Fire pit build/ small patio

[nck]

Nice build

[Jbonds99]

Great build

[Bigbuckmaster]

Very cool

[Blonde huntress]

Awesome. Work

[wolfpack]

dos the hole fill up when it rains? i wanted to do something like that out of concrete but i wondered if i would need drain holes or something for the water.

[Pedernal]

Great job!!! Looking to do a rock patio myself, If you don't mind me asking how much was the flag stone and about how much area will it cover?

[Bill's Unlimited]

Nice work

Nice work, that is a lot of back breaking work! I have put in a few flagstone patios in my backyard and a limestone fire pit.

To "fix" your fire height problem you could pop a few holes in the bottom of the barrel and then fill the barrel with the decomposed granite or something course so water will drain. You may want to lay a piece of scrap plate metal on top of the granite so you can get the ash out of the barrel easier.

Here is a picture of the one I built. It is 4' across on the inside, lined with firebrick. The outside is 7' across and took 22 bags of concrete (mixed by hand) to fill the void between the firebrick and limestone after adding and trash brick / concrete I had laying around. For heat reasons you use refactory mud with the firebrick since normal mortar will erode with the expand / contract when heat is applied... It takes a while to get the top surface hot, but once it heats up it stays warm for a long time! Oh yea, I poured a footer first. Never had any air flow issues with this set up, however I have lined the bottom with 2 layers of brick now to elevate the fire.

[garzanium]

Nice work, that is a lot of back breaking work! I have put in a few flagstone patios in my backyard and a limestone fire pit.

To "fix" your fire height problem you could pop a few holes in the bottom of the barrel and then fill the barrel with the decomposed granite or something course so water will drain. You may want to lay a piece of scrap plate metal on top of the granite so you can get the ash out of the barrel easier.

Here is a picture of the one I built. It is 4' across on the inside, lined with firebrick. The outside is 7' across and took 22 bags of concrete (mixed by hand) to fill the void between the firebrick and limestone after adding and trash brick / concrete I had laying around. For heat reasons you use refactory mud with the firebrick since normal mortar will erode with the expand / contract when heat is applied... It takes a while to get the top surface hot, but once it heats up it stays warm for a long time! Oh yea, I poured a footer first. Never had any air flow issues with this set up, however I have lined the bottom with 2 layers of brick now to elevate the fire.

Thanks. That's a good looking pit. The little strand I made seems to work well. An ash pan is a great idea.

Great job!!! Looking to do a rock patio myself, If you don't mind me asking how much was the flag stone and about how much area will it cover?

flag stone was about $350-400 iirc.

dos the hole fill up when it rains? i wanted to do something like that out of concrete but i wondered if i would need drain holes or something for the water.

I live on limestone, so it does hold a bit of water, but probably won't be a huge issue outside of central Tx. If I could do it over again, I wouldn't dig do Deep.

[southtexaslayer]

Helluva build!

[Cuz]

That's VERY nice !

[bow4my2]

Looks great

[southtexaslayer]

great job!