Fire place grate in fire pit
Has anyone used a fireplace grate in a fire pit? Thinking about doing that so the air can better circulate up through the wood providing a better fire. Good/bad idea?
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ktmrfs wrote:
Nope, and I have a much better fire pit I carry around. go to an appliance store and beg, borrow or buy a metal washing machine drum. Use a cutoff wheel to cut the center post off if needed. then when you go camping fill the drum with firewood. for fires put the drum on top of the existing firepit grate, or on the ground and toss in some wood and light it. Virtually NO smoke, lots of heat radiated as the metal heats up, almost no clinkers, just some ash in the morning, and almost no soot. All the tiny holes in the drum draw lots of air and give you a hot burning fire. And you will use less wood than a regualar firepit.
If your anal, weld some 3/4" nuts (3) on the bottom and when you don't have a firepit, screw in some 8-12" long 3/4" bolts into the nuts to space it off the ground to draw from underneath.
Based on comments from other campers when they see mine, I'm tempted to carry a "spare" or two and have them for sale at a campground.
Stayed at a CG in Westport WA, last July and that is what they used for fire pits.
OK I guess for some...not for us. We like to have an open fire that we can BBQ on...even pizza.
