On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:36:06 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

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?

0 tonne, 1 stone, 8 pence? Whassat?


http://www.anvilfire.com/article.php...Qs/anvil-6.htm

That would be a 9 lb anvil and it typically would be used for jewelry
work, small iron work and similar

I have a jewelers anvil that weighs about 1.5 lbs out in the oddments
in my shop. No idea who made it, or even where it was made. It was
terribly abused and is now sitting on a shelf somewhere out
there..never to be used again for some braindwarf to beat on with a
big hammer.