Anvil or ASO?? | From Railroad Track 

I’m a child of the 60s, I love it’s retro space-age look. The inverting the track is a touch of genius, it also gives a far superior surface for using clamps etc. Brilliant!

Not only an anvil, but an art work! Not only a craftsman, but an artist! Great admiration...

I appreciate this video a lot and as a welder it’s always nice to see guys who understand the value of pre heating the steel before welding. Literally makes all the difference!! I’m getting ready to tackle my own Anvil or as you put it an ASO shortly. I was gifted a 3ft section of track and plan to make at least one and maybe gift one to someone else that wants one.

Nicely done! You deserve a solid high five for your talent and the hard work you laid in to cultivate and express it so beautifully. The design of the anvil speaks for itself-nice! The effort and attention you put into the project resulted in a demonstration of how, what people think of as quality, happens. Thank for your post.

As a railway welder FYI you should preheat to 800f and post heat to 1200f and let cool very slowly

I think that is the best looking and probably most functional railroad track anvil/ASO I have ever seen. Nice work!

Awesome tool! I love the shape. I welded on the railroad for railtech. Preheating the work is definitely essential. When we would repair the arc welders work it was always evident that the weld didn't bond because of temperature differences. We used a large torch and brought it up to at least 1200 f. It takes a few minutes

You are the Man , cutting iron with Mechanics gloves ! Good Idea , nice work

You are a true craftsman and I want one. Thanks 🙏

Nice anvil and torch work! I got a chuckle out of your pipe wrench hammer!

That's a mighty handsome job!

I’m a bit of an anvil snob and think that’s pretty cool. Good vid too

Very cool idea. Great work. Thanks for sharing.

Great job! I'm trying to do one following your directions.

Thanks for this. I was trying to figure out how I wanted to convert a 2’ section and I am sure this is it.

Great job. Great design.

Man o man! Looks great! Do I ever wish I had a torch!! Big labor saver! Awesome job! I'm gonna try! Also glad you included some instructional dialog. Plus, I liked your addition of the inverted rail for a larger surface! 👍

That looks incredible brother ! Thanks for making a video on this 🙏 I subscribed

That design is sweet! Thanks for the video gotta make me one now🤙🏼

Beautiful piece of work my man!

Great job and vid. Gotta love those pipe wrenches, a hammer, bender, and wrench. Lol loved it

Amazing work! I am truly inspired!! Thank you for sharing!!! :)

I really like the anvil. I have a chunk of track, I just need to do it. Thanks for the video.

Awsome work!

That was awesome Keep up the good work and thanks 👍

Good idea and great job

Weld through primer bro. Nice anvil. There is stuff called weld through primer. You put it on and it has zinc in it so you still get continuity and it makes for great welds and no rust in between seams. Been using it on cars and other projects for years. Never had a problem. Beautiful work.

Perfect job bro.I will do it soon too

Great job Bro!!!

That's a sick anvil !

Looks great........wonderful video

Nice work!!!!

Amazing torchwork

Very nicely done

Great work 👍👏👏

Good idea, very good skills, congrats 👍

Nice build there, if you ever have the time I would suggest reading IFI there are a few good post on hammer weight anvil ratio, they pretty much say that the hammer weight doesn't matter, eg : people have a (let's say a 60 lbs) striking anvil and they use a sledge hammer as heavy as they can swing on it with no draw backs but it's up to you tbh anyway hope to see you using that anvil soon, all the best Paddy

You made a very awesome looking anvil thanks for sharing your video

Great job. I want one.

Wow beautiful anvil, I love it 👏👏👏👏👏

Probably best rail Anvil I've ever seen built several of my own

Que excelente calidad de trabajo Felicidades amigo

We to made our anvil from a old railway track, gord that must have been 50 years ago and she sill takes a beating.

Awesome work 👍

Love it Love it! Awesome Dude!!

Nice work. Thanks for sharing

👏👏👍Excelent it looks like a supersonic jet.

Good job man

Great job 👏🏻

Hay great idea and excellent job

Really nice!!

Awesome! It looks like a caboose too.

Magnífico expendido !!!

That is an amazing job you did there

Nice job 😁

Damn good job there, 😎

Jason, You did a great job on building this anvil.

Perfect.

Excelente trabajo , saludos cordiales desde Chaco Argentina

Bonito trabajo compañero. Saludos

Не знаю,дойдёт ли..?Поймёт ли..? Но-о.,пацан просто красавчик!

That’s terrific thanks

Beautiful

I call that art good job i love it

Muito bom gostei excelente trabalho !👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

beautiful

Great job

Nice best one I have seen

Man the best i ever seen made great job GOD BLESS

Fantastic 👍

I'm not a metal worker but I thought you did a damned fine job with the cutting torch and welder.

I need one of those

Perfect . Bravo .

Great work, my friend. How big is this trail?

Я следил за сварочным процессом, молодец, технологию не нарушил.

Na minha opinião este é o melhor vídeo de fabricação de bigorna top!

I’ve got an old railway anvil that I inherited from my great uncle that he made. It got me interested in blacksmithing as a kid and I have been ever since... That doesn’t mean I’m good at it though lol.

Looks freaking beautiful my first anvil was a small chuck of 4x6 metal just screwed to my workbench, look at my small axe forging video lol

Good job

Good idea, even better performance, something beautiful👍👏👏👏🇵🇱

You are really great worker and it's very good sir nice video👍👌

Wow somebody actually using a torch good for you

That is sharp looking. I have piece of rail just for that project.

Hermoso excelente!!!

Parabéns ficou show de bola muito bom trabalho

Thank you ! Very nice !!!

Really awesome job and Design. You have crazy skills. You could actually Market that. But I know you don't want to oh, that's probably a signature piece of one of a kind. Good job. I'd like to find a piece of railroad track so I can make my own

Good idea .

Linda. Parabéns pelo trabalho. Realmente é a mais top do RU-vid.

Millie is right, but as a normal construction welder I say if it's holds for the things that you do with it, than it's good. Very good job.

Disclosure, I know bugger all about anvils! Those I have seen have a square hole, maybe it’s called a frog? No idea what the square hole is used for either, but wondering to myself if it would have been clever to drill say a round hole with the drill press & use a jig saw with metal blade to square out the corners to end up with a square hole? Only way I would be making one of these is with a hand hacksaw & a truck load of new hack saw blades, & a hand file! I don’t own a Oxy torch, much less know how to use one - so I figure if I started now it might be finished before I’m dead maybe! 😂 Admire your effort- thanks for taking the time & effort to post it up for others to learn from. Not too sure how rail line will hold up to being pounded on tho, longer term. Back in a previous life I worked for 10 years for the Government railways department in their engineering department, in charge of building & maintaining thousands of miles of Narrow & Dual /Standard gauge tracks, bridges, culverts & what have you! We had a room hidden away down in the basement, where pieces of rail track broke, often in cold freezing weather, that lead to derailments where people died! The sections were kept with the metallurgical reports that were provided to the coroners inquests about the causes of the failure (fatigue cracking often). There was a LOT of broken rails stored on shelves in that room going back 100+ years of derailments & deaths. That lead to the development of ultrasonic rail flaw detector wagons that could scan tracks for fatigue cracking before they broke So sections that were flawed could be cut out & replaced. When you see a room full of them, you realise that broken rails aren’t as uncommon as many might think! Be kinda worrisome if your pounding on a rail & it had fatigue cracking and just broke in half! We had a track man (ganger/fettler/ghandi dancer, call it what you will) who was a man mountain, that swung a 13 pound sledge hammer & drove dog spikes home into hardwood railway sleepers / ties, with just one blow! Think “Bud Spencer” big, when he died from massive coronary in his late 40’s he was buried in a piano crate coz there were no coffins available large enough to fit him into! He mis hit one day, driving a spike & hit the head of the 74 pounds per foot rail, and broke a piece 18 inches long out of the side of the head of the rail! I’m just a tad leery I guess of pounding on railway line with sledge hammers. Same guy before he died, one of his crew they sent to the local hotel for a beer run just across the tracks from their on rail camp / accomodation vans. He came crawling back minus his money, with no beer & all beat to hell! Turned out there was a gang of outlaw motorcycle club members drinking in the hotel, who decided to have some fun with this one of my workers! So the man mountain & the remaining 11 members of the crew, grabbed pick axe handles & visited the bikers at the hotel! It took 14 ambulances to cart them all away to hospital, and my crew piled all their bikes in a heap in the car park of the hotel & set them all alight! 😂 All my crew, showed up on time for work the next morning! 😜 They were NOT the kinda guys you wanted to mess with. Ahh the good ol days! 👍

Great to see someone who stil knows how to burn. All you see on RU-vid is guys with cut-off wheels. I have been welding and fabricating since since 1962 and only stared using cut off wheels a couple of years ago (and rarely use them even now) How did we survive before Metabos

Nice .I have a piece of rail . Great idea

I have a old length my dad had it would be nice to have it done.

Makes me wish I had one.

😨🤤 thought i hv seen every Crazy Anvil... but this is d Rolls Royce under d Anvils .... Gratulation for dis Projekt.... 👏👏👏👏👏💪💪

Отличная работа!!!

Nice job 👍 ! Really good, would like to make same... Thanks you !

Very Nice

Awesome!!!!