Big Horn 19312 - 11 Lbs Rugged Cast Iron Anvil

hello everybody welcome back to the workshop so we're gonna find out how terrible this 55 pound anvil is from Harbor Freight now starting off this anvil is a cast iron animal so we already know that it's going to be a ductile iron anvil or a soft iron anvil it is not going to be a hardened steel anvil right out the gate so there you go quick disclaimer I'm not going to tell you anything new there but what I am going to tell you is that these animals get a really terrible wrap around the blacksmithing community some people say I've hit on it five times and the whole thing just crumbled I find that hard to believe but again it's been a really long time since I Smith on a Harbor Freight amble and that'll bring me to my first story of the day if you'll indulge me for a second I started my smithing journey on a Harbor Freight anvil some could say I'm a little bit biased towards these anvil s