Not got a tripod for your cooking pot??

[maddave]

Why not try using "A CRANE!!"

Not as daft as it sounds, the Vic Aures crane is a dead simple device using a forked sapling and a stick hammered into the ground. You can slide the crane up and down for varying heat control, and simply swing it out of the way when you're done cooking. Pic below.........

 

[capacious]

Very smooth. I'm definitely gonna have to give that a try!

 

[Abbe Osram]

Very nice and clear drawing! Did you do it yourself?
If not, please write from which book it is.

yours
Abbe

 

[maddave]

Very nice and clear drawing! Did you do it yourself?
If not, please write from which book it is.

yours
Abbe

Hi Abbe

The book is called "Wildwood Wisdom by Ellsworth Jaeger ISBN 0-936070-12-9

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/09...104-8091670-3165537?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

 

[Abbe Osram]

Are all pictures so good? I seldom found so good a clear pictures.
How is the book otherwise?

cheers
Abbe

 

[maddave]

Are all pictures so good? I seldom found so good a clear pictures.
How is the book otherwise?

cheers
Abbe

Absolutely great The pics are fine... See below for a couple more..

The Front Cover

Axe & Knife Sheath making

Bowdrill

 

[leon-1]

Yep a big thumbs up from this end to "Wildwood Wisdom"

 

[Biddlesby]

Looks like a good book.

Would like to see a picture of somebody trying to make one of these! I will try it.

Seems like the biggest problem might lie in a secure lashing so that the bent bit (end of the horozontal stick, top of the vertical stick) does not unfold.

 

[maddave]

Looks like a good book.

Would like to see a picture of somebody trying to make one of these! I will try it.

Seems like the biggest problem might lie in a secure lashing so that the bent bit (end of the horozontal stick, top of the vertical stick) does not unfold.

I think you're right... Maybe stick it first with some pine resin or something...

 

[sam_acw]

awesome book

 

[Hoodoo]

Lots of great stuff in that book! If the stick is a little too inflexible to bend around, you can lash a green branch to it like the potholder in the photo below on the left.

 

[Abbe Osram]

Hoodoo your sticks are looking better than your soup!
just kidding!

cheers
Abbe

 

[Hoodoo]

Hoodoo your sticks are looking better than your soup!
just kidding!

cheers
Abbe

Hey!! That's black bean soup with ham hocks and it was DANG good.

 

[Toddy]

What did you use for the lashings, Hoodoo?

Another vote for the Wildwood Wisdom book, too

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[longshot]

dave can you repost the picture please i can't see it just getting an x and the right click thing won't bring it up either.

neet trick with the lashing the two sticks together for pot hangers.

we lean a stick over the fire and hang the pot from the end for a boil up in the woods quick and easy.


dean

 

[maddave]

dave can you repost the picture please i can't see it just getting an x and the right click thing won't bring it up either.

neet trick with the lashing the two sticks together for pot hangers.

we lean a stick over the fire and hang the pot from the end for a boil up in the woods quick and easy.


dean

Hmm dunno what happened there.... It's back though

 

[longshot]

weird but it's working now

thats what i was figuring you were talking about i've see something like this in the SAS Survival Handbook. i've never used one but looks like a neat gadget for in the camp.

dean

 

[Minotaur]

I have some of those images but in different books, inc the hunters fire and stick but they are much clearer than mine. A lot of the older scout stuff(The older the better, I have some post war stuff, that has those sort of ideas) has lots of those sorts of things.

 

[SMARTY]

We have a couple of these that are used regularly. I found that when making them use as wide a fork stick as possible. It make the crane more stable on the support. Also the crane tends to slip without the weight of a pot to provide the pivot action required.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Just orderd the same book