Show me your portable holes, those devices that substitute for hardie holes on the anvil. 

The tubing was intentionally large so any hardie would be able to fit. 

 

All you need to do is make an adapter.

 

Show me your portable holes

I'm excited to see more designs. I need to make me a portable hole to go with my anvil and need some ideas for it's design.

It would seem to me that something along the lines of a striking anvil would be suited to this purpose. To have both a hardy hole and a small surface for straightening, snapping off partially cut metal or whatever else is needed. It would be lighter than an anvil and can be built to whatever height is needed. 

   50 pound chunk of Dozer? plate with 2 1" hardy holes  20 US cents a pound at the scrap yard

My first and second one is my striking anvil. Last is my anvil with home made hardy. 1"

Here’s my first portable hole:

It worked great for a while, and I made a upset a number of tools to use in my anvil:

But the welds didn’t hold up. 

So I’m making a new one. 

The hole itself is four sections of heavy-duty angle iron welded together:

It can hold an adapter for upsetting bottom tools:

Or my guillotine tool:

I also have a short section of track that can be mounted on top:

(Once I finish the mounting brackets.)

Here it the hole I put on my 185# striking anvil.

Greetings All, 

         I have several but these are my favorite 2.  The gray one is a multi function unit that I designed .

     Forge on and make beautiful things 

Jim

I have seen that up in the Michigan Wilds, and it is a piece of Functional Industrial Sculpture, that has a million and one uses.