He Made The Worlds Largest Anvil - JD Napier of Harlan Kentucky

I feel a, a, great deal of excitment coming on...... I have a pile of black smithing magazines under my bed..... Ohhh Ohhhhhhhhh that anvil... Anyway - that anvil is REALLY well made.... Look at the shape and the symmitery and the exactness and the surface finish - all over... And the coat hook - that is really "grand master" exactness... He has made it from Catepillar D9 - G counterweights... These are big steel blocks that when the dozer has a HUGE blade on one end, rather than the dozer tipping over nose heavy when it lifts or tries to lift the blade, they put counter weights on the other end... AND so he hired a heap of welders using oxygen acetylene (wholly ?) to weld it or to keep the mass hot enough to arc weld, he has cut up and assembled it out of the D9-G counter weights... Like I do not know EXACTLY what they look like as that model dozer is very old - like from the 50's / 60's - I am assuming... but I would hazard a guess they looked something like these... I think the counterweights - images are going to be hard to find, so this will have to do... BIG blocks of steel that can be cut and shaped into a giant anvil... https://www.lbsteel.com/wp-con....tent/uploads/2011/09

They also would have been using the oxy sets to cut the steel to shape as well.....

I have cut up plate like that to make the walker type feet couplings for a drag line..... I think they were about 20cm thick... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXDAXXRLupQ ----------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP4PuhywXm8