What have done towards your prep?

[Steve]

SS - it's a big anvil, 230Kg, I did a lot of research and general consensus was "get the biggest you can find", you can do small work on a big anvil, but not the other way around. Farm machinery needs a big anvil.

T-Oddity - the heat treatment on my DIY knife is probably totally wrong, I just treated it like silver steel. It's a bit softer than I would like, but seems tough. I'm not bothering to try to heat treat it properly, it's unknown old steel and just a learning piece. When I've mastered bashing metal into shape I'll buy some decent steel and treat it properly.

NR - leafsprings are on my womble list. Once the boot-fair season starts I'll be snapping up rusty old files too.