Blacksmithing Part 7 Making Cooking Irons

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forty guys Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school back here at the pool again today work on another project today that is part of phase 3 for the Pathfinder certification course part of the instructor phase of this course is to learn certain aspects of forging because I believe it's a very good supper lines skill what we're going to do today is we're going to make a set of what I would call cooking irons also commonly referred to as a pot hanger or a small cooker and what it basically is is a device that's hooked on one end it has a pot hook on the other and have a stand with a pigtail on it so if we adjusted for height and length over your fire so that you can either cook meat on the fork or you can hang your pot or your bucket off of the hook so we're going to use two pieces of rebar to work on that today so the entire cost of this project other than you know maybe a few cents or worth a coal or some wood is going to be two dollars worth of rebar this is 3/8 rebar so let's get this stuff in here get it heated up the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going went into this draw it out a little bit because we have to make a pigtail I'm not going to draw it out a whole lot just enough to thin it down I'm going to draw this out just a little bit more before I do that a lot of guys will wear it gloves when they do this and probably a good idea for safety but it used to be a welder I'm used to working with hot metal and I find that as long as sparks aren't flying or getting on here and hit your hands things like that I'd almost rather have that feel of the metal because sometimes when you put gloves on you work with hot metal by the time you figure out it was too hot it's too late and you're already going to get burned we're going to do is work this on four tight against the end of you can heat it up that's going to form our pigtail here it's just going to be really hot because the thick piece of rebar it's rebars a medium carbon steel for the most part most of that you find you see we're starting to get that turn going to want that turn to be pretty tight because it really only needs to be enough to get a piece of rebar through there that three is revolved

okay you see we got pig tail in there turn it all the way around heat that up and spread it just a little bit give it a little bit more surface area with wise alright what we won here is a good friction fit our 3/8 rebar if that means we got to open it up just a little bit to get down that's fine too a little bit but this is kind of what we're looking for we'll spread that out just a little bit will angle that off just a shade to give us even better friction so we need it back up top it here that's going to cause separation of that pigtail it's also going to give us a little bit of an angle which is going to give us better friction here when we drive into ground we're at an angle okay that's not too bad right there that's going to look pretty good okay now we're going to take this and we're going to quench this side pull it down and then we're going to draw a point on the other side that'll be the first piece of our two-piece cooking iron that's going to equal out to having something 18 inches and that should be about the length of my bedroll we're close to it so I can actually stuff that set in my bedroll to carry it under my pack and it will cause me any extra encumbrance inside my pack give us a pretty good solid point now we've got to straighten it out make sure now we'll question okay so that gives us the first part of our cooking iron and hopefully that's pretty close to 18 inches long now we go to step two the next part of this project is probably the most tedious part we're going to make a fork on the end of this step for cooking meat or on the end of this rebar for making cooking meat i chunked a meat things like that are whole squirrels whole rabbits we get our fire stoked back up real good here get after so really get a good hot fire going here because we have to do some hot cutting just split this out we're going to use a just a flat chisel for that can buy these it think I bought this one that Menards for probably five or six bucks very very good item to have or hot and cold cutting steel [Music]

and you can see there's a huge difference in this flame with fact that we turned that blower on hi [Music]

the first thing we have to do is we have to flatten this piece out we have to get a need that flash to be at least a week of our times right here on the edge of the animal kind of create a separation between my times where my times are going to be and where the rest of my piece is okay we'll try to keep us cut straight as we can as even as you can score first on beat it up again [Music]

okay we're trying to get some separation in there just got to keep in to cut okay now we've got our Forks separated we need to kind of get one of them completely out of our way for a minute so that we can work on a more the time I draw now

pretty much out of our way now now we can start on the other side here and start will count in getting it we won

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government blocks the heat to this thing a little bit I want to try and get that center portion this thing heated up really good without too much heat on the time I'll get them over heated at the same time I need that set and you create that separation right there between the two times really well flatten that out I could really see where I'm at a little bit longer than the other I can see that right here again we'll try to bend that soon at that Center heat it up again separate those problems element or there's time to the boat [Music]

right the middle of that going to get that separation I'm going to try to heat these Tong these tines up and bend them the way I want try to get them even now still got a little bit of unevenness right here I'm not real happy with not horrible but I don't like it I've been a couple of the times office a little bit longer than the other [Music]

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this is not much longer than all our culture even okay guys final heat before we quench the for think I've got it manipulated around the way I want it now sometimes it just takes a little tweaking with kong's requires get exactly what you want so I'm going to go with that push that here there okay last step is we have to make a pot hanger on the other side so now we have to look on get the other side heat it up so I get that drawn down to a point to make sure I got it real straight when I go to the next step and that's to put a flight in it for my pot bang for my buck [Music]

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okay guys so we have our two pieces for our fire iron set or cook set we have one that has a pigtail and a point the other one that has a pot hook and a meat hook all you need to do is shove it through the pigtail like this and especially friction held so I like about this rebar kind of has bumps on it so it really holds good friction then you find a good stop a place to shove this in the ground it's kind of frozen right now and you can either hang your pot from that over the fire or you can turn it around like this and put meat over the fire either way so it works pretty good and then you can use you know this whole thing can be used to adjust your fire poke your fire where the case may be and it's a pretty small package you put the pigtail and the fork and pull it together like that you got a pretty small package you can shove that right in your bedroll and not even know it's there it doesn't weigh very much 3 X rebar to eight inch pieces doesn't weigh very much ok guys one Dave camera the path fire school I appreciate you joining in front of the video and this blacksmithing series I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family I'll be back to another video and it's blacksmithing series as well as many others as soon as I can thanks guys

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