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Hey guys posted a little about it in the whats going on in your shop thread. Well finally got to knock out a couple of blades today and man oh man was I impressed with working on this guy. I highly recommend to anyone forging to give something similar a try if ya can weld and scrounge some steel.
This consisted of a large piece of 2" thick by 12" square block of steel I had gotten when I bought a anvil a while back. I think its off a train car, some impact point for something very heavy by the looks of it because it was crowned about 1/4" from the center out. Well I took that and put it crown down (would have been better flat but I have no means at home to machine it down). I welded angle iron to the four corners then welded 3/16" plate that was 12x12" to that. Reinforced the bottom of the thick piece with some more angle iron at four spots on the bottom and those get welded to the side walls of the thinner stuff. Same thing with the bottom.
For the feet I used 2" pipe with 1/4" feet welded on and some support bars of weldable 1/2" support rod (forgot the name of the stuff you use it to reinforce concrete). Anyways the tubes get filled with sand. The space created under the thick block gets filled with sand. There was a small space created from offsetting the side walls with the angle iron so the sand filled up around it. Then I welded in some filler steel to seal that up. Welded on the four corner pieces of angle iron. Put down a layer of silicon and dropped the anvil in. I pounded the angle iron on the corners down just a tad to kind of clinch the anvil.
The stand probably weighs around 200 230lbs I think if my calculations are somewhat accurate. Its alot of welding the way I did it, I imagine there are a ton of easier ways out there this is just what I had available.
End result, it is like working on a solid big ol anvil. Made my 200lb sodofors move metal like nothing else. I was really happy with the results. I made the little video because someone was asking if the chain did anything and I didnt know. It seems it doesnt really help with this setup since the stand absorbs the vibration/ring created.
Its not pretty by any means but I am really happy with it. Well until I have to move the darn thing.
[video=youtube;6HsGAy-TmZc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HsGAy-TmZc[/video]
This consisted of a large piece of 2" thick by 12" square block of steel I had gotten when I bought a anvil a while back. I think its off a train car, some impact point for something very heavy by the looks of it because it was crowned about 1/4" from the center out. Well I took that and put it crown down (would have been better flat but I have no means at home to machine it down). I welded angle iron to the four corners then welded 3/16" plate that was 12x12" to that. Reinforced the bottom of the thick piece with some more angle iron at four spots on the bottom and those get welded to the side walls of the thinner stuff. Same thing with the bottom.
For the feet I used 2" pipe with 1/4" feet welded on and some support bars of weldable 1/2" support rod (forgot the name of the stuff you use it to reinforce concrete). Anyways the tubes get filled with sand. The space created under the thick block gets filled with sand. There was a small space created from offsetting the side walls with the angle iron so the sand filled up around it. Then I welded in some filler steel to seal that up. Welded on the four corner pieces of angle iron. Put down a layer of silicon and dropped the anvil in. I pounded the angle iron on the corners down just a tad to kind of clinch the anvil.
The stand probably weighs around 200 230lbs I think if my calculations are somewhat accurate. Its alot of welding the way I did it, I imagine there are a ton of easier ways out there this is just what I had available.
End result, it is like working on a solid big ol anvil. Made my 200lb sodofors move metal like nothing else. I was really happy with the results. I made the little video because someone was asking if the chain did anything and I didnt know. It seems it doesnt really help with this setup since the stand absorbs the vibration/ring created.
Its not pretty by any means but I am really happy with it. Well until I have to move the darn thing.
[video=youtube;6HsGAy-TmZc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HsGAy-TmZc[/video]
