Pretty cool! I like the storage but i would wind up putting so much in the storage that I would need a forklift to load it!
I forget what area you live in. Are yoou in the Oklahoma/North Texas area by any chance?
Bill D.
Haha, well, the stand alone is still abour 100 lbs, I used some needlessly thick angle iron to reinforce it. I wish I had used the bed frame steel instead, but it's still portable enough. I only need to slip in 6 hammers and 3 hardies. Most of my hammers are 2.5 lbs, so it's about 120lbs loaded up.
I've blacksmithed outside a lot at shows, and am concerned about the stability, tippiness of the anvil stand when on dirt? For a vise stand I use a 55 gallon barrel, left half the top in the barrel, bolted a shaped 2x6 to it and the vise to that. When the barrel is over half full of water, it does not move, also is my water tank. Add a spigot near the bottom and one can drain it easily, to load it. What do you have for a forge? Seen guys add small cable lifts to their trucks to get stuff in and out.
I'm more worried about the vise stand being tippy than the anvil stand, though that might be somewhat misplaced... It's about the same footprint as my less mobile stand, and I never had a problem with stability with that.... Though, my old stand weighed twice as much, and so did my former 'portable' 200lb anvil.... My permanent stand is 4 RR ties bolted together, so it's 12x16 footprint. My new stand is 11x14. But, again, fully half the mass, as my little Kohlswa anvil there is only a 100lber.
I'll have to play that by ear, if it's tippy, my ad-hoc solution is to string a few guy wires, drive in some 14' tent stakes and tie it down, should keep it from tipping. And if it is a persistent problem, I'll add some detachable wings to make it more stable.
For my forge, I've got a luttle rivet forge I used last year. It works well, but I spend a 90% of my time with it doing fire management. I picked up a new small Buffalo forge I'm planning to replace it with, but it's a pump-style rather than rotary, I intend to modify it a little bit to make it foot operated. I haven't actually used it just yet, but my rendezvous I'm taking my shop to is mid July, so I sti have a little time...
