Man that's pretty slick. These 100 degree days are really killing my shop time ;) At least I can still study up for when I won't have a heat stroke out there. Thanks for the video!
I have never seen bending around a pipe in that way. It's fun to see how something is obvious to one person but another person would have never thought of it. Thanks for the videos John!
By far the best smith on TH-cam (shhh don't tell the other smiths I sub to) 😉. Always showing every step of the process and always making things even a beginner like me can handle. You would make an excellent teacher John, I would pay to go to CO and take a class or 2. Much gratitude for all your hard work and time to share your craft with the rest of us. 👍
Bon appétit ! I just came back from holydays in the USA, hiking and camping in the Yellowstone National Park and the Badlands, and I have to say that all the back country camping sitting by the fire or the river, enjoying these beautiful landscapes really was something... Amazing country, so much wildlife and great space, If that doens't make you want to cook on a camp fire I don't kow what does !
I make mine with an open spiral so they can be attached to the stake/leg from the side without pulling it out of the ground.Just make the gaps in the spiral equal to the diameter of the stake.
Okay, so you made me smile about this delightful adaptation every person should have at their campfire. You've done it now; I have to make a complete campfire set, including the skillet, turner, hooks, and, of course, the skillet holder. Nicely done!
Really enjoyed the whole video, thanks John. Also finished building my replacement coke forge today, ready to test drive when the weather breaks, forge is outside.
Nice add on to the campfire set! Just got a little piece of land that is near a lake and we will be camping much more so this series is very timely for me, great stuff! Thanks for the video
Love it! 👍 Great project. I have to make some of those for my friends camp set, and my own. I've been wanting to for quite a while and out 13th annual group camping trip is about a month away, so this in on the front burner as far as things to get done (other than customer projects). The timing couldn't have been better on this! 👍 👍 Keep up the good work!
Good Morning , John Great Video , I Really enjoyed the way you used the forging , Making the Skillet hold and the use of a real Camp Fire setup to demonstrate how the whole device would work in a real time Use ! Could 'nt have been a use of forging to USE ! Thank you for this Video ! Take Care and Be Safe ! Keep Hammering !
A nice lump of bread would have gone down well with those John I think I may make that set for my daughter she instructs Duke of Edinburgh awards (look it up it’s a UK thing) she wanted to be a welder at 14 and she was good but I convinced her to go into teaching now teaching special needs children proud dad
Great, thanks, now I want some eggs. LOL I was thinking some sort of U-shaped bend to hang it from the camp-fire irons, but hey, this works too. The U-shaped holder could fall off sideways, but it could be added to a previously set up set of irons without disassembling everything. Food for thought.
Never forged or used a forged skillet, but I have a carbon steel skillet that I use a lot. It's like made in China or whatever, but it's just mild steel, so that really doesn't matter, it's nice and thick and it heats up so well. It's way better than my cast iron, and a lot lighter, although I have some nonstick aluminum pans, and there's that difference, but I still love my steel pan the best.
I"m more into the bushcrat/backpacking side of things. As of late, I've been thinking of making a "squirrel cooker" using a single straight upright, and the pigtail being in the center of as horizontal piece, having a skillet holder on one end and a pot hook on the other. The trick being that the horizontal bar needs to be flipped to change from one end to the other. I'd be losing the ability to adjust in and out over the fire, something which could be accomplished by swinging the pot/pan on the upright, will adding the ability to easily adjust up and down, which in my experience are more important. As I haven't fired my forge up in years, I've yet to create a proof of concept design.
Hi John. How about a video on when and why you use the flat or rounded side of the hammer. As a beginning smith I would appreciate your insight. Thanks for everything and you have the most educational channel on Blacksmithing. Keep it up.
Just make a long S hook and hook it to the top cross bar and then the other end on the skillet bar and then it wouldn't fall into the fire and the S hook can also be used on lower fires ....just an idea for you
That is awesome. I will definitely utilize this lesson. On a side note is the coffee mug a Dakota Stoneware mug? They are good people sell a lot at rendezvous.
Hahaha I was watching the thumbnail play before I just went ahead and clicked the video, and when he rolled up the measuring tape the subtitle was, [applause] because of the slapping sound of the tape! Then, when he started hacksawing, it said [music]! LOL ! ! ! Edit: don't watch the whole video thumbnail style, actually watch and like the vid, people!
I noticed that you are having a camp fire under the sun...You could have had everything under the shade of the trees friend... and your skillet's holder or whatever you called it is a very bright idea...
Does 1/4” hot rolled square bar not exist? I can’t find it anywhere. I went to buy some steel to start my at-home practicing and they only had “cold rolled key stock” that was $0.60/ft. I wanted to use 1/4” to practice making S hooks. Do most smiths just use 3/8” for making S hooks, or do I spend extra on the cold rolled?
Many years ago I could get it. But suddenly it seemed to be unheard of and I now use 1/4" cold roll, which costs more, but seems to be readily available. I would confirm the actual material if they are calling it key stock, that often implies some form of tool steel. 1/4" cold rolled round or 3/8" hot rolled round are other good options for hooks.
Thanks for your channel. I am a retired police officer, so thanks for your service! I would like to know if you know where to purchase camp hooks with various sizes for an outside fire pit. I would make them like you, but I lack the knowledge, equipment, and time to do them myself. But I like watching how you do stuff with metal. Really a lost art form.
The life of Riley! nice.......Two eggs frying in a pan...29K views in one week! 'Old Dan Tucker' washed his face in a frying pan just like that one. Hmmm Video Idea? :)
Okay, buddy! i've got the grandson out in the shop whipping one of these up for me right now.
Love it! Anyone else notice the little spider buddy at toward the beginning in the vice?
Man that's pretty slick. These 100 degree days are really killing my shop time ;) At least I can still study up for when I won't have a heat stroke out there. Thanks for the video!
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Feels like A/C is on outside when I step out of my shop and it's 100 degrees outside lol.
I have never seen bending around a pipe in that way. It's fun to see how something is obvious to one person but another person would have never thought of it. Thanks for the videos John!
Just keep a bunch of assorted sizes around and you have lots of options.
By far the best smith on TH-cam (shhh don't tell the other smiths I sub to) 😉. Always showing every step of the process and always making things even a beginner like me can handle. You would make an excellent teacher John, I would pay to go to CO and take a class or 2. Much gratitude for all your hard work and time to share your craft with the rest of us. 👍
Lol
Bon appétit ! I just came back from holydays in the USA, hiking and camping in the Yellowstone National Park and the Badlands, and I have to say that all the back country camping sitting by the fire or the river, enjoying these beautiful landscapes really was something... Amazing country, so much wildlife and great space, If that doens't make you want to cook on a camp fire I don't kow what does !
Glad you had an enjoyable trip. Those are spectacular areas
Maybe one day I get there I'm just home from a trip trough the UK
Absolutely love watching you make things out of raw stock. Best smith on TH-cam. Thanks for the content.
Glad you enjoy it!
Every time I watch one of John's vids, I feel like I took a little vacation and arrive at the end refreshed and inspired.
I make mine with an open spiral so they can be attached to the stake/leg from the side without pulling it out of the ground.Just make the gaps in the spiral equal to the diameter of the stake.
make a video please, i am about to build one.
Nice little set up. Thank you. Reminds me of the squirrel cookers we used to make demonstrating back in South Carolina in the 1990s. Jim in Chile
I hate to sound like a broken record John but I just love this kind of stuff it never gets old.
Nothing beats cooking over an open fire. Great video.
Best eggs I've seen on utube.Makes me want to be in the woods hammock camping.grate work!.
Not sure how I missed this earlier. I enjoyed it. Thanks John!
I enjoyed seeing you use those things you made. I would not mind seeing more of that. THX
Just last weekend I saw a skillet holder like this. Need to make one now.
Nice job mate.
Simple and efficient. I'm going to make something like that too. Thanks for your time, it's always interesting to watch your work.
Great video again John.
Great little idea there, works a treat.
Love the pipe and wrench bend.
So nice to see a master in disguise, man you make that look easy. Thanks for sharing.
Well Done Smith, a great project. I got my forge built and working but I have not got round to doing a video, That has yet to come. Merry Christmas.
Love the whole camp fire set up John
Okay, so you made me smile about this delightful adaptation every person should have at their campfire. You've done it now; I have to make a complete campfire set, including the skillet, turner, hooks, and, of course, the skillet holder. Nicely done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed the whole video, thanks John. Also finished building my replacement coke forge today, ready to test drive when the weather breaks, forge is outside.
That's just slick as heck! I'm loving this. Thanks for sharing!
Great little project, love your outdoors stuff.
Sweet setup.
Nice work. Great video. Thank you for sharing.
Well done John! I really like that entire set up. Will have to get busy and see if I can make the set.
Excellent, John! 🐾🔥⚒🍳
Good one John, eggs came out good.And using the weight of the skillet down on the rod, is such a good way to do this.
Nice add on to the campfire set! Just got a little piece of land that is near a lake and we will be camping much more so this series is very timely for me, great stuff! Thanks for the video
Good looking skillet and eggs. Reminds me of my Navy days in the chow hall. We usually order our eggs as "two over greasy". :-) Thanks for posting.
Masterful egg flip sir.
Now I want fried eggs. Great pan holder John!👍
Very interesting my family uses the same concept but on a pulley system with a grate.
Wife wants me to make one now👍
Amazing how gravity and friction work neat deal like an upside down hold down . Cooking with John! Be well and be safe...........
You are a great inspiration. Thank you for making all the videos.
Great video. I like it. Think i would like to add a set screw to keep it in place
You can, but it tends to force it to align only on the flats of the bar which really limits the positioning options
Love it! 👍 Great project. I have to make some of those for my friends camp set, and my own. I've been wanting to for quite a while and out 13th annual group camping trip is about a month away, so this in on the front burner as far as things to get done (other than customer projects). The timing couldn't have been better on this! 👍 👍 Keep up the good work!
Appreciate the metric conversions, thanks for sharing.
I like your enjoy videos, that you give the measurement to your projects. Thanks
Very sensible solution, nice job John
That's a fine time. 👍👍
You did better over a fire with over easy than I can do on a stove.
Good Morning , John
Great Video , I Really enjoyed the way you used the forging , Making the Skillet hold and the use of a real Camp Fire setup to demonstrate how the whole device would work in a real time
Use ! Could 'nt have been a use of forging to USE ! Thank you for this Video ! Take Care and Be Safe ! Keep Hammering !
That's a really cool concept. Looks like it has other practical applications.
Very cool and easy!
I use concrete form stakes with holes . Put a pin in nail hole at the height you needs and it won’t slip down.
A nice lump of bread would have gone down well with those John I think I may make that set for my daughter she instructs Duke of Edinburgh awards (look it up it’s a UK thing) she wanted to be a welder at 14 and she was good but I convinced her to go into teaching now teaching special needs children proud dad
we also have duke of edinburgh awards here in NZ
Congratulations. You gave her a great start and she is following your example.
Great, thanks, now I want some eggs. LOL
I was thinking some sort of U-shaped bend to hang it from the camp-fire irons, but hey, this works too. The U-shaped holder could fall off sideways, but it could be added to a previously set up set of irons without disassembling everything. Food for thought.
Agreed I try to imagine something similar
Thank you for an excellent job well done 😊
Camping out something I haven;t done for years mite have to make some cooking irons
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Excellent!
thats neat, cant wait till i can get back into forging
Nice. I have round steel bars & a 1/2" hole in the skillet handle & holes great. I think that may give your holder more friction too. Worth a try.
Never forged or used a forged skillet, but I have a carbon steel skillet that I use a lot. It's like made in China or whatever, but it's just mild steel, so that really doesn't matter, it's nice and thick and it heats up so well. It's way better than my cast iron, and a lot lighter, although I have some nonstick aluminum pans, and there's that difference, but I still love my steel pan the best.
I"m more into the bushcrat/backpacking side of things. As of late, I've been thinking of making a "squirrel cooker" using a single straight upright, and the pigtail being in the center of as horizontal piece, having a skillet holder on one end and a pot hook on the other. The trick being that the horizontal bar needs to be flipped to change from one end to the other. I'd be losing the ability to adjust in and out over the fire, something which could be accomplished by swinging the pot/pan on the upright, will adding the ability to easily adjust up and down, which in my experience are more important. As I haven't fired my forge up in years, I've yet to create a proof of concept design.
I liked that fun to watch 👍👍👍
Outstanding video. Love this idea
Nice project and easy to make
This dude is awesome
Love the bush hat mate, thought this was an Aussie video at first hahahaha
😁
You traumatized the spider at 1:00 lol
Maybe extend the curly end to make a cold handle.....that is a handy piece of kit.
Nicely done
Hi John. How about a video on when and why you use the flat or rounded side of the hammer. As a beginning smith I would appreciate your insight. Thanks for everything and you have the most educational channel on Blacksmithing. Keep it up.
Seems like I have discussed that, but if I can't find the video I will add it to the list.
You should really make a short video on how you manage to hacksaw stock so quickly! I don't think my bandsaw can hardly keep up with you!
Great project. good job.
Elegant design
Great as always, thanks for metric
Great video sir.
Just make a long S hook and hook it to the top cross bar and then the other end on the skillet bar and then it wouldn't fall into the fire and the S hook can also be used on lower fires ....just an idea for you
That is awesome. I will definitely utilize this lesson. On a side note is the coffee mug a Dakota Stoneware mug? They are good people sell a lot at rendezvous.
If you bend the arm so it is 5-10 degrees higher than the mounting curl it will not release when you take the pan off
Very nice!
Hahaha I was watching the thumbnail play before I just went ahead and clicked the video, and when he rolled up the measuring tape the subtitle was, [applause] because of the slapping sound of the tape! Then, when he started hacksawing, it said [music]! LOL ! ! ! Edit: don't watch the whole video thumbnail style, actually watch and like the vid, people!
Great video!
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls
That was awesome! I had to laugh because I've done all this the very hard way.
The only error was there is no such thing as too much butter.
I like that setup. Excellent work.
Q maestro. La verdad q no entiendo lo q dice pero se entiende lo q hace por q es muy bueno en lo q hace
Love it
Great Stuff Blacksmith, I am still learning to post a video on u Tube? But Patience has its own rewards they say.
Can you make Damascus bowls and Damascus dinner plate because I was really curious on the outlook on how that's supposed to work
I was thinking of this and squirrel cooker on the other end
I noticed that you are having a camp fire under the sun...You could have had everything under the shade of the trees friend... and your skillet's holder or whatever you called it is a very bright idea...
Does 1/4” hot rolled square bar not exist? I can’t find it anywhere. I went to buy some steel to start my at-home practicing and they only had “cold rolled key stock” that was $0.60/ft. I wanted to use 1/4” to practice making S hooks. Do most smiths just use 3/8” for making S hooks, or do I spend extra on the cold rolled?
Many years ago I could get it. But suddenly it seemed to be unheard of and I now use 1/4" cold roll, which costs more, but seems to be readily available. I would confirm the actual material if they are calling it key stock, that often implies some form of tool steel. 1/4" cold rolled round or 3/8" hot rolled round are other good options for hooks.
I learned a lot from your videos like to see some pictures that I’ve done because I learned from you some hold down on the price Aaron Danville thanks
Now all you need is a swing out table on your chair and your set. .... kind of like the portable school desk/chairs.
Thanks for your channel. I am a retired police officer, so thanks for your service! I would like to know if you know where to purchase camp hooks with various sizes for an outside fire pit. I would make them like you, but I lack the knowledge, equipment, and time to do them myself. But I like watching how you do stuff with metal. Really a lost art form.
Send me an email with a description of what Your looking for.. I can probably make them for you. switz@mindspting.com
Thank you
At the 1 minute mark that spider is like, What the....?
That’s cool sir thank you.
That is a lot of butter😁
thanks mister
The life of Riley! nice.......Two eggs frying in a pan...29K views in one week! 'Old Dan Tucker' washed his face in a frying pan just like that one. Hmmm Video Idea? :)