Munkul
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You only supposed to say that after someone has just bought one for lots more
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Screwdriver
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h-dom
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I'm not so sure, I am always looking (even though I don't have space for another) and anything over £300 anvils tend to sit around a long time before selling. Maybe one in that good condition would have gone quickly but they don't seem to fetch the prices they are listed at. Same with leg vices, people list them for £100+, I've got three and they all cost £15 or less.
Screwdriver
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One can never be sure what something is worth. Had our plucky loser carried on bidding for the one in the op, would it have been "worth" more because it sold for more? How much more?
All you need is an irresistible force to meet an immovable object and that minty one in the first post could easily make £600-£800. If I was selling, I'd be prepared to wait until it made its money, same as if I was buying but for totally opposite reasons!
All you need is an irresistible force to meet an immovable object and that minty one in the first post could easily make £600-£800. If I was selling, I'd be prepared to wait until it made its money, same as if I was buying but for totally opposite reasons!
AVI_8
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A couple I know who had just inherited a house which came with an anvil, I’d say the same size as the one shown by the OP, a scrap man was due to pick it up, they said I could take it along with a 4 wheel trailer and a very old record number 42 vice, when I went to pick it up they’d decided to keep it as a garden ornament, that was a disappointment!
Got the trailer and vice though.
Got the trailer and vice though.
roofman
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I would of managed to tow it with my man pecker if it was freeI found a large one in a scrap yard many moons ago. The owner said "if you can move it you can have it". Needless to say even three of us couldn't move it a mm
Lewis_RX8
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Just live when your skip diving all the pikey strength comes to you when its freeI would of managed to tow it with my man pecker if it was free
roofman
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there's more strength available diving than saving a life
Arc Tourist
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Skip rats. 
When I was younger ,,, my party piece was to take a bit of half inch flat stock ,I would of managed to tow it with my man pecker if it was free
and cold bent it
round my man pecker ,,,
to make horse shoes ,,
for big horses
but
now
fifty years on
I cant do it any more
Ive found as I got older
my wrists are not as strong as they were
James1979
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Offer to make a fake one out of sheet metal and swap?
brightspark
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just go borrow it
RaceDiagnostics
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Another anvil in at this week's auction, not as nice as the last one. What do you think this one will go for.
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Screwdriver
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£3.78/lb.
RaceDiagnostics
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Well I lost again, just didn't want/need it enough. 3 bidders, I went up to £160, it sold for £200 in the end.
