Anvil stand - video

[Jon]

Anvil stand. By Black Bear Forge. 18:59 video:

[Philip Davies]

Without watching the whole video, I was not able to tell whether the castors locked. They need to! It’s very neat, but likely to be loud

[Frank S]

Sometimes having the ability to roll a small 150 lb anvil to my work instead of going back and forth from the project to the anvil at times might fit in the plus collum. Especially when needing it as a pecking anvil to massage thinner metals into shape cold. Locking rollers would be a plus as well but nothing works better to prevent a no swiveling steel roller from moving when you don't want it to move than tossing a length of rope or a rag around them. Swiveling castors on a stand like this would be a nightmare in waiting. In my opinion an Anvil that is primarily used as a forging anvil needs to have a solid immovable base equal to or greater than the mass of the anvil. My 400 lb Peter Wright style hardened steel anvil is sitting atop of a 20" diameter steel base that weighs 450 lbs with a 6-inch-thick block of wood between the steel base and the anvil. That ting, ting resonate ringing gets quickly canceled and not transmitted into the base due to the wood cushion when I am really waling on the piece of hot metal I am forcing to yield to my desire with a 4 to 12 lb hammer