Building a backyard Fire Pit

[rico304]

Wow, you guys have some great outside firepits! Mine is just a ring of rocks at this time. (Soon to change thanks to you guys! Like I need another project!!!) haha
I like the idea of rocks on the bottom of the pit, but doesn't it make it hard to clean out the ash? Doesn't it just fill to the point you can't see them after a few fires? I assume that after the ash fills all the voids in the rocks it would eliminate all bonus effects?

 

[3RRL]

Wow, you guys have some great outside firepits! Mine is just a ring of rocks at this time. (Soon to change thanks to you guys! Like I need another project!!!) haha
I like the idea of rocks on the bottom of the pit, but doesn't it make it hard to clean out the ash? Doesn't it just fill to the point you can't see them after a few fires? I assume that after the ash fills all the voids in the rocks it would eliminate all bonus effects?

I don't know? Good question. I've only used it for 2 years but never had to clean mine out yet. Seems like everything burns to ashes and then the rains disolve them into the earth...

 

[rico304]

I don't know? Good question. I've only used it for 2 years but never had to clean mine out yet. Seems like everything burns to ashes and then the rains disolve them into the earth...

Thanks Rob. I'll give it a try. Sounds like it would really help getting air under the fire to give a good burn.
I've followed a bunch of your threads and wanted to let you know you have an awesome spread!!!

 

[3RRL]

Thanks rico,
I am very lucky getting that piece of property. BTW, I love your slogan. I'm sure May Joe Copeckni would have felt the same way. Too bad Ted doesn't date Jane Fonda.

 

[Timber]

I love to see such an interest in fire pits, does everyone use them when the snow fly’s too or is it just seasonal for most. I have to build a brush pit for January to March to dump all my dead fall and brush

 

[Defective]

Last place I had a pit, we used it year round. Lotsa fun roasting weenies over a fire nestled down in 8-10 feet of snow.

We're a little further south here & it's wife #3 now. (a city girl...) We didn't use the pit last winter, but you got me thinking. Maybe I'll see what happens this winter.

 

[3RRL]

Snow? What snow?

 

[Defective]

Snow's just really stiff rain.

& it doesn't drain off the driveway worth a darn!

 

[Birdhunter1]

All you guys with your fire pit pics got me started yesterday.

There was one of those **** concrete barriers aroudn a flower garden that use to have a bird bath in it. No matter how I mowed grass clippings ended up in it or my other flower beds. Now there is a 2' deep hole where that bird bath use to be and the dirt is all pile dup around it for the base of a larger flower garden.

I'll post pics when I'm done.

 

[Trahere]

Here is our sceened in fire pit. We just cleaned up one of our outdoor pits. We had been using it since 1992 and the accumulation of ash was so that it took 60 full FEL BX23 buckets to clear it away, for a new, maybe, improved one! What did one peach say to the other peach? Nice PITS!