A cool video for anybody who loves anvils.

Wow!

I wouldn't mind having one of those big swage blocks, too.

For historic context this is in the area where Hannibal marched his elephants through the Alps on his way to sacking Rome. This is why each of these valleys would have such a fortress.
 
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Alocksly said:
I'd have to see how much and how well the face is hardened. If the body is solid throughout and the face is hard to a proportional depth I'd call it an anvil.
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I think it would be tough to get the body solid throughout when welding a bunch of plates together. You can't weld every surface of every plate. And a lot would depend quality of the welding. In any case I wouldn't expect it to be as durable as a forged anvil.
 
Square_peg said:
I think it would be tough to get the body solid throughout when welding a bunch of plates together. You can't weld every surface of every plate. And a lot would depend quality of the welding. In any case I wouldn't expect it to be as durable as a forged anvil.
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I've got no idea how he assembled this thing but there is an outside possibility it's solid throughout. I know that three guys with a large enough coal forge and a chain hoist can forge-weld a new striking face plate to an old anvil. That process repeated could assemble the anvil shown with no seams but it would be an awful lot of tricky work to pull it off. I'd agree that if he just stick-welded the edges of a bunch of plates together that would not count (in my book) as a true anvil.
 
I just figured it was stick welded but after going back and paying more attention I'm not so sure. He had two guys cutting the counter weights and five guys welding plus him. He went through five tanks of oxygen and two tanks of acetylene a day. He seems to indicate it took some time to complete.
 
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