It's great that someone built Will an amusement park.

Anvil collection: Among the collections least likely to be stolen. Only bank vault collectors worrry LESS about theft.

This is so wild!!!

This place seriously needs to be turned into a museum and resource for 'blacksmiths'. I can see this place being the perfect living history museum... sooo much history... not just of beating hot metal into submission, but the church, and the fortress as a whole. Thank you Will!

After near a lifetime of forge work , I’ve never seen anything like this before . Absolutely amazing . All the best from England .

This explains why anvils are hard to find. This guy's got them all!

I’m not even a blacksmith and that has to be one of the the coolest things I’ve ever seen on UKposts. The rawness and fact that it’s not a tourist trap museum just screams authenticity and realness. Like how old was that tomahawk? If only they could talk. Incredible.

I was struck by the number of anvils that had undamaged edges, considering their age. either very well forged or they were taken wonderful care of by the smiths that used them.

I am from South Africa, we were farmers and the old guy farming next to us was in his 90's when I was about 10 years old, he was a blacksmith when he was younger, this old guy was build like power lifter, huge arms, legs, hands the size of dinner plates and a neck that will break the rope if they tried to hang him. He was very quiet, smoked a pipe and had an old Hano Mack tractor. He was famous for knocking out a mule that bit his hand at the local stock yards. Apparently he gave the mule one punch to the forehead and the mule woke up a minute later, none the wizer except for straying away from the old guy. Rumour had it that if you wanted to work for him you had to pick up and anvil and carry it 6 yards and you got the job so needless to say he worked on his own all of his life.

I'm an 80 yr old devout You Tuber! and that is the most insane collection of Anvils I've ever seen. That place should be a working Museum and they should be brought back to life again in place but with love and security. thanks for sharing. ECF

as amazing as that collection is, its criminal to see it all just sitting outside rusting not getting to be in workshops being used

Bought three anvils from this guy, all 100 years old or so, and all went to the smallest US island in the pacific. Im thrilled to have pulled that off, and cant wait to get them in action and start teaching, learning, and forging.... first knife forged on pagan island in many decades.//// someday.....

Those huge beautiful post vises rusting away kind of breaks my heart. Makes me want to go over there with some Kroil and a wire brush and get busy.

Power hammers have been around since the early middle ages. Not all water wheels were used for making flour.

Man, Italy is absolutely beautiful...

There's a 6,200 lb anvil in Harlan County Kentucky. It's a solid working anvil made with bulldozer weights, and a few hundred pounds of welds. That's possibly the world's largest anvil.

I would absolutely love to live there… a lifetime of stuff to repair and restore, and TOOLS

This is easily your best video yet Will. No joke, thanks for bringing us this footage. And thanks for the owners and everyone involved letting Will come shoot this film.

Hey Will, I just wanna take the time to say we appreciate you sharing these trips with us. Really awesome to see these sorts of things!

Thank you for sharing your experience of this fortress. While you were enthralled by the anvils (which are cool) I appreciated getting to see the architecture, especially at then end as you searched for the animals. Wonderful that you were able to take this trip.

Seems criminal to just leave them wasting away to rust

Looks like an amazing trip. Good for you Will. Thanks for bringing us along with the video.

I'm from UK but now live in central France. There are so many anvils and leg vises for sale over here. If you're careful, and lucky, you can still pick up very good ones (sometimes nearly 150 years old) for the equivalent of about a dollar a lb weight

I’m not a smith but I found this tour to be absolutely fascinating.

That big anvil makes the one in Rings of Power a bit more believable

Will that was an absolutely insane amount and variety of anvils I'm truly grateful that you would share it with us

Those commenting about worrying the anvils and post vices being out side and rusting, never mind. You’ll be dust in the ground for centuries before those things even pit. The Italian government should fund a blacksmith’s school/museum in that fort and progressively restore the walls and buildings. Thanks for the tour.

That was super cool Mr. Stelter! Thanks for taking us along!

What an amazing place. Europeans are so lucky to have historical places like that. So beautiful

Thank you will for sharing this with us. There is more history there than I could possibly fathom.

I always appreciate when old things are saved . It's great to see they were not melted down as scrap.

Sensory overload is the perfect way to describe it. I would have been in heaven. I'm a blacksmith, timber framer and history nerd. I love that he tried to speak so much English for you even though you had a translator. It shows a lot of respect to you.

It's cool to see the passion of you and the owner when talking about anvils!

I'd love to see that place fully restored! It looks amazing

I grew up in a time and place when I was able to explore inside old rotten dilapidated barns and I still have a few items that were found during those amazing childhood adventures.. this brings it to a whole different level. Thanks for sharing!

I love that he was so happy showing you around - he'd a big smile on his face all the time :) Great video Will. Loved it.

Will I really like the mix of content you're posting. Of course, I love watching you forge stuff, but this was very interesting. Please do more of this kind of stuff in the future.

What a fantastic place. The castle would be a great place to build a school of industrial arts. The place could be renovated & expanded to serve as a center for industrial arts education ranging from black smithing, welding, machining, industrial ceramics, & glass with room for lots of other options.

What a wonderful various anvils and vises collection as well. Jungle of massive blacksmith tools. I am taken a back to see all of them. Thanks for sharing and keep it up.

That is really impressive. Not only the size of stuff, but the incredible variety. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to come along!

One of your best episodes. Love your trip to Italy.

It's unvelievable that I live 20 minutes far from that amazing place and I have never heard of it. It's really a pity that it isn't visitable to all

That is just an awesome video showing old architecture and foundry history. More please.

AMAZING!! Hope they have plenty of time for restoration on the fortress! Old here in the states is pretty recent across the pond! Having a very hard time finding a quality 150-300 lb anvil here in New Mexico ! The whole place is a treasure! Thanks for the video!

Man i feel so privileged seeing this. I guess it makes sense the US is not that old right. Here in the UK we have plenty of old buildings and stuff like this. I can find some old blacksmith stuff fairly easily local to me. Allot of the old town/village blacksmiths have gone but a few do remain as museums or hobbyist places.

Before watching this video, I had never considered the idea that there could be an evolution of anvils throughout history OR that anyone would have a large collection of such; the thought never crossed my mind. A really interesting video, for me.

I live in the mediteranean. I could feel the temperature of this video, especially when you went outside and then those bug noises also brought me back to summer in my childhood.

Thank you for filming, and sharing. This is the kind of post that makes UKposts great.

It's always a fun video with Will geeking out about stuff :)

It is amazing given the history of wars in Europe that so many anvils survived the need for metal. I saw a post card from WWII era of a train of hopper cars all loaded with anvils. Back in the day every farm had an anvil for keeping horses shod but with the advent of mechanized harvest the need for anvils was going away and the need for iron was high so many of the anvils went to the war effort.

Omg this place lightly restored and used as a home would be absolutely amazing

Amazing trip. Its awesome to see the history of anvils over the centuries all housed in one place. Something else that caught my eye were those massive bellows at 17:37. I wonder if during the renovation, they get some of the forges up and running again. If they do, you may have to make a trip back over there!

He appears to collect Anvils with absolutely no regard for the care of the tools. I don't know the man, obviously, however; in his Lifetime he could not take proper care, or organize all the tools and anvils he possesses. The video was very interesting, the Fortress is incredible. It's ashame that the fortress and contents will probably waste away with time. Very sad.

That was absolutely gorgeous, both the castle and the anvil collection. I do have a few questions though: What does that fantastic gentleman do with all those anvils, what got him into collecting them and how did he come to own an entire castle to fill with a mind boggling number and variety of blacksmith treasures?

That looks like an amazing place and an even more amazing anvil collection! Thank you for sharing this with us.

What a stunning and amazing place to be able to see! To think a single person owns this place! Oh to be one of the fortunate ones who can do amazing things, wow!

I absolutely love watching your content no matter what it is I always look forward to your uploads. I wish you all the success in the world, you definitely deserve it, I hope you keep making content for many years to come

You are extremely fortunate Young Will! That is one of the most incredible collections of blacksmithing tools in an extraordinary environment.

That is an amazing place to see. Thank you for sharing your experience.

Best collection on UKposts

This is just an amazing video. It looks like you've got the royal tour and we've got to share it with you. No doubt, your own work preceded you and they recognize a budding tradesman and artist. You earned this one, Will. Congrats and always keep us in the loop!

It was cool you took us on your adventure in anvil heaven. That was a great experience for the rest of us too.

Will, WHAT an incredible video. Thank you so much for the tour and history!

That is some serious heavy metal!

So, which of the tools you saw do you plan on making for your own use? Those axe tongs were way cool and look very useful. The giant metal shears casually leaning against the wall don’t look like something you’d use very often despite how cool they are.

Can you tell us about what is going on with rust with these anvils? I assume it is not great for them to be outside, but that is just an assumption. Keep up the good work!!

Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing your trip and all of those anvils (and vises!!!!!) Love it!

Oh my stars, this is an amazing collection of anvils, vises and tools. Incredible site!

Hey Will you are really bulking up man good job 👍

I wonder if Fireball Tool would like to build a vise that large?

First time watching your video. I've passed it up a few times and finally decided to watch it. I'm glad I did. I love history and the different anvils you concentrated on. I also enjoyed your commentary during your tour.

Incredible... That place is simply breathtaking.

I've been with you Will since your colaberation with Alec. To know that you're just down the street, almost, and not all the way over in Montana is filling me with a fizz. If you fancy a cuppa, call in on your way home...

Nice shots of the roofs and timbers and such I always check to see how a place was built when i walk in like that

That was pretty cool see all the different anvils and tools they used back in the days

My new fav vid of yours. Super cool that you got a private tour.

My Italian is a little rough but my grandmother would be proud that I was able to understand some of that, nice trip Will 😎👍

Thank you Will for filming that amazing collection of anvils in Italy. 😁👍🏼

That place is awesome! It's heaven for any blacksmith. I didn't even imagine a place like that existing at all nowadays. Loved it dude.

Wildest and oldest tools I have seen probably and old farming scythes. Also old auger drill bits. Great video

Thanks for the history lesson, wonderful tour

Thanks for charing this exploring. Amazing.

WOW My god.....what joy and amazement it feels to see so many tools out there in the open that will never lose the essence of their creation

Amazing place, thanks for sharing.

thank you for sharing this special experience

what an absolute mind blowing adventure!!! Thank you so much for sharing.

Epic! What an amazing place and collection. Thanks for sharing dude. 👍

I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing this!

Really wonderful tour!

Wow that is amazing to see that and the variety of forging equipment 🥰🥳 and to see a Italian fortress 😮

This was Amazing.. would enjoy to see what you got from there. Post vises,the anvils you picked up.. and any of that sort of things

unbelievable what an amazing field trip you are very blessed, I got the chills seeing all the amazing anvils

Very cool. I've been in a Swedish fortress from the 18th century and the place was totally destroyed pretty much. The basic architecture was there but it wasn't open to the public and wasn't very safe, but was pretty cool to see.

DUDE...That is the most insane Anvil Collection I've ever seen! AWESOME VIDEO

Gosh....I would love to have that collection of anvils!! SO AWESOME!!

This was amazing! So much history!

DUDE, you should've taken a little harbor freight jewelers anvil to drop into his collection and confuse the next tourist later on. 😉

Very nice video! The fort is golden! More of this 👍👍

What an incredible place!! Just amazing, you're so lucky.

This is amazing historical site that you were privileged to visit anvil paradise but those post vise amazing I enjoyed this video alot Will thanks for sharing.