Show me your ANVIL

[Tarnished]

GWTJ, That is a great size Hay Budden, your going to love it. Should work great on that stump.
I have 2 Hay Budden's and I would love to have one that size. (Haven't seen one that big come up for sale around here)
My first one is a near mint 58# from 1895,


My second is a 115#


They are great additions to the Wilton's!

 

[hd54kh]

This is when I first bought it home. Maybe a Trenton. Finally weighed it and came in at 157#. Can't really find any defining stampings on it but sometime this winter I'm going to oil it up some and see if it reveals more.

Terry

 

[Tim65GT]

Picked up both at a garage sale for $5

 

[Hephaestus29]

Hephaestus, that's a miniature brass jewelers anvil, isn't it?

Lol, I was wondering when someone
was going to call me on it.
It's solid brass but not a jewelers anvil.
I believe it to be a gift from a supplier
to a Hardware store.
It says on the top: "To Forge Our Friendship"
Reliable Spring Co. Inc.

 

[Chaznsc]

So I went to this auction and bought numbers of items dicounted to my liking, and while I was there I also picked up this anvil... So I made a small stand for it tonight. Nothing crazy but just a good base for whacking things on. Lets see others, dont be shy. This one is just 55lbs... Its gonna be painted as well just need to figure out a color..

<a href="http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk227/jakobgribble/?action=view&current=a1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk227/jakobgribble/a1.jpg" border="0" alt="Anvil"></a>

You did a really nice job on this.

 

[Chaznsc]

Picked up both at a garage sale for $5

I will give you $10, ship it flat rate

 

[sandman54]

hey drives I have got some really nice german anvils and their bases plus I have a 800 lbs. fisher anvil I will post Sandman54 good evening

 

[nine4gmc]

800


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[Heavymetalmechanic]

800lbs! Don't be a tease! Let us see some pictures of that monster with something for scale, like a horse!

 

[drivesitfar]

Heavy and Nines and ALL: If there is any member here that might own one or maybe a half dozen 800 pound anvils it's the SANDMAN. i'm sure he'll post a few pictures as he gets done refinishing another one of his 250 pound vises.

Sandman: i saw your post on the Blacksmith vise thread too and looking forward to seeing some more of your old iron when you have time.

Tim: while those are not REAL anvils i certainly wouldn't be asking for my money back. now you have something to pound cold steel on and nice find.

 

[Screwdriver]

I've been following searches and looking for a decent anvil for ages, I kept getting gazumped or they just went too expensive. While I was moaning about that on a biking forum, this little fellow turned up for £90, well worth the 8 hour drive and 40 litres of LPG.

It looked clean straight and honest enough and I liked the shape. Having caught it within minutes of it being offered, I made the decision to just go for it...

It was painted and stuck in a garden for years until the owner moved.

The paint really saved it and it hardly looks used.

It's not a huge anvil, 1 1/2 CWT is 77 Kg (or 77 KLGS if you prefer) but once it gets moving, it doesn't want to stop.

I think its a good size for me and I can just about lift it.

So the laborious task of wire wheeling the paint off.

Blue underneath the flaky black, I will need to chemically remove the remainder but there are no obvious signs of damage.

Kept expecting to see a crack or a weld but apart from some mysterious tack welds (?) nothing out of the ordinary.

The base has one cracked off bit.

But otherwise looks virtually as new.

That thick whitewash was/is very difficult to remove, another candidate for chemical removal.

...

 

[Screwdriver]

The surface imperfections from casting are a thing of beauty.

Cant wait to clean it up fully and get some oil or whatnot on there to shine it up. Very handsome little thing it is.

Starting to look pretty good.

And I am fairly confident there's been no welding or repairs made to it since the day it was cast.

Probably not even halfway there yet but my wire wheel wore down to the nub on the super hard, well seasoned and tempered steel.

Let's see how it goes!



Nice.

S.

 

[Screwdriver]

...and finally, the obligatory bounce test.



What's that? 95%?

Zoiks!

 

[jrb2]

Wow, I've never seen an anvil base like that. Lots of tree stumps and heavy steel homemade stands, but never a cast base that looks like it came with the anvil.

 

[Screwdriver]

Wow, I've never seen an anvil base like that. Lots of tree stumps and heavy steel homemade stands, but never a cast base that looks like it came with the anvil.

I think it's almost certainly a John Brooks anvil and when I started looking around for info, found a site which is still selling those bases.

They ain't cheap mind!

S.

 

[jpickar]

That is a nice anvil Screwdriver!

JOhn

 

[Screwdriver]

That is a nice anvil Screwdriver!

JOhn

Thanks. It's a nice thing to have in the workshop too. Difficult to resist giving it a ping every time I'm in there. Probably shouldn't be "working" metal on it stone cold but it's great for little light jobs.

I'm working on the idea of building a small outdoor forge at the bottom of the garden. Just have to be a bit sneaky when I chop down a couple of trees that are in my way!

S.

 

[PWRstroke_smoke]

Hilger & Sons Stake Anvil!!

 

[Screwdriver]

That's a stake for an anvil. Fits in the Hardy hole...

 

[joe.striper]

Here's a Fisher Norris 500lber from the Fisher Norris museum

 

[nine4gmc]

Daaaaaang!

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[PWRstroke_smoke]

Here's a Fisher Norris 500lber from the Fisher Norris museum

That thing has a huge ***!

 

[RyanE]

Time for me to post up

I explored my great-grandfather's old homestead last August and found this gem rotting into the floor of a blacksmith shed underneath the forge (cracked of course It had to come home with me, along with numerous other items including a post-vice from the same shed.

I got it home and wire-wheeled the decades of rust away. Peter Wright, deciphered the "hundred weight" stamp and determined it weighs 98 lbs. Is it a farrier model? I haven't seen many with the strange protrusion on the horn.

It's in pretty rough condition, judging by the nice photos posted in this thread, but it has a lot of sentimental value. My great-grandfather probably acquired this sometime after WWI when he homesteaded. I never met him but am glad I could rescue his anvil!

Any idea what the piece of tooling is? It was lying on the ground beside the anvil. Both cleaned up nicely with a wire wheel and a nice coat of boiled linseed oil and Penetrol.

 

[jpickar]

That is so cool to have your great grandfathers anvil and vise!!!

John

 

[Outlawmws]

Yep, Farriers. My (much newer) Mc's Farriers has that protrusion, but smaller.

Nice Save! Even better that it was your families! Possibly even before your G' Gramps you think?

 

[jmarkwolf]

Bought this guy as part of a package of items from a buddy recently diagnosed with dementia, consequently he can't tell me much about it.

Doesn't seem to be any markings. It's 22 inches long. Don't know the weight, but I would guess the anvil and stump at 150lbs or better. Much easier to roll than to lift.

Can anyone help identify it?

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[Black Frog]

Bought this guy as part of a package of items from a buddy recently diagnosed with dementia, consequently he can't tell me much about it.

Doesn't seem to be any markings. It's 22 inches long. Don't know the weight, but I would guess the anvil and stump at 150lbs or better. Much easier to roll than to lift.

Can anyone help identify it?

Look for serial numbers on the front foot under the horn. Some better pictures would help. A side shot of the horn facing right, and if you could unbolt it from the stump and take a picture of the underside of the base, that tells a lot of the maker.

 

[Reversepolarity]

Mine is a 124 pound Hay- Budden
Made 1911

 

[RyanE]

That is so cool to have your great grandfathers anvil and vise!!!

John

Yep, Farriers. My (much newer) Mc's Farriers has that protrusion, but smaller.

Nice Save! Even better that it was your families! Possibly even before your G' Gramps you think?

Yeah I am pretty pleased to have saved that anvil and the vise too. There were a lot of other items that I passed up - can't save them all. I got a few sets of tongs though. No hammers. A lot of the tooling was likely on the ground as the wood floor had become one with the earth and was a mass of bushes, leaves mixed with random metal bits and nails

Sacrilege probably, but the anvil resides in my living room on a prominent shelf....

Based on the research that I did, some combination of the markings "Patent England" and "Solid Wrought" indicate that the anvil was produced sometime after 1910 (? may be off a bit here) or so.

Anyone with better knowledge (or a copy of Anvils in America) want to chime in? Anyone know what the piece of tooling was for?

That time-frame would basically coincide with the end of WWI and the development of the homestead. It also makes sense that it was a farrier's anvil as he raised Percheron horses for work on the farm and later as a hobby.

There was a lot of other nicely smithed hardware around the property - gate hinges, door latches, chains, brackets, etc.

 

[Black Frog]

Ryan, that tooling was a hardy tool for horseshoe calks.

 

[jpickar]

Yeah I am pretty pleased to have saved that anvil and the vise too. There were a lot of other items that I passed up - can't save them all. I got a few sets of tongs though. No hammers. A lot of the tooling was likely on the ground as the wood floor had become one with the earth and was a mass of bushes, leaves mixed with random metal bits and nails

Sacrilege probably, but the anvil resides in my living room on a prominent shelf....

Based on the research that I did, some combination of the markings "Patent England" and "Solid Wrought" indicate that the anvil was produced sometime after 1910 (? may be off a bit here) or so.

Anyone with better knowledge (or a copy of Anvils in America) want to chime in? Anyone know what the piece of tooling was for?

That time-frame would basically coincide with the end of WWI and the development of the homestead. It also makes sense that it was a farrier's anvil as he raised Percheron horses for work on the farm and later as a hobby.

There was a lot of other nicely smithed hardware around the property - gate hinges, door latches, chains, brackets, etc.

Get that other stuff!!! Someday you will wished you had if you don't!
John

 

[Tarnished]

Mine is a 124 pound Hay- Budden
Made 1911

That is one nice Hay-Bidden ya got there Reverse.
Love the H-B's. Been looking for an affordable one around 200# but no luck yet.

 

[Reversepolarity]

Best rebounding anvil I have owned.

 

[Jazz1]

I made a simple "hold down" for mine so i can walk it around shop without it falling.

 

[RyanE]

Ryan, that tooling was a hardy tool for horseshoe calks.

I knew I could count on you guys to point me in the right direction!

Get that other stuff!!! Someday you will wished you had if you don't!
John

Yeah, plans are in the making for my father and I to return with our trucks and trailers.... My great-grandparents basically walked off the place in the early 70's and left everything as it was. All sorts of treasures.

The property is not owned by family anymore though and while I had permission from the current owner to take what I wanted (he said there was absolutely nothing of value remaining) he might change his mind if we show up with trailers.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming! Anvils!

 

[Fordriver6]

So I started a thread in the general tool section about two anvils I found on Craigslist here in Virginia. Drivesitfar was kind enough to point me to this thread. I was looking for a 6-8" bench vise when I came across them. Like I said in the other thread, the pricing seems to be inline with the research I've done on here. What follows is cut and pasted from the thread I started. Here is the link for that thread.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=319619

The big one is a 214 pound Peter Wright listed for $900.

http://richmond.craigslist.org/tls/5427472928.html

The smaller one is a 100 pound one listed for $150.

http://lynchburg.craigslist.org/tls/5438621358.html


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[jimgood]

Time for me to post up

I explored my great-grandfather's old homestead last August and found this gem rotting into the floor of a blacksmith shed underneath the forge (cracked of course It had to come home with me, along with numerous other items including a post-vice from the same shed.

I got it home and wire-wheeled the decades of rust away. Peter Wright, deciphered the "hundred weight" stamp and determined it weighs 98 lbs. Is it a farrier model? I haven't seen many with the strange protrusion on the horn.

It's in pretty rough condition, judging by the nice photos posted in this thread, but it has a lot of sentimental value. My great-grandfather probably acquired this sometime after WWI when he homesteaded. I never met him but am glad I could rescue his anvil!

Any idea what the piece of tooling is? It was lying on the ground beside the anvil. Both cleaned up nicely with a wire wheel and a nice coat of boiled linseed oil and Penetrol.

FYI, the little bump on the side is called a clip horn. It's used for pulling clips on the side of a horseshoe that reduce the twisting/lateral forces on the nails.

 

[Blue Frog]

Please tell me if this item is a hardy for a small anvil. The octagonal post is approximately 5/16".











Blue Frog

 

[nine4gmc]

Maybe the hardy for the vise that's always missing the hardy? I can't remember the brand but every once and a while someobe fibds tgem together.

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[drivesitfar]

Blue: i think i'll agree with Nines on this one. that looks like the little anvils that usually are a cutter on the little anvil areas of the smaller old vises. sorry i don't have a better vise picture with a hardy handy, but they are not one of my favorite vises.several makers of which i think Columbian, Littlestown, and others are some of.

it could maybe be used on a small anvil but a cutter for a real anvil is usually a bit bigger like this.