Fire Pit Metal Insert

[skyhook]

In the Houston, Texas area we have literally 100's of oilfield pipeline company's here on the Ship channel. I called one a few years back and the salesman told me they had scrap pipe ends cut off transmission lines and I could have one for the cost of the ring at scrap price. When I arrived I was given a 4 foot diameter pipe one foot tall an 1" thick for free! When the fork lift placed it in the back of my truck it lowered the rear bumper about 10 inches. A thousand years from now some archeologist will wonder what it was used for as my family won't wear this thing out for a dozen generations. No paint, just fire!

Be careful, I heard those things can leak.

 

[jjmarotz]

Tractor rim with the center cut out, used here too. Then added the retaining wall block around it with gravel/sand mix in between the rim and the block. The block barely even gets warm to the touch. Nice when little ones are around

 

[dusty3030]

Tractor rim with the center cut out, used here too. Then added the retaining wall block around it with gravel/sand mix in between the rim and the block. The block barely even gets warm to the touch. Nice when little ones are around

Great idea, so much so I am going to build me one. I am going to add a metal frame though and make it look like a wishing well but instead be a way to hang a grate for a cowboy grill.

 

[Sodo]

Problem with a fire in a hole is you have to use so much more wood and make the fire huge because the ring blocks all the heat. Its like watching a fire on TV you can't feel the radiant heat from the coals. A fire ring blocks the heat until the ring gets red hot, and thats a long, HOT fire. You're inclined to build a much bigger fire cuz probably 75% of the heat is blocked.

You can tell I don't like fire rings, especially one that has rock blocking even the radiant heat. You did a fantastic job and it's good to have the little ones around the fire, those are good times! I do appreciate the increased fire-safety folks are willing to enforce by design, but the fire has to be so much bigger I'm not convinced its actually safer.

Sorry JL, don't want to rain on your nice job (I like the classical rock campfire). You did a fantastic job and it's good to have the little ones around the fire, those are good times.

 

[Soundguy]

great looking pit and pics!

 

[CNC Dan]

I'm with Sodo. I like a raised basket made of heavy steel to let the heat out. A second grate made of smaller stock spaced farther away to prevent serious burns can be added.

 

[bigtiller]

My fire pit ( post 18 ) is strictly utilitarian, to make the storm damaged tree limbs go away. I guess i'm to old to go looking for the warm fuzzy feelings a fire brings out sometimes. In fact, if there is anyone other than me around, I won't light the fire.

 

[skyhook]

That is a nice pit,
but I would have put the rim, deeper, maybe 4 or 5 inches above ground,
and put your stone about 2 to 3 feet away from the rim.
That way, you get the heat and you still have the stone wall protection,
of course, anytime you make a fire like this, it's alway's good to keep a pail of water near.
I do like the way you did your stone work.:thumbsup:

 

[Zick]

Problem with a fire in a hole is you have to use so much more wood and make the fire huge because the ring blocks all the heat. Its like watching a fire on TV you can't feel the radiant heat from the coals. A fire ring blocks the heat until the ring gets red hot, and thats a long, HOT fire. You're inclined to build a much bigger fire cuz probably 75% of the heat is blocked.

You can tell I don't like fire rings, especially one that has rock blocking even the radiant heat. You did a fantastic job and it's good to have the little ones around the fire, those are good times! I do appreciate the increased fire-safety folks are willing to enforce by design, but the fire has to be so much bigger I'm not convinced its actually safer.

Sorry JL, don't want to rain on your nice job (I like the classical rock campfire). You did a fantastic job and it's good to have the little ones around the fire, those are good times.

Agreed, that's why I put mine in the ground.

 

[FTG-05]

My fire pit/ring.