Ray Mears / Australian Tripod Method

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Woodlore - BBC - RAY MEARS goes walkabout

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[DottyDotDitto]

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.

[RDPproject]

My friends and I useto do this all the time....totally forgotten about it until we saw this....

Cool

[TheKodiak72]

@freedeanna lol u sound jealous the brits didnt invent this dude

[docnightfall]

@DottyDotDitto In most other places, we don't use a can. Cordage is used to tie the tripod legs together.

[Rustystone27]

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.

[freedeanna]

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.

[Cartoonruf]

That is just amazing. :)

[Cartoonruf]

That is just amazing. :)

[hunt458]

Camping in a country with a venomous snake behind every bush?

[Angyal269]

@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.

[bushcraftstudent]

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.