Tools for removing an Lee Enfield barrel

[Sunray]

OP is 11 years old.
You need a barrel vice, a proper action wrench and a big mallet(a 4 foot long 2" Al bar works really well). Plus a solid work bench with a 4" machinist's vice bolted onto it.
"...twisted into corkscrew..." That'd be the receiver when you use the incorrect tool for the action. You turn the receiver, not the barrel.

[browningautorifle]

OP is 11 years old.

I said that...

You turn the receiver, not the barrel.

Apparently you weren't there when that happened...the receiver was being turned and the barrel was being held captive...next guess...?

[Sunray]

"...receiver was being turned and the barrel was being held captive..." Which is what "You turn the receiver, not the barrel." means. English you second language?

[Brian Dick]

BAR speaks the truth. I've seen it once too. I had one sent here after a good butchering using a bench vice, unmodified Brownell's wrench and Lord only knows how long of a breaker bar. and/or hammer. When i looked down the bore, I thought it was my eyes going or an optical illusion. He'd definitely converted the rifling to a faster twist rate in a very unconventional way! In my humble experience, unless you have a custom or original military wrench and vice blocks made for the Knox form/reinforce, don't do it. There will be one that defeats you eventually and you'll probably wreck the rifle in the process. I had another one sent here several years ago that a guy sprung the body by unscrewing it from the barrel with a bar down through the mag well. Imagine that. He'd also turned the shoulder on a lathe a full turn to install the barrel for tighter headspace, (I swear on a stack of bibles it's true). It was a 1943 LB Mk.1* and when the bolt was retracted the bolt head would pop out of the cut on the right hand rail every time. It had me stumped so I called an Armourer we all know and love from the UK who immediately told me what the problem was, (bless his heart!). He knew immediately what the problem was. Another scrap body for the bin and a nice, matching rifle relegated to the sum of useable parts that were left over. Never try to remove a body without a slave bolt and bolt head less the extractor.

[tiriaq]

Just out of curiosity, I wanted to see how much dead pull it would take to unscrew a barrel from a wrecked No. 4. I mean truly wrecked, the barrel and receiver were worthless. Clamped up the receiver, and applied a 3' pipe wrench to the Knox form. Let go with a bang with me hanging on the end of the wrench. That was in excess of 600ft pounds.
Any time I want to remove an unserviceable barrel from a No. 4, I cut a relief groove just in front of the receiver ring.

[Doco overboard]

I had a wrench made for an Arisaka then adapted it to work on a No.4 with the small insert clamped between the jaws. Worked pretty good just to swap some things around.Attachment 94509

[browningautorifle]

English you second language?

Like I said, you don't seem to know what you're talking about.