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here you go none of this is mine I just found this a while ago and found it very interesting
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https://columbus.craigslist.org/tls/d/milwaukee-huge-anvil-and-blacksmith/6859092847.html
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enjoy there are a lot of Blacksmithing items also
 
Awesome pics. I have 2 medium size but would like big anvil too. I should have gotten one back when they were laying around the old homesteads but are all gone now to the collectors. Wonder how much shipping is:lol:
 
Today I just had a friend who owns a repair shop ask me if I've seen any!
He's in the market for one (not fifty)!
 
Blacksmithing is a art. Its a trade that takes many years to master. Id love to get into it but really dont have the space even for a small forge.
Maybe someday
A hammer weld that a blacksmith makes is from what im told and seen, is the strongest weld there is. Mostly because the pieces to be welded become one and the same.
Consider that the test to be a Blacksmith in NYC one part requires making a oblong ring. You may have seen them on chains used in logging or rigging. Also consider the ring is formed by round bar that has to be cut to the exact dimensions given and the exact bends and perfectly joined. I believe they use the steam hammer or one powered by air..
In my trade I've made D rings, U bends in 1 1/2 round bar, circles out of round and square stock, hinges, hooks and all sorts of items we formed. We used a large rose bud. I had tried to talk the foreman into building a mid sized forge, as we did enough of this type of work.
Great thread
Correction the proper term is forge weld, I believe.
 
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Back in the eighties there was a TV show called Real People, well they showed a man in his late eighties and had a black smith shop in his barn in Pennsylvania and was the man that hand made the clevises that held the then new space shuttle on the aircraft that hauled the shuttle back to where it needed to be. They said on TV that he was the only one that possessed the knowledge to join the alloys that the engineers called out for. Even sounds far fetched to a lifelong retired steelworker/mach/fabricator/welder/millwright/hotrodder/chopper builder. But I watched it on tv and would love to see it again.
 
cryplydog said:
Back in the eighties there was a TV show called Real People, well they showed a man in his late eighties and had a black smith shop in his barn in Pennsylvania and was the man that hand made the clevises that held the then new space shuttle on the aircraft that hauled the shuttle back to where it needed to be. They said on TV that he was the only one that possessed the knowledge to join the alloys that the engineers called out for. Even sounds far fetched to a lifelong retired steelworker/mach/fabricator/welder/millwright/hotrodder/chopper builder. But I watched it on tv and would love to see it again.
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Amazon $.99 an episode.https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01LWLYHS7/ref=atv_dl_rdr
 
I’ve told this story before, so if you’ve already heard it please bear with me.
Years ago my dad was a school janitor, on evening shift. He was always finding stuff that people would dump in the garbage bins out back, rather then use their own garbage cans or take it to the dump.
One day he brings home a cool old power hacksaw, and a hundred pound blacksmith anvil.
I still have both. Who would throw these in a dumpster?
 
I like watching "Forged in fire"
does that count :poke:

looks like a lot of hard sweaty work :eek:

I've shaped some stuff over my vice or a pipe etc.
probably could have used one, a time or 10
but I've made it this far...

Thanks Dale
Oh well, cool to see thou :lol:
 
you no I have used anvils all my life for one thing or another I never really read up on them, there is a science to them and using them ,I have used mounted on just about anything and they worked for me just fine ,and now that I reading up on there are some very good ideas I didn't no that there was a proper height issue to using one there is a lot of good info out and there are some that are just stupid here is a video that I just watched about anvil height this was pretty good and there a lot of videos about how to make a anvil stand
 
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