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Post by NitroHunter on Jun 4, 2004 19:26:17 GMT -5
Anybody got any plans,ideas or pics of a good firepit?
I built a small one in the back yard that serves the purpose and seems to have won the "firepit competition" that me, my dad and brother in law had going on.
I'm just looking for some good ideas to build a bigger and better one
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Post by BlueNorther on Jun 4, 2004 21:37:18 GMT -5
Let me find the pics of the one me and a buddy built in his yard,I think you'll like it! ;D
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Jun 6, 2004 21:31:39 GMT -5
Strictly for cookin?
I got some ideas....lemme know.
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Post by NitroHunter on Jun 7, 2004 19:54:34 GMT -5
Yeah it will be just for cooking. Where's those pics blue?  |
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Post by hunt4fun1 on Jun 9, 2004 0:46:45 GMT -5
Ok..
I got a buddy that has a set up he built out of cinder block.
Here's kinda what he did:
Laid an 8 inch slab that was 4x6. He mortared cinder block about 3 feet high with a chimney on one end. While he was mortaring, he mortared thick 1 inch rebar in about a foot off the bottom and the length of the pit. He mortared another row about another foot from the top. Each rebar was about 8 to 10 inches spaced. He had thick diamond shaped grate cut for both levels that were in 4 pieces. 2 for the top and 2 for the fire grate underneath.
He cut a lid out of 1/2 inch steel to cover the top and hinged it half way...bout 3 feet, minus the chimney. Chimney stuck up bout 5 feet. He drilled a hole in the center of the lid for a themometer. Then he welded 2 handles on each side of the hinged top.
At the opposite end of the chimney, he left a space that was about a foot wide and the entire height of the pit. He bolted in 2-1/2 inch steel peices that ran the height on each side to act as a frame for a door that he had vented to act as a cleaning out door as well as an air vent.
He would build his fire at the end where the door was and put the meats and the other end that was hinged closer to the chimney.
He would put all the panned sides on top of the steel lid directly above the fire to cook them.
That's the way I want to build mine when the time comes......hope this helps.
Good luck!!!
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Post by NitroHunter on Jun 9, 2004 16:31:04 GMT -5
Thanks,
Sounds like a winner and I can get access to all the stuff needed.
I'll give it a shot.
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Post by flhuntress on Jun 11, 2004 0:45:32 GMT -5
i have a lil one that isn't worth braggin' about but it works and since it was my first one i'm happy with it.
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