[TheForge] Tripods for outdoor cooking.

[Saint Phlip]

It pretty much depends on the size of the pot you're using. We use a
big, cast iron pot, so we use a big tripod. I just put a picture up
(actually, I hijacked an empty album) in the album now titled "Phlip's
Medievaloid Pictures" to show you guys- the stock is 3/4" round,
started out 6' long before we made the rings, etc, and holds a cast
iron pot 32" in diameter.

The following pictures are of my current forge, and a couple pics of
the smithing lean to/ A-frame tent (it's convertable) I'm making, even
as we type. I decided the uprights were too light, so I'm replacing
them with what Home Despot calls "landscaping timbers" (3 1/2" X 4
1/2" oval, by 8' long), and while I'm using wing nuts at the end of
the poles right now, attached to all-thread inset into the poles, to
hold everything together, eventually I'll be replacing them with the
finials we've been discussing.

As soon as I'm done here, I'll be out staining them and then tung
oiling them to disguise the nasty green the treatment leaves them ;-)

But, back to the topic of tripods, that ought to give you some idea of
proportions.

On 6/17/07, Tod Estes <testes at medicine.nodak.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I need an opinion. I made a tripod with the legs a yard long. It seems a bit
> squatty. From those of you who make and use tripods what length do you use?
>
> Tod Estes
>
> People do not care about how much you know
> until they know about how much you care.


-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.

Blessed be the self-righteous, for they shall inherit themselves.