[TheForge] Input wanted (more)

[Justin Fellenz]

Added the saddle to the drawing. Also uploaded a pic of a candlestick
(cstick_on_table.jpg) in the recent works dir, just for kicks. 

Comments and criticisms welcome of course.

JRF


--- Justin Fellenz <sunironworks at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Jerry and all,
> 
> I uploaded a sketch of the fireset I had in mind. It would be a pain
> to
> make, but there it is. It's in "everything else" , bipod_fireset.
> 
> My original idea was as if you put a bar on your shoulder and hooked
> your outstreched arm over the bar...you could lean into it a ways,
> with
> the bar pushing down on your shoulder and up on your hand. So you
> could
> build the thing (again, much more elegantly) with an over/under loop,
> like a hook (inside/fire side) and saddle (outside/short side), to
> hold
> the crossbar. You'd have to make the crossbar/loop join pretty stout
> to
> handle the bending loads...
> 
> Anyway, there it is.
> 
> JRF
> 
> 
> 
> --- Jerry Frost <frosty at customcpu.com> wrote:
> 
> > Me again.
> > 
> > I searched back through past posts and found the original thread
> and
> > a pic 
> > of a wood cut. The cooking setup being discussed wasn't a
> > tripod/spit, it 
> > was an "A" frame.
> > 
> > We were discussing the stability of "A" frames and potential trip
> > hazards 
> > with several people around it. A suggestion was made for using
> > bi-pods 
> > stabilized by the spit through spring tension and I had a
> > visualization at 
> > the time. A stable free standing cooking "A" frame being desirable
> as
> > 
> > there's no telling what kind of surface it'll be set up on so
> spiking
> > it 
> > down may not always be possible.
> > 
> > I'll have to rethink the thing and see if I can track down my
> > original 
> > thoughts. No small feat seeing as how fast my head spins. <grin>
> > 
> > Frosty
> > ------------------------
> > If it ain't forged
> > it ain't real.
> > Wrought iron is.
> > The FrostWorks
> > 
> > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jerry Frost" <frosty at customcpu.com>
> > To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 6:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] Input wanted
> > 
> > 
> > > Thanks Darrell, that's almost exactly what I'm visualizing right
> > now.
> > >
> > > I don't know if it's what Justin and I were talking about though,
> > I'm 
> > > getting the feeling it isn't but just don't recall. If it isn't
> I'm
> > hoping 
> > > for a memory jog, there are a couple other ways to do it and or
> > similar 
> > > thingies.
> > >
> > > Frosty
> > > ------------------------
> > > If it ain't forged
> > > it ain't real.
> > > Wrought iron is.
> > > The FrostWorks
> > >
> > > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Darrell" <darrell at machinemaster.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >> You could take a look at how I do it.
> > >>
> > >> http://farwestforge.com/fireset.html
> > >>
> > >> Darrell
> > >>
> > >
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