freedeanna - did you even listen to him? He didn't say anything about "aboriginal" australians using this method. He said men used it when moving between cattle stations. Probably swagmen used it too.
Since the Brits invented tin cans, isn't this "the British method"? It's nuts to call it "a traditional Australian way to suspend a pot", and wax lyrical about aboriginal ingenuity, when it uses metal wire and a metal can. It would be interesting to know whether aboriginal Australians suspended "pots" over fires at all until non-aboriginals brought metal pans, but I'm guessing not. Did they even fire clay? Putting a can at each end of a wire gives you the traditional Aussie telephone, I suppose.
I have done the tripod in a very diiferen way by tieing the sticks together and hanging a notched stick from it that can hangs from. This way simpler and ill be good cor young son to use.
freedeanna - did you even listen to him? He didn't say anything about "aboriginal" australians using this method. He said men used it when moving between cattle stations. Probably swagmen used it too.
Rustystone27 8 months ago
Since the Brits invented tin cans, isn't this "the British method"? It's nuts to call it "a traditional Australian way to suspend a pot", and wax lyrical about aboriginal ingenuity, when it uses metal wire and a metal can. It would be interesting to know whether aboriginal Australians suspended "pots" over fires at all until non-aboriginals brought metal pans, but I'm guessing not. Did they even fire clay? Putting a can at each end of a wire gives you the traditional Aussie telephone, I suppose.
freedeanna 8 months ago
That is just amazing. :)
Cartoonruf 1 year ago
That is just amazing. :)
Cartoonruf 1 year ago
Camping in a country with a venomous snake behind every bush?
hunt458 1 year ago
I have done the tripod in a very diiferen way by tieing the sticks together and hanging a notched stick from it that can hangs from. This way simpler and ill be good cor young son to use.
bushcraftstudent 1 year ago
I actually didn't realise that this practaice was considered just an Australian thing.
I grew up doing it so can't really imagine it any other way.
Could people please tell me how it's done in other countries? I'm really curious now, lol.
DottyDotDitto 2 years ago 3
@DottyDotDitto Most Hungarian households have steel tripods as cooking gulyas soup on open fire is as popular here as barbecue in America.
Traditionally sticks are tied together with cordage and the pot is hanged on a chain.
Angyal269 1 year ago
@DottyDotDitto In most other places, we don't use a can. Cordage is used to tie the tripod legs together.
docnightfall 6 months ago
cool tripod...my ancestors are watching me all the time..!!.. ask me mum!!!!
buggermesidewaystwic 2 years ago
I will give your tripod a go on my next camping trip.....Thanks!
larrylynn123 2 years ago
My friends and I useto do this all the time....totally forgotten about it until we saw this....
Cool
RDPproject 2 years ago 2
well you are Australian haha
chrissept21 2 years ago