[TheForge] portable anvil mounted in pickup truck towing receiver

[Jerry Frost]

I haven't done it for our pickup but did a number of 
receiver mounted things on the drill rigs.

The anvil isn't too hard. For it to work well it should 
have a leg to the ground anyway so make a couple small 
receivers on the ground leg so you can insert a couple 
small tires and wheel it around like a hand truck. I 
have this set up on my welding cart, the one for the 
Ranger 9 portable so I can lift it into the back of my 
pickup and pull the wheels so it won't roll around. It 
also lets me use the tires on other things. The welding 
cart has foam filled wheel barrow tires.

Anyway, wheels will allow you to move the anvil and 
receiver mount like a hand truck, tip it up and slide 
it into the receiver. Then pull the ground leg with the 
wheels so it doesn't drag as you drive. Once on 
location pull the wheels slip the ground leg back in 
and adjust the height so it's solid.

If you look at furniture moving hand trucks you'll see 
they have small tracks (like a dozer) on the back of 
the uprights. These allow you to lean the hand truck 
against things like pickup tailgates, loading docs, 
etc. and more easily haul them up or down. A small hand 
winch mounted to the front of the pickup box would let 
you load almost anything that fits the hand truck 
easily.

A pickup truck cherry picker isn't a bad idea either.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>

> hello;
>
>
> another need i have is to be able to haul my oxy-fuel 
> torch places and
> to be able to lift the entire unit would require 
> either using the
> frontend loader to but them into the truck or cut the 
> bed body and rig a
> hand cranked or hydraulic small gage lift. i have 
> seen a truck that this
> was done to. it did not look bad at all.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
>