Octogonal Firepit

[levesquea]

Had to fabricate a closed firepit as we're not allowed to burn open fires at this time of the year.

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[sonbakler]

Wow! Nice job, it looks spectacular. Where do you get that wire mesh? I'm guessing you just carefully tack weld it onto the frame?

[levesquea]

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It's called flattened expanded wire mesh. You can get that from your local metal distributor. Here in canada I paid $136 cdn for a 48" x 96" sheet.
i trid to tack weld it but it melts pretty easily. So i cut some flat bar strips and welded them on top of the mesh to the metal structure. Worked up pretty well. Withe the concrete foundation nd metal work...I'm at $500. But the work involved is quite involved from the concrete form and pouring concrete and making the metal frame. That's my first metal project that required more than cutting a flat sheet of metal...lol

[sonbakler]

Thanks for the info on the mesh, will give that a try for an upcoming project. Wow you went to a lot more work than I had thought on this project! Super impressive!

[adbuch]

Nice work! Was there any cnc cutting involved, or was it all hand work? You've got a nice looking workspace there.
David

[Russ K]

Beautiful project and setting! Nice concrete work. Do you load the wood by lifting the dome or is one of the vertical panels hinged like a door? Nice clean design!

[levesquea]

Thank you for the kind comments. it was en enjoyable project.

The structure is made in two parts. The surrounding octogonal panels and a removable top with handles to facilitate the process.
In order to load the wood, i have two panels side by side on hinges. I swing them open and I can use it to load the wood and alo I have two stainless pipes recessed in the concrete right in front of the opening doors so I can add some cooking implements. the reason i made a removable top it to eventually build a crank hoist to have a dutch oven lowered over the fire.

[levesquea]

Thanks david.
i used my plasma cam to cut the octogonal center cover shape.
All the rest is basically angle Iron with flat bar cut , bent at 22.5 degrees and finally assembled with welds.
My workspace is a bit challenging. i have a 48x96 wood cnc, a plasmacam 48x96, a forge, wood kiln, sandblast, Powder coating oven and a small painting booth..... in a space of 28 x 36. it's quite tight and very difficult to do my finishing because of the wood dust. I'm retired and mainly work mixed media type stuff that i sell locally. Stuff like signage, wall art, decor etc.... But I'm having fun...lol

[adbuch]

You look so young - you must have taken an "early" retirement.
David