Hello everybody this is my first time posting I've been lurking in the shadows reading quite a bit for a while, I like some of y'all's anvils they're definitely beauties. I've just started forging about 5 almost 6 months ago and I was working on a piece of plate steel that was not that thick and I think when I was 2 months into it I was helping my friend and his dad clear out their shop and his dad had a good-sized chunk of railroad track buried off in a corner and he told me I can have it if I want and I snatched it up and have been using it since. The other day I got the taller stump that it is now mounted on and I use 6 railroad spikes to hold it down to the stump once they're all drove in you better hope you had it in the right spot I had to cut it out of the old stump which was a Major Pain! but now that I got it on this news dump it's a little taller and I don't have to bend to work on the surface it it feels pretty nice now I have been looking for it better ASO or an actual nice anvil, I think I found one that's an old Vulcan I'm not sure about any of the information on it cuz I don't know any, I'm waiting for them to respond to an e-mail and I'm wondering how much they want for it but it looks to be about 75 lb hopefully, this chunk only weighs about 30, I don't know how much the log weighs, it wasn't an easy task loading it I'm only 5'9" and 135 on a good day lol I would guess around 75 to 85 pounds before I planed it out flat and level, yesterday when I what is getting the anvil off of the old stump I accidentally snapped off part of the face near the Hardy hole edge and I thought I ruined it but I have an arc welder and a flux core welder and I figured if I did ruin it might as well try and weld it anyway so I put a decent groove in it and penetrated it and work my way out like I had read to do on another post and I haven't laid a piece of work across that yet and actually just hit that spot to hit it to test it but I'm pretty sure it'll hold for a while at least and if it don't LOL it's just a chunk of railroad steel right?
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Hello everybody this is my first time posting I've been lurking in the shadows reading quite a bit for a while, I like some of y'all's anvils they're definitely beauties. I've just started forging about 5 almost 6 months ago and I was working on a piece of plate steel that was not that thick and I think when I was 2 months into it I was helping my friend and his dad clear out their shop and his dad had a good-sized chunk of railroad track buried off in a corner and he told me I can have it if I want and I snatched it up and have been using it since. The other day I got the taller stump that it is now mounted on and I use 6 railroad spikes to hold it down to the stump once they're all drove in you better hope you had it in the right spot I had to cut it out of the old stump which was a Major Pain! but now that I got it on this news dump it's a little taller and I don't have to bend to work on the surface it it feels pretty nice now I have been looking for it better ASO or an actual nice anvil, I think I found one that's an old Vulcan I'm not sure about any of the information on it cuz I don't know any, I'm waiting for them to respond to an e-mail and I'm wondering how much they want for it but it looks to be about 75 lb hopefully, this chunk only weighs about 30, I don't know how much the log weighs, it wasn't an easy task loading it I'm only 5'9" and 135 on a good day lol I would guess around 75 to 85 pounds before I planed it out flat and level, yesterday when I what is getting the anvil off of the old stump I accidentally snapped off part of the face near the Hardy hole edge and I thought I ruined it but I have an arc welder and a flux core welder and I figured if I did ruin it might as well try and weld it anyway so I put a decent groove in it and penetrated it and work my way out like I had read to do on another post and I haven't laid a piece of work across that yet and actually just hit that spot to hit it to test it but I'm pretty sure it'll hold for a while at least and if it don't LOL it's just a chunk of railroad steel right?