Tools you've always wanted...

[dirttracker]

how good would a 9 inch maiting tool be

[firko]

Being a boilermaker I feel a tad lost without a decent anvil. I've got an old piece of railway line but it ain't the same. Does anyone have a good solid old heavyweight anvil they'd like to sell a poor old self funded retiree?
                                                               

[Tony T]

Jeez, that brings back memories!

My old man had one in his shed on the farm and I remember using it quite a bit.
No idea what ever happened to it, but you're right, it would be a good thing to have in the shed.

[crash n bern]

I was out in west QLD and admiring a friends anvil and mentioned always wanting one.  He gave me a old cut in half axle from a bullock cart that had the  original blacksmiths stamp of 1880 and said that he finds these to be good makeshift anvils and he finds them lying around all over the place in the desert.  The history of the axle boggles my mind everytime I look at it.  Just wondering about it being forged in some little blacksmith shop in London and getting shipped over and making it's way out back to be abanded in the desert, and now over 130 years later some clown is still using it as an anvil.

[Tony T]

Just did a little search on eBay.
Man, they're not going cheap! 

[Mike52]

how good would a 9 inch maiting tool be

Workmate of mine has a 8-5/8" one of those or at least told us he had 
I asked to see it but no go 
He didn't know how to use it and was always in trouble. :'(

[VMX247]

Just did a little search on eBay.
Man, they're not going cheap! 

Have you got some mates with tanks.  they are/where used as boat morings.
Cheers a

[Colin Jay]

I have been to quite a few farm clearing sales over the last few years and the prices that anvils sell for is ridiculous! Good sized blacksmith anvils often sell for well over $1000 and even smaller ones often make $300 plus.

CJ

[bishboy]

My old man had one in his shed on the farm and I remember using it quite a bit.

My old also had a couple on the farm, I'm sure they got sold in the clearing sale as I haven't seen them in his shed. 

[crash n bern]

I have been to quite a few farm clearing sales over the last few years and the prices that anvils sell for is ridiculous! Good sized blacksmith anvils often sell for well over $1000 and even smaller ones often make $300 plus.

CJ

The eternal hunt for the bargain anvil.

Hence why I have the cart axle.  Pretty neat jigger, as it has a long tapered end with a coter pin slot and the center beam is flat on one side and concave on the other, so it has plenty of shape to it for various types of forming.  Just have to work out a way to mount it so I can use both sides. Or find the other half and have two.

[Stan S]

"TeeBone" this is my nutsert installer that I bought for a job that I'm doing. It has so far installed 21,000 M8 nutserts but can do from M4 to M10. It has an air over hydraulic mechanism with a spin on and spin out action.

Stan.

[Stan S]

A happy man now .

Walter you won't be so happy when you get the postal costs for that anvil

Regards Stan.

[Tim754]

"As I wrote Tim, I've had the wire twister pliers for years. They're ex QANTAS I believe. "
Oops My mistake Firko I must really starting to suffer from old farts syndrome , or perhaps what my mum warned me not to do as "you will go blind" was true...

[pancho]

 Funny thing about anvills, they have an attraction for gentlemen off various pursuits.
  At our old mechanics workshop at the SWB, there was this dirty big anvill that was mainly utilized for foreign orders being that staightening things like T Ford axles was a thing of the past.
 
It seems to me that the most likely fate of this device was that four or five very large persons had a beer party on the proceeds of some transaction with the famous Uncle Albert.

[crs-and-rms]

form me it has been a shock spring compressor now  i have a copy of the ohlins spring compressor