That came out awesome!

 

Lets see some fires!

 

Nice pit!

 

how deep is the layer of sand?

you're gonna want 6" of sand if you dont want to permanently scorch the soil and burn the living microbial life in the soil

 

Great job, I want one!!

 

Looks good dude!

 

that looks good, but ill stick to my old tractor rim! haha

 

Cool we have a metal ring with a welded together bed frame and refrigerator racks as grilling racks on our fire pit. LOL

 

Another way to go is find a used appliance store and see if they will sell just the inner drum from a used/parted out washing machine..dig a hole drop it in, surround with blocks and you are done. Put one in my friend's backyard, total cost $20 for the drum since he already had the blocks.

 

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Nice work on the pit!

 

it does look good but you will find that it wont burn really well. you need to open up the bricks just a tad to let air in.

 

Thanks guys....pit works great, burned nice and hot for several hours the other weekend. Every 4th brick is gapped for airflow. Any higher and you may have issues with proper air flow to the fire or I would go higher.

Pit is dug down 6" on the edge and 8" in the middle. Middle has about 3" of pea gravel but no sand. I'm not too worried about burning the soil underneath, hopefully it kills a couple gophers in the yard

 

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