[TheForge] A-frame cooking iron

[Daniel Kretchmar]

Jerry,
    When you have your sketches, could you post them?  I am having trouble
picturing this.

Daniel Kretchmar
www.irontreeworks.com

Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one
trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy
ooh hoo hoo hoo
the
sky's the limit!
The Tick


Quoting Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com>:

> 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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> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
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>
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>
>
> 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.
> >
> >
>
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