MASSIVE 461lb WOODASTON&Co ANVIL HEEL RESTORATION
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ย. 2023
- Embark on an epic restoration journey with us as we breathe new life into a Massive 461lb Woodaston&Co Anvil. In this captivating video, witness the meticulous process of restoring the heel, reviving both form and function. Join us in the workshop as we delve into the craftsmanship and attention to detail required for such a substantial restoration. Subscribe now to be part of this anvil transformation, where heritage meets skilled hands, and witness the rebirth of a formidable tool in the world of blacksmithing. This is my dads anvil that patiently been awaiting restoration for the past year, i did a vote a while back on another one of my videos asking which anvil I should restore next and this one won the vote.
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Nice work, loved watching it progress. Thanks!
Great Job Kyle!
Another legendary restoration....done properly!
Good job brother, looks great as usual! Take care when using the grinder and standing in water, things can go sideways real quick.
Thank you for another excellent video. I learnt this trick from people with a whole lot more experience than me. When welding around pritchel hole or hardy hole, in order to keep it "clean", use a copper plug. Take a look at my channel when I built my anvils, you can see an example. I built a plug out of wood and a piece of copper pipe.
Thanks so much, I’ll check out your channel. I have used copper before, you’ll see my last heel replacement video I showed the copper that I use, for this anvil there was so little welding around the hardy and Pritchett hole I decided to just die grind, also I was excited to try out my new bits which are so sharp, they made very at work of cleaning them up.
Great video! I have an old Hay Budden that needs the exact sme restoration, thanks.
Glad I was able to shed some light on how to fix it😃👍🏼
She turned out really nice! Never thought about electrolysis on an anvil... That sure cleaned it up. I`ve owned a 364lb anvil made by Wood. It was forged in 1883 and had the same fond for the hundredweight markings and almost the same fond for the brand name as yours. Apart from the cutting table ,which was level and part of the hard face on mine, the shape was very similar. I think Wood and Aston may have collaberated around that time...? cool...
Absolutely amazing, it is very possible they could have, I’m no expert on the history on each anvil maker but I always ask on the anvils facebook group and get a lot of great information there.
WOODASTON&Co made we’re in operation from 1870-1873 and predominantly made anchors and chain. They also made anvils, so although WOODASTON&CO anvils aren’t rare, they aren’t as popular as Peter Wright or Brooks for example.
You did a great work 💖💖
nice work! what is the significance of the stainless interface layer?
Thanks so much, I noticed in some of my earlier restorations that I was getting micro cracks in the hard facing even when I was making sure of not going more than three passes. After speaking to my welding supplier and telling him about the issue he advised using the 309 stainless. He explained it to me as an example, if you lay glass on grass and stand on it, it’ll break, if you lay a piece of wood on the grass, then the glass over it, it won’t break when you stand in it.
Other coded welders have told me the stainless allows movement between the wrought/mild steel and the hard facing, therefore not allowing micro cracking. The micro cracks didn’t effect an of my work or the usability of the anvil, just my OCD couldn’t deal with it.
Why not machine the top surfaces? That would save a ton of grinding and expose the low areas that needed built up.
I live in a very small town, so there are no machine shops around that can fit such large work pieces on their mills. Another reason is because the faceplate in the anvils are fairly thin, if you machine it, it’ll machine it level with the feet of the anvil. As we saw in this case, if I had machined the face until it was perfectly flat there would be no more face plate closer to the horn because of it not being forged perfectly level from the factory.
Howsit man, love these videos, I have a few questions on the welding. I have a cheapy welding machine/SMAW. Possible to do all the necessary welding with one of them? Stainless/hard face. Thank you
Hi Mat, yes it should be fine to do a restoration, on your MiG machine you’ll do the mild and stainless (if you decide to do stainless). I would say the stainless is a necessity but definitely key to no micro cracking. The hard facing you’ll use an arc welding application, you can get hard facing wire but Stoody wire very expensive and the cheaper hard facing wire seems to be out of stock country wide for two years now. Again I’m guessing you live in SA.
@@anvilrepairs yah man.. Live in Johannesburg. Okay cool, I don't have a mig welder, I am guessing the advantage of mig is that it is faster. Thanks bru, great videos
@@mattyswanepoel awesome man, any welding machine will work dude, like you say it’s just slower, the good thing if you’re using arc then you can buy the rods per 100 gram. So if you’re only doing edges which is the case mostly then you can buy almost the exact amount of rods you need. But if you ever need information WhatsApp me 0824231276
whats the general charge/fee for labor like this? (would it be worth getting my 120lbs anvil repaired for example)
Thanks for the comment,to be honest I have no clue, I don’t normally restore anvils for people because if I did charge and hourly rate it wouldn’t be worth it for the customer. I thought of making this channel so people could learn how to do it themselves, the material costs aren’t too expensive, it’s the hours of labor that add up quickly.
I’m also South African, so I wouldn’t be able to restore yours for you. There is a guy in Canada who restores for people but I don’t know what he’s charges are like.
All of the top should have been milled not hand grinded!!
In an ideal world that would be true but where I live there are no machine shops big enough to handle a chunk of iron this big
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