[misteralz]

Really needs to be up here. So when I can get access to photobucket - it's blocked at work - it will be.  

[Maria]

O yes, pics please.  

Be good to see how you made it. We have a bought one (very cheaply a few years back). We were about to make a brick built one with leftover bricks from here and there - but circumstances meant we needed it sooner than we could pull our fingers out and make one.

Have you had a bash at using it for the others things you mentioned - smoking, charcoal?

[Sassinak]

I have a big oil drum BBQ that we bought for the wedding 5 years ago. Still doing sterling service.
We thought about building a brick one, but our winds are so variable we need to be able to move it around to a sheltered spot.

[Julie]

One of our friends has made a couple of barbeques out of stainless steel sinks. Holes punched in the sink give ventilation for the charcoal and a rack over the sink cooks the food. The drainer provides a perfect surface for food waiting to be cooked.

[Smooth Hound]

i like that

[misteralz]

Right, about two years ago I got a 45 gallon drum out the back of a Polo Breadvan in Persley scrappies. Stan charged me the grand total of a shrug and a dismissive wave for it, so I took it home, cut it in half and remembered I didn't have a welder so it languished in the field for ages like thus:



Fast forward eighteen months when I finally buy a really decent mig setup but lack motivation still because it's winter and dark and cold and crap. We plan to have a barbie at midsummer, so I've a deadline for starting, and indeed finishing the bloody thing. So I get hunting again, and another trip to Persley's sees me in the back of an Astra van. The 9" grinder is broken out, leaving me with these:



This is the scene at mine on the morning of the barbie - I've made a stand by welding two lots of four steel rims together. This means I can drive a post down the middle of them for extra stability, but in reality they're going nowhere:



And about an hour later it's done:



The steel plate was beaten into shape and one length was welded to each top rim. An old horseshoe which was bolted to the rangie's front grille when I bought it acts as a handle for the top half. The chain stops the top half falling back, and one of the hinges, well, that was the only thing I've had to buy specifically for this...

[Maria]

A grand re-cycle project.   Thanks for the step-by-step and piccies.

Like the horseshoe touch....have the eaters of yon bbq food been lucky?   Fab project, sounds easy enough, if you know how, i might fall down on the cutting in half bit   .  

Would you consider having it on the website? There have been some mutterings about updating and perhaps having some step-by-step projects on there (like your grand design) that Neeps have been involved in.

[misteralz]

Thanks! Yeah, more than happy to have it on your site. I could do a proper step by step guide with more photos - I'd need to find them as I never took them...