Adding a stable base for a chopping block

Noyade

I have a chopping block (pine I think) for cutting chips/kindling and splitting wood.

It's 650 mm high and 250 mm in diameter.

Perfect height for me.

But when you split wood - it tends to topple over, so you keep lifting it back with each axe strike.

I want to make a low profile base out of an old plough disc - to hold it steady - hopefully.

Noyade

The plan was to weld steel tube on the disc and 'insert' it into the block.

I found a piece of 25 mm (outside diameter) steel tube.

So I drilled out the bottom of the block.

The drill got very hot - but I managed 400 mm depth.