DIY fire pit

[Citydude]

I’m kinda partial to a fire on an elevated platform.

Ooo, I like that idea!

 

[PJRAM]

I like the ventilation hole design along the perimeter. I guess that's why its called a "Smokeless" fire pit?

Yes, the holes are supposed to make it smokeless. It seems that it works when the fire is really going, but starts to smoke more as it dies down.

 

[newbury]

Pjram - looks great.
I've been toying with the idea of building a "fire pit" in my suburban back yard. I've 4 large maples on the lot and they generate a lot of small limbs, plus there is all the cardboard from on-line shopping.
Sort of an upscale burn-barrel.

 

[JJT]

Holy shllt! 2-3 cords in a firepit? I burn 3 cords each winter to heat the house.

I have 50 acres, 50% is wooded. All I burn are the blow downs and I cannot keep up.

 

[dj1701]

I just dug out a 20' circle, added gravel and some landscape bricks.

 

[PJRAM]

I just dug out a 20' circle, added gravel and some landscape bricks.

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Looks great! Nice location. I have a pond behind my fire pit, but it is all dried up now from lack of rain.

 

[Doughknob]

I have 50 acres, 50% is wooded. All I burn are the blow downs and I cannot keep up.

Yeah, just joking. I have 5 acres woods and only used downed trees and also cannot keep up. But some rotting logs are actually good for the forrest….

 

[imnukensc]

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anyone using elevated steel fire pits

Sort of.....cast iron.

 

[thepumpguysc]

That kettle is kool too.!!

 

[RHartl]

A friend used an old steel wheel barrow as his fire pit, could move it around while burning. I called it hell on wheels.

 

[thepumpguysc]

I burn a lot outside too.. mostly pine and everything I find along the property..
What I did for my pit is:
I used concrete “flower bed” boarders..8 straight (w 5 humps on each piece) and 8 curved pieces..
2 straight pieces on each side and 2 curved pieces on each end.. it makes a beautiful OBLONG pit..
I buried the 1st row 1/2 the width, in the ground..and set another row upside down into the 1st rows humps..
THEN I lined the bottom w 12x12 pavers..
Cleaning out is a breeze..
Simply remove the curved end boarder stones on one end and shovel the ashes into a wheelbarrow.. the bottom stones make finding the bottom very easy..
and the length and the height are perfect for larger limbs..

 

[jayhawk238]

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anyone using elevated steel fire pits

Not for that can of money!! LOL

 

[Dwilson540]

And here's my entry.

 

[tstex]

I just dug out a 20' circle, added gravel and some landscape bricks.

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Very nice pic dj looks every inviting...enjoy it

 

[tstex]

I have 50 acres, 50% is wooded. All I burn are the blow downs and I cannot keep up.

what kinds of wood JJ ?

 

[JJT]

what kinds of wood JJ ?

Elm, basswood and hickory. I know, I should be selling the hickory......

 

[tstex]

Thx. The basswood & Elm prob burn pretty quickly: prob not the hickory. Has to be some nice smelling fires

 

[Oaktree]

Yes, the holes are supposed to make it smokeless. It seems that it works when the fire is really going, but starts to smoke more as it dies down.

Maybe it's different where you live, but the biggest issue we have with smoke is that there's usually just enough of a breeze to push it towards you. Seems to shift direction so as to follow you wherever you sit.

 

[Kschwennsen]

should be recognizable from this group. best fire pit I've used so far!

 

[RHartl]

Mine is rustic and simple. 3/8" thick steel ring, 42" diameter sunk 1/2 way into the ground by the edge of my woods. I burn anything too thick or gnarley to split. I supply the beer, bring your own camp chairs.