ironcreations Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Thought I would pass along a few things I have learned the hard way, well a buddy did, and I changed my stands to steel. What happened was he was working a normal day, with the anvil on a big stump, They shut down for the day. When they opened up next morning the anvil was on the floor. What had happened was a chunk of hot steel fell on the stump and later caught fire. Fortunatly it was a block building and nothing else caught fire. after that I changed out to steel. I use a big "I" beam for this stand with a flat 1" thick top. My smaller one i made a angle iron stand. Just be carefull if you use wood!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip in china Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Amazing. I have never heard of that happening before! Was the anvil damaged? Will it need to be re heat treated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironcreations Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 no, it just fell over, it smoke up the shop good, funny, I bought that anvil a couple years back. I sold it and bought a bigger one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLMartin Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 wow must have been a pretty dry stump! iver herd of stranger things, also see a fellow that did not use his anvil for o maybe 4 or 5 months went out to it, took one large hammer blow and the wood stump just crumpled, terns out termites had a little fun with it while he was gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
element Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Im guessing the stump was rotten anyway or the bugs got to it which would of made it smolder. A sound piece of wood cannot self sustain burning unless its balsa lol. Thanks for the heads up though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Something you can do to eliminate the possibility of this from happening is soak the wood in a solution of borax and water. you don't need to actually immerse the block, just keep pour the solution over it and let it soak in a number of times. If termites are a problem a little termite dust under it will solve that problem as well. I agree though, a sound piece of wood shouldn't burn, smolder a little maybe but not to the point it collapses. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironcreations Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 if I remember right, I think it fell on the floor, the hot metal. so who knows, point being just make sure you dont set your shop on fire. even though my building is a steel structure and most everything in it is steel, I put up shields around my anvil when I forge weld. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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