Backyard fire pit thread.

Lets see em.

 

Here is our last one... I love the back yard fire pit nights! As do the kids..

 

Nice that's what it's about.

 

You bet man! Nothing better than a nice fire after a day of swimming!

 

B-day is tomorrow, but kids threw me a little party last night. We love our fire pit.

 

I used my firepit to cook brats and baked beans in my Lodge/BSA camp dutch oven:

 

The road department was putting in new man holes on our street. My wife convinced them to leave one of the steel rings for us. Flipped over it makes a great fire pit. The steel plates came from an old railroad bed. Have to scavenge more to finish it up.

 

Those are some tiny fire pits. Lucky for me swmbo is a bit of a pyro, you can't see our pit right now because of all the stuff waiting to get burned. She likes to put caulking tubes in the fire as a nice surprise.

 

I'm a bit of a pyro myself.

 

This is a true feel good thread! Makes me want to go fire up the pit, get the kids out of bed and burn something in the pit!

Cheers
Jay

 

Redneck Fire pit:

 

and then you come along and RUIN IT!!!

Cheers
Jay

 

Here's mine.



We have an attached deck on our house that it used to be sitting on. Decided to build a floating deck because our two dogs keep killing our grass and I was tired of seeing mud and dirt so we incorporated the fire pit in the deck. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

 

wood deck, wicker furniture, open fire w/ sparks . . .


hmmmm . . . guessin' the fire marshal hasn't seen that? :cross:

 

Here's mine. I've only used it once so far to test it. My future brother in law surprised me with it last week. If you can't tell, it says /srv/brew (the name of my "brewery") and has a beer bottle on each side.

 

Why would the fire marshal have reason to see it? Its easily 2 feet deep and it's built with landscape bricks that are a foot wide and 8 inches thick. It's a lot safer than setting any regular fire pit on a deck if you ask me...

Here's another angle to give some perspective on the depth of it:

 

That's a really nice surprise!

 

I know, right? It was totally out of the blue. He had overheard my wife and I discuss getting one, I guess and his neighbor has a small business making them. They made it out of scrap, so it is a little on the small side, but it works great for me.

 

Oh nice thread! I can't find any pics right now but nothing beats a nice bonfire, whether you're cooking supper or just sitting around having a few drinks with friends. My favorite thing to fry over a bonfire is farmer sausage on a stick with a bit of seasoning salt.

 

heres mine getting ready to use it tonight!

 

Looks like a great spot! We had a nice fire last night but I neglected to take any photos.

 

Here is my fire pit. I like it better when it's blowtorching flames 10 feet high out the top. But it is too warm out now.

 

Kids love fire!
But a sippy cup and marshmallows make it perfect.

 

Having a bonfire at our summer cabin.

 

Well, FWIW, I live in the city and I don't do firepits, but lots of people do. The problem is the rules and regulations. I have heard that firepits are only allowed for cooking and not 'just because'. I have heard that if you keep a pack of hotdogs handy the Fire Dept. will be OK. Just an anecdote, but I always think of those fire pits when I'm at Home Depot or Lowe's, and that pack of hotdogs laying handy.

 

Bringing this thread back for Memorial Day!

 

I wish I had pictures of the ones my friends have. A lot of people that live along the pipeline in AK grabbed short sections that were trimmed off when the pipeline was built. Makes for a cool fire pit. Another person I know found a large kettle that was used somewhere to roast goats for a couple hundred years. He filled it with fire glass and ran natural gas up through it. Makes for a cool fire in the summer months.

 

Hmm. Roasted goat sounds terrible.