yea that would be easier for me..haha

 

Our plan for this summer and what I've seen done before is to cut a home heating oil tank in half, dig a hole big enough for it to sink in flush with the ground (about 2 feet deep), then hog out the center of the hole a tiny bit deeper and channel it all the way out past a side of the pit so the bottom of the tank can get air to it through the holes you should drill in the bottom, then find some regular good sized rock and go around the edges. That should last you a while and if/when the tank rusts out too bad you still have another half to toss in there and start all over.

 

thought about getting like a 30 gallon drum and cutting it in half and doing what you were talking about..i will prolly also take some expanded metal and makes some posts for it to set above the fire thata way i can cook some steaks and burgers

 

It's a good idea to at least have something on hand like that. We had almost 30 foot flames one night and someone called the fire dept thinking the woods were burning down lol.... we just so happened to have a pan that night and the fire chief saw that we actually had it in a good area and under manageable control so he said, "hey, it's just a cooking fire, have a nice night".

We never laughed so hard... but nontheless it's good to have something like that just in case. The oil tank I'm talking about is the 275 gallon stand up units mounted in basements. They're not expensive from what I hear too. Stand it up and slice it from one end, over the top to the other end and the bottom and you'll have two wide *** fire pit starter kits.

 

Mine's built into a slope with bigazz field stones. It's wide enough to get the bucket of my J.D. in there to clean it up after a good party. Never used it for cooking cuz the fires just get damn big every time!

 

Party at Tylers?

 

hell yea..10 foot fire pit or 5 foot fire pit?

 

Pry the smaller one. When I get drunk I get attracted to fire so 5 foot will only be half the fire...

 

ok will work for me..i think ill put some brick called fire brick in the bottom of it..and maybe on the sides..i dunno yet

 

Hell I went to a pasture party once where we just cut down about a 40' pine tree and set the whole thing on fire... Man do those pine trees burn..