Mitt

So the face of the anvil is tilted away from me? Isn't the whole idea to have it flat? Glenn I will give the router approach a go so long as no one has a better suggestion, a handsaw probably wouldn't cut it (ba doom tish) this thing resisted being cut by my little chainsaw (the black mark in the img) though I admit it needs sharpening. I have checked and the few cm I will take off levelling it out should put my anvil at the right height, though I plan on replacing it somewhere in the future. The anvil I have is small and the horn is broken off but it was free (you can see its base in the top right of the 2nd img).

Hi all, I am a newbie setting up a hobby forge on the cheap and I managed to secure myself a hardwood stump to mount my anvil on free. The problem is the top isn't parallel to the ground There is a slight (one side is about 3cm higher than the other) and my baby chainsaw isn't long enough (or powerful enough) to work through it. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to even it out (electric plainer, router etc I can hire for a few hours). I would rather avoid using a bigger chainsaw for the job as I am only taking off a small amount. Images attached.