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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 https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5e9b446ea9.jpg
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Truck brake drum the legs are axle u bolts and the grate is from a singer sowing machineQuote:
Originally Posted by 40mm
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Good stuff , She will go hard with all that air up the bum :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by sometimes1
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!!.
The huts bigger than my house no walking to this plase
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Bloody site easier than the one I did and probably way lighter.
Made it from parts from an underground mine loader starting with the air tank (70ish litres) which came of a scrapped vehicle.
Everything, latches, mesh, ducting, except the legs. This is the "light the fire and burn 30 years of paint off before painting" stage.
Lucky I cant smell smoke anymore-apparently it stunk
Actually this doesn't show the little section with the damper plate in the flue installed
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That’s awesome man now that’s a fire [emoji41]
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Hot dog, I suppose the bangers are poked in the three holes, count to ten, done!. :cool:
It was a bit of a head scratch how I did everything without ruining how it looked.Quote:
Originally Posted by homebrew.357
Its actually upside down, the inspection port I left in the bottom to make it easier to get ash out and I put the flue where the drain bung used to be.
The 3 under the door are more outlet sockets on the tank. Make it looks like I did it on purpose. Bit of steampunk going on.
Cant for the life of me get any heat proof paint to stick for too long. Being outside obviously doesn't help.
Only 2 sockets on the back I cut off and blended back in, you wouldn't know they were there. probably could've left them but they annoyed me.
Only thing I found is that if the wood isn't dry as, it doesn't go so good. I suppose that's the same for most though although it had me wondering if the flue was bug enough.
The wood I had in oz was called red wood. Burns awesome down to a superfine white ash. That certainly put the heat out.
BUT if you have good wood and load it up it fair cranks the heat out.
here is it as of about 5 minutes ago with the pushbike beside it for an indication of size. The top of the tank as it starts at the flue is about my belly button and I'm 5'10"
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Fkn Chernobyl!
have you tried old fashion stove black? @csmiffy?
iv only ever used it on indoor fires but it seems more akin to shoe polish than paint
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No I haven't actually and the only reason I didn't was a guy I knew built and indoor fire years ago and tried that but went to heat proof paint as it went better.
Could be worth a crack though as the heat proof paint just doesn't last. tried a couple now.
Dads bbq we built together 31 years ago.
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Can cook for 20 plus people on it and when finished a couple of guys with welding gloves on can lift the plate off then you can stack big lumps of firewood up in it like a brazier but bigger/better.
I replaced the chimney a couple of years ago but otherwise its as built all those years ago with junk off the farm.
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Ah mate. now that's a wicked fire!Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Good shit right there. Hope you don't try to drive it around when you are pissed lol.
Love it. What's the crank handle for? Controls air flow, or just for shits and giggles?Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Mainly just for looks but it is the place to grab it and move it around(swing it up and lock it in) while going and hot if needed for whatever reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tommy
Air and wood goes in a large hole under the warming plate at the back.
Awesome fire love seeing stuff made out of odds and sod’s that fire is cool[emoji41]
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I made this a couple of years ago out of truck brake drums. I brought a cheap spa from trademe and coiled 30 meters of copper pipe inside the fire. In winter it heats the water from 8 degrees to 39 in about 3 1/2 hours. Summer is a couple of hours. Great for beers and a soak after a hunt.
Nice mate. Those brake drums would hold the heat for yonks too.
