11 Replies to “Ey Vill Krush U!”

  1. my anvil was a pc or rail abt 1 1/2 ‘ long
    l retired a ways back and gave it to my pickup truck deliveryman for scrap.
    when l wuz a kid my daddy had the same thing.
    l learned to optimum # of cap gun ‘ammo’ l cd bag off at the same time parked on it a hitting a bullseye with the round end of the ball pien.
    5 l think it was, more and the paper wd compress and take the blow and kinda fizzle.
    fewer wd still pop but not as loud as ‘adding 1 more’
    the exercise ended when the nasty wap cat’olic nxt door complained
    (that was the whole objective, to her goat)

  3. No … this does NOT make me feel any better that all the steel used in the rebuild of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was Communist Chinese steel.

  4. A brinell test would have been a more accurate method. Not impressed with the “science” in this one. There are many factors at play besides just testing different anvils. sort of like comparing a Lexus vs a low level GM. The one from the US looked like it had been machined while the others were cast which in itself makes the items dissimilar. In every kind of steel the molecular makeup can change due to customer requirements and needs. All the countries are capable of making high quality steel and will do so based on the customer requirements. That being said and having been involved in the metallurgical annealing industry for many years if a load of pipe came out of the furnace after heat treating and was bent to garbage you could be almost 100% certain it came from China.

    1. The whole point of this channel is that they crush various things. That’s it. “What happens when we put [x] in a 100-ton press?”

      I was surprised that they crushed something of a practical nature in this video, JPH.

      One of the most amusing videos they made was when they put clothing in the press and made the items the size of a hockey puck, then loaded that in a suitcase. The suitcase wound up weighing 120 +pounds after they were done. Extreme vacation packing.

  5. From Spokane Wash, is Fireball Tools helping out his Montana friend, he has a look at a large Swedish anvil, from back when Sweden was in the top +/- 3 steel making countries in the world, and their axes were well respected too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3O2hwLcVUE&t=307s

    My first “real” job was with Dominion Bridge in Regina (the city which rhymes with fun) Sask… the 1912 Beattie punch machine (John Beattie and Sons, 1912) had a 12 foot flywheel on the end of it to add some ummff and smoothness to the punches which pounded holes in the i beam flanges, much quicker than drilling all of them.
    The old guys I worked with always talked about “next year” they’ll be moving the new punch machine inside to take its place and how much easier it would be to make parts for it.

    One day on break, I wandered outside the plant to look at this new punch, “John Bertrum and Sons, 1916”
    Same green paint, same flywheel, same same.

    I do like the Cincinnati milling machine #5 in the above video too.

  6. I’m with JPH on this one, and was going to use the CAR analogy as well.
    But my 3 anvils are of the Dutch type, FREE.

  7. Does the USA even mass produce such things? Probably cast in a small shop somewhere. The one from India had a high lead content.

  8. Why is this so fascinating? I had to watch them all. But now onto more pressing matters.

  9. One thing I noticed, the US anvil was corroded and old vs shiny new for the others. The probable reason for this, sadly, is that the US hasn’t produced one since the 1960s.

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