Homebrew Fire Ring
At our last place in Urbana, we had our “space” in the back yard, sort of an outdoor living room. The new house lacked that until recently. We obtained a rusty old truck tire rim from some of my not-too-distant kin in the tire business. I picked-up a rust-buster abrasive head for my angle grinder and went to work on the rust and caked-on road/tire grime. Some degreaser and a rag helped get most of the rest of the grime out. Then, I painted it with flat black grill paint for a classy rust-free look.
Total cost: about $10 plus three hours’ time to finish the rim. The neighbors probably think we’re rednecks. But, who cares? We had the first of hopefully many pleasant fires tonight. Besides, how many chimenea owners had the pleasure of busting rust off of a 35-pound hunk of steel?
Interesting trivia: In the past three posts (inclusive) with photographs, the on-going projects are pictured. That is, in the workbench photo, the antenna mast and rotor control box are shown in the lower left portion of the image. In the rotor photo, the unfinished fire ring is under the rotor. Then, this post has the finished fire ring. The beat goes on…
