Blacksmith a Squirrel Cooker explained Part 47

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alright guys today what we're going to do is we're going to make this squirrel cooker it's a little bit fancier than the one that I generally carry I've got a couple of fancied up things on it but that's not a big deal we're gonna show you how to make this today the project that you can do on the cheap and the more of me make the faster you get at it that takes about a half an hour to make one of these the way I made this one where we got Dave Canterbury the pathline school a lot of guys are asking me about making a squirrel cooker after my video yesterday I'm cooking the squirrel I made a video some time ago about his quarrel cooker or maybe it was just a set of cooking hires I don't remember for sure but what I wanted to do today was I wanted to kind of take a slow walk through the process of making a squirrel cooker show you how that's done show you how to fancy it up a little bit the material cost is very very cheap for this it only takes 2 pieces of rebar 2 feet long you can buy these for 99 cents in just about any good construction type hardware store these are for concrete work so you're gonna have two dollars in this thing now you're obviously gonna have to have something to pound on like an anvil and a good hammer a decent fire but you can make something like this in an actual fire pit just takes longer to heat it up with hardwood coals and you can use anything like a piece of railroad track or any hard piece of metal for an handle animals were nothing fancy in the beginning they were just huge pieces of some type of hard metal in the beginning they were actually stoned then they were some type of big chunk of iron ore that have been smelted down and later on they took shape the animals that we see nowadays are more like the animals that were used in Europe and the animals that we see today are generally more of an 1800s type pattern than what they used in times before that so it's not really called to make an animal or to find something you can use for an animal it just takes a solid piece of metal you can go to any scrapyard generally and find some heavy piece of metal even if it's just a piece of railroad track that will work and you can shape those down into ample shape we'll talk about that in another video we'll show you different types of animals that I found and I bought from scrap yards and things like that that's always a good place to look for them but if you've got that you've got a good stout hammer you can make a squirrel cover the only other thing you need is a chisel and those things are pretty easy to find as well and you could make one of those in your forts if you had to to begin with out of a larger diameter piece of rebar or some type of tool steel like a large allen wrench or connecting a rod from a scrap yard something like that any of those things will make a cutting chisel that you can use to make hot cuts with so let's get started on this and I'll show you the process it really only takes about 20 minutes 25 minutes to do this once you get pretty good at it but it's a very good and effective tool now let's talk about size the reason I show this two-foot rebar is because I'm going to put some bends and some turns in this which will make it smaller overall in the long run but what I try to do is I try to keep my squirrel cooker length a little bit smaller or about the same as my bedroll and my axe that way I can roll all of those things up into my bedroll and put them on the bottom of my pack

so my axe and my cooking device are tucked in there together okay the most difficult part of this process is probably making the fork itself that's going to hold your meat on the cooking device so we're gonna make that first once we get our bar stock heat it up one about four to six inches that heat it up and we're gonna draw that out to a flat a week and then hot cut with a chisel we had some type of a bandsaw it would make this real quick and eat

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yeah that's gonna give us a long enough flat that we can hot cut down at this point

and I want to try to get this chisel centered in here as best we can just type ourselves a line down through here so that we know where we're gonna make our cuts you can see that's a little bit off-center we'll bring that back over just a little bit I'm not attempting to cut anything right now I'm just scoring a line okay now once I've scored the line that I'm gonna cut on that fork now I'm going to take my chisel I'm gonna start cutting it and it may take several heats to get this split open [Applause]

so hotter that metal is the easier it's going to cut but I don't want to burn it off either so I've got to keep a pretty constant vigil on especially if I've got a good hot beehive in before [Applause]

now once you start separating these ears you got to be careful because that point got smaller pieces of metal in your Forge they're gonna get burn off faster [Applause]

okay now we're pretty well cut through now we've got to separate this force once we get those hot we can just put them out here on the front of this anvil horn spreading straight out just like that

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get that thing out to a point if you just take it hit our handle right here on the edge just like that now give us a nice sharp point we can work with we just want to make sure everything is nice and even then we're gonna heat this one up and get it out of our way so we can work the other one the same one [Applause]

okay now what we really need to do is check for length to see if they're both about the same way bend the bow straight locally and then we'll chuck okay let's have a look-see real quick here we got about five and a half to the middle on that side and about five and a quarter on that side so we got one side just a little bit longer than the other not a big deal we can cut down off okay you got the center of this thing good and hot now now we're gonna put it right on the eye just like that that's called upsetting this is trying to push some of the meat back in there and then we're going to come over to one side of the eye invent one fourth-down should give us a pretty even fork just flat right there and then we'll look out now we can see that one's longer than the other so we'll just heat that tip up and we'll cut it off and we could do this with a chisel if we had to or we can just do it with point that back out we're gonna end up using a file on the end of this anyway probably okay so now we got our forks pretty well evened up pretty flat nice and wide you got plenty of room in there to put meat on that it's just a little bit off-center I think but that's not gonna make any difference at all it's sure not much off-center okay so now that we've got our pork in done we've got to do the other end now of course and all this stuff in vegetable well guys I points everything in vegetable oil things that I'm gonna eat off over use knives squirrel cookers all that stuff it really doesn't matter to me I just wants everything in vegetable oil that way I'm safe no matter what now what we've got to do is we've got to take the other end of this and make it a pot hanger so we're gonna draw it out we're going to put our dip and now for our pot bail okay now I've got to keep this flat [Applause]

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okay point you down okay so that gives us the first part of our squirrel cooker it gives us a place to hang our pot on one side and a place to stick meat on the other side the second half of this is simple we just need a pigtail on the point I'll get to that right now okay now what we're gonna do is we're just gonna pound this down real quick like to point on the side one hand we're just like this using side hammer stroke we want a good square point on there okay now we're gonna heat it up again and we're going to draw that out [Applause]

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okay now let's mess with that point for a minute see what we're gonna do there okay we're gonna take that point make sure it's square it up just like that and then we're going to turn on side [Applause]

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gives us a fat when I was looking for now we got to tilt this back a little bit up well he just hung up they're gonna achieve a lock there I'm going to show you we're gonna use the fork to make that lock okay so what we're going to do is we're going to stick this inside here just like this and we're going to bend this pigtail backwards like this and that will force our lock when this is cooled down and walk around the top of that leaf and sit on that leaf let's get this cool there okay guys so we got that part done now all we really need to do on the other end of that piece of rebar is draw it out to a point just taking the ground we're good stay with me okay guys so here's what we got when we're done it locks right on top of this leaf you got a pot hitting on one side fork on the other if you want to change out what you're doing you just change this thing around to the other side so you lock your fork in place so you can put meat on top of this thing or you can turn around and go the other direction and lock a pot in on that side over your fire either way like I said in yesterday's video you know what I really like about these squirrel cookers is the fact that you can rotate them in and out of the fire and things like that okay folks I'm Dave Canterbury pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me I have another blacksmithing video today I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family my friends supporters and sponsors I'll be back another video soon as I can thanks guys you