Squirrel cooker for cooking over the camp fire (you don't have to cook a squirrel)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2018
- While todays project is called a squirrel cooker, I have never seen anyone actually cooking a squirrel on one. Typically this small forged fork and ground stake are simply used for cooking small pieces of meat.
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7:25 Best part was the musical wire brush😂
Jingle Bells, yeah? I swear, thought I was going crazy for a second
Yep, Jingle Bells for sure. :D
Jingle bell brushing!
I thought I was the only one that noticed that.
Sir, you're awesome. I stumbled on your channel while trying to learn how to get started in blacksmithing. Just want to say, the content is great.
Lol, I heard what ya did with the wire brush there around the 7:25-7:35 ish time mark. Very festive.
I caught that too...😊
I love your instructional videos, you have taught me so much in the last 6 months. Keep up the great content
I melted down Aluminum today in a camp fire today in a soup can. My First melt! 😀😀😀
This is one of my favorite simple projects. I have been leaning a lot from you .
Nice. Simple, skill building, cheap, practical. And the mechanics are applicable to all sorts of other things, where ever you need to suspend a thing over a place.
So simple yet so effective thanks
Man! I love these type of projects.
Awesome simple project! I am going to try one. Thank you for your knowledge
Omg lord I'm going sending this to my wife. We love your outside squirrel ... if I don't comment I'm not on earth Anymore
That’s really cool 😎!!! 👍👍😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Fun project
That was great.
Well you got more black smith tools than me. ALL I HAVE is? A welding machine, acetylene oxygen torch for, my back smith tools 🤣🤣
Great campfire utensil and packs up small
Definitely going to make me one to cook something in the South African Bushveld after a long hike etc! Great video as always Sir
John, I love that twisting tool you used. So basic and yet very utilitarian!
Thanks 👍
John thanks for everything. Really enjoying these daily small/intermediate projects.
That's really cool
I grew up eating a lot of squirrel as a kid. Still enjoy the odd one. This is a must have for any camp type fire for sure.
Again John another super project that fits in so well with the outdoors and the different game seasons.
Maybe you could make a fishing rod holder keeping with the lets catch our meal and cook it too.....
I love you work I'm a fan thanks for sharing
Awesome! Thank you!
Sweet! Love it and Squirrel is acually very good when cooked right
On the twenty-first day of Christmas the black bear made for me, a squirrel cooker, a key fob, a ball and cup toy, a decorative punch, meat scewers, a hot dog fork, jingle bels, a candy dish, a paper towel holder, a menorah, BBQ tongs, a stocking hanger, a Christmas tree ornament, a cabinet pull, a dinner bell, a steak flipper, a hose hanger, a bottle opener, a candle snuffer, a nice wreath hook and a beaitifull coat hook. Just tell me if this is getting annoying. only 8 days to go.
gargoyle always makes me smile 😀!!
Awesome work. I really like making those. I think I have probably made 15 sets or so. They are great to use. Nice work on them as always.
I love these tools. Camp cooking is awsome. Love to see more camp cooking tools! Thank you sir
There will certainly be some more as spring comes on
The brushing brought a smile to me so thanks for that one
Glad I'm not the only one that heard the musical brush.
I definitely want to make one. John, if the stake in the ground is more rounded, you can turn the forks away from the fire as well as move it in and out. Thanks again for sharing. I’m rewatching your cooking tools playlist.
Squirrel is actually very good. Another great project. Thanks.
Love it, thanks John.
I like little useful projects like this that you can do in an afternoon. good exercise.
Great work John , awesome.
You’re awesome!
Very neat Thanks
John I had a forking good time watching you make this project!
I’ll have to make a few for camping this upcoming year Thanks John!
Great videos.
Nice project John.
great video too awesome camping tool
Great Tofu cooker ! Very efficient forging, bravo !
Had to go back and listen again. Pretty slick with jingle bells. Merry Christmas my friend.....
Liked this so much, I just ordered one!
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Awesome little project! And it might just be me but I really like the satisfying "ping" your hold fast makes when it sets. Thanks for the video!
MMMMM - roast squirrel ! Great little project, I will definitely be making one or more of these before next spring. Thanks.
Love this one John Have to give this one a shot. Maybe wait till summer tho. Thx for the awesome projects you really got my mind going. Thx again....paul
Another great project and instructive video. Great gifts for people who camp. I will have to give this a go as well since I know several campers. Keep up the videos, they are fun to watch and make great gifts and make me want to practice and develop some ability!
Thumbs up. Great video.
"Hunk of tofu" hahahaha
I would definitely cook squirrels on it I eat squirrel all the time neat little project
amazing work! such an good idea :) and thanks for making this super interesting videos... greatings from bavaria
Merry Christmas to you as well. my wife just bought me a couple of black smithing books for Christmas and i am hoping to get out and build some stuff in the new year.
Merry Christmas
Didn't know you you were a Rendezvouser! Glad to hear it!
I used to do the Rondys in Granby and Hot Sulphur Springs. Lots of fun and good sales, too! My wife and I were traders until I got disabled.
I want to get back into it on a small scale this year so, I will be making a dozen or two of these, some meat skewers (which I have found make wonderful kilt pins that double as last resort defensive pokers! LOL! And I have been making penannulars for years!
Cheers!
Nice project , one good benefit for me is , I love eating Squirrels !
I used to sell these by the dozens at civil war and rev war events.
A tofu cooker? That’s a funny image and I suspect the squirrels might not mind. I’ll have mine with teriyaki sauce, the tofu that is.
Hunk of Tofu... ha ha. Squirrel taste good. Try it!
A very good exercise is making those loops at the end of a handle
I really like this video makes me want to go camping lol
No tofu for me, as a kid the neighbor would bring us squirrel, my Mom said it was chicken, but she fried it in a pan and not over an open fire. Great little project.
Are those Fire Department tin pants? 🐾⚒🔥 Nice campfire fork!
I’m thinking a design modification might be to leave the ring open enough that the fork can be disengaged easily without having to pull it all the way through the ring to reduce bare hand exposure to the heat source.
Finally I can be rid of those pesky table forks whilst cooking squirrels. (Which by the way are delicious but not as delicious as Spotted Owl)
You, sir, are a glorious bastard. :-)
Great, my dog heard you say SQUIRREL. Now i gotta make one.
very sneaky xmas jingle bells there hehe
Not sure how many of these I have made and sold. I use something like a fishing pole holder for the stand. Don't have to insert or pull the shaft out. Just lift and remove.
Sneaky Jingle bells😂
Wait! Did he just brush the forks to the tune of Jingle Bells?
Helena Of Detroit I could have sworn i herd that lol
Yup!
I have made these but we used 1/2 in square mild steel and they are much longer.
Subtle sleigh bells :)
I like that video makes me hungry for squirrel
Merry Christmas John! Do you have a video on making hot cuts? Like how to make the tool and how to grind the proper edges on them? Thanks, and I hope everything is going well!!
I have looked at hand held hot chisels, but so far not a handled hot cut
Sou do Brasil
Não entendo a lingua mas aprendo muito mesmo so com a imagens
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I don't want to cook tofu with it, but I am going to try really hard not to judge people who do 😂
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Hot filing, is this more efficient that cold filing?
It's fairly easy to use the horn of an anvil like yours to do the ring, however, those of us that can't afford a REAL anvil and are forced to use a Harbor Freight "anvil" are out of luck as the "horn" is not a horn, at all but, a screwy shaped end to an otherwise sort of usable anvil.
SO, we have to use a form, a piece of pipe or whatever is handy and round and close to the right size for this operation. They work, but, I wish I could afford a REAL anvil!
Great little project I am new to black smithing. Do you have a video on making that to that you do the twist with ? Or did you buy that? God-bless and merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas
Great job with your videos very Informative and I was wondering what is The glove that you use and where I can get them
www.piehtoolco.com/contents/en-us/p6640.html
Thanks
Ok need squirrel
I saw one of your videos on FB, you clamped down your anvil so it wouldn't "ring" when you hit it.
The full video is available at th-cam.com/video/Z3365vFHXhw/w-d-xo.html
@@BlackBearForge I watched that whole video on facebook, not my preferred platform to watch things video so I came to youtube to find your channel. Thank you buddy
Do all your hammers have the same shape and design?
How much sir ?
I have been trying to find one to buy for awhile now.
I am not a black smith nor am I equipped. And any page I do find that sells them is sold out lol.
Now u need to cook a squirrel over your forge
Only one squirrel was hurt in the making of this video. He was hurt pretty badly though... :-)
mes feel like some squirrel right about now
relly relly like that you sometimes do the metric make it easier i i need to do my self one of them look good
Just double check my conversions, I get them wrong half the time
Do you have advice for how to prepare coil spring for forging? Such as how to strip the coating if you can’t burn it off and an efficient way to straighten it by hand?
I have never had coil spring with any coating. If you live where you can have an outdoor fire, you might just burn it off.
Black Bear Forge much thanks
Is squirrel good eating anyway?
I meant the handles. I know the heads are different
Have you ever shown SLOW-MOTION video of your various hammer blows? I think your drawing out hammering would be cool to see in slow-mo to see the angle you strike at
I think I have but don't know in which videos
What tool steel is best for the face of the anvil?
Most of the old ones would just be a simple high carbon steel forge welded to the anvil
what is the hold down tool you are using when you split the rod?
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That is called a holdfast here is a video on the topic th-cam.com/video/1Edt7QGj3fI/w-d-xo.html
FYI
5/16 = 8mm
Hey John Why choose square bar rather than round bar?
Square is less likely to turn unintentionally in use and people like the twist.
Ahahahah! "Hunk of tofu"?!?!
are you making them to sell by chance?
I certainly can. A set would be $25 plus shipping. You may email me switz@mindspring.com if you're interested
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