5 Gallon Copper Kelly Kettle .

[Rootsman]

(16 January 2012, 15:58)Reality Jones Wrote: I have recently come into posession of what can only be described as a 5 gallon, copper kelly kettle. It sits on a tripod about a foot high and has a copper tap.
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I have tried it out a couple of times now and it can boil the 5 gallons in a couple of minutes when its internal fire is burning well.

This sounds like a similar thing to a Volcano kettle, which is (if you havent already seen one)basicly a copper or aluminium cone in a cone forming a cylinder which holds the water an there is a filler hole an a spout for pouring an a open hole at the top for the chimney, an you build a small fire inside the cone and it takes just a sheet or two of newspaper(or whatever) to boil a kettle full (pint) of water or longer depending on the size of your kettle.

Good bit of kit.