A few years ago a friend of mine went into a place that repairs fork-lift trucks and asked if they had any old forks that they didn't want.
There was a scrap truck out in the yard, and the foreman said that if he was willing to strip the forks off he could have them. He went back later with some tools and managed to get just one off.
We cut an 18" piece out of it and welded it to a short piece of heavy section "I" beam.
It made an exellent, hornless anvil. Those forks must be made of really tough steel because it stood up to years of use with no problem at all.
We did have to taper the end of the beam to match the taper on the fork so that the top was level. If I were doing the job again I would be tempted to use Low Hydrogen welding rods (7018 or similar) and use a pre-heat /slow cool on account of the alloy content of the fork steel. At the time we didn't bother with either and it still worked fine.
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