[TheForge] portable anvil mounted in pickup truck towing receiver

[Dan Scheid]

Go to your local Farrier supply one was is a stall jack 
http://valleyfarrier.com/cart//shop/item.asp?itemid=39 
the other is a hitch anvil
http://www.phalenhorseshoeingsupply.com/anvilsandstands.html
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Dan Scheid

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 11:43 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] portable anvil mounted in pickup truck towing receiver

hello;

i was working today out amongst the rain drops cutting up some old 4x8
sheets of sheet metal. these two sheets came from the back of the old
hog shed that i am rebuilding to be a garden shed. they had been
attached to the back of the shed with galvanized nails that had either
zinc or lead washer on them. the sheets are in good shape except were
they were close to the ground. they never dried out and they rusted out
along the 16 ft bottom edge. they each have an 1/2 inch lip that has
been beaten down to somewhat straight. these sheets probably looked like
large very shallow pans when they were originally made. i was cutting
them with the air nibbler. i had them laying in the back of the pickup
truck and partly on the let down tailgate. that bent edge gave the air
nibbler problems. i had no easy way to take the sheets to the anvil and
use it to hammer out the edge. i settled for a 4x4x24 inches and my
large blacksmith hammer to beat it down so that the air nibbler would
handle the job. it occurred to me while working there i had a ready made
tool receiver in the towing hitch receiver. just would have to have a
2x2 base that would slide into the receiver on the pickup truck and i
would be in business ; sort of. i made up the first one easily out of 2
inch thin walled square tubing and some 2 inch thin walled round tubing.
it fits like a glove. the base holder itself can extend out so it may be
used with the tail gate up or down. when the tail gate is down i made it
do that i can rotate it to be over the lowered tail gate. the problem i
am having now is placing any thing like an anvil on the base plate. i
can not possible lift it by myself and i do not want to have to ask
someone to help me all the time. what i am thinking of is a small crane
bolted down to the pickup truck frame in the bed of the pickup truck
that is easy to remove and store. instead of making a hole in the frame
i was thinking that i could make a socket that would either be bolted to
the frame or welded to the frame and be hidden by a small hatch when not
in use. i am curious if others have modified their pickup trucks to
allow them to work with their blacksmith tooling outside using the
towing receiver for mounting your tooling.

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.




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terry l. ridder ><>
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