PSA: This is not an anvil

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Jason Fry

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I'm not a rookie, but I made a rookie mistake I'll share with you folks as a public service announcement. I responded to an ad on FB marketplace for an anvil. Pics were clear-ish, but dimensions were not. Seller made no claims of weight. I made a deal to meet the guy halfway, 80 miles from my house. Ended up he was running so late that I went all the way to his place. Instead of meeting at 8 pm as agreed, I ended up at his house by 10:30 and back home by midnight. We loaded it in the dark. All along I'm thinking some kind of sawyer's anvil. He had repeatedly not provided dimensions, and I knew it was smaller than I'd hoped, but still a useful size. I looked it over with my phone light and paid the man.

So what I ended up with was this: A cool looking cast iron 75 lb. tractor weight. It has about 40% rebound, and I'll use it, but it sure as heck ISNT an anvil. I'll keep it around and maybe take it to demos or something, or use it as a cutting plate, or IDK yet.

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I do believe that I would feel more than a bit misled in such circumstances. But hopefully you didn't give too terribly much per pound for it, and it probably would make a good cutting plate.
Either way, still has to be better than a cast iron HF special. This one at least looks to be a tougher cast if it's taken a lifetime of wear and still doesn't have a huge amount of wear in the seating Valley
 
I didn't overpay for an anvil, but overpaid for an ASO. Yeah, id does appear to be fairly hard for cast iron. Regular hammer blow doesn't dent it, but if you hit it hard with the corner of the hammer it does.
 
Are you positive it's cast iron and not cast mild steel? If it's mild steel you could always try welding a tool steel face onto it and you'd at least get some use out of it.
 
Sorry man, I can see where you thought this might’ve been an old bridge anvil.
 
Could be cast steel, alright. Doesn't really take a dent unless you really try to give it one.
 
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