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Title: Portable campfire .
Post by: edz on September 10, 2014, 05:02:01 PM
Going through a Yankee forum and found this set up, could be handy for some .http://www.campchef.com/redwood-fire-pit.html (http://www.campchef.com/redwood-fire-pit.html)
Uses lava rock to spread the heat etc
Edit : for a $175 bucks they can keep it ..
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Bullant4x4 on September 10, 2014, 06:39:46 PM
I've got the original :)

Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: speewa158 on September 10, 2014, 08:21:32 PM
For many years l have endeavoured to & have perfected the  " PDFP "    Yes Friends ,   The Per Dug Fire Pit .
 You & some of your closest friends are off camping , arranging the trip , food , grog , traveling , grog & a bottle of wine for SWOMBO . When you get there after a long drive , then set up  after a big week at work , its time to start a fire .
wouldn't it be nice to have  " Pre  delivered & installed fire pit "  ???
Yes it now can be arranged . All you have to do is send me the number of Swaggers to be sitting around said fire & friends that turned up to such a perfect Pre Dug Fire P it . l will send Via Express Swagmail  , after the rate has been approved in the form of  VB Slabs delivered & received .
 To reuse Your " PDFP "  & relocate it to the next camp site , carefully dig it up  . Then secure the PDFP to the CT as if it falls off on the track it could be hard to find as its really hard to see . PDFPs look so much like a pot hole & will swallow a Rig in 1 gulp  .
PM me with your requirements & beware of Online Scams offering 4/5 of 5/8 of SWA       :cheers:
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: edz on September 10, 2014, 10:06:15 PM
 ;D And this is why this forum is so great I love the humour of the characters that inhabit these pages  :cheers:
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Topender on September 10, 2014, 10:43:55 PM
Are they available here?
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: speewa158 on September 11, 2014, 06:59:59 AM
Down load me a few Slabs of Cold VB cans & l will get started of " Your PDFP " .     >:D       :cheers:  Let ne know how big you want it   ???               :cheers:
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: jr on September 11, 2014, 08:10:44 AM
Drifta have come fold up ones - expensive but look good?
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: gibbo301 on September 11, 2014, 10:07:03 AM
I've got the original :)


Ahhh the good old washing machine tub  :cup:
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Goose on September 11, 2014, 11:32:13 AM
I have just acquired a washing machine tub from a washer that was left out for cleanup - It was 5 to 7 years old cheap fisher and pykel.

I've gotten the tub out and though its yet to be used in a fire i feel that it's a very soft metal. Is this normal for washing machine tubs? I imagined the tub would be a lot more sturdy. I think i could bend it with my hands if i wanted to.

Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Darcy7 on September 11, 2014, 12:45:17 PM
I recently bought a galvanised metal bucket from Bunnings for about $9.  Drilled some holes in sides near the bottom of the bucket and used it as a fire place.  Worked a treat.  And its small enough to pack just about anywhere.

Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Snapman007 on September 11, 2014, 12:54:10 PM
The enamel coated steel ones don't last, you need a stainless tub.
Here's one I prepared earlier;
(http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m501/snapman007/e3ac0880c32486e639d1a312d2561390_zps942b956c.jpg)
:cheers:
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: loanrangie on September 11, 2014, 01:27:51 PM
I've got the original :)

And i have the prototype  ;D
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Streetkid on September 11, 2014, 04:39:23 PM
I recently bought a galvanised metal bucket from Bunnings for about $9.  Drilled some holes in sides near the bottom of the bucket and used it as a fire place.  Worked a treat.  And its small enough to pack just about anywhere.

I had the same thing for quite a while, it worked a treat and really efficient on wood. It eventually disintegrated so now I use a cut down gas bottle that is a slightly bigger but much more sturdy version of the same thing.
Title: Portable campfire .
Post by: Bullant4x4 on September 11, 2014, 06:20:18 PM
I recently bought a galvanised metal bucket from Bunnings for about $9.  Drilled some holes in sides near the bottom of the bucket and used it as a fire place.  Worked a treat.  And its small enough to pack just about anywhere.

Cooking with gal is poisonous. Not sure about the fumes just using it as a fire but I wouldn't use gal.

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Galvanized steel is coated with zinc.  Zinc and zinc oxide are relatively volatile, and so it will release fumes easily in a fire.  These fumes, as you know, can be toxic.

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Just camp next to the bloke using treated pine and someone will be worse off than you lol :) :D TIC
Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: Darcy7 on September 12, 2014, 08:14:03 PM
I think the gal has pretty much burnt off by now.


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Title: Re: Portable campfire .
Post by: champin on September 13, 2014, 05:47:45 PM


Galvanized steel is coated with zinc.  Zinc and zinc oxide are relatively volatile, and so it will release fumes easily in a fire.  These fumes, as you know, can be toxic.

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I've been welding gal products on and off for years and I'm alright.  Although that could be debated. ;D