Show us your garden burners

[Still Waters]

Whe i first moved into this house i built a brick lined firepit in the garden and recall a lot of happy memories socialising around it late into the night.

I dug out the bricks and refilled it before grassing over in one of my attempts to tidy the garden up.

We now use a chinea i made from an old gas bottle but to be honest it doesent have the same feeling as an open fire to sit round/cook on.

Ive decided i am going to remake a fire pit in the garden and attempt to source some logs cut in half to use as seats round it
I cant wait to be sat round it with a few freinds and enjoy those late evenings once again.

So i was wondering what other people use as burners,braziers firepits etc in there garden and if you have any photos of them or specific happy memories/campfire storys?

 

[Wallenstein]

I have a fairly large firepit which is on wheels, so I can move it around the garden dead easily.

(That pic has a propane attachement which I've not got).

I've got rid of the metal side grilles as they didn't actually add much, and it feels like an open fire, but it has a lid for keeping the rain out when you store it. You can get some decent size logs on it, and it's low enough to the ground (about shin height) that you can sit around and warm yer hands.

Not particularly rustic, but having wheels is actually very practical - means you can tuck it in the corner for storage and then just wheel it out when required.

 

[johnnytheboy]

210 litre oil drum,not fancy but i have just moved in

 

[xylaria]

Friday night we gave our bin brazer its first fire. It was on the allotment where we aren't allowed any form of ground fire. It looks pretty ugly and it looks like the oil drums strikers sit around, but it really gives out good heat. A kettle placed next it on bricks boils up quite quickly.

in the back yard we use cast iron belly stove we got from B&Q about ten years ago. The legs are starting to show its age and we have looked at those copper dish type open fires but they look easy to tip over. I live on a coal seem and it quite shallow in places so i can't have ground fires.

 

[brancho]

We have a cast iron chimenea but would recomend a fir pit of some sort as round the back you cant see teh fir ewhich is not the same.

 

[rik_uk3]

I use the stainless steel drum from a washing machine