Fire Pit in Sheepleville

[kgd]

You think thats rough, we have a train crossing the blocks the entrance to the hispitol, not lieing at all. Might I add that its block at LEAST once a day.

I guess that hospital was born on the wrong side of the tracks

I wouldn't complain so much - we have a sewage treatment plant upstream of our drinking water intake.....uhm engineers - the flow is going this way - just look at the buoys for direction!

 

[Badge54]

We use it a lot. I used plain landscape block and the landscape block glue to keep it together. The easiest way to keep the nighbors from calling the Law is to have them over for smores.

Badge54

 

[Loosearrow]

I like the above, very nice and you can put it out in a hurry. You could bury a weber grill half way and say you are about ready to cook. Say you use wood instead of charcoal. Loosearrow

 

[hlee]

I guess that hospital was born on the wrong side of the tracks

I wouldn't complain so much - we have a sewage treatment plant upstream of our drinking water intake.....uhm engineers - the flow is going this way - just look at the buoys for direction!

I don't know the laws where you are, but when I was still in Texas I worked a summer at TNRCC (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission) which has oversight on many things including waste treatment. Two of the guys that my dad and I hunted with were very senior and went on a field inspection of one of the facilities. The plant manager took a drinking glass and filled it with the effluent water from the plant and drank it down as a demonstration of the cleanliness of the water. My guess is that this is a demo that the manager saved for those rare instances when someone more senior than a field inspector stopped by. By law, the effluent water from a waste treatment facility has to be as clean or cleaner than the body of water it is being put into.

And, if you live downstream of any town, you are drinking their treatment effluent anyway, which is the reason for the law.

As an aside, the solid waste, once cleaned and dryed is sold as fertilizer. Look up "dillo dirt." Nothing I know of wll make a yard greener or fuller, or in need of more regular maintenance. We went from cutting the yard once a week to three times per week after one surface treatment with it. The most beautiful emerald green, but what a pain to mow.

Oh, I almost forgot...
No cars parked on the curb. No cars parked in the drive overnight. No chain link fence. Trash dumster can not be visible from the street. Front lawn must have three (3) trees. Mailboxes must be made from materials to match the house, ie. red brick house = red brick mail box. I think there were even restrictions on allowable water pressure from the main to the house. As per HOA.

 

[myright]

Anyone else got any pics? I'm looking for a fall project.... I just put a deck on the house and am looking for a pit to put in the yard for those cool nights.

Badge, I really like your idea and pic.

 

[stingray4540]

I don't have pics, but my uncle in law had one that wasn't really a pit. He took left over bricks and layed them in a square about 3'x3' or whatever size suits you. Just used this way, no one would probably even know it was for fires when it's not used.

He just used it like that, but you could also stack rocks around the perimeter like posted. it would be very non obtrusive looking, but the pre-made brass bowl ones are real nice also, but do cost some money.

 

[cmdionne]

By law, the effluent water from a waste treatment facility has to be as clean or cleaner than the body of water it is being put into.

In KGD's example the body of water in question may be the Detroit River. 'Nuff said.

 

[C Bryant]

Basin from inside a washing machine. You can find them in a few different sizes. The work great.

 

[Skimo]

to add on to the washing machine bit there, there are above ground fire pits.

like this one, there are others sold cheaper and in different configurations.

http://www.frontgate.com/jump.jsp?i...pe=PRODUCT&path=1,2,145,1829&iProductID=18655

easiest is scrap metal like the washing machine or local high school with a welding program.

 

[Foilist]

Native rocks gathered up in a circle... with the crew gathered around!

I did the same thing, about the same size. I raided some of the old fieldstone walls for rocks (they're everywhere here), and even found a big flat one to use as a bench/table/whatever.

 

[myright]

I did the same thing, about the same size. I raided some of the old fieldstone walls for rocks (they're everywhere here), and even found a big flat one to use as a bench/table/whatever.

I really like that idea as well.

 

[Joben]

As a side note - for those interested in Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, he had a series of books about this agency called the BuSab. It was the Bureau of Sabbotage, whose mandate was to stifle the beaurocracy and the over-maturing of governments through planned kaotic actions. This was the only way to maximize human creativity using an intermediate disturbance type program - very similar to the intermediate disturbance hypothesis of ecology for maximizing biological diversity.

That's interesting, and it reminds me of Fight Club...

Project Mayhem anyone?

 

[LMT66]

You could call a local trucking company terminal or heavy truck tire repair company and ask for a junk truck rim (old style). They are heavy and you wouldn't want to move it once you sink it where you want it but it would work well and contain a nice fire. Stick a flower pot in it when not in use.

 

[Big Mike]

I use an old Webber Kettle down in the woods behind my house.

Having a top makes putting a fire out very easy.




Big Mike

”Scaring the tree huggers.”

Forest & Stream

 

[dipbait]

In my community, outside burning is illegal unless its a recreational fire. So I purchased an iron fire pit and when I need to clean up limbs , I have a weenie roast.

 

[Coldwood]

You could call a local trucking company terminal or heavy truck tire repair company and ask for a junk truck rim (old style). They are heavy and you wouldn't want to move it once you sink it where you want it but it would work well and contain a nice fire. Stick a flower pot in it when not in use.

:thumbup: Done that, I've got two in different places. I don't bother to bury them, just set them on top of the ground and then collect natural stones to stack up around it for a nice "rubble" wall look. Which reminds me, I've got some trash wood to burn

 

[stingray4540]

In my community, outside burning is illegal unless its a recreational fire. So I purchased an iron fire pit and when I need to clean up limbs , I have a weenie roast.

That's funny, where I lived in Ohio, it was illegal to have bonfires. So, whenever my father in-law had to clean up the rental property, we brought hotdogs and marshmallows, because it was inevitable the neighbor was going to call the fire department. Funny part about it, is that it was the fire department that told us to do that the first time they showed up.