Competition - Hang a pot!

[spamel]

Quick one to show my preferred set up. Its a little rough and ready but when the priority is a cuppa aesthetics go out of the window.
Next time I'm out ill put together a tutorial unless you think its self explanatory

Damn you! I was gonna do that rig! Never mind, it does work though, is simple and effective. Well done!

[oops56]

I know the rules but i just had to do it cause i dont hike for over night thing in yard things or a walk in in the woods not far not get lost. My wood stove 4 nails for pot drill two holes to meet at the cross roads about 1 in. hole just a little acohol to get going.

[twisted firestarter]

I won't win any prizes for this but my favoured method is a simple 3-stick tripod over a small fire with a billy suspended by paracord and a snap gate carabiner. Takes up almost no space and is easily adjusted

[British Red]

I dont see why we should exclude you oops56 - my comp so it counts as an entry!

TF - simple works - nowt wrong in that either!

Red

[Martyn]

Quick one to show my preferred set up. Its a little rough and ready but when the priority is a cuppa aesthetics go out of the window.
Next time I'm out ill put together a tutorial unless you think its self explanatory

Cool use of physics.

I assume you just move the brace up and down the stay to vary the height? That makes it infinitely adjustable - very cool.

Is the paracord acting to anchor the top limb of the brace?

[Martyn]

Don't you need to be careful with fire or does it not spread over there?

There is very, very little risk here. Britain is a temperate country and we hardly ever get tropical temperatures. Things just dont dry out to that extent. Friday is the first of June, supposedly our hottest month and it has been raining solidly for 3 days now over pretty much the whole country. It was 46 deg Fahrenheit yesterday. It does get hot here, but never really hot enough, for long enough to really dry stuff out to flash point. Last year was hot for us, one of the hottest summers on record, but I dont recall any brush fires. Occasionally there are some grass fires, but they dont spread because it pretty quickly bumps into something that hasnt dried out that much ...our woodlands are wet or damp pretty much 52/52. There are not many days in the year where you can sit on the ground without getting a wet backside.

[Wayland]

Damn you! I was gonna do that rig! Never mind, it does work though, is simple and effective. Well done!

Ditto. It's the rig from Richard Graves "Bushcraft" and I thought no one else would have seen it.

Never mind I've got another idea....

[leon-1]

Is the paracord acting to anchor the top limb of the brace?

Hi Martyn, good to hear from you. The paracord is there to hold the wood in an eye, normally the top spar goes all the way around the upright, it just uses friction to maintain its position.

[maverix]

I best get on with that tutorial then

As Leon said the paracord just secures the top branch into an eye. not only is it infinitely adjustable in the vertical, you can also swing the arm all around the post.

Ive been shown it a couple of times, and only just seen it in the Graves book his variation looks like this



As taken from the online version of his book here

[weaver]

There is very, very little risk here. Britain is a temperate country and we hardly ever get tropical temperatures. Things just dont dry out to that extent.

We haven't had a good rain in three weeks, the ground (red clay) is hard as concrete. The brush is thick and green but the leaves left from last Fall are brown, dry and ready to catch any spark that drifts on a soft wind. The woods here are not picked clean as yours seem to be. Many dry to well rotted branches lie on the forest floor. Forest fires are common and sometimes deadly. There was one in Florida and South Georgia a couple weeks ago that had smoke drifting all the way up to North Carolina(about 400 Miles). It was 80° F this weekend and very dry. We are on order from the Fire Marshall to start no open fires. We may use a BBQ grill but nothing on the ground. I'll try to post some pictures later.

[madrussian]

Hey Weaver, we are finally getting a little rain down south. We'll get plenty soon. Only problem is that it will be falling horizontally at approx. 145 miles an hour. All the fun starts June 1.

[Martyn]

The woods here are not picked clean as yours seem to be.

They are nor picked clean, they just mulch down fast because of the conditions. Any wood lying on the forrest floor is likely to be too wet to burn unless it's fairly recent fall. Fungus and beetles get to work on it in short order and it soon becomes part of the peaty soil. We generally have to look for hanging deadwood to burn, cos everything else is too wet for most of the year.

[Martyn]

Hi Martyn, good to hear from you. The paracord is there to hold the wood in an eye, normally the top spar goes all the way around the upright, it just uses friction to maintain its position.

As Leon said the paracord just secures the top branch into an eye. not only is it infinitely adjustable in the vertical, you can also swing the arm all around the post.

Ive been shown it a couple of times, and only just seen it in the Graves book his variation looks like this



As taken from the online version of his book here

Thanks guys, what a cool trick.

[Northern Giant UK]

Not an entry as the pot is held in place by chain & hook but heres what I used last year. . .



Old system but never failed me (I cooked pots full of food on that rig)

Kev

PS

We were low on fuel so as you can see I put my daughter on (jk)

[Wayland]

I always carry a light bit of chain for just the same job. there's one in each of my billy sets.

[British Red]

I thought you were going to say "I always carry a pair of purple trousers for wear round camp....

[weaver]

I was thinking "for a Northern Giant he looks rather slim!"

[lupus]

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got 2lt of water in the two pots ,will probably hold much more .

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i made the lot with a tom brown tracker knife in about 20 mins
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[Eric_Methven]

That's interesting Lupus. Does it swivel so you can swing the pots away from the fire?

Eric

[OzaawaaMigiziNini]

Quick one to show my preferred set up. Its a little rough and ready but when the priority is a cuppa aesthetics go out of the window.
Next time I'm out ill put together a tutorial unless you think its self explanatory

Alright.. everyone get ready to laugh...

I JUST figured out how that thing works!

[michiel]

Alright.. everyone get ready to laugh...

I JUST figured out how that thing works!

HAHAHA....

Mind telling me how it works

[OzaawaaMigiziNini]

QUOTE=michiel;291431]HAHAHA....

Mind telling me how it works [/QUOTE]

See the rope? that binds another fork to the larger fork. But facing the opposite direction. The bigger fork perches onto the vertical support, while the smaller fork hooks onto the same support. The weight of the billycan pins the whole rig down, so it doesn't fall or get slippery. As well, with the weight so well balanced, you can pivot the whole pot hook, away from the fire, or onto the fire.

Found it in Lofty Wiseman's SAS book yesterday, while looking for a plant I needed some details about (Solomon's Seal). Took a look at it and said "...well that's how that danged pot hold works!"

Until then, I thought Maverix drilled a hole through the support stick and tied a prussik knot or something to it.

[Eric_Methven]

OzaawaaMigiziNini, you should have just asked Ray Mears when you met him last week!

Eric

[OzaawaaMigiziNini]

OzaawaaMigiziNini, you should have just asked Ray Mears when you met him last week!

Eric

He was too busy eating Hazelnuts and Bannock

[oops56]

Yep i new that but lost my glasses or would said about it earlier but need glasses to find them right

[maverix]

In my case I have used the paracord to bind the end into a loop/eye that threaded over the post.

Im of to the woods for the night now so ill see about a tutorial type thingy. If I don't get carried away watching the dormice again.

[Ditch Monkey]

Right I need to find a camera, I might not be that skilled at bushcraft but I'm a dab hand at putting a brew on.

[maverix]

OK well I managed to get it all together and took a few pics as I tried the Grave alternative to my original pot hanger. All the usual disclaimers e.g: I am no craftsman/photographer etc. but I'm hoping this gives those who are interested the jist of what I did.

Ok first off I find a branch, the main things I was looking for are the angles and the secondary branch that will create the fork that rests against the post. something like this is perfect:

Next up I trim the branch down so I have two pieces to work with:

Then I flatten one side of each branch so they will lie together snuggly IMPORTANT BIT is to be sure that when the branches lie together flat sides together is that you make sure you have two opposing forks one pointing each way and parralell to each other:

Bad photo cos they aren't positioned right hopefully the close up makes it clearer. You should also be able to see that I have created an opposing notch to help hold things in place:

then comes the tricky bit of binding. First off I take a bight (fold) of line and lay it along the branches:

binding back up along the bight I try to keep the binding as tight as i can till im left with a short tail at either end of the wrap:


then I thread the wrapped end through the end of the original loop and pull the other tail tight so the loop and tail get drawn under the wrapping:

if that all went to plan then once you've driven a decent post into the ground next to your fire , you have your very own fully adjustable pot hanger :

I prefer my original one to this one as the eye seems to actually 'grip' the post a little better. That time i made it by splitting the branch back then twisting and bending to form the loop, which is held in place by the same binding:


Well there it is...my first tutorial probably as clear as mud feel free to ask if I stopped making sense.

[spamel]

Top job! I tink if people had trouble understanding it before, then this will have cleare up any queries. Don't forget that a spruce root could also be used in the place of paracord, but I suppose a bit of paracord from your pocket is easier than scrambling about with a digging stick!

[loz.]

Will this still stay firm if the upright gets wet ? - ie in rain ?


Loz