Tripods for cooking

[Kevin in NC]

In addition to guns, I enjoy metal working. I'm not a blacksmith but I have a forge and anvil so I can bend things or make simple castings in brass or aluminum. Here's a couple of tripods I made recently. I'm 5'9" and the bigger one is about chin high for me, made from some 9/16 rod I had on hand. The smaller one is made of 1/2 rod and about waist high. I'm not a reenactor but I suppose these might look okay at a primitive campsite.
Kevin in NC

 

[snakebit]

Looks good now you gotta do a campfire cooking video and make us all hungry

 

[andy52]

I have one of those that I don't use at rendezvous mainly because it's a single cooker.
Generally, I'll have more than one pot going at the same time for every meal I'm cooking, so that set up with a tripod is only good for maybe stew, chili, Etc.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Double, double toil and trouble

 

[smo]

 

[snakebit]

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Hellofa nice setup. You should change your handle to camp cook

 

[smo]

Oh! That’s not mine….
It’s my camp neighbors….

Here’s mine

They feel sorry for me and feed me most of the time….

Here’s the Cadillac of them all…..

 

[Flint1]

Those look great. The larger one is exactly like something I need. I have an old large pot like that my aunt and uncle gave me in the early 80's. They always liked to ride around visiting antique shops. In the small country town in upstate SC where I'm originally from alot of people would plant flowers in them for yard displays with them hanging like that. In my army days we had that thing in our front yards in Georgia, Arizona, and California, then finally back to SC. I never had a nice tripod, just a wood frame then some pipe from Lowe's.

 

[Kevin in NC]

I looked on a cast iron pot forum and found that the larger pot probably dates from 1860 to 1900. It is 8 gallon and marked Baltimore. The small Dutch oven is a modern piece.
Kevin in NC

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Yours would work fine for me.....I use mine regularly.

 

[smo]

I tend too use my brazier more than anything now…
It’s my go too for morning coffee, from there the coals go into the camp fire..

For frying if not the brazier, it’s on the fire.

Or in a more modern Dutch oven.

A fat boy gotta eat…

 

[Bark-eater]

I'm putting together my camping gear, and in theory would be inclined to use green cut branches, but that's kind of impractical for a couple reasons, so I'm looking for a metal tripod for a minimal kitchen. I gather that most of the fancy blacksmithing for campfire cooking is not period correct, but am wondering if going with tripods and irons made from square stock rather than round rod would be a better impression of what could come out of an 18th century blacksmith shop?

As far as store bought, I've only seen square stock tripods for sale from Crazy Crow, and their twice the cost as the round rod Stansport ones on Amazon.

Is any one else making dedicated tripods?

 

[rustyh]

This is my tripod. Texas mountain cedar branches, antler shed I found in my yard and jute rope that I looped and hafted around the antler. I was cooking a pot of stew for rendezvous potluck.

 

[snakebit]

This is my tripod. Texas mountain cedar branches, antler shed I found in my yard and jute rope that I looped and hafted around the antler. I was cooking a pot of stew for rendezvous potluck.

That's pretty cool

 

[rustyh]

Thanks. It looks like something you would have collected along the way.