5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Pot Crane

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afternoon folks Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school back in our series on five minutes to better bushcraft what we're going to do today is we're gonna make a simple pot crane three components very easy to find just a fairly straight long stick a why it's important that this why I have a branch growing off of it and not be an actual fork so that we can pound on one side without splitting the fork out and then we need another fork that we can turn upside down where a branch is coming off of a limb those are the components we need now we just need to sharpen them up get them in the ground put one notch in and we have ourselves a pot crane okay so the long and the short of this is we want to take our longest stick take our saw and we're going to put a seven notch in this so we're just going to cut a saw kerf down into it little ways take our knife cut that seven notch out we can use a push cut for that just like this with the thumb assist push cut and this is just going to give us a stopping point for a pot bail and I cut it probably halfway down through the material clean that up just a little bit I'll call that good there you go that takes care of that I'll put a point on the end of this stick so that we can pound it in the ground it doesn't have to be anything drastic and then we need a point on this one it's a little bit larger stick and we can get away with just wedging one side so we're just going to take our axe cut a wedge on one side of this just like that basically then we'll be able to put it right over here in front of the fire pound it into the ground again we're pounding on the limb or the trunk side not the fork side we wanted to we could also chair for these off to make a little neater job of it and make sure that wouldn't mushroom out on us guess we better save this axe for one more minute here now we've got our cross stick that goes here we're going to that is going to hold our pot over the fire and so now once we have weight in our pot from food or what-have-you that becomes a lever and we can then drop it into that fork to hold it over the fire we can slide it back and forth if we need to and we can also twist it side to side because this fork will turn in the ground to take it off the fire simple project five minutes to better bushcraft okay guys well I appreciate you joining me today for this video on the pot crane another in our series of five minutes to better bushcraft I appreciate your support appreciate your views I thank you everything you do for school for family and for business for all of our sponsor instructors affiliates and Friends I'll be back with another video in this series as soon as I can thanks guys