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Old 10-15-2015, 08:13 PM
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You want the biggest (heaviest, most solid) chunk of steel you can get. Mount that on a very solid base. How you do that depends on what you have to work with.

The words 'solid base' and 'plywood floor' are not usually found in the same sentence. You need to either sink a large pipe into the ground and fill it with cement or build some kind of very heavy solid base above ground (but sitting on the ground or a cement floor. If the floor has any springiness to it it won't matter if you have a 500 lb anvil, it's going to wobble.

Do it the simple way and see if it works: get a section of heavy tree trunk and attach the rail track to it in the most secure way you can find and give it a try. You can always fool with cement later if needed.

Whatever you do, do it outside the shop building. If you try to run a forge in there you'll die from heat prostration before the carbon dioxide has a chance to kill you. The forge needs to be outside - opening the doors and windows won't help enough - and the anvil needs to be near the forge....


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