Hay Budden

[QUOTE=cutter]

and here is the "rating plate"; some of the lettering is not readable but there is enough to clearly identify it as a Hay Budden, Brooklyn, NY. I have no idea what "MANUEL ????? RINGO" had to do with anything. Maybe this anvil was made to commemorate some famous gunfight or something. Maybe they were horsethieves that the owner killed with his hammer, I dunno.

Cutter, Just a guess, but I'd bet the "Manuel?????Ringo" has been beat to he!! and gone and probably originally said something along the lines of non-ringing anvil. Nice looking anvil one way or the other.

[7018]

Cutter you suck!!!!!nice one you got there!!Whats that cly.to the right?????

[cutter]

Originally Posted by 7018

Whats that cly.to the right?????

Assuming you meant cyl. as in cylinder, that's not a cly.
It's a roller that I salvaged out of some kind of old floor scrubber years ago.
Made a cheap roller stand & have been using it with my bandsaw lately.

[realhfd]

Originally Posted by cutter

I have no idea what "MANUEL ????? RINGO" had to do with anything. Maybe this anvil was made to commemorate some famous gunfight or something.

looks to me like "MANUFACTURING" as in perhaps
Hay Budden
manufacturing of
Brooklyn NY
??

[AZCoyote]

Originally Posted by realhfd

manufacturing of

That is correct.

[cutter]

lolol
I just had the chance to look at it in the sunlight (raining yesterday, remember?)and came back in here to report that it indeed says "manufacturing" but I believe it says "Hay Budden Manufacturing Co."
In fact the "C" that I mistook for the "O" in "Ringo" is clearly open even in the photo.
lol, so sad to see yet another romantic legend die before it even got to bloom. I was becoming partial to the horse thief notion myself.

[7018]

Hay cutter check This So you got a good deal on yours!!!!!

[arcdawg]

so let me reinstate that you suck cutter

my dad swears that there is a couple of anvils in our barn.........i think that that is his way of making me clean out the 20 by 50 barn

that includes more crap then you could ever imagine !

dawg

[cutter]

Originally Posted by 7018

Hay cutter check This So you got a good deal on yours!!!!!

Thanks, Paul. I emailed the seller & asked about the serial number dating. I would like to know just for curiosity.
I also invited him to come see us.

Thanks, Dawg.

[Franz]

Given the location, and the weight of that one on ePay, the price really isn't that outrageous, based on what I read on the smithing sites.
You gotta really want to work to need a 240# anvil, and I don't.