This is easily the biggest anvil I ever saw, regardless of construction.
This guy can grind!! Cutting out and welding the parts is bad enough, but getting here took a lot of disks!!
Here is a neat Ca story.
Before WW11 the main repair depot of the west coast was in the tiny town of Dunsmuir. Nestled in the mountains this unlikely little town has a giant "shop" depot building that is still standing. But its empty.
After Pearl Harbor it was assumed the Japanese would be invading, and steps had to be taken. So to protect and preserve the equipment, it was broken up and shipped elsewhere that wasn't so easy to spot from the air.
After the war they never went back. Never put the old repair depot back together again.
In a plain low quonset hut building, on a sidestreet in Yreka Ca...........
Walking in the front door there is a dinky dark dingy little office. Walk past that into the shop? and have you'll your mind blown for you. Colossal lathes 20' long and 6' wide. A radial drill press with an 8' revolving table, huge T-slots milled for giant hold downs. Enormous mills, a shaper that has a 18'X8' table.
Its, Land of the Giants, in there!
Somehow in all this, the anvil and vise were dropped off in the next town. Hornbrook.
There is only one gas station and at the back of the station shop there is an anvil that has to weigh 600 pounds and a vise that dwarfs it.
I see a lot of stuff in my life that I'd like to have. Once in a while I see something that is terrifically cool but I know that no way I would -ever- have room for it.
yours Scott
