Out door fire place at home, Who's got one ?

Had one of those in our family room in our first house. Very '70's and many good times ...

Hi Axle
We have one in the backyard lots of happy hours and lots more to come

We used to have a rusty old 44 gallon fuel drum, with lots of holes made with a crowbar. That put out a lot of heat to keep a group of people warm on a cold evening.

In suburbia, you may get a neighbor who complains about a fire.....technically you can only have a fire if you are cooking on it.....and have been at a couple of places that have had the fire brigade turn up ( neighbor complained ), who were very good about it....asked if we were cooking ( wink wink ) and then left..

Me, I won't go camping unless I have a fire, but at home, it's just as easy to walk inside and press a button for the aircon !!

I've been considering trying to make one like this

Haven't got an outdoor fire, Axle, for some of the reasons Gronk mentions.

When I worked in the Kimberley, some 40-plus years ago, on cold winter mornings, Les, the old mechanic, had an old Toyota brake drum full of sand. He'd pour a pint or two of petrol(we didn't have litres back then, lol) into the sand, light it up and squat in front of it until his old bones were warm enough for the day ahead.

We'd often join him, but too many "squatters" around the brake drum, reduced its efficiency somewhat.

Bob

50lt stainless steel beer keg ,cut top off ,then cut in half Lengthways and then welded together at where the top used to be ,, 4 legs to stabilise , holds just under metre lengths of timber , easy to get the coals out with the shovel to put the hot coals in the steel truck wheel rim for the camp oven ……..

We have a Pizza oven, which is the next best trhing to having and open fire.
cheers pete

spent the last 2 Saturday nights at mates places drinking around backyard fires. Last week was a 900mm round x 300mm high concrete riser pipe as the fire surround, and last night it was 8 besser blocks in the shape of a square to keep the fire contained.
Last week we had a couple of camp ovens going cooking roasts for dinner also, so abit like being away camping for the weekend, just in my mates backyard instead...lol.