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My old anvil stand gave out halfway through a shoeing job
It happened last Tuesday on a farm outside of Bend. The stand was a homemade steel tripod I've had for about eight years. One leg just folded right under the horn when I was setting a clip, sent the whole thing tipping. I had to stop the job, prop the anvil on a stump to finish. Looking at it after, the weld on that leg was cracked all the way through. What's a good, solid stand you guys are using now that won't quit on you?
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nancybailey1mo ago
Saw a guy at the county fair last year with a stand made from a big section of tree trunk, maybe 24 inches across. He'd sunk lag bolts right through the anvil base into the wood. Looked rock solid, and he said the wood absorbs a lot of the ring and shock. Another option is filling a steel drum with concrete and setting a post in it, then bolting your anvil to that. The mass keeps everything from moving around.
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gavin_kelly911mo ago
24 inch trunk is the same principle as a heavy tool chest base, @nancybailey. Mass just works.
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lindaowens15d ago
Right because who needs a trip to the hardware store when you can just chop down a tree and call it a day. Sounds like that fair guy really committed to the bit, lag bolts through the base into a stump is some backwoods engineering I can get behind. But concrete in a steel drum? Might as well just weld the anvil to a small car and call it a mobile forge. Next thing you know people will be filling old washing machines with gravel and using them as anvil stands.
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