Some anvils, especially older ones are a wrought iron body with a hardened steel face. Lower end would have a cast iron body with a hardened face. A lot of newer high end anvils are cast steel with the face hardened. So the bodies are typically softer than the face. As a smith I have to say it! It’s a shame to be punching holes in those anvils.😂
Matt, The Hardened one only has a 3/4" high carbon plate in the top surface, the rest of the body is cast, same as the other one. If you look at the side, on most hardened anvils you will see the line between the cast body and the plate.
@@DriveCarToBar work hardening is a pretty minor increase that is very superficial. You can tell the difference when you're working on it, but not when you're shooting it.
Imagine a weekly stream or every few weeks, where he sits and streams for an hour or 2 sighting in a few firearms and answering questions. Eventually everything would be re-sighted and it'd be a way to interact directly with the demolitia more.
Dude just the goofiness between them this episode was so on point, between the mag bump, and the nodding with the camera I was cracking up but when Matt hopped on the golf cart and hit the little hill I lost it😂
@@whatsupchris end of January, that’s also why we keep referencing the RU-vid rules that got overturned. A little late but we had that other Gun from Nemo in the all calibers vid and I didn’t want two Nemo guns back to back so we put some other episodes in the schedule. BUT THEN Kentucky Buttlipsticks (love you Scott) dropped an omen vid last week so we wanted to push this one out to make it seem like we didn’t copy him 🤷🏻♂️, idk our vid is better 😉
that many guns bouncing around the ranch... doubtful anyone keep them really locked into zero for life lol matt is kinda hard on stuff idk if you noticed that!! some guns run great sited at 10 ya know lol
21:19 minutes with my mouth open, totally silent! Holy crap brothers!!! I actually felt the recoil through my 32" monitor!!! Once upon a time, I was at the local state park shooting range, with my trusty Marlin 444, shooting about 100 yards. At the end of the range there was a boulder, pockmarked and defaced from years of high velocity lead being hurled at it, but still in one piece. It was about 2' x 2' x 3' long. I took 3 shots pretty much dead center, and with a faint groan, she split as if Moses himself had waved his hand... There is no substitute for mass. Incredible video guys, thank you!!!
I swear! I thought Matt was going to make a smiling face on his target with his 1st mag dump. I appreciate the work and thank you for the entertainment.
@@MarkoDash yeah, I was thinking the tungsten cube was more damaged but I just revisited that and the tungsten held up even better. I've got a bad memory I guess.
Definitely needed the Cameraman interactions! This video was like a better vibe than what we usually get on demo ranch so keep up the awesome work, and I hope to see more Cameraman interactions
@@David.Lopez.12 I think the first time I ever heard the cameraman was the pudding fatsuit episode. You know it's funny when the cameraman breaks character.
@@Scotty916 It was a temporary RU-vid rule that you can’t show certain gun operations like inserting a mag or screwing on a silencer. They were talking strikes and bans and even blocked a Demo Ranch video but it got cleared up.
Someone else may point this out, but normally only the face (the top work surface) of the anvil is hardened. Sometimes the horn will be as well, but that's not at all common. The face is the part meant to take the most beating and so it's the only part that really has any advantage to being hardened. In other words, to do a proper "hardened vs unhardened" test you'd have to flip them on their end and shoot the face, not the sides.
I suspect that unless you shoot the faces, the anvils will perform nearly identically. As far as I know, most "hardened" anvils are actually only hard on their work face, the rest of the body is good old soft iron. Edit: It seems that you have discovered this 😂 Carry on!
@@noided4230 Only on newer anvils and a few certain older ones. Old time anvils mostly used a steel plate with iron body. Heat treating 200lb anvil isn't easy today and certainly would be harder 100+ years ago.
@@noided4230 Erm... He literally discovered over the course of the video that what I said was correct 😂 There are lots of reasons why you might want differentially hardened steel parts. Hardened steel is prone to brittle failure when over stressed whereas unhardened metal will usually deform plastically under excessive loads which will usually result in safer and more easily repaired damage. Heat treating and tool steel alloys are more expensive than mild steel/cast iron shipped straight out the door, so you only do it to areas that need it. Hard parts will cause excessive wear on unhardened parts so some components might need a hard spot and a soft spot in order to play nice with other components. I'm sure I could think up more examples but I think I got the point across and I'm tired of typing 🤪 TLDR: Solid steel tools =/= Delicious meat steaks 😉
This was literally the best science I've seen on the channel yet. You had a problem, then a hypothesis, and you tested it, then proved your hypothesis. Nice!
Ok but can we appreciate how genuinely smart mat is to have figured out that its just the top that is hardened while the rest of us mentally screamed at him for not already knowing that?
This was fun to watch, after all these years of watching Matt shoot stuff it still feels the same. The only thing that really changed is the intros, he keeps coming up with new ideas and it’s fun. I guess I’ve been watching for a decade now😂 and I’m 24.
13:00 you're correct, hardened vs not is only in reference to the main striking surface (the face), sometimes the step and horn will be, but if the entire anvil was hardened... I can't imagine how loud the ring from hitting it would be, but there's a reason that they get mounted to heavy solid bases, and some will even wrap the anvil base in additional mild steel chains (to kill the ring). Normally a hardened anvils face is a separate chunk on steel (some designs include the horn portion as this piece) that's fixed to the main body, because heating the entire structure would be a nightmare lol
I was wondering if it is even possible to harden an entire anvil that big. It can be heated to uniform temperature but cooling such a large volume leads to case hardening. I read a paper a few years ago that was using some complex physics to focus energy internally so that it can be rapidly heated then immediately self-quench from the surrounding cool material. It's a really hard problem to solve. Fortunately, for the vast majority of use cases it is desirable for a hardened outer surface to rest on a soft underbody.
You and Kentucky are the only ones that get the thumbs up from the intro's before I ever watch the rest of the video. #Classic And, yes, the top plate of the anvil gets hardened. like a quarter/half inch. The base is just the cast metal.
Just looking at the thumbnail hurts my soul! I love your videos and the content you make so I think I know what’s gonna happen to the poor anvil. I’ve been blacksmithing/Bladesmithing for the past 10 years and it’s been the most fun hobby I’ve ever taken up. But looking forward to the destruction.
I think only the very top of the anvil is a hardened plate of carbon steel the rest of it is cast-iron like the other one. You cannot harden cast-iron. Glad to see the Mere has not offed you yet. “ Proof of life”. Where is the update on the secret project? We are well past the countdown.
Hi Matt, I'm a big fan of your channel. I have an idea for a video. Shoot fully charged capacitors. There are very large high voltage pulse capacitors that can store many thousands of joules of energy. Would certainly be awsome to fire at them with a large caliber. No one has ever seen this on RU-vid before. Best regards Oli
Hey Matt love your stuff I’m part of the Australian army and I think it would be cool if you got a heap of veterans and just had some fun shenanigans on a range loand I knew nothing about guns but watching you helped with the basics of gun knowledge and being safe and responsible keep up the amazing work love you bro Edit: I just wanted everyone to know that the recent conflicts have effected the families and the defence force personnel in more so than physical ways and I love and respect all of you, you are all hero’s i hope you can all tell your stories and show us who the real hero’s are because I now know it’s not super man or captain America it you and your families thanks for your service
If you watch Off the Ranch, you can tell when Matt films things out of order. His water collection tank, and his new floodlights aren't installed yet. :D
@@DTex.45ACP yep, as soon as i heard him talking about those, i knew it was an older video. I didnt even think about the lights and tank not being like they are now either.
Matt, very astute of you. Generally it's the top of the anvil that gets hardened, and usually as it is worked. The heat transfers from the metal being worked, and that is how the top of the anvil is usually harder than the sides 😊
Hey Matt, you're right is usually just the top of the anvil that's hardened, it's too give the hammer bounce to cut down the amount of lifting you have to do plus give a more uniform finish.
I said this on matts other video also but there should be a best intro section at the gundies created especially for demo ranch and we can all vote and watch matts top ten best intros for the past year. And maybe the same thing for his montages.
@@SaltNBattery thank you, by than I believe that I will have grown out of my depression and with Jesus I will never take my own life. Thank you for being concerned and you stay safe too.
Hardened anvils are the same cast as un-hardened ones but have a hardened steel plate welded onto the top striking surface. So shooting the side will give similar results, you need to lay the anvils over so you can shoot the tops of them.
I love the RU-vid mentality that all the viewers have their heads so far up their butts, that we can’t figure out how those suppressors are attached if we don’t see it happen 😂
Hey Matt! Just a spontaneous idea, knowing that you've bent barrels on rifles before and we saw the results, I was just wondering would it would do in the realm of shotguns? I'm curious to see what would happen with bird shot, buckshot, and of course slugs. Would it work 🤔?
I’m not sure if this has been said already, but a lot of older anvils only have a plate on the face of the anvil that has been hardened, and the rest is mild or lower carbon steel. Love your vids Matt!
A lot of older anvil models were created more brittle out of pig iron which made them much more able to sustain force. Newer models tend to be more tender alloy type materials.
He shoots from children's small-caliber rifles. Is it destructive? There are real men's rifles. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ETb-vMEPXMg.html
Who would have thought, that this all started from putting bullets in a microwave 😆 Matt always finds new ways to deconstruct items using bullets or explosions…..and keep it entertaining 👏👍
You gotta do this again but put the mannequins in the splash zone, or if you put a ruler flat on the surface you're shooting, the ends of the ruler would point at mannequins.
