Fire pit from a washing machine drum
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I've heard of a guy who runs canoeing kayaking trips and he uses a drum for cooking on his group trips. I think its two or three lads who work together to run trips for a few canoeist punters. Tours in lakes, Scotland and further afield. Always liked that idea myself. Simple enough to carry one in a canoe I reckon.
That is a nice bit of work for sure.
That is a nice bit of work for sure.
xylaria
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It is very easy to bolt legs on it, simply screws and washers through the already existing holes. Damp wood can be put under the fire where it dries quickly. The top lip keeps sausages and cuppers warm. A grill can go on and it doesn't slow the fire. It does look a bit like something that should be warming striking miners , but it is a damb good fire.
says her who has a washing machine sitting in the garden waiting to made into several useful things. It was always a really bad washing machine, it would make half way through a wash then blink for three hours, after many thumps it would sometimes finish. It didnt even do a good job of cleaning clothes. Modern machine designed to break. I really need make into something useful because it was the most unrelible piece rubbish. Anyway i have a second hand bosch now.
says her who has a washing machine sitting in the garden waiting to made into several useful things. It was always a really bad washing machine, it would make half way through a wash then blink for three hours, after many thumps it would sometimes finish. It didnt even do a good job of cleaning clothes. Modern machine designed to break. I really need make into something useful because it was the most unrelible piece rubbish. Anyway i have a second hand bosch now.
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Probably 'cos the're stainless
Have all the naysayers and doom-merchants frozen this cold snowy easter?
Please be true.....
Sat round one of these at a couple of SOTP meets, they burn really well even in drizzle and keep the fire from overly scorching the grass.
Probably 'cos the're stainless
Please be true.....
Sat round one of these at a couple of SOTP meets, they burn really well even in drizzle and keep the fire from overly scorching the grass.
They are good fire bins, and though stainless I was expecting someone to have an intimate metalurgical knowledge of some weld or nut in there that would wipe out life in a half mile radius if burnt. There usually is. A lot lighter than the old standard truck wheel which folks used to use. and good radiant heat.
Burns wood fast though, lots of airflow. Take the belt wheel off and reverse it, hey presto a stand, no need to source legs. Not all drums are the same, some have plastic agitators that are a pain to remove. Hmm, thought this sounded familiar, it's in the other thread.
No need to provide a warning because as stated, it's stainless......
I really do need to get hold of one of these!
Bit of an old thread but after much grunting and straining, I eventually liberated the drum from the old washing machine in the shed that had been waiting for me to come and rob some parts off it (I only wanted the pulley off the back of the drum to make a tumbler). I cut the axle off the back so it could fit flat and just put it on the gravel drive. Lit a fire in it with some scraps of wood and bark from around my log chopping block and soon had it roaring. Only came in as the dogs needed feeding.
Pain to get it out of the machine, though... on the plus side, the agitators were quite easy to remove
Pain to get it out of the machine, though... on the plus side, the agitators were quite easy to remove
What no pics??
Andy
It looks like a washing machine drum with a fire in it. Didn't seem worth taking an almost identical picture to those already posted
I once saw someone who took this idea a stage further and stacked one drum on top of the other, welded them together, cut a hole in the side, put legs on the bottom and a length of flue pipe out of the top. I only saw one image but it looked like it was roaring like a jet engine with flames shooting out of the top of the flue. A patio heater on steroid.
