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Spent $80 on a fancy anvil stand and it tipped over on day one
I thought I was being smart buying a premade anvil stand from a dude on Facebook Marketplace for 80 bucks. First time I hit a hot piece of rebar, the whole thing wobbled and sent my anvil crashing onto the shop floor. Anyone else have luck with homemade stands vs store bought?
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joel_butler1mo ago
I gotta push back a bit on this one. I've watched guys bolt their anvils to railroad ties and end up with the wood splitting after a few months of work, especially if you're doing any kind of heavy hammering. Concrete floor drilling is fine if you OWN the place, but renters like me are out of luck there. For 80 bucks, that marketplace stand was probably built by someone who just wanted to offload their mistakes, not make something solid. I built my own stand out of a 55 gallon drum filled with sand and a thick oak plank on top, cost me maybe 40 bucks total and it's taken some serious abuse without a wobble.
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juliashah1mo ago
...and honestly, my buddy made his own stand out of stacked 4x4s and some lag bolts, it's been solid for four years now. He just drilled it straight into a heavy section of his concrete floor and bolted the anvil down with big washers. Tbh, $80 for a marketplace stand that can't even handle a first hit sounds like a total waste compared to that.
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