Fire pit

[Backwoods Welding]

Have been requested so here it is! I get the pit in two halves called hemispheres. I weld one half to a base then weld the other one to it. I project the design I want on the ball and trace it. Then I fire up the plasma cutter! Sorry the app won't let me post more than one pic at a time so bear with me.

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Welded together

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Cutting the 175# ball!

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Finished product!

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Test burn

 

[Backwoods Welding]

Other side

 

[Backwoods Welding]

If you have any questions let me know!

 

[FTG-05]

That's pretty cool!!!!

 

[Ehanson]

Have been requested so here it is! I get the pit in two halves called hemispheres. I weld one half to a base then weld the other one to it. I project the design I want on the ball and trace it. Then I fire up the plasma cutter! Sorry the app won't let me post more than one pic at a time so bear with me.

Where do you get the steel balls, hemishperes ?

 

[Backwoods Welding]

There are several metal forming companies out there, I get mine from a place called Commercial Metal Forming in Youngstown, Ohio

 

[EddieWalker]

That's real nice!!!

 

[woodlandfarms]

So the spheres have a particular name? They look about 30" in diameter but wondering as well

Impressive, great idea.

 

[Backwoods Welding]

They are 32" and each half is called a hemisphere.

 

[KubotainNH]

That's pretty cool but the cabin is on fire.

 

[Backwoods Welding]

It's sad but I finished that pit right in the middle of the big wildfires out in California this summer and a few of my friends named this pit the Californian because the cabin and trees are on fire and of course the bears

 

[C4Ranch]

Really like it! Want to make one myself... Bout how much do the spheres run? Did u draw the stencil yourself?

You must have a steady hand with that plasma!

Great job!

 

[Backwoods Welding]

The material is $350 to get and we lay out the design on computer and project it on the sphere. We then trace it with a paint marker and cut.

 

[Wagtail]

Beautiful work Mate.

 

[crazyal]

If you had a design that wasn't open enough to put wood in on the top could you make the two hemispheres hinged? I saw a picture once in a welding magazine from a place in China that made hemispheres and balls. They made everything from tiny little ones about 1/2" in diameter all the way up past 72". They made them out of steel, stainless, and brass with your choice of finishes. The only reason I remember it was that they took a picture of their warehouse full of "balls". 1000s of them every size you could imagine. I wonder if it would be worth pricing them from China if you do enough of them.

 

[justinramani]

Very Nice!