How to Mount an Anvil - Cool Trick
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2017
- Great trick for cutting a log off nice and square. Also a clean and detachable method of attaching an anvil to a stump. Fun anvil find here: • How To Find An Anvil
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When I get to a point in my life where I have a "launching anvil" I will know I've made it.
FourBitty right lol it’s hard enough to find an anvil to work on let alone launch one
With friend and family.
Yep
😂😂
Shooting anvils into the air!
God bless America.
"this is my launching anvil" I think that's the test to know if you have enough anvils. :)
rjtumble haha good one
I love america.
Can we not gloss over the fact that bro launches an anvil over a hundred feet into the air, every Freedom Day?
If i catch it can i have it?
@@nicholaiivan491 I think that's only if you catch it Loony Tunes style.
After watching your videos I decided to clean my anvil up enough to read the maker and weight and was pleased to see the words "Hay Budden" 156 lbs. Thank you for all the wonderful videos. You've inspired me to make some big changes in my life. I hope one day to have the honor of shaking your hand. Again thank you sir.
I would of never guessed this guy would be crazy enough to launch an anvil.
I can see how that would be a spiritually uplifting hobby for a man to pursue, and how he might obtain great satisfaction from such an endeavor.
It's probably Cy. I blame Cy... just look at czcams.com/video/DPfZhxMwrfA/video.html ! He's a bad influence. Also: Poor anvil! Why not go to HF and get an Anvil Shaped Object instead? This is a usable anvil a lot of people would very happily work with.
Right I loved it just seeing that made me subscribe lol
SenselessUsername you are missing the point of launching an anvil the anvil takes none to barely any damage and what it signify is all that more Precious that anvil has a story a greater meaning to him due to those moments
LOL, my brother burnt his face (2nd degree) on the 4th of July while playing around with black powder. It was so funny, a white man turned into a red men in a split second, LOL! 🤠
Intelligence without arrogance, wonderful!!!!
I first read it as...."Intelligence without ignorance"
Ummm what??? Duh haha
You had me at "Launching anvil", subscribed..
“Launching anvil”! LOL The unsurpassed, unbound joy of living rural.
I feel like this channel is basically what I would've learned from my Grandpa if I grew up around him.
5:52 "This is my launching anvil, where I blow it into the sky for the Fourth of July!"
YOU *_WHAT_*
How to mount an anvil, from the rear of course.
Now those bent bars you screwed into the wood, they will rip your leg (shin) wide open if you are not thinking about sharp metal sticking out of the wood. Cover them with something, leather, wood, sheet metal or whatever. Just cover them.
Or you could turn the anvil 90 degrees so the horn and heel line up with the brackets. You are less likely to get close to the horn and heel as you are to the sides.
Why does a network not pick this guy up? Just baffles me they will invest in a tv show about people who make no contribution to society but yet this fella goes on his own to teach.
TV has a ton of problems and would totally kill most youtuber's spirits. If you want videos decided by committee, manufactured drama, and sponsorships out the whazzo, that's what you get with TV. Here, he's got freedom to do what he wants, how he wants, and can shoot it however he wants. There's no safety officer on set or producer telling him to knock it off with the anvils. Guys like Diresta have been on TV (go look it up, it was ... bad) and still get offers all the time. He declines them all because he doesn't want to give up creative control, and neither should EC. TV is dead.
Sorta seems like TV needs EC more than EC needs TV. If he sticks with it I think he could have a pretty strong channel all on his own.
Honestly television would probably ruin this channel. Producers and Lawyers would completely take over any creative control.
That is a horrible idea. To think that some out of touch, snot nose, Hollywood writer could add anything to the quality of this channel is ridiculous.
All these replies are pretty accurate and the reason, this old man stopped watching TV years ago. It has turned to liberal crap and are all about either huggie, feelie ,lets cry together or ass kicking 105 lb. women throwing 6'2" 225 lb. all muscles men, all over the room, like paper dolls.
I've been a class one welder in the UK and Australia for 36yrs and today my wifes gifted me an anvil for my 55th birthday 😊 if I could only subscribe to one channel on here it'd be yours.
We need a bit more of you in the world brother, thanks Buddy...
Concave the bottom of the stump with a grinder; stops any wobble.
I work with my hands on a daily basis and I love this channel. Great knowledge being spread here, entertaining, and honestly comforting. It's like going and talking to a good neighbor, reminds me of spending time with my dad as a kid with other mechanics, machinists, and other skilled men. Nothing like it.
Love the random launching anvil bit 😂😂😂
I love hearing Cy holler! Makes me smile every time.
Who doesn't like watching a hundred pound anvil launched straight up?
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Nothing says America F$&k Yeah! Like blowing stuff up!
it would suck if it hit the house tho
I am 43yrs old and after seeing this vid... I am missing my grandpa.... He used to teach me so many things.
i am an old retired auto body repairman,old school. in my day we repaired just about everything.however in the early 1980's they went to hss and hsla steel as i am sure you already know.you are extremly well versed in metal and it,s propterities.i really enjoy your channel.keep up the good work.
America needs a lot more dudes just like you! Well done sir...great channel! 👍
Never picked up a hot drift punch... But when I was a young lad I was watching my grandfather cut a piece of wood with a saber saw. The blade broke and fell to the floor. Wanting to help grandpa I immediately reached down and grabbed the piece of broken blade... Instant education. And that little lesson has stuck with me for years.
Scott, I come from a long line of carpenters and craftmen. I was about 3 when dad started taking me to his shop, and the first "project" I built hangs on my shop wall nearly 60 years later. You are the genuine article, and do the best channel on youtube, hands down. Your work and contributions are deeply appreciated.
Picking up the hot punch simply accelerates one's punch assessment skills.
Haven't touched a real anvil probably since metal shop in middle school many moons ago (I don't think the small one on my Craftsman vice in the garage counts?) and now I am one of many who will automatically watch any video with EC and anvil in the title-keep up the good work sir! (Now off to my Anvils Anonymous meeting ...)
That's a great technique for leveling off the stump. Thanks.
My favorite channel on CZcams. Thankyou for sharing your wisdom with the world.
Yep, the channel is awesome. Many thanks for all the posts. I know my son & I have reaped the benefits of it together many times.
I don't think I'll ever use an anvil. However, like most men, I love to watch a genuine craftsman talk and work. However, I follow your teachings on ladder-safety and manual handling on a regular basis.
Thanks for the video - a trick my grandfather told me (2nd generation blacksmith & coachbuilder) is to place a sheet of cork between the anvil and block . This enhances the "ring" quality of the anvil and makes the sound when striking the anvil with your hammer so much sweeter ,
first video I've seen on this channel.... totally loved it!!!
I admire how you have adapted to today’s world, keeping skills alive using a modern format for the world to see, I really appreciate your hard work and efforts in producing this channel, lotsa of appreciation and support from an ol school FNQ Carpenter in Sticky hot Australia 🔨👌🏼👍🏼
Anvil cannon, get her done.
Your delivery so polished and content so worth watching. Thank you!! Jim
I want a launching anvil, this show and the Montana Englishman metal working channels are awesome. Thanks for doing this.
You know you're in Murica when a guy launches an anvil up in the air
That outro of you walking out of your shop is the kind of life I dream of having. Beautiful. One day!
Dropping the torch into the pritchel ... all star maneuver. Thumbs up and thanks for the time you spend on these videos.
Had my subscription at "this is our launching anvil." XD Excellent Info for me as a starter, thank you!
*Scott* This is my launching anvil.
*Me* Cool, I wonder what that means.
*Scott* This little guy takes about 150 foot vertical trip in a couple of seconds.
*Me* Wut...
*Video* BOOM, PING... Woooooooooooo!
*Me* Oh, oh my....
This is my new gold standard for showing the difference between Canadians and Americans :)
Your knowledge is always appreciated!
I'm a retired electrician / machinist, just found your channel today. I have an anvil I need to secure to a log of hickory I picked up at a logging yard. This anvil is small, 80 lbs. Your video was exactly what I needed ! Great job !! Thank you very much.
I'm a newish gal to this channel but I have very fond memories of the anvil my father had in his shop, he was a bike mechanic for many years before moving on to saleperson and finally as a manager of a bike shop but he had an small anvil in the workshop out back for all sort of things that needed one solid piece for hammer work or adjusting frames (before they became more standardized bikes they are today). I've picked up a lot of things from him and thankful for him for as I can knock up a frame, to fix a car, "hard work" and given me that drive to not shy away from it and do my best with my hands, regardless of my gender. I digress,
I love watching your videos, including anvil and it brings back all my childhood memories working with my dad.
Ah, another female practitioner of Nudaism!
As an Australia, watching you take the bark off makes me wince. Down here there's always a surprise lurking beneath the bark waiting for you
How to 'square' off a stump! That's awesome!
Great fastening idea...but that's going to HURT when you walk into them sharp corners!
I really like your channel, always interesting and enjoyable. I love your old tools. The tool you used to take off the bark is another tool that is nearly lost to time. We would call it a bark spud down here in the middle of North Carolina. Keep 'em coming. Love the anvils by the way!
Love the Bob Villa style, one foot up on the block, pose at the end...sure to be classic soon
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Every guy should have a Grand-pa/Uncle like you. Subscribed.
Can't wait to see Leo use the forge for the first time
I think we need a video devoted entirely to the science / craft of shooting anvils! 😀
I wish I was your neighbor. I got a great start from my father in learning things, but soo much was left unfinished in his understanding and left me with a lot of gaps to fill that I’m still working on. Love your channel sir 👍🏻
I love this channel. It’s like watching a slice of home.
We are setting up a blacksmith shop at our Boy Scout camp. I wish we had a guy like you around.
Loved the ending. All grandfathers should have a working usable shop full of the things that make young kids enthused about visiting and most importantly learning, the important things in life, hard work,great tools, and the knowledge to use them. Great video
EFD620G it'll be a few more years for me to carry my grand child around in the shop, what a treat it'll be
You sir, are a beast of a man.
A man well above other men.
Must be in your mid 50s, but you're in much better shape than I am, and I'm likely less than half your age!
I could say it's because I have lung cancer, and only one lung... but honestly I just use that as an excuse to be lazy! Haha
There is NO WAY, I could be lifting an anvil that size... not half its size, on my best day!
You deserve my respect. You have it.
You deserve my subscription. You got it!
You deserve my thanks, for showing me useful tips and inspiring me to get back into my workshop and leave a few marks before I'm dead. They might be small marks, and ugly ones too... but they will be mine. I'll leave my crooked ugly dangerous end table to a relative just so I can laugh from the grave! "This end table sucks! It broke my phone, I broke my toe on it... and I think it electrocuted me somehow! How!? It's wood! Ugly wood!" "It's my brothers. He made it. We're keeping it!"
Me.. ded -> "hehehe idiots. Lol throw that junk away! Sentimental fools! Haha ohhhh! Another smashed toe! Nice!"
Anyway, again... you deserve my thanks. So thank you. Inspiration, motivation, and metal momentum to actually achieve anything. I see videos like jimmy Diresta and think.. "I could never build that level of skill, or afford those tools!" Or hipster makers, and think "Well they are fit, and healthy and strong. I can't do that stuff..."
But your videos make things seem so doable .. you just need a axe and a hammer and you can take on the world! No matter age, or size, health or body type. Just do what you can with what you've got. And I plan to.
So thank you.
Edit: after I sent that I realized it sounded a bit rude, but I didn't mean your age should limit you, it was just an observation. My reason for loving these videos is again the fact that he makes it seem simple, doable. Doesn't lie and say it will be easy, but if you do the work you get good results. He teaches that you dont need an expensive state of the art shop, that used tools, older tools and stuff most people would turn up their nose at, he gladly embraces. More often then not, he makes cuts by hand, does stuff the old school way and lacks an elitist attitude even though one would be well deserved. This man is the elite among humans. Just hope that clarifies and I didn't seem like I was saying "U gud even tho u old af yo! Yolo! Myspace!" Or whatever the youths say these days.
danteelite he’s actually in his 60’s
Cy's howl is immortal!
I like seeing how you work, how you solve problems, how productivity is accomplished. Thank you!
Love the video, great advice and talk through. I may be 5 years late, but still relevant to me. So thanks again for the video
Your channel is a great find! Glad we met!
Man I love this guy he speaks so well. I work in construction so this guy tickles my fancy. I have never even considered blacksmithing but now I'm Intrigued. Keep up the great work and great material.
Just mounted my anvil using your method. Thanks.
Ok, I just wanna see the anvil go sky high in person now..I love the PA-TINNNNG sound.
Just set up my anvil using this method. Easy and all from scrap around the shop.
That seems about the simplest and quickest way to get that mounted down tight. I like it.
This video just gave me a great solution for the mounting of a small anvil that I have been
pondering over for a very long time. Thank you.
simplicity , my kinda deal ,... i may use this set up thx friend
I have been following you buckin in your blacksmithing setup and watched tour anvil mount vid. I just copied the link to this vid and was going to send it to you!! Then saw your reply!! Haha
need to mount my new anvil and this idea with hooks and chains looks very useful and elegant. Thanks!
Good heavens never thought I’d see another man like my late husband. I couldn’t bring myself to part with his black smithing tools. He loved guns and old steel and make knives out of files and spring steel. He made a small canon about 30 years ago and he’d fire it off at dawn every 4th of July. They never figured out who was doing it.
It makes me happy to see you turn your ratchet 360 degrees. It's handy to have a ratchet for tight spaces, but I always see people cranking on them when spinning is so much faster.
All I can say about this channel is; thank you.
Absolutely loved this video! Love that you work simple/ smarter not harder!
I've been planning to do exactly this for a while now. I really like your attachment mechanism. I'll give it a go. Thanks!
Thank you. I have a large oak stump waiting to get squared up for my #110 Trenton. Your video was a great help. I plan on routing a one half to one inch deep recessed pocket for the base. Love the chain tension hold down.
I have been very, very fortunate to have been given a 204-pound anvil and will be mounting it onto either a log or a based made of laminated sections of logs if I can't find one large enough. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
you have a first rate helper. im sure he provides a lot of entertainment!!
I just started blacksmithing today! This was 100% what I needed, I will build it tomorrow. Thank you so much.
Just subscribed! Don't know what got me most, the nice anvil mount, lovin' on grandbaby (aren't they great!), or launching the vice on the 4th! GOD BLESS AMERICA! Keep em comin! Thanks
Ask and you will receive ... I had just watched one of your anvil videos and requested a future video on mounting anvils because we have a neat old Mouse Hole Forge anvil to mount in our barn. Lo and behold the next video is this little gem. Many thanks Scott. Love your channel and content. God bless.
Many thanks for a very instructional video on how to mount up an anvil on a stump. I am getting ready to do this very thing in a couple days with my own anvil and it sure does help to see how to level the stump. Many thanks!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Just found your channel, been watching only a few days, but trying to catch up with the ground you've covered. I like your style, and I appreciate when you say we have a lot of territory to cover. Looking forward to listening and learning from you.
Dear Essentialcraftsman. After watching many of your great videos on anvils I have been on a hunt for one for my so called shop. Well I found one in Oregon. Once I get it cleaned up I will shoot you a picture. I want to do some research on it. Thanks for bringing back the importance of working with your hands and getting back to the basics of manual labor. Love your channel and all of the information you give to all of us. Bryan
A man who walks the Earth gracing it with his presence and us with his knowledge.
Man! That log squaring trick. Thanks!
Truly love these videos! Long may they continue!
I am so jealous!!!
I need an anvil in my workshop but I have not come across one yet here in Thailand!
In the mean time I will keep watching vids like this dreaming of the moment I find my anvil...
Thank you for all your videos. Man, those grandkids i hope know how lucky they are to have a grandpa like you. Sure wish you were my neighbor. Much Love to you and your family!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I love all the tools you you have in your shop.
What a fantastic, wholesome, high value channel you've created. Thank you for sharing.
The only video out of a couple dozen that should me on how to figure anvil height. Thanks
Thanks for posting!
Yet another amazing way of doing something. Thanks for sharing so much of your wisdom and experience, we younger guys appreciate it
Haven't got an anvil, probably never will but this is somehow still very interesting, please keep these videos coming.
I like the way you chained that anvil down! Oh and I see you start training your blacksmiths at a young age!!!
now this is Another Great Video... thank you for taking the time to make this...
Very nice instructional video...Thanks!
Thank you! I struggled trying to get a level anvil stand. Now I know how to not only make a good stump, but also how to tightly attach the anvil to it. I've tried some methods, but they just didn't work well for me.
Serendipity. I laid my hands on a couple of stumps just the other day. I love the eye bolt set-up! Thanks for sharing and all the great videos.
He's always so happy in anvil videos lol.
Thanks man. Hammer swinger here, BC Canada
You sure love what you do, and you do it right.
Thank you for all your videos, they have inspired me to take new routes in my work!