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Offline edz

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Portable campfire .
« 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
Uses lava rock to spread the heat etc
Edit : for a $175 bucks they can keep it ..
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2014, 06:39:46 PM »
I've got the original :)


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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #2 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  .
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #3 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:
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2014, 10:43:55 PM »
Are they available here?
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #5 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:
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2014, 08:10:44 AM »
Drifta have come fold up ones - expensive but look good?

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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2014, 10:07:03 AM »
I've got the original :)


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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #8 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.


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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #9 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.



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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #10 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;

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« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2014, 01:27:51 PM »
I've got the original :)

And i have the prototype  ;D
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #12 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.
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Portable campfire .
« Reply #13 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
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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #14 on: September 12, 2014, 08:14:03 PM »
I think the gal has pretty much burnt off by now.


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Re: Portable campfire .
« Reply #15 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