[TheForge] Log tongs?

[Jerry Frost]

That might be just the trick, especially for a side loading wood stove like 
ours where tongs just won't work worth spit.

Thanks Mike,
Jer
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Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Log tongs?


> The old coal furnaces used to use an apparatus to remove large clinkers
> overall it was about 5 feet long.
> A 3/8 or half inch pipe with a rod down the middle.
> On one end of the pipe there was a fixed "thumb" That end of the rod had
> two or three tines splayed out to act as "fingers" The other end of the
> rod had a loop for pushing and pulling the rod. The rod was about eight
> inches longer than the pipe when finished.
>
> Such a thing worked real well for logs up to 5-6 inches if they are
> short enough.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Mike Graf
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