Sharing pics of my Anvil Stand/Base

[Okie405]

Sharing pics of the build process for my son and I's new anvil base. We used 7 bags of 50lb Quickrete high strength concrete, 2 10ft sections of .375 rebar, about an 1/8 of a spool of rebar wire, some left over wood paneling and trim pieces and some small wood screws. Total cost not counting the wood, screws and wire that I had already was about $50 from Lowes.

Both my son and I are big boys and we cannot budge this. Kick it, push on it, whatever, it don't move. We are both new to all this but we have both seen about a hundred or so youtube videos with people chasing their anvil while they beat on it and it wobbles around and vibrates and moves. We didn't want that so this was our solution (Actually I found a picture of someone else who did this on Pinterest).

After we finished it up last night my son got the honors of testing it out and after he hammered a piece of hot rebar just to test it out the numskull whacked the edge of the anvil with the wood part of his hammer right under the hammer head and the handle snapped and the head flew off. Lovely, now our first hammer is already broke and we have to fix that.

Here are the pics:





















A short video of the youngster testing it out. Google Drive Link

 

[john april]

solid as a rock

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Very nice. One suggestion would be to mark around the washers on the foot straps with a sharpie, remove them, and grind the corners in a curve along those marks to remove the sharp corners.

 

[Okie405]

Yes Sir that is the plan this weekend. Would not be pleasant to snag a thigh or kneecap on them pointy bits sticking out.

 

[Jesse Smith]

I love this idea, as I have door shims under the edge of the log round I use for my anvil base, in order to keep it from rocking around. But I do move my anvil from time to time as I get new tools and rearrange my shop. I'm worried I would still have a rocking issue with the cement, if I had to move it to another spot in the shop. Did you pour it in it's working location so it contours to the floor variations or have you moved it since you poured it?

 

[Okie405]

We did lever it up with a big prybar and a fulcrum to get the oiled up wax paper out from under it and to scoot it back about a foot and a half. My garage floor is flat and smooth so it should stay stable wherever it's moved, I think. It's so heavy I think it would be stable wherever you put it so long as the surface is mostly flat and level.

 

[Mecha]

Well that ain't goin' anywhere.

 

[Justin Schmidt]

Love it man. Very nicely done. No go neat the hell out of some steel