[TheForge] A-frame cooking iron

[Jerry Frost]

I like it Justin!

While it's not "period" as you noted in your followup post it's still a 
DANDY idea.

We're probably not visualizing quite the same thing but I'm "seeing" a bipod 
spit arrangement that would knock down flat and when set up be as solid as 
can be.

I picture the spit bar interlocking with each bipod support, then by simply 
pulling outwards on the legs spring tension would hold it solid, especially 
with weight on it.

Sweet!

I gotta go make a couple sketches. <grin>

And yes, the ring trilogy was stuffed full of wonderful blacksmithing and 
other marvelous examples of the arts.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.


From: "Justin Fellenz" <sunironworks at yahoo.com>


> Hey folks,
>
> Reading this thread I wondered if it wouldn't work to have the bipod,
> an inverted V shape, split (viewed from the side so you can see the
> length of the crossbar) into two such that each bipod went over the
> crossbar toward the center and under it toward the end, with the bipod
> leaning in toward the fire. So the bipod would be an inverted V doubled
> from halfway up to the bend when viewed along the axis of the crossbar
> and a verted Y if viewed from the side...the V toward the fire would
> come to a rounded peak and the one away from the fire would be indented
> for the crossbar to sit on it. I can see it in my head but I'm not sure
> I'm explaining it well. Seems to me though that if you set it up this
> way the weight on the crossbar would pull the bipods in toward the
> center, locking them in place on the crossbar. It would be especially
> stable with divots in the crossbar to locate each side of the bipod.
> And the whole thing would come apart with no tools or ancillary bits to
> lose.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> While we're on the topic, there's the stand in the center of the hall
> of Theoden's hall in the lord of the rings movies to contemplate.
> Fabulous work, like so much of the "craft" in those movies.
>
> Justin.
>
>