School me on fire pits

I gotta try this one of these days...

 

Fire pit at camp yesterday, last night.

 

The open metal pits are like a camp fire--wherever you stand, the smoke will blow right at you. Move, and you'll be right back in it, the smoke always seems people seeking. To solve this, we got one of those cast iron ones with a short chimney on it, and a screen around it, from Lowe's, and we put down a square of pavers under it to protect the deck. Works a charm. Use it summer and winter.

 

A couple of 20/30 degree evenings in GA someone setup a contraption called "redneck furnace" or "GA radiator"... basically 2 55 gallon drums stacked and welded together with 3" legs on the bottom drum for air flow with perforations on the lid. The top drum acts as a flue. There is a small access door in the middle to feed logs to the fire.
At full bore its a hungry son of a gun... your back would be freezing while the front felt like youre in front of the sun and it sounded like @Phl218 fire starting torch . Also when WFO the heat emanation was 15'+ and the bottom drum was glowing a nice yellowish red. The upward flow was putting embers 40'+ in the air. Of course it takes about 12hrs for the thing to cool down after use...lol.

 

Ha! Sounds pretty cool. Hook it up to turbo!

I can come back a day or two after the smoke and flames stop on my fires (that takes a couple days), rake the debris together, maybe throw some more on it and it starts right up again.

This is what's left of "the big one" after a day or so...just raked together. Notice a new pile already in the making...it has yet to burn.

 

i'd build one... made this piece out of scrap fire place grate, and window guards. i welded on more edge support after photo(top heavy)

 

This is what a real fire pit looks like......

 

got this cheap one with some holiday inn rewards points. Works good enough for me.

 

Is it a wood deck? Is it attached to your house?

 

Easy there Sparky.

 

Nice appletini in the pic.
Nancy.

 

You guys with your giant open fires in the woods. Do that in AZ and the entire state would go up. This current fire is from someone trying to kill a wasp I've been told.

 

Sometimes, you gotta say, "No more half-measures."

 

That's what Mike Ehrmantraut would have said.