I got my 118# PW off the stump and onto a more stable stand. It is a piece of 14" pipe with a 1/2" base plate with 3 pads under for stability, filled with dry sand and topped with another 1/2" plate floating on the sand. I just need to make anchors to pull the anvil and its base plate tight to the sand. I am sort of hoping for some ideas from members, I am considering a plate under the heel and horn with a large diameter set screw with dogs along the anvil base to keep the anvil centered. lIf I need to remove the anvil I can loosen the set screws and turn it 90* and lift it out.Mostly reason for that is to eliminate knee busters on the outside of pipe. I got the basic idea from being in Frank Turley's shop for a week, thanks Frank. I'd appreciate any better ideas or any reason not to use the set screws.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings Solano,

 

PW  are easy to mount... They have that nice flat on the bottom... I use a  6in "Z" bracket with 2 screws ... In your case you could weld 2 studs for each end.

I assume that there is a floating 1/2 plate on sand ???

 

Hope this helps

 

Forge on and make beautiful things..   Jim

I think having the pipe envelope the anvil at the base is a mistake. It will fill up with slag and it blocks access to the feet where your best oportunity is to push DOWN the anvil. Once clear of the 'skirt' a loop of chain around the anvil that fastens outside the pipe below the horn and heel with a static hook for the chain on one side and a threaded hook that passes through an eye welded to the pipe on the other will cinch it down hard....

I had my 300 pound PW on sand for at least 15 years.  I used 2 layers of 3/4" plywood glued and screwed together as the setting surface over the sand .    By all means Z clip the anvil down to whatever you  use as a base.   

 

The problem that I had was that the anvil would tip away from my work side  of the anvil under use.   The clips should cure this problem.  Use a shop vac ocassionally to remove the scale and other debris.

I have used logs my whole life I also have a tripod steel stand.  I prefer logs they just feel better to me.

I like Jim's idea of the Z clipping the anvil to your 1/2" plate .  This will in effect add mass to your anvil as well as stabilizing it .  The anvil should act as a somewhat larger anvil  resulting form both the stabilizing effect of the larger base and the additional weight.  

 

I changed from sand to a log base primarily for the convenience of being able to use my overhead track system to lift and move the anvil as a unit other wise my PW would likely still be on sand.  Both systems work and we each choose the way that works for us or as preferences may dictate.