[tet68]

Some folks like to do away with the bottom anvil and use a
3 or 4" thick plate with a kind of hollow that the base of the anvil sits down in, this type of mortar base can send them up several hundred feet. I mean just a tiny dot in the sky!

We don't do that just a good boom.

Spectators are urged to keep WELL back!

This pastime has even led to a split in the blacksmiths
organizations as some of the west coast leadership
decried the practice as too dangerous to perform and
so many chapters have split off to continue the traditions
of our past.

[coloradan]

Spuds are for duds. Real men chuck pumpkins.