Propane fire pit

Love these things, especially if they eliminate another stinky wood fire. The fire is nice, the smoke, not so much.

I think so. Fire is very technical.

Just curious how long do they run on a 20lb tank?

If you don't have a home grown supply, firewood at parks is crazy expensive. It's nothing to see $10 even $20 for a small bundle.

Propane is propane. If you have the correct adapter you should be fine.

valhalla360 wrote:
Just curious how long do they run on a 20lb tank?

If you don't have a home grown supply, firewood at parks is crazy expensive. It's nothing to see $10 even $20 for a small bundle.

The one I have with the same BTU output as the OP,the last time I had it out with a full 20 LB tank.

First night ran it 2 hours full on, then the next night the same 2 hours,third night it ran about 1 1/2 hours but it was not putting out as much flame then the propane ran out.

So I got 2 nights of full on then the last night about medium for 1 1/2 hours.

Our propane fire is Campfire in a Can which they don’t make anymore. When we first got it I connected it to one of those small disposable propane canisters you are talking about. The fire started fine but within 3-4 minutes got noticeably smaller to almost nothing. Ice formed on the regulator and it froze up. I think the larger metal tanks have enough metal to absorb the temperature drop but the small cans don’t.

2oldman wrote:
Love these things, especially if they eliminate another stinky wood fire. The fire is nice, the smoke, not so much.

Not only that, campground after campground is banning any word burning and will allow only propane fire pits.

DancinCampers wrote:
Propane is propane. If you have the correct adapter you should be fine.

What Dancin said... IT will work. How long I do not know.

I would get at least a 5 pound tank and use that with them. If not a 20... They burn a lot of propane so the 1 pounder likely won't last long.

My propane fire pit manual said it's about 8 hours on a full 20lb tank at full flame.

I just turn it up until the flame is going good and that's only about 2 full turns on the little knob thingy.. It will turn about 10 times more, but does not produce any more flame, so I just stick to the couple of turns..

Lasts me several hours during the evenings for a long weekend trip, using it every night I'm running it, but I do think it is about 8 hours of total time on a cylinder, as I also use it for the Coleman 2 burner stove and after a long weekend, it's almost empty.. I go thru one of those little screw in propane things pretty fast on just the camp stove.. I'd think it would last maybe and hour or less on the fire pit??

But, I do like it when we have our burn bans! I have people coming over during those times and wondering how I have a "fire" going and I just point to the propane tank and the pit and they back off thinking I was actually burning wood... ha, ha...



Mitch

After using my weed burner for a while with my 2 gallon tank, it really starts slowing down. The liquid propane has to vaporize to burn it and in doing so it cools the tank which then slows down the vaporization. The higher the consumption, the bigger the tank you need. You'd be much better off to have a 1 or 2 gallon tank for your backup.