Frosty has shown us that you can smith in a hole in the ground and use a rock as an anvil but I wouldn't want to forge 3/4' round stock on a RR anvil with a 2 hammer. Most of the folks here will be telling you *not* to use a 4# hammer too easy to mess up your arm if you're not up to using it! I know when I teach I show folks my 1500 gm hammer and tell them I used to do these 1/4" stock S hooks totally with it until I realized I was just showing off and it was stressing my arm holding back doing the counter bend and other finicky stuff and so now use a much lighter hammer for that job. There are pluses and minuses to every tool in the blacksmith shop but life got easier when I moved up from a small RR anvil to a Trenton 125 anvil. If ya can"t do it with a 2lb hammer on a 37lb track ya probably can't do it on a 1300lb fisher with a 5lb hammer. How To Make A Railroad Track Anvil FireHeart Projects 9. If it works for ya don't worry about names, prices or sizes. HS I have a dozen under 2 lb a few over that. I have been told you need at least a 4 lb hammer. In this video, I turn a Railroad Track into an Anvil using an Angle Grinder.This was a good metalworking project for me, I totally enjoyed doing this, it was. I have access to about twenty feet of track and have been researching how to make a better anvil out of it. I've been getting more into blacksmithing and have been wanting to make a better anvil than the short hunk of railroad track I've been using. I have a 174 lbĪ 142 lb a 88 lb and a 60lb fisher I still use the 37 lb track. 3 Posted Hello all, I'm a long time reader first time poster. Don't fall into the" got to have a 300lb anvil to work on. I forged all sorts of stuff on a 37 lb track using a O/A torch. You can do anything up to a 1/2 " or larger just takes longer.
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