Several years ago I scrounged together our back yard fire pit and it has become the focal point to the shady part of our yard. Whether grilling on it, enjoying an afternoon fire, or just sitting there enjoying the bird song it is well worth every penny I didn't pay for it Here is the pictures and story. http://cappyandpegody.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-old-homemade-backyard-firepit.html
Glad you enjoyed it. I know lots fo folks on here are talking bout their freebe scores and barn finds so I thought I'd share my poor boy red neck pit with yall.
Very nice. Thank you for sharing. Haven't built a fire pit yet. But have had a couple fires. I suppose we will have to tone down the fires once we get a pit built.
Cappy, that's a great fire pit! I can see why you enjoy it so much! It must be a feminine thing--I like to poke and stir and tend a fire and my husband just lights one and lets it go. We have a tin chimney about 8" across and 12" tall with a grate about 2" from the bottom. We put briquettes in it, stuff one full sheet of newspaper under it, and light the newspaper. I could never get a good fire going until we got this thing.Now I'm the arsonist queen of the barbecuing set! We have to be very careful about open fires, which is why we don't have a fire pit, although we'd love one. We have an enclosed griller/smoker that is safer in our wildfire prone area. (But we still enjoy a cool beverage on the patio while the meat and veggies smoke on the grill!).
We have our big rusty ole BBQ pit we do the majority of our cooking on but its fun to do some fire pit cooking and weenie roasting on the ole fire pit. When Peg does marshmallows she sets tehm on fire burns them black sucks the black off then burns them again. Is that a feminine thing too? In the time it takes me to slowly roast a weenie she has burnt 3 to a crisp and is done.
CJ did you really have that fire going intentionally or wasn't it really yours? whew whee. It is hard to roast marshmellows on that... need a 40' hotdog stick.
Cappy, I love your fire pit! And your video was great...the banana leaves as a fire starter is a GREAT idea!!
They are doubly great cause I usta pull them all down and compost them whick was a soggy messy job now I just leave them hang and use them a lil at a time for fire starter giving me the excuse not to have to muck them out.
And the ashes of the fires can be used in your soil building concoctions provided you only burn organic materials in the fires.. Hank
I enjoyed having a fire in the pit when we lived in the country. Now people around here have burning barrels and it makes it hard to open your windows when it is nice if the wind is blowing. It blows the smoke right into the house. It never fails, a nice day and someone burns some plastic, or junk in their fire barrel...I now wish they would ban them. But it is enjoyable to sit around a fire if wood is burning...and at times a marshmallow or two on a stick...
Great Fire Pit,..i can see you were enjoying yourself,..it didn't take a lot of effort to get that fire going,..Banana Leaves surely burn easy,..well done.
Naw we were able to sit 20 feet away or so. It was a chilly night that night. Cappy. I'm wanting to build a pit for small fires and open pit bbq. I've thought about using some of the poorer quality cinder blocks that came with my find. Most of them are the old concrete three hole type. Do they handle heat well?
