Rail Road Track Anvils

[Cody D Works]

I am about to get some rr track to make into an anvil. I need some ideas and advice on how to set it up let me know what you guys have and suggest!

[Ragnarok Forge]

Set it on end.  Use the largest part for pounding on steel.  Grind one leg into a cutting hardy and round then other leg to make a fullering hardy.

[Cody D Works]

could you explain fullering hardie? i get the cutting one.

[Scott Roush]

I just placed mine vertically in a bucket of cement and used the rail part.. not the webbing.   It's a small area but pretty lively.  My plan was to find a chunk of thick steel to weld on top of that, but then I found an anvil. And then another... and now another.  Somebody just found me a big Peter Wright.  Call them and they will come.

[Jeremy]

http://www.anvilfire.com/FAQs/

Check out the anvil making sections for some good ideas!

[Cody D Works]

Anvilfire.com has a ton of good informaion thank you for posting that!

[Cody D Works]

Would rr spikes work for tools? If they were the HC spikes? Duch as a triangular set and maybe a veining tool for some decorative work? Or chisels etc.

[Ragnarok Forge]

HC marked spikes are only 1040 steel they will not make very good tools.  GO to the scrap yard and find some coil springs.  They are normally 5160 and make good tools.  A RR spike makes a nifty tomahawk.  

The fuller is a rounded tool that is used to lengthen or widen steel.  You pound the hot are down onto the fuller then move it over and pound the fuller into the other side making rounds in the steel.  Once you have worked the area you want to extend or widen, you pound the whole thing flat and to width.

[Cody D Works]

thank you! That's what I figured but wasn't sure. I've done lots of research and I have been consumed by this. I just don't have the gear to build what I need to get started and am havin to wait to start on someone elses time. It's driving me crazy.

[Cody D Works]

thank you! That's what I figured but wasn't sure. I've done lots of research and I have been consumed by this. I just don't have the gear to build what I need to get started and am havin to wait to start on someone elses time. It's driving me crazy.

[Cody D Works]

Ever tried hammering in rr spikes...