Firepit

 
 


Am building a fire pit in the Summer to use when it starts getting colder. Found a sawmill bandsaw type blade on the old farm, hitched the tractor to it and drug it up to the RV so I could use power tools on it. We have a 7500 watt generator in the RV so I can connect most power tools to one of the RV electrical outlets.

First, I used the circular saw with a composite metal cutting blade to cut the saw blade. That went easy enough and I soon had two sections of blade I could use. I then drilled two holes in the ends of each blade. Well, lets say I tried to drill the holes, and I tried again and again. Talk about hard metal, that saw blade was tough. After ruining several drills, I was finally successful.

Dianne and I then took each blade, formed it into a 4' diameter circle and joined the ends together with bolts. We then set one circle on top of the other, and pounded away until one was inside the other about an inch. We set it into a cleared firepit circle recessed 3 inches into the earth.

Since then I've been gathering stones to set around the metal. It's going to be nice on a cold evening.