TripodsEveryone needs to eat, so someone needs to cook.
Whether you're doing Medieval, Revolutionary War, French and
Indian War, Civil War (English or
American), or even Carthago-Roman, one of the best ways to hold your pot or
cauldron over the fire is with a tripod.
In this class we will make a tripod for cooking over a camp fire.
This is a good solid design that stands well and can also be arranged as two verticals with a horizontal either as a spit or as a bar for hanging utensils from.
Techniques: hacksawing, drawing-out, bending, twisting (optional)
The parts disassemble easily for transport. You'll need a few 'S' hooks
or a trammel hook to adjust the height of your cookpot. (Watch for a
trammel hook class coming soon).
Gift Certificates for Tripods are available.
2 hours one meeting dates×
Instructor: Carl West
Fee: $80 + $8- $12 materials fee depending on size
of tripod
per student
Class size is limited to 4 students (one per forge).
Please wear proper clothing for visiting or working in the forge:
closed toe shoes (preferably leather, preferably high-topped. Sneakers are sufficient, sandals, crocs, pumps, mules... are not), natural fiber clothing, long pants that cover the tops of the shoes.
Click here for more safety information.
This class is either: If you're interested in taking Tripods and it's not on the calendar, please tell us using our Notification-List Page.
Dates and Times:
If none of the dates below work for you (or are already full), we suggest you
Add yourself to the Notification List for this class.
(The notification list gets emailed soon after classes are put on the schedule.)
- not upcoming on our schedule,
- or we've fallen behind in our clerical duties and not entered it in the database.
If you found it on our calendar page, we are planning to offer it on that date.