How to treat a tree stump,,,,

 Well,,Jay you must know me by now,,,,,,

I was just trying to do like you and get two birds with one rock,,,, But,,I did read on one of the other forums that I bother is that the best method to mount an anvil is on a big "wooden" stump as it will absorb the kinetic energy transferred from the anvil and blows from your hammer of choice,,,,,,,,,

 Actually,,,an older gentleman told me the same thing and he had a BIG anvil bolted to a tree trunk in his shop. With some effort, you could walk it to other location. The stump was bout 24" round and bout 36" high. He asked me to hit the anvil with a 3# shop hammer and it was like one of those "dead blow" mallets as I did not feel the vibrations coming back at me,,,! So,,,the Mulberry tree donated its trunk for my anvil. I didn't really want to kill the tree, and if it starts sending up shoots,,I'll just trim em off. The trunk was bout 22" diameter and I cut it bout waist high to me and is flat across.

 Yeah,,Shameless,,I had been slowly having to move some of my tools outside of garage cause I been runnin out of room inside and can't hardly get to my 55,,and I have made ole Joe a promise to finish up the projects I now HAVE to in order to get back on the car. "Tools" like my pressure washer, generator, chop saw, chrome polisher, bead blaster, the new Arc  welder and the spare mig welder and electric stove for  . So,,I'm just bout finished up on a 6 Ft X 22 Ft Lean to,,, I added to south side of garage to get em all out of the weather,,lookin real nice just need to install the  flashing between the add-on and garage roof.

 The Mulberry tree trunk, now cut to bout 40" high is gonna be perfect for when I bolt the anvil on it and right in the center of the lean to,,,,

 I have upset some people cause I raised my flat rate to $70/hour to discourage any more government jobs,,,but it is what it is,,I guess,,,,,Chit,,the 3 local dealers get $128/ hour so I figure I should be worth half of their price,,,,,

 Well,,Jay,,IF and that's a big IF,,I still get jobs I do not want I will shoot em a price of bout $94.33/ hour,,,that'll make em run,,,,, With my almost full time job tryin to take care of the wife,,,I ain't got time to do chit or enough time to even pay attention,,,,

 Yeah,,the trunk is that big,,I think cause I trimmed it back 3 -4 times and it just kept growin bigger and faster every time.

 Well,,I'll be,,,just yesterday I was using the top of the trunk to lay my hand tools on and I did notice some red lookin ants coming out of a crack in the side of the trunk,,,,so I hit em with some Home Defence,,,they was gone a little later,,,,

 You smooth talking son of a gun. Being able to lay it out like that   you could of been a billionaire.  If you would of got in politics when you where younger. 

In a more serous line hope the ants don't taking over your work space,and the old stump servers you well.

shameless dude wrote: how the heck is Les gonna call you a "shade tree" mechanic now that you cut the danged tree down?

 

  ,,,,You know,,Shameless,,I really worry bout ole Les,,,,I miss his great "Old Fashioned" and down to earth ways... I believe I'll call him today,,just to touch base,,,,maybe I'll "poke" him enough,,he'll want to get on here and get back at me,,,,,,

So, in other words, you charge the exact same?