No pics, so I will just tell you all a story. I've been hitting metal into shapes for many years, with no training or education, or even any idea of what I'm doing. Watching FIF, then starting to do research here, has taught me lots, but obviously I'm still just beginning to learn what the xxxx I'm doing. Well, yesterday, I removed a bent crossmember from under my truck to straighten it out. I set it on the ground and hit it with the big hammer. It just bounced. I mounted it in my vice. It just shook all the stuff off my table, and bounced. I set it on a piece of rail road tie. It just...... you guessed it, bounced.
Now, my new-to-me anvil is still sitting on the floor in the garage since I have not found the right tree stump for a base, so I dragged if out of it's corner, and used it on the ground. This was not ideal, but it worked. Anyway, I hit this massive chunk of metal with the anvil under it, and it moved with no issue. I hammered and banged, turned and twisted, hammered and banged some more. This crossmember is one of those 1/4" thick steel plates that pressed into a shape where nothing is flat or straight, so I got to use the step, the horn.... shoot, I was all over that anvil. This thing is life changing! It made the job of fixing this crossmember soo much easier.
I'm getting a bit older now, and the body isn't acting the way it used to. Lately, I've been investing in tools to make doing the things I enjoy doing easier. (Just bought a mini-lift to work on my cars.) I didn't expect the anvil to be one of those tools.