Share your amusing photos from anvil shopping

[pendragon1998]

Like, I suspect, many folks on GJ, I keep an eye out for a nice, affordable anvil. I also search for unicorns and sasquatches, with about the same success rate. Sometimes, you just have to throw up your hands and sigh.

Let's commiserate. Anvils, unicorns, and sasquatches are all acceptable here. But maybe more of the former.

$175 on CL

 

[tym]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

 

[BobsurUncle]

But but but........ A little putty and paint , it'll be good as new!!!

 

[crguy]

Waiting for somebody to tell us how easy it is to weld that up.

 

[dadsEH]

Should be easy to weld that up.

 

[Corndoggeh]

I mean welding it up wouldn't make it as good as new but if you use the right rods and preheat the anvil a little you could get a pretty decent anvil. At $175 though I would tell the seller to go f*ck their hat if they thought that wad a fair price.

 

[Sam'sAutoParts]

That'll buff out

 

[pendragon1998]

Only $380

 

[Bobcat753]

I wish I would have snapped a pic of a Vulcan anvil I saw at a swapmeet. It weighed 40lbs and looked like a 300lb gorilla wailed on it every day with a 20 lb sledge hammer.

 

[ganymede]

Waiting for somebody to tell us how easy it is to weld that up.

Should be easy to weld that up.

!!

 

[SilverDeck]

Here's one of the better ones I've seen on my local Craigslist. This was a few years back and they only wanted a couple of hundred $ for it. I'm not sure what exactly you have to do to an anvil to achieve this sort of damage, but it is pretty impressive! Needless to say, I decided to pass on this one

 

[kwoswalt99]

Here's one of the better one's I've seen on my local Craigslist. This was a few years back and they only wanted a couple of hundred $ for it. I'm not sure what exactly you have to do to an anvil to achieve this sort of damage, but it is pretty impressive!

Bring me an anvil, and I'll show ya.

 

[ganymede]

Remember that imbecilic sport "anvil launching" or something like that.
Maybe we're looking at victims from ***** fests from the last decade.

 

[Toothaker]

(snip) I'm not sure what exactly you have to do to an anvil to achieve this sort of damage, but it is pretty impressive! Needless to say, I decided to pass on this one

Isn't that the one that landed on Wile E. Coyote's head?

 

[RedVise]

I was amused that a guy would drive 20 mins to give me $30 for this anvil
(that may or may not have been part of the intercontinental transportation system, I cant say..).
He said the price per pound for anvils just keeps going up.
So my price will go up too...


Brian

 

[gungatim]

Waiting for somebody to tell us how easy it is to weld that up.

I always wondered if you could use an arc welder with hardfacing rod to weld the top of a bad anvil, then machine it flat? I am guessing no...

I have a HF Chinese anvil shaped object I use for my smashing of hot pieces of junk...I ground off the big "CHINA" on the side, ground the horn to a proper shape, then painted and mounted it. looks like a real anvil...except for the face that dents if you look at it sideways...

 

[kwoswalt99]

Remember that imbecilic sport "anvil launching" or something like that.
Maybe we're looking at victims from ***** fests from the last decade.

It won't do anything to the anvil unless they land on top of each other.

 

[Roberts210]

Isn't that the one that landed on Wile E. Coyote's head?

And here's..... the rest of the story:

 

[Corndoggeh]

I always wondered if you could use an arc welder with hardfacing rod to weld the top of a bad anvil, then machine it flat? I am guessing no...

I have a HF Chinese anvil shaped object I use for my smashing of hot pieces of junk...I ground off the big "CHINA" on the side, ground the horn to a proper shape, then painted and mounted it. looks like a real anvil...except for the face that dents if you look at it sideways...

Thats exactly the type of rod people use when repairing an anvil. It seems to work if its properly prepped and finished, multitude of youtube vids of people doing that with successful results.

On another note, where I live anvil prices are so sky high that the ones posted here would ACTUALLY sell for the asking prices. There was one where the guy was selling an anvil with all the corners broken off and he gave it the flea market restoration paint job and was asking $300 for it. IT SOLD IN 5 DAYS

 

[ganymede]

It won't do anything to the anvil unless they land on top of each other.

Are you sure?
Also what if it lands on a large rock ?

 

[kwoswalt99]

Are you sure?
Also what if it lands on a large rock ?

Too bad for the rock.

 

[fowldarr]

I was amused that a guy would drive 20 mins to give me $30 for this anvil

(that may or may not have been part of the intercontinental transportation system, I cant say..).

He said the price per pound for anvils just keeps going up.

So my price will go up too...





Brian

Hey! That looks like mine. Except mine belonged to my wife's grandfather and may or may not have come from the Union Pacific railroad.


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[Teenager with old tools]

Here's one of the better ones I've seen on my local Craigslist. This was a few years back and they only wanted a couple of hundred $ for it. I'm not sure what exactly you have to do to an anvil to achieve this sort of damage, but it is pretty impressive! Needless to say, I decided to pass on this one

Saw one even worse than that but the guy chrome plated it and was advertising it as "steampunk cutting board" and got $200 for it


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[code4pay]

What about this Anvil..... base


Blacksmiths Anvil Base 0,
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/goulburn/other-tools-diy/blacksmiths-anvil-base-0/1137667354

 

[Zeke]

What about this Anvil..... base


Blacksmiths Anvil Base 0,
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/goulburn/other-tools-diy/blacksmiths-anvil-base-0/1137667354

$100 for a log. That's rich.

 

[Provincial]

What about this Anvil..... base


Blacksmiths Anvil Base 0,
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/goulburn/other-tools-diy/blacksmiths-anvil-base-0/1137667354

I have 900 acres of raw material for these, Oak, Maple, and Douglas Fir. I'll even discount them to $25.00 each!

 

[crane operator]

Welded and both sides damaged only $985




https://loz.craigslist.org/atq/5987774697.html

 

[Brad54]

Most anvils are cast, with a tool steel top plate.
They're designed to have HOT metal beat on them. When someone beats cold steel on them, the top plate can crack or break off. The cast steel below is a lot softer, and more brittle, and will keep going away as the vise is used.
I wish I had a picture of it, but there's a $200 anvil at a local antique store that looks like a sway-back old horse--metal is missing about two inches down into the body of the anvil.

-Brad

 

[555]

This Budden is $550, looks good in the pictures. A friend looked at it and it is very sway backed.

I guess this piece of railroad track is a bargain at $200. Anvil prices in or near Atlanta are crazy. A group is offering blacksmithing classes and anything that remotely resembles an anvil or hammer are overpriced.

 

[Maui]

Here's an anvil I just ran across on the local Craigslist. And it's only $100!

 

[Ironvarmint]

Here is a Anvil that I have I don't know much about it maybe some here could help. It was my father's, he traded a smaller one for this one to a friend that was a farrier

 

[Ironvarmint]

I do know it is a Hay Budden and I can see a number 1 and a number 4 below the Brooklyn.

 

[danieldd]

I won't be buying an anvil anytime soon….

$1000

https://huntsville.craigslist.org/atq/6031931815.html

 

[Teenager with old tools]

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[tym]

An nice old-timer mechanic I know has a 200 lb anvil. Told me he got it years ago--for free, on the proviso that he had to pick it up, carry it, and load it on his truck without help.

 

[fowldarr]

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I laugh at this, only because I have a vintage "made from rail" anvil that was my wife's grandfathers. It's always worked for what I needed.


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[Teenager with old tools]

I laugh at this, only because I have a vintage "made from rail" anvil that was my wife's grandfathers. It's always worked for what I needed.


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I have a piece of railroad track sitting on my bench right now I use for pounding things on. But I don't see a reason for 3 feet of it or to pay more than an anvil for it


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