[TheForge] Crowdsourcing Question

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I was at a friends shop yesterday and he showed me his first anvil.  He had 
cut up a fork lift fork into 5 pieces and stacked them up and welded then 
together.  The top piece was a little longer than the rest so it stuck over 
on both ends. He ground a radius on one end and drilled the other for a 
pritcheral.

He got the fork free, so just had time and a welding rod invested in the 
anvil. He was working as a welder at the time and the anvil was used in the 
shop where he worked, so I think he probably got the rod for free too.  When 
he retired, they let him take the anvil with him.

Just another example of getting started on the cheep. It doesn't take money, 
it takes motivation.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net