First Fire: Rail Road Track Anvil
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Looking to get started? Tired of everyone telling you this or that won't work, or has to be this way or that way? As a beginner your goal should be to get started... so you can get the experience to ask the proper questions.
This video is showcasing some different ways for a beginner to use the humble Rail Road Track Anvil
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I used a train rail for my first year smithing until I could afford my rigid/peddinghaus. People can clown on them all they want or call them an “aso “ all they want but I’m going to put it out there and just call it an anvil. By definition an anvil is “a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering)” so I really don’t feel the need to call it an “aso”. Great video brotha Yamez.
Exactly
Great video Sir, Also your comment about reading others comments are a source of much good information and good job hammering.
Thanks for teaching
I, REALLY Appreciate, this video. My first anvil, was RR tracks...no horn. I could do it all, short of punching and drifting (no Hardy or pritchel). But, still an excellent beginner TOOL. Great job sir 👍👍⚒️⚒️❤️❤️🙂
Great video Yamez. Thanks for snuffing out the hate fires at the very beginning.
Rail iron was my 1st too. Granddad retired in 1977 from Frisco RR . He had a few pcs laying around. He was also a hammer collector. Got most of them too.
Yeahman I expect a lot of people telling me I'm wrong or not mounting it properly or this that or the other thing... but if everyone waits until the setup is perfect... they won't get started
Obviously, as you demonstrate, a rail anvil works. My first anvil was two rectangular pieces of A36 welded together to be three inches thick, and I still use it for certain things. I believe mass under the hammer is the important thing, more important than the original use of the steel that is now the anvil, or ASO.
Yep I started with one worked fine just wish I secured it better.
My first one was a 4-foot section that we cut in half of a railroad track in Wichita Kansas👍
When I got back into smithing my first anvil was a piece of rail and served me well for about a year
Checked another one off the list. And I enjoyed this one as well.
Awsome vid yamez. A track anvil is awsome to start on! I have outgrown the abilities of mine but I still use it just fine till I find a replacement.
I think that the most important part is keep heating and beeting it all gos to practise
Very well done Yamez!! Thanks Wayne.
I actually keep a piece of rail kicking about to use as a mandrel, some nice curves and edges to work with. Never used one as my primary anvil though, I was lucky enough to be given a 30kg 4 inch square x 8 inch high block of mild steel when I started out. That made a great anvil.
Yeahman, I only had to use the Harbor freight and the rail for about 2 weeks before I got my BACOS... that will be in another video.
Thanks Yamez.
Thank you very much for yhe things ypu show us!!!
I forged on a 14 inch piece of track for 10 years... I learned hammer control by beating out a 30 inch sword from 1x3/8 piece of mild steel... cold.... YES, I cold forged it... on a piece of RR rail
Are you the same Lawren Wimberly that made a forge out of a shovel years ago? If so, are you still making the frankentools?
@@Jason-jd1jv not a shovel, but I did a car rim, a n airtank, and an electrical Box forge, and yes, I am still making frankentools
@@Jason-jd1jv Currently I am working on a lathe made from a RR track
@@lawrenwimberly7311 I thought that was you. I remember you from an old forum we were both members of. I could swear I remember you making a shovel forge to prove you could make one out of anything. If I remember right, you also got severely injured and built a shop or house or something while you were injured by yourelf.
@@Jason-jd1jv I made an airtank forge tutorial on Paleoplanet
Cool video man keep them coming
Just started smithing, getting my track tomorrow! Getting some tools tonight
And hopefully will be working on stuff by Saturday
Hey! Glad to hear that! Welcome to the blacksmithing community!
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Thank you!
I’m sure you know surfing UA-cam can discouraging at times because of “opinions”
But do you have any suggestions on anchoring an 80lb track?
Simple solution, if you are putting it horizontal, and there aren't any holes... use chain criss crossed or a roll of metal strapping, like what is holding down the Harbor freight in my other video... and some screws... if vertical, put it in a bucket of concrete, or strap it to a stump... really as long as its tight and not gonna fall over, whatever works... one thing I see is so many people over engineering simple solutions. Some long nails bent over, screws or lag bolts with big washers, ect..
Great video Yamez!
Great video Yamez. I’ve heard of hammer control but have never heard of tong control.
Yeahman, the ability to hold the piece where it needs to be, while turning it, and hitting it with a hammer... without it bouncing around.
Good series Yamez. Your ground in fuller asks the question, what do you have to do to a railway track to break it like that!
Eh... I got hungry one day.
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Just something to think about but since these videos are geared towards beginners maybe you should use a beginners hammer. Something off the shelf from Harbor Freight of Home Depot. IDK just a thought.
I'll be getting to hammers... this portion is about the anvils, in the dirt forge video I use a small ball peen and a sledgehammer head for an anvil.
Island Metal Forge ok cool. I must have missed that one. I’ll check it out.
Not too I started with was piece of track. Serve me and my needs well to get started
I can tell you the head of the track, at least on used track, is harder. I don't think it's because it's different steel but more probably because it's work hardened.
Oh most definitely!
What typ of vise grips are you useing to hold the metal while hammering it
In these videos I use a set of rail spike tongs. I believe Sprinkled donut forge makes em
What are you makeing ?
Just tapering to show the utility of the different options of anvils