Is Fireplace Crane a modern term for the swing-out metal arms that hang over a fireplace for cooking? e.g. like in dutch ovens or pots/cauldrons that hang over a fire. It sounds like a more modern term and I need to know if there is an older term. Thanks.
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Although those items are still sold, they are actually VERY old things used in homes when fireplaces were the source of heat for cooking. Sorry I am not aware of what they used to be called!
An older term might be randle bar, but I think both terms are fine to use.
You would mean one in the hearth, yes. An older term may be to call it a Pot Crane or Chimney Crane. That is most common to what you describe that it is affixed to the chimney and swings about. That does not swing, a lug pole might be from a green wood or iron hung above the fire with chain ... or if a Hearth Crane then a standing legged trestle (stands upon the hearth) and hooks affixed ... some with a pot crane attached. But either. You might also refer to it with it's counterpart, the trammel ... as in crane trammel. The trammel is the device hung from the pole or crane to allow the pot to be adjusted up or down depending on the heat required. In some cases the trammel can be just a series of S-hooks linked together, it can also be a chain with hooks, and is often a specific toothed device wrought by smithy. As a child we used hooks and hooks chain, thoe as a man I owned a sawtoothed trammel but hardly used it as I'd obtained a stew stove. My business partner Ebenezer insisted that a toothed saw trammel was frivolous and kept a chain and hook type in his home.
