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thanks for the advice frosty, I was able to locate a 2 and 3/4" diameter piece of metal thats 40" long today, surprisingly difficult to find a scrapyard willing to sell anything but i found one good one. Anyway im now working on setting it in a log and then setting that into the ground. Ill hang onto the "I" beam and see if i cant use it like you said in the future when i have more tools and the ability to cut/ shape it. Now i need to work on a forge it would seem, I was thinking something out of brick and clay but what would you suggest as something for a begginer that has little more than a hatchet and a saw as far as tools go? From what i have read so far it seems i could just go for a hole in the ground as long as the fire will have an air source. thanks again for the welcome Damian this is what i found by the way.

I might be able to head back to the scrapyard for a pipe, but i do have plenty of large logs and stumps around my yard that i should be able to use, just gotta find a way to get a hole drilled through one. What height should the anvil rest at relative to my body? I think i remember reading that it should be two inches below my arm when i have my hand balled into a fist, does that sound right? Also it does not need to be mobile.

I was looking for a scrapyard that would sell to me in my area and couldnt find much of nothing. Wound up in an area by my grandpa's house so i stopped by and asked him what i could do for an anvil, he gave me that tire rim in the bottom of the picture and suggested i go find a piece of steel pipe to place in the center of it and suggested a scrapyard that he knew would sell to me. That is where i found the steel rod, its about 2 and 3/4" diameter and 40" long, weighs just over 60lbs. My question is what should i do to make this set up work? Should i just find somebody that can weld the two pieces together, or should i find something else to place the rod in like a log? Any advice on this matter will be appreciated. -Thanks Damian Edit: Sorry about the photo being sideways

Figured I should post here first. I'm Damian. I've been lurking around for a while now, but I finally have the means financially, however meager they may be, to get into blacksmithing. So here I am. Tomorrow morning im going to check out a few scrapyards to see if i can't find anything better than the foot long section of I-beam that my uncle gave me for an anvil and throughout the week im going to clear out a section of yard to place it and set up a forge. I suppose that's it for now, I look forward to learning anything i possibly can from all of you.