SC - pot lifter

[Charles McCathieNevile]

There is a historical device for hanging a pot on over a fire. It relies 
on having a beam above the fire, and is adjustable. I think the original 
illustration I have seen is in the Maciejowski bible - a 13th C set of 
miniatures mostly in the Pierpont collection, And published as _Old 
Testament Miniatures_, Sydney Cockerel, London 1967. I forget the 
publisher. 

The beasty consists of a flat toothed piece of Iron, one end bent over to 
hang on the beam, and at the other end, on the non-toothed bar, a small 
loop. A rod goes through the loop, and has a hook at the bottom (down 
past the toothed flat piece, and on the other end a hinged loop of its 
own, large enugh to slide over the teeth, and pull into one to fix the 
height.

I guess this is not very easy to imagine, but the same thing is made by 
blacksmiths today.

Cheers

Charles Ragnar
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