can confirm o7
I’m confused about the near ubiquity of fire pits, at least in the US. I mean, the world is getting hotter and hotter and people want a fire pit in their yard?
Cool fall evenings with a fire going and some friends over, maybe sharing a beer (especially if home brewed), swapping stories, just staring at the fire… I didn’t even consider that it might be a culture thing here.
If I had a patio I’d have a fire pit
It’s a thing here in Germany too but only in rural areas. I’ve only ever been at one private gathering with a proper fire pit.
Burning wood is theoretically carbon neutral as long as the trees are replaced or already dead
edit: or if you’re asking why make fire when it’s hot, the answer is that some places, sometimes, are cold
Yeah, it’s so they can remain hot when the sun does down
watch fire burn = FUN
Yes they do
I like to keep the door window as a pyrex salad bowl
Make sure that you drill a hole in the drum. They are full of shot to self-balance. If you heat them up with a fire the pressure inside will increase and it can explode and spray hot shot all over the place.
the pressure inside will increase and it can explode and spray hot shot all over the place
That’s what she said
😂😂😂
I don’t understand.
The tub is normally double walled and welded closed so water doesn’t get in. The void has metal shot in it that shifts around to balance the drum when it spins. When you heat up a sealed metal can the air inside expands and can rupture the drum causing it to explode and spray hot shot which could ruin your day.
What if I like pipebombs?
Only the most rabid pipe bomb aficionados like to be on the recieving end of them.
woa-ah black betty
To add to what homie said, “shot” is a bunch of small metal pellets. Like “shotgun”.
Every American knows this from birth.
Yeah, not proud of it though.
Thank you, I was scratching my head trying to figure out if they meant metal ‘shot into’ or a misspelling of metal ‘shit’.
Work great, but they don’t last very long as burn barrels/pits thanks to the thin metal and the haevy rusting that occurs.
Took like 7 years for the last one I had to rust out. Home Depot’s was shit after a month. Ymmv
Does it hold up to repeated use? I alwaus thought they were kind of thin and would break down after a few good fires.
For the first 20 + years of my live this was my families way to do any BBQ. Ours had a bigger opening, so that you could hang a gridiron above.
I’d imagine even “low quality” stainless steel will hold up pretty well. And it has to at least have enough carbon in it to avoid rusting from all the water.
But WHOA BOYEEE it gonna get HOT!!! Not a bad thing per say, but as pictured there’s nothing to prevent against an accidental leg brush. My firepit has a ring/lip around it that if you walk by you’ll hit it first before the MUCH hotter body of the bowl itself. I feel like this needs something for a little protection. Even just a ring of very large rocks as a way to keep people away from walking too close.
And it has to at least have enough carbon in it to avoid rusting from all the water.
Incoming internet pedantry alert: It’s not the carbon in steel that makes it stainless. It’s the carbon that makes it steel (otherwise it would just be iron) but it’s the chromium and/or nickel in the alloy that’ll make it varying degrees of stainless. Or at least corrosion resistant.
Nicer washing machine drums are stainless, but cheap ones will just be porcelain coated regular old mild steel. Either way it ought to stand up to at least a couple of burns.
Yeah I’m an idiot and chose to use about 1 of my brain cells on that part of the post. I won’t embarrass myself by admitting what my VERY long ago undergrad degree was in. Thanks for the correction.
was it in forgery?
Washing machines have an inner (spinning) and an outer (watertight) drum. I plan to use both for my firepit, which should allow it to be smokeless and also mitigate the “it gonna get HOT” problem.
(I haven’t actually made it yet because my outer drum has some butyl tape or something I need to remove first. Anybody know the best way to do that?)
Fire! Remove the tape with fire!
ugh, sorry, I forgot it’s the dull mens club, then I don’t know.I’ve considered it, but (a) it’s the outer drum that (I’m hoping) won’t get very hot, and (b) I’m worried that burning it off would leave a residue.
There’s nothing much insulating the outer from the inner, so it’ll get as hot as the fire, just with a small delay. Putting in some type of insulation would reduce that, but that complicates things and I have no idea what would work that wouldn’t eventually become a fire hazard. Asbestos? lol (don’t do that)
In theory, the design of a smokeless fire pit creates a convection current where cool air keeps getting drawn into the cavity from outside the fire pit. I’m sure the outer drum surface won’t be cool, but it shouldn’t be as hot as the inner drum either.
Yeah, tbh, I’ve never looked at the metallurgical composition of a washer drum… I honestly always kind of assumed they were aluminum.
Me too, and the first thought was melting point. But I guess they’d have to be steel to hold the weight they do.
Remember, appliances are typically made out of the cheapest crap possible. Aluminum costs more than steel.
Almost all washing machine tubs are enalemed steel or stainless steel.
It does, it’s a pretty standard thing to do around here, my father still uses the one from my great-grandmother’s washing machine, though usually you use those that have a wider opening on top.
Zero waste! Love to see it.
Actually looks better than most store bought ones too
I prefer dry stacked bricks, a bit less hot to accidentally touch the edge.
So do crusher cones.
What’s a crusher cone??
The classy kinda lady you gotta romance first.
Sidebar: I really want to grill on that shit…
Basically, a really strong cone that moves around the inside of another circular, hard surface slightly off center. You dump rocks in there, and as it spins around, it opens up a small gap. The rock falls in, and then it continues to move around, crushing it. Only rocks of a certain size can fall through the larger ones get crushed.
It’s a cone that goes in a crusher.
Does what it says on the tin. Don’t know what the confusion is.
Heyyy, I have one of these as well. Very nice firepit they are.
Have you ever gotten yours glowing red?
The lower portion where the metal is thinner, yes. But not the upper thicker section. The setting it is in has the seating too close that.
And did you bring the smores kit???
You’re thinking of !exciting_club@lemmy.world. That’s just along the corridor.
you got my hopes up you monster
Do savoury smores with cheese.
Graham crackers, marshmallows, chocolate and cheese? Sounds 🤔 interesting, hold my beer…
Made sure it’s the cinnamon graham crackers. Gives it texture and flavor.
Cottage cheese.
Be careful doing that sort of thing with this, it looks like there’s paint on there to me.
I was about to say there’s def some kind of something on these things. So what the hell the world’s on fire, our vegetables give us massive diarrhea, and all the water is going to thinking machines that don’t know how to think so who the fuck cares.
They aren’t painted, it is baked on enamel. Similar to the interior.of ovens and even cheap camp cookware. It should be fine. At worst, it will start popping off. Burn it the first time and don’t hang out near it. If its gonna pop off, best nobody is around. After that, no more to pop off.
That’s good to know
I can build it. I have the technology!
Actually it’s really fucking hard to separate the plastic washing tub from the metal drum, then the aluminium or wht ever it is web that holds the drum to the spindle is even harder to remove. Took me 2-3 hours, however it’s an awesome firepit
Washer dryer combo.
Why have I never thought of this. I even have a dead washer in my basement I was unsure what to do with.
I might be re-provisioning it’s drum.
Hopefully this post will drum up some encouragement for you to do this
