The absolute best thing about your presentations are your introduction doesn't include a long musical intro! Thank you 😊 this was a great informative video. I enjoyed it very much. I had herd that story and had seen a video of the swagmens history in Australia but I think you're explanation 🤔 was terrific 👍. Thanks for the information about ordering, I am now planning to do so . My great Uncle gave me a tin pot back in the 60s for my scouting and it looked very much like those. I was shocked when you brought them out . Mine even had tbe flat handel on the lid. It wasn't as shiny or new because it had been part of his camp gear from his early years.

Aussie here 🇦🇺 As much as I love local made stuff, i actually prefer and use a cheap one piece pressed aluminium billy. The traditional style one you have there are great for nostalgia but also if you cook anything but water/coffee/tea the food gets caught in the join between the bottom piece of metal and the side wall. In terms of heat resistance, I've had my aluminium billy in some pretty hot fires and it hasn't burnt through. Obviously don't jam it right in the middle of the coals for an hour. Had mine for years and travelled everywhere, love it.

Before watching this, let me guess, it wasn't some guy named Billy.😃 My dad told me a story of when he apprenticed in N Ireland, and all the carpenters heated their tea in soup tins, with a wire bail, over the fire. They'd be all black from the fire, except for where they always drank from. So he took a very small drill, and drilled holes in them just below the "clean" spot, then he hid......when he heard all the angry yells, he ran! Said he got a beating for that one, but judging from the smile on his face when he told it, it was worth it. I wish I was smart enough to have gotten more of those stories out of him before it was too late.

How absolutely delightful! A great history lesson about a great pot. Thanks for sharing! :-)

Thank you, Mark, for sharing this bit of history with us all. 😊

A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill can hold more than a billy can. Enjoyed the video. Thanks.

Thanks for the history lesson

We just wild camped at the actual billabong made famous in Banjo Patterson’s poem/song ‘Waltzing Matilda.’ It is on the Diamantina river near Kynuna in QLD. It is known as Combo Waterhole, a great place full of history!

Thanks Marcus For Sharing These With Mark To Share This Video With Us ! Loved Hearing The History Behind This, Thanks Mark, Have A Swell & Safe Day There, Friend ! ATB T God Bless

That was a very thoughtful gift Marcus. "Waltzing Matilda" was one of the songs we sang in Elementary back in the 50's. Thanks for the history lesson!!!

I love your passion, and the history of the Billy Can

Nice video, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for this video! I always thought the "billy" can came from ANZAC troops in the WWI. And I thought it was derived from the cans of "bully beef" they had as rations. I was close but your history story clears up the distinction.

Thanks for the information, and thanks, Marcus. That’s a cool Billy tin.

Thanks for the info! Very useful indeed, I've been thinking of getting one of these since it appears to be a much more effective cooking system than my crusader mess tin after using my friends one on adventures!

I just stumbled upon your videos after recently purchasing a firebox stove. You produce some outstandingly informative content and I certainly appreciate the work you've put in. I'm in the Army and I've already used some of your cooking tips to make some very long weeks quite a bit more comfortable! Wish you well this Christmas - and God bless.

I sang as I sat and waited while my billy boiled...

Good on ya mate !

I am looking forward to a video where you take it out in the woods and try it out. Hopefully, you will find it worthy of a place in your tucker bag.

Great and interesting information on the history of the Billy pot. At one time, did Bully Beef come in tins that size? I'm guessing that if it was to feed a camp of hungry workers, it probably did. Thanks Mark, always enjoyable.

Thanks for another great video and the history lesson, Mark. Looks like Christmas is coming early for you this year! 🙂

Great video as always. Thanks for your time.

Outstanding! It's quite nice to learn about history of an item. How we got what we use. Just so cool! Thank You for your time !

Good information, Sir ! Thank you ! Keep up the great work !!!

unbelieveble i just found it the other day interested in the story/history behind it well explained Mark

Very interesting that's for sharing.

It was interesting, thanks Mark, take care mate 👍 🙂

Great history lesson Mark, very interesting. Thanks for sharing! :) :)

Classic beautiful piece of kit

Outstanding! Marcus did well ...

That's cool thanks for the trivia/history lesson very cool to learn

You really got me thinking about a couple of my favourite subjects, corned beef, and camping pots. I was sure I saw a reference to "Bully Beef" in an old collection of Canadian cartoons by Bing Coughlin, "Herbie!" and there he was, being told that he wouldn't need those cases of Bully beef when he was repatriated back to Canada. espritdecorps.ca/history-feature/herbie-to-the-front-canadian-war-cartoonists-of-the-second-world-war-part-1 photos.app.goo.gl/H54tKFzKzPLMw1hZ7 That search led me to find another regarding bully beef and it's history in the common wealth, and a source from Australia mentioning the rations the troops ate at Gallipoli, tinned beef and hard tack... Lol. www.taste.com.au/articles/bully-beef-part-of-australian-history/KYnke1FI And another fascinating article on the diet of the WW1 ANZAC troops: www.smh.com.au/national/anzac-100-diggers-survived-on-bully-beef-tea-and-biscuits-20150410-1mio1j.html I went down quite the rabbit hole on this one, and I should perhaps mention that I love corned beef and have a brisket brining in the refrigerator now... :D Back to your video... I'm amazed at the camaraderie between KZfaq content creators who will ship gifts across oceans and continents! I enjoyed watching the video, and it took me back to my days in cadets when we would cook our K rations in our billys over toilet paper and alcohol stoves in the woods around Richmond Hill Ontario. Cheers!

Nice info, thank you.

Another major advantage, when you speak of the height to diameter ratio, is that a pot of this size is much less likely to tip and spill it's contents than a shallow pot of the same diameter. Think of the small pot in the old boy scout mess kits! Check this video on pots by the late Mors Kochanski. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtKYabV_upPIg5s.html I find it interesting that weather your looking at the corn boiler or trade kettle from the early American era of Rodger's rangers and the French and Indian wars in the 1700's, or the Australian Billy Pot, or the contemporary "bush pot", they are very similar in size and appearance. Purpose built for cooking over a fire. Check out this comparison of contemporary cookware. There may be slight differences but notice the similarities! Note that Firebox Stove Co. sells metal clips for the Zebra Billy pots which allow the bail to lock in the upright position , and do not melt! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itadl6Wrv7GXYqc.html

Great story, and nice one Marcus Max!!

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great Item , sty safe and sound 5 Years health

Some interesting history. Does the zebra fit in the IKEA utensil pot?

I look the company up and they don’t have any prices or anyway to order from them that I could find . Would be interested to learn how . I collect billycans and mess kits myself.

With the melting temperature of tin being so low, you don't want to leave that unattended!. Is it really tin? Does a magnet stick to it? Maybe it's just tin plated to keep it from rusting. Interesting that such a product/company is still around. I like that in their website, they show some of the products they regularly make as well as the custom work they can do for you.

Cecil pronounced See-sil or Sess-il ??