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I am heading to the junkyard tomorrow looking for something that will work as anvil until I can buy one. I have been told that escavator pins are good substitute anvil, but I was wondering if anyone here had any suggestion for what else I can look for.

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the obvious one is train rail, but Ive found random chunks of heavy plate (like anything 2" htick or more) can work great, or an old or busted forklift prong, if cut to reasonable length, better quality steel.

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Broken knuckle off a RR car coupler---about 80 pounds, has a flat area and a curved area.

I don't like RR track particularly and prefer heavy compact masses of steel---old dozer parts, old Ag equipment can have some nice stuff, etc.

I think that fork lift tines are GREAT; you've seen the link I post all over the place when this comes up http://www.marco-borromei.com/fork.html

Do try to avoid I beam as it's mostly air no matter how heavy it is and it's shape makes it extremely NOISY in use.

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