 400 pound anvil stump.
thanks for sharing your tools and stories and with your sense of humor you will fit in great around here.
cheers
thanks for sharing your tools and stories and with your sense of humor you will fit in great around here.
cheers
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Not sure how much it weighs, but it came with a HUGE stump it was spiked too before we had to remove it to load it in the truck, I did get the stump too. I would make a rough guess of 250 pounds maybe, it's not nearly as hard to hand-truck as the anvil, but there is no way I am picking that thing up by myself.
I REALLY like the idea of that raised stump work table thing in your first picture. I could see lots of uses for that type of thing. I do cut my own firewood every year, I may have to save a nice round of oak this year and make something like that.
Thanks!
I REALLY like the idea of that raised stump work table thing in your first picture. I could see lots of uses for that type of thing. I do cut my own firewood every year, I may have to save a nice round of oak this year and make something like that.
Thanks!