Oberu Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Hey fellas, I'm brand spankin' new here and I figured I'd pick your collective brains. I *finally* received my new anvil (100lb Emerson) and I'm about to put it on a stump of cedar. I hate doing things twice so I though I'd ask for advice. I am not from the area I'm in but I might be able to find someone with a welder if things go that route. In all my experience I've always seen a telephone pole buried in the ground a few feet with concrete, banded with steel near the top of the post with the anvil sittin all pretty like on top and anchored. I live in Seattle now ( something I'm not very keen on ) and I'm a bit worried I'll catch xxxx if I go ringing out the neighbors. I'm wide open to ideas, suggestions, and/or constructive criticism. I appreciate the help by the way and look forward to future brain pickin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 why just look forward to brain picking there are probably hundreds of posts on this topic already on this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberu Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 I did look a little but didn't find much. Seems if you enter anything with the word "anvil" here you get a nose bleed. I will save you lot and look some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I don't have much luck with the IFI search engine, but if I plug in something like "anvil hight Iforgeiron" in Google I bet you would find some thing helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Welcome aboard Oberu, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many Iforge folk live within visiting distance. Just saying in one post isn't going to do much good. Use Google or Yahoo and add Iforgeiron to the search terms. eg, "Anvil Stand" Iforgeiron. Capitalizing and or placing terms in quotes narrows the search down. Burying a log in the ground several feet is something fostered by the "More is Better crowd" I've never noticed any benefit and it makes it ridiculously hard to arrange your work area. Think of the odds you'll guess right the first time you mount your anvil. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Anvil height is based on the stature of the individual blacksmith and the type work he is doing. Make a temporary stand with the anvil face at the break of the wrist height. Put a piece of pine sheeting on the anvil face and hit it with a hammer. If the crescent is at 12 o'clock the anvil is too low, if at 6 o'clock the anvil is too high. if at 3 or 9, you are not holding the hammer correctly. Adjust the anvil so you get a nice round hammer face indentation in the wood. Now use the anvil at this height for a month, then adjust the height as needed. You have the anvil height to fit YOU. This has been said and typed more times than I care to remember. There are other suggested starting points but no one ever asks if the author is 4 foot tall or 7 feet tall. It makes a large difference in the height of HIS anvil. This does not keep you from researching the different opinions of the proper anvil height, Many times the threads have much wisdom included that you need to dig out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just cut it and don't bury it. I believe there is a thread titled show me your anvil stand. Also instead of searching Anvil, try Stand instead. You should come up with tons of posts. Also search quiet, deadening, etc.. There are several ways to quiet down the ring of an anvil. Welcome to IFI from the sizzling desert of Southern Nevada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Silicon calk and bolting it down tight (end grain takes long fasteners, some folks strap and bolt to the sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionel h Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I made a stand out of 2 by 10 lumber cut to the height I needed then used a tube of construction glue about an inch thick under the anvil , it really helped silence mine . Before it was a ringing bell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Note if you are building your stand out of dimensional lumber on the vertical you can trim the pieces to make a corral for the anvil before fastening them together. I have several with front and rear boards a bit longer but as I swap anvils in them I didn't cut them to hold a specific anvil from side to side. My big anvil just uses a few fence staples. As to fastening them together I lined them up on the side of an I beam and used pipe clamps to hold them together and then drilled with an extra long electricians bit designed to go between studs and then used the bolts from guard rails and telephone poles to fasten them together---my local scrap yard gets both in on a regular basis and I can straighten bent guard rail bolts .... I don't glue them together as I like being able to loosen them a bit and thump the stump on an uneven floor and then tighten them back up in a non-rocking configuration... I used ugly wood; rough sawn oak boards that were the floor of a scrapped horse trailer, (scrap yard let me have the wood for free) the good boards went for shelves on the side of the shop, the ugly ones got my sawzall and cut up into lengths to make 3 stumps of differing heights---when you teach it's a good idea to go the 3 bears route... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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