Do you have an anvil?

Once upon a time, the anvil was an important tool in farm shops in order to repair/create tools on the homestead. Is that still the case?

M&H Armitage Mousehole Anvil

I have inherited an anvil but have not 'needed' one prior. I'm wondering if anyone still makes use of anvils at home.

We have a couple of anvils on the farm, but I have almost never used them.
My Grandpa used them a decent amount - not for blacksmithing much, though he did a little bit of that.  
I recall him heating metal with a torch and hammering it on the anvil - to straighten a damaged piece of equipment or to put a bend or curve or flattened end on some piece of iron.  He was always making stuff and breaking stuff and fixing stuff.
I think a savvy person could find a use for one on occasion, or very often if one was inclined to make their own tools.

 
 

I have one that is built into a vice. I have never used it as an anvil.  What is seeing a great deal of use that comes from times past is a largish bell that I mounted on our back deck.  My wife uses it to summon me back to the house.  It can be heard at all points on our 10 acres.   I have a cell phone … I seldom carry it.

I do have an anvil (100 lbs) and I use it on regular basis to make functional objects, modify, repair and fabricate. I use gas forge, torches or my outside stove with hand blower and eucalyptus firewood (produces excellent dense coals).

We have one real anvil and two poor mans anvils (bits of discarded railroad track).   We use ours all the time for repairs and making things.  

Funny though, we had to almost to a major city to find an old one for a good price because the country folks around us collect them, throw them in their kitchens or family rooms and call it “primative decor”.    It pains me to see good tools hanging on some guys wall used solely as decoration.  

I don't. My metalworking options are limited to rough casting, filing, hacksawing, drill press, and cold forging.

So far I haven't found a use for an anvil if you don't also pick up a torch and/or a forge...which is a much larger investment.