Deer camp fire pits

[Greenheadless]

I use a recovered piece of Keystone XL pipeline that was ran thru our property a couple years ago. Needless to say, I doubt I will ever have an issue with it rusting out and it holds heat well.

[Stolle]

Not exactly my deer camp, but I do have more deer around here than you can shake a stick at. I had this built a few years back and I think it serves us well and something similar would work fine at camp. I had them inset 4 fire bricks on each quad about an inch and these support the 36" grate I already had for my tank head grill you see in the clip. Works perfectly. You can see them working the grate in at about the 2:10 mark.

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Did they use a special high temp mortar when they laid the fire brick?

[Dale Moser]

Did they use a special high temp mortar when they laid the fire brick?

It looks like it. Notice they didn't have the wheel barrow of mortar until they started the exterior. That's because the high temp stuff (fire clay, or heat stop) comes in buckets.


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[Stolle]

Deer camp fire pits

It looks like it. Notice they didn't have the wheel barrow of mortar until they started the exterior. That's because the high temp stuff (fire clay, or heat stop) comes in buckets.





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Roger that! I noticed that the fire brick in my outdoor fireplace has a very thin set of mortar between it. I guess it doesn't take much.

[Dale Moser]

Deer camp fire pits

Thin mortar joints are the way to go. They normally lay those fire brick on their side, so it takes a little more. The way yours is done wouldn't take much at all. I normally send about a gallon of fire clay per 50 fire brick.


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[Stolle]

Thin mortar joints are the way to go. They normally lay those fire brick on their side, so it takes a little more. The way yours is done wouldn't take much at all. I normally send about a gallon of fire clay per 50 fire brick.


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Good information!

[JonBoy]

Hang Em High

One of my favorite places in the world is hanging out by this thing...

[ren087]

Great ideas!!!