Simple grill

[Greenbeast]

1 Oven Rack
4 lengths old copper pipe (15mm)

Flatten one end of each pipe and cut 2 notches out of the other end of each pipe:

Not used in anger yet but i hope it'll be good, seems pretty firm

 

[stooboy]

simple ones are the best ones, looks good to me, I should look in the next old oven i see abandoned at the road side, for some grills.

 

[Neumo]

I like the idea of oven grills as they should take the heat of the fire, I would think. I am playing around with a portable raised fire stand at the moment, which is made of a stand for a disposable BBQ with foliding raised legs & a cheap roasing thin that fits in it nearly perfectly. A cut down oven grill to go over the hot coals would finish the kit offf nicely, so I must look out for one. You may have inadvertantly started a run on these, Greenbeast

 

[Greenbeast]

i kept looking for bits of steel mesh that was stiff enough to take a pan of food but also small enough gaps to do sausages/bacon directly on it.
i completely overlooked oven racks for a while.

i don't know what will happen to the copper pipe legs, hopefully nothing.

 

[Logit]

looks pretty good, never thought about getting grills out of abandoned ovens! doh! Not sure im going to need it after i get launditch1's grill...

 

[Bushcraftsman]

Looks great! and bet it cost pennies to make might have to give this one a try, how did you flatten the ends though?

 

[Greenbeast]

well it cost me nothing in fact as i managed to scrounge the bits.

i just used a hammer on a brick wall, copper's pretty malleable and flattens out easy

 

[Bushcraftsman]

Oh right nice one, will have to have a scout about the house and see what I can scavenge to the shed!

 

[Shewie]

Oh right nice one, will have to have a scout about the house and see what I can scavenge to the shed!

Plenty of copper under the floorboards Jordan, don't tell yer mum I said that though.



And don't cut the hot ones

 

[woof]

I made mine using 6mm threaded bar, and wing nuts to secure the legs to the grill, that way, if on uneven ground i can adjust the individual legs to keep it level.

Rob

 

[Greenbeast]

yeah that's a good idea too, might adopt it if the copper doesn't work out.

The copper goes into the ground so i can level it out by pushing the legs further into the ground

 

[woof]

I have recently found some 30mm diam pipe, so i'm going to do a variation of launditch's alter grill.

Rob

 

[Neumo]

I picked up a cheap BBQ grill in an end of summer sale for £1. It's one of those ones with 2 grills that open into which you put burgers or fish etc.. with a long handle on one of them. I seperated the 2 grills, which are about 10" square so I now have 2 grills. The one with the hande goes on my new portable fire plate & I will try the other smaller one with some copper tubes I know I can get my hands on. 2 Grills for a £1 cant be complained at.