On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 06:53:43 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Mike Spencer" wrote in message
...

Gunner Asch writes:

I got my Hay Budden for a handshake and an afternoon of chat.

I think its about 350lbs...35" heal to tip

I got my 305# Peter Wright, my main anvil for decades, from an
antique
shop. The guy said, "Well, Mike, it's a dollar a pound and that
looks
like a hunnert pounds to me." So I gave hin $100 and went home for
the truck. When we were duck-walking out to the door with it, me on
one end and him on the other, he muttered, "wheezegrunt This
weighs more than a hunnert pounds, don't it?"

But that was about 1978 and anvils are getting more scarce, the
dollar
more worthless now.

--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

I have a Wilkin(son?) anvil that weighs 0-1-8, and has been entirely
adequate for my uses. What would one of that low weight have been
intended for?

-jsw

Small anvils are used for farrier work, general blacksmithing and
whatnot. Each size has a place. A farrier uses and avil up to about
80 lbs, because its all thats needed for making horseshoes and small
items, yet is still easily transported. A maker of heavy iron gates,
industrial fittings and so forth, would need a much bigger one..and be
working from a single location so would have no need for a "portable"
anvil. Then of course there are jewelers anvils, stake anvils etc
etc...

http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/Se...g-an-Anvil.php

http://www.anvilfire.com/anvils/