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Used a piece of railroad track as an anvil for 2 years, finally got a real one last month
The old track was fine for basic stuff but I never realized how much bounce it had. First time I hit hot steel on the new anvil the hammer just... stuck. Like the energy went into the steel instead of back into my wrist. Been having way less fatigue on long days. Anybody else make that switch and notice the same thing?
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max_ross2mo ago
Ngl brian_rivera59, that ghost vibration thing is totally real. I had the same experience when I switched from a track anvil to a proper one. The old track would ring and buzz for a solid 15 seconds after every strike, and my arm would keep feeling that weird hum even after I put the hammer down. Now with the real anvil the hit is just dead quiet and my hand doesn't feel like it's been through a washing machine on spin cycle by the end of the day.
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You ever get that weird ghost vibration feeling in your arm after using a track anvil?
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gavin_kelly912mo ago
@brian_rivera59 Nah mine just made my arm tingle like I grabbed a live wire or something, real relaxing.
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amy_foster792mo ago
Three months of working with a 60-pound pneumatic rivet buster and I swear my left hand still feels like it's holding a jackhammer even when I'm dead asleep. The phantom vibrations are the worst right after I've been doing overhead work on those old bridge sections, my arm just keeps buzzing for hours like a cell phone nobody turned off. I tried wearing those anti-vibration gloves but they just made my grip worse so now I just deal with it. Honestly at this point I'm pretty sure my hand has developed its own nervous system separate from the rest of me.
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