I have rubber on my tray because it keeps the tools from making noise because of the vibrations from hammering. I like to use expanded metal for these tool trays or shelves because the scale falls thru. I can move it to the part I am working at. I welded 2 points of contact one at the horn and one at the heel. I just found a pipe and piece of steel that fit inside one another and welded the pipe to my stand, opposite side I stand on. So I use a swiveling removable tool tray. I also like to have space to set tongs, hand tools wire brush on. I work big steel and use my anvil with a bending hardy a lot so Ilike my anvil bolted to the floor. It allows me to get in closet to my anvil so I am not bent over as much, there is storage underneath and having only 3 legs it never wobbles. 5 years my top plate is still sturdy and solid with no broken or bent tool racks. it looks sloppy and over time they get bent or broke off because people naturally drop tools into them and the weight crashing down just wares it out over time. I did this because I have seem many stands with loops and flat bar welded on to flat plate. I have holes for hammers, tongs, ect and slots for hardy tools and more. I designed and cut my top plate from 1/2" or thicker plate steel. It should not look like there is a junk yard around your anvil. Drill and tap your plate, lag bolt, tapcon.ect. I use a set of hold downs forged to fit my anvil. Some nice forged to fit straps, stakes, brackets. Chains with nails, screws, rubber bands, duct e on. So wood, metal, stone, or Kryptonite get a good fastening system in place. It should be the best managed, looked after, efficient, and usable piece of equipment in our smithy. Seen guys working on a stand that wobbles all over the place. I have seen all sorts of ugly terrible way guys fasten their anvils. No matter what your stand is made of make it nice. Why do so many guys anvil stands look like welded scrap metal, they have no skills, they adopted a red headed step child, or just flat don't about the most used tool in the smithy.
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