Benjamin Fisk

I know it's a crude sketch, but I think it gets my idea through. I feel confident that I can do simple welds. I haven't done any in the last decade, but I can do some practice beads. Since the vast majority of the force is going to be directed down towards the ground the welds should not have to be the best. I do plan that many of my first projects are going to be tools. I have access to some one-inch plate, quite a lot, a few inches of that welded under the rail would act as a stabilizer and give the rail some more height.

The anvil that CTBlades made seems to use a heavier gauge rail. Mine looks smaller, but it may just be the way that CTBlades took the photo .

I am trying dive head first into blacksmithing as a hobby and I am trying to do it by spending as little as possible. Lucky for me I have some really good auto scarp yards close to me. I am thinking of attaching a 2 foot length of railroad to this i-beam. This beam is really heavy and with the weight of the rail I am guesstimating that it will be well over 100 pounds. I see that most people attach anvils to tree stumps. Am I going to run into problems with this plan?