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Fire Poker – Outdoor Skills
No camp-fire should be without poker and tongs. The poker is a beech stick four feet long by two inches thick, flattened at one end, with a notch cut in it for lifting kettles, etc. To make the tongs, take a tough beech or hickory stick, one inch thick by two feet in length, shave it down nearly one-half for a foot in the center, thrust this part into hot embers until it bends freely, bring the ends together and whittle them smoothly to a fit on the inside, cross checking them also to give them a grip; finish off by chamfering the ends neatly from the outside. They will be found exceedingly handy in rescuing a bit of tin ware, a slice of steak or ham, or any small article that happens to get dropped in a hot fire.
Sears, George Washington. Woodcraft. New York: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1884.
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