My homemade fire poker from the teenage years. It works better than those factory made pointed pokers. It's really heavy, so you just kind of let it plop down, then pull, and everything has no choice but to be raked forward.
It was built as a joint effort one fine evening between me and some of my partying buddies. It's outlived several stoves, but we originally designed it for an old barrel stove. After that, a Ben Franklin cast iron fireplace/stove, an airtight automatic heater, and a box stove. I still use it now, but I have to hide it in the ash bucket behind the wood box. I'm told it's too ugly to have it prominently displayed, but to me it's a work of art filled with good memories! And fully functional too.
The fancy handle, recycled from a broken pitchfork. Note the equally impressive cotter pin securing it to the metal rod. Also, it has a hole for hanging by the stove through which we originally looped a leather shoelace.
The working end, with impaired precision welding. The holes serve no purpose; they were already in the piece of scrap metal we used to make it.
It was built as a joint effort one fine evening between me and some of my partying buddies. It's outlived several stoves, but we originally designed it for an old barrel stove. After that, a Ben Franklin cast iron fireplace/stove, an airtight automatic heater, and a box stove. I still use it now, but I have to hide it in the ash bucket behind the wood box. I'm told it's too ugly to have it prominently displayed, but to me it's a work of art filled with good memories! And fully functional too.
The fancy handle, recycled from a broken pitchfork. Note the equally impressive cotter pin securing it to the metal rod. Also, it has a hole for hanging by the stove through which we originally looped a leather shoelace.
The working end, with impaired precision welding. The holes serve no purpose; they were already in the piece of scrap metal we used to make it.
