PWs go for $6-10/lb around here. Hell of a score.
LOL. Paid $50 for my 109 or 119lb one 5yrs ago. It's been a yard ornament and was for sale at a garage salew I rarely visit(they specialize in selling seedlings.
Peter Wrights are good anvils. Mine will outlast me.
It says 207 on the side. Is that not the weight?
Mines weight is listed in Stones. But if that was the case with yours it would be over 2000lbs.
As I mentioned in another thead, and was told nothing is irreplacable, my ~110lb anvil and 90lb post vise(dates 1896) could net over $1k, but I'll never sell them.
Grab that post vice if you can as well. They go hand in hand with the anvil for for forge work.
Post vises are much harder to coma across, as they're more useful even to non-blacksmiths. Took 5yrs after I got my anvil to get a post vise. Luckily, the one I found was a 90lb, 5.5" jaw monster for the price of a normal sized one($125). Good eye! That is a beefy one. I use mine all the time. It is mounted... right next to the anvil
The first number is stones, second is quarter stones, third is pounds.
The guy wouldn’t give up the vice apparently.
Can't say I blame him..... Another thread here recently told me I should sell everything I have to solve a dilema. I mentioned my post vise and anvil as irreplacable items I'll never part with and was told nothings irreplaceable.
I've got this broken one as an art piece in my shop next to the couch, under a drill press end table. I had someone more into this stuff tell me it was very early 1800s and made in England. I can't remember many other details.
The front foot is broken off and missing and the horn forge weld is also cracked. Came out of a barn in Eastern NC.
The chain is just something I found metal detecting on my property last year.
That's not unusable. An anvil is a tool, so I'd have no problem with someone veeing out the crack and with substantial preheat, welding it up. The missing feet baffle me, but some welding would create some sort of mount to replace the front foot. Top looks well used but servicable.
This poor thing has been on my family's property for years. Pretty well used up
Time to break out a welder and weld up flat surface on top, then use hard facing rod on top for a harder face. Welding on a servicable anvil to make a "perfect" looking anvil is frowned upon, but one so beaten as to be useless(such as this one), can be repaired by whatever means availiable. An Anvil is a tool, and function superceds anything else.
that'd be a cool project for a youtuber machinist guy to turn it into a smaller, use-able anvil from the shot chunk of steel it is now
Why make smaller anvils? Build up the surface with welds, and cap with hardfacing rod.
are they? they're hardened somehow and not a uniform casting/forging/however the hell they made these things 150 years ago?
still would get clicks.. and look good on a window sill like the other above
The entire anvil, from many manufacturers, are made of up forged sections of wrought iron or soft steel, forge welded together. with a hardened steel face forge welded on top.
The parts that get hammered on get work hardened. If the whole thing was hard, cracking would be way more of an issue.
For most OLD anvils, the body is made up of forge welded together sections, capped with a forge welded on harder steel face. A few makers cast the entire anvil out of steel.
