Okay, so this has been a thing I've been working on for a good long while that had a lot of trial and error.
The thing before you is a work of a 3rd attempt of trying to securely mount an anvil to a stand so that it doesn't move and benefits greatly to the smith (due to the fact it doesn't move)
First it was a log stump with 3 legs I installed inside that sunk deep into the loamy dirt so it doesn't move and then I built up a foundation around it to keep more tamped dirt in. That was a failure and after a second attempt and then a 3rd we are finally here.
Each beam there is 3.5x3.5 inches wide and 4 feet long. The large "stump" is set 2 feet deep into the ground with a mass of broken up rubble that I painstakingly crushed into golf ball sized pieces to fill the voids and offer a bit of hugging action around the beams.
The rubble was basically crushed cinderblocks and concrete.
When I filled the voids in enough with the rubble, I filled it back in with the dirt I removed from the ground to better compact the area around the square.
It took me a whole afternoon of yesterday to dig the whole and a whole morning of today to fill the friggen thing in.
After that was all said and done, I cannibalized the old mounting fixtures from the previous stump to then put on the new one, but instead of having the funny looking 130 angle and then a right angle, I just cut the bottom portion off and riveted it to the angle iron that's now there to screw some clamping action to the anvil.
This is the first time I have ever had a very SECURE anvil that ain't going nowhere. This will be great to test out later on and it will serve me well.
The thing before you is a work of a 3rd attempt of trying to securely mount an anvil to a stand so that it doesn't move and benefits greatly to the smith (due to the fact it doesn't move)
First it was a log stump with 3 legs I installed inside that sunk deep into the loamy dirt so it doesn't move and then I built up a foundation around it to keep more tamped dirt in. That was a failure and after a second attempt and then a 3rd we are finally here.
Each beam there is 3.5x3.5 inches wide and 4 feet long. The large "stump" is set 2 feet deep into the ground with a mass of broken up rubble that I painstakingly crushed into golf ball sized pieces to fill the voids and offer a bit of hugging action around the beams.
The rubble was basically crushed cinderblocks and concrete.
When I filled the voids in enough with the rubble, I filled it back in with the dirt I removed from the ground to better compact the area around the square.
It took me a whole afternoon of yesterday to dig the whole and a whole morning of today to fill the friggen thing in.
After that was all said and done, I cannibalized the old mounting fixtures from the previous stump to then put on the new one, but instead of having the funny looking 130 angle and then a right angle, I just cut the bottom portion off and riveted it to the angle iron that's now there to screw some clamping action to the anvil.
This is the first time I have ever had a very SECURE anvil that ain't going nowhere. This will be great to test out later on and it will serve me well.
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I really should make one of these, my set up is just a chunk of log with nails pounded in and bent to hold the anvil down.
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