Steel Railroad Track Anvil

Each rail is approximately 5 inches tall and has a base of 5 25 inches.

Steel railroad track anvil. This is a medium carbon steel with 0 7 to 0 8 carbon and 0 7 to 1 manganese. Vintage railroad track anvil national iron and wire co 14 oal 10 lbs. I d rather have a real anvil too but have you priced one lately. Under a lot of trash covered in dust i found an old railroad tra.

Make offer rare steel railroad rail train track anvil collectible blacksmith 25 lbs. We cannot cut the rail we only sell the pieces as is these are leftovers from a contractor who recently finished upgrading a track. So what kind of steel are railroad tracks made of. If you have a typical horizontal rr rail anvil with a pointed horn on it then carve a hole in the stump and bed it into body putty or epoxy like a stake anvil.

All pieces are clean cut and do not have any mushrooming on the top rail. As you might know from my instagram posts i ve recently restored and cleaned my workshop. It s tough through hardening and forgable. Railroad tracks are very solid chunks of steel.

This one didn t cost me anything if you take out some welding rods and a nut and bolt. It has caterpillar ground engagement steel cutting lip for its top and side gussets. Railroad rail is engineered to be a rail not an anvil. 3 the last right setup is based on a drawing i made for an iforge demo on tools made from rr rail way back in 2000.

This type of steel is great for heat treating. Rare steel railroad rail train track anvil collectible blacksmith 25 lbs. Railroad track steel is typically 1084 or equivalent hot rolled steel. An equivalent 50 lb.

An anvil made out of rail would have a very small face and would not be considered the main forging anvil for someone who really knows what he is doing unless that is the only thing avalible for them. Rr rail anvil by scott grtandstaff. I was replacing the edge on a big loader bucket and had good stuff from the old one left over.