4060 anvil?

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I found a 5"x5" 4060 drop thats about 40" long which should weigh about 280#. I can get it for $60. There is no way I can heat treat it, but do ya'll think it could still make a good post anvil?
 
it wil work fine! and its cheap. if it gets too dinged up sand it down and start over. at 40 inches you will never use it up!

good luck

jake
 
Mike, email Chuck Robinson, get his video that he made which shows how he makes his anvils, you definately can harden it yourself.
 
You definitely should not use that as an anvil, but tell me where it is though. :)

Kidding aside; that will make a fine anvil HT'd or not.
 
I would be interested how a person would heat treat something like that myself.
 
It is probably not all that hard to HT an anvil.....holding a 280# piece of red hot steel in the tongs for quench is a bit of a trick, though. I saw a video clip a few years back of a fellow who built a big fire on the lake shore and heated up his anvil for hours. He had a big eye bolt through the hardie. He hooked it with a chain and swung it into the lake.

I have a 300# post anvil that I made from 7" round. It is unhardened. I reground the surface recently for the first time. It will work harden a bit with use.

Figure the working height you want, and cut the piece to length. ( I find 30" does well for a post anvil. Save the other piece as a bench anvil.) Weld the post steel to a 24" round of 1/2" mild steel. To move the anvil, tip it at an angle and roll it into place. (Hint - round the edges of the steel disc a bit, to prevent it marring the concrete floor)
Stacy
 
JUST.....GET......CHUCK'S....VIDEO

I will even help here is his email:

robi5515@bellsouth.net

For 60$ for that piece, and maybe another 20$ or so and a couple friends in good places you could have a GREAT anvil.
 
Well I went to the scrap yard early to get the 5"x5" cut off this morning and I did a dumb thing I guess. There was a young man there who was asking about it also. He is in the process of building a power hammer and wanted the drop. He had pics on his cell phone of his progress. After talking a bit, I let him buy the drop. I made another friend and the yard boss promised to take care of me on the next one that came in. I thought his need was greater than mine.

PS: He paid almost twice what it would have cost me.
 
Great on yah Mike, that's a good thing you did. When he finishes the hammer no doubt you will be able to knock some stock down on it :D.
 
soo pig roast, anvil heat treat ina bofire and a trebuchet quenchina lake!
KEWL! :D:thumbup::D:thumbup::D
 
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