homemade anvil.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

An anvil always seems to kick off a how far can you carry it competition or the story of the chap who got his old fella trapped between the anvil and the bench.

Mike

[VicParticipant @vic]

I used to be able to pick up my Brooks but I think I’d do my back in if I tried it now.

[Phil WhitleyParticipant @philwhitley94135]

For many years I frequented the Anvil Arms, at Wold Newton, in East Yorkshire. There was an anvil on a stump by the front door, and if you could carry it round the pub, you got a free pint! I once managed to carry it into the bar and set it on a table. I would guess it was 1-1/2cwt or maybe even 2cwt. I only saw one guy ever do it, he was called Rocky Barnard!

[Douglas JohnstonParticipant @douglasjohnston98463]

For an anvil I have used an old car flywheel. Not ideal since you have to avoid the odd hole, but better than nothing.

Doug

[Alan Johnson 7Participant @alanjohnson7]

The idea of using the moving par of a vice to make an anvil interests me. Would Kenneth Deighton be good enough to post a photograph please.

Thanks,

Alan

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

I have, with permission, a short piece of Welsh Highland railway line for an anvil. There is a corner of an English workshop that will be forever Gogledd Cymru.

Geoff

[StevegParticipant @steveg18231]

Everyone needs an anvil,mine is a hefty railway track section

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

Like the Minnie Anvils of Martin, Ian and Vic. I think mine is same as Vic's and I'm nearly ready to nail it to a lump of seasoned Laburnum –

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