Thread: Outside fire

Made this out of some junk for a guy

Excellent effort mate. I can imaging sitting beside that on a cold night and warming up. Perhaps a 1/2 ‘n 1/2 grille/hotplate for cooking?

You carn`t beat washing machine bits, an old wringer drive on the side for a lamb spit roaster would be the go.

My old spit included an electric motor run through 2x washing machine gearboxes back to back and did approx 1 rpm.

is that a drum off a truck? I had one I was going to use for a fire pit, bloody nice and heavy duty. looks good mate.

Air holes? presume you have blocked up the hub hole with something to stop all the coals falling out on the deck?

probably put an ash/coal catcher tray halfway down the legs. then good to go on a deck etc.

It’s the deck in front of my little workshop the fire is sitting on that fire has gone to a private hut sits on a bit of tin for the embers to land on the guy said it goes good


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Originally Posted by 40mm

is that a drum off a truck? I had one I was going to use for a fire pit, bloody nice and heavy duty. looks good mate.

Truck brake drum the legs are axle u bolts and the grate is from a singer sowing machine


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Originally Posted by sometimes1

It’s the deck in front of my little workshop the fire is sitting on that fire has gone to a private hut sits on a bit of tin for the embers to land on the guy said it goes good


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Good stuff , She will go hard with all that air up the bum

It'll definitely need a steel tray under it, the hot coals/ashes will fall out thru the grate for sure, maybe some chicken mesh in the bottom first will help stop it falling thru

I saw a setup that a guy I know had for stopping the ashes burning his deck - he had about two sackfulls of pumice from the beach sewn into chickenwire in a slab roughly 1m square and about 200mm thick

Worked a treat

Can you build me one?

should be able to make two more thing i have enough junk i got enough brake drums

Made for a private hut, who`s going to be the poor bugger that has to backpack it in!!.