[foolio]

freaking awesome.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I can EASILY see you dancing around it, tossing poweder into it and wearing a coconut dress.

Yes, indeed.

[Abyss]

What, no beer pit?

[Grunthor]

CF I'm liking the firepit. Its given me a good idea...

[cerveza_fiesta]

I hoped to have a pic on progress of the stage area by now but sadly I took a trailer-hitch to the ribs on Sunday and am incapable of lifting anything heavier than about 30lbs without stabbing pain in my side.

Abyss, on 28 July 2010 - 01:26 PM, said:

What, no beer pit?

AKA the cooler? Its currently on the boat.

That's a good idea though...perhaps a blast-proof concrete one over near where I plan to construct the musical acts stage....to protect it from the gasoline mushroom clouds.

because humans heal, but a smashed brewski is lost forever.

Grunthor, on 28 July 2010 - 01:29 PM, said:

CF I'm liking the firepit. Its given me a good idea...

Which is......what??? C'mon, you can't gain inspiration from my firepit and not tell me!

Leavin me hanging here. yeesh

[Abyss]

cerveza_fiesta, on 28 July 2010 - 03:42 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 July 2010 - 01:26 PM, said:

What, no beer pit?

AKA the cooler? Its currently on the boat.
...

Actually, a 'beer pit' is easy. Dig an appropriately deep pit (depending on amount of beer but not deeper than you can reach), Line with a single piece of thick plastic (not foodwrap - i like vapour barrier). Fill with ice, water and bottles of beer (wine, coolers, whatever). When you're done, pull out the plastic liner and the water drains into the ground. For aesthetics you can line the pit with stones or gravel or whatever. A friend of mine keeps a big potted plant in the pit to disguise it when not in use. Which is rarely.

[cerveza_fiesta]

ya, good plan.

It shall be done

Maybe I'll make it to fit beneath one of the paving stones, then router the top of a piece of plywood to look like a paving stone and voila!

Hidden beer pit.

The only problem with this plan is that you lose the easily-nominated beer bitch - ie the guy who invariably uses the cooler as a chair and thus has to hand everybody beer all night.

[Abyss]

On the other hand you have a hole in Mother Earth providing you with cold tasty sweet delicious beer that hasn't been handled by some sweaty fuck with burger grease on his fingers. The Beer Pit, it wins.

[cerveza_fiesta]

point taken

Beer pit goes in as soon as the rib is healed, thus enabling use of a shovel.

Or I could make the rule that the first guy to sit on the cooler has to dig the pit.

Then we all win, except him, the sweaty burger-grease stained fucker.

[Grunthor]

cerveza_fiesta, on 28 July 2010 - 03:42 PM, said:

I hoped to have a pic on progress of the stage area by now but sadly I took a trailer-hitch to the ribs on Sunday and am incapable of lifting anything heavier than about 30lbs without stabbing pain in my side.

Abyss, on 28 July 2010 - 01:26 PM, said:

What, no beer pit?

AKA the cooler? Its currently on the boat.

That's a good idea though...perhaps a blast-proof concrete one over near where I plan to construct the musical acts stage....to protect it from the gasoline mushroom clouds.

because humans heal, but a smashed brewski is lost forever.

Grunthor, on 28 July 2010 - 01:29 PM, said:

CF I'm liking the firepit. Its given me a good idea...

Which is......what??? C'mon, you can't gain inspiration from my firepit and not tell me!

Leavin me hanging here. yeesh

Nothing too radical CF, I was thinking of some cresent shape blocks of either granite or marble (esque) for seating on the outside of the flagstones.. Although thinking of it now it could be a bit pricy..

[cerveza_fiesta]

@grunt

O hell yes.

That would be very expensive.

I have thought about this too...and I know there is a monuments company nearby regularly works with chunks of polished granite and marble for gravestones (mainly) and commemorative stone plaques, etc.... They sell their production errors and damaged-in-shipping blocks for pretty cheap. So I was thinking, if you don't mind your seat saying "Here Lies Robrt" or "In gid we tust" then you could have some sweet and very attractive fireside seating.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Oh lawd.

Friday night saw the most destructive fire the pit has seen to date.

My buddy and I wanted to get rid of a bunch of nagging plywood scrap that's been building up behind the climbing wall at the university in town. It's all of a good size and useful thickness, but its covered in grip paint that ruins skillsaw blades so quickly that it's not worth the trouble to try and cut it for reuse.

And I had a pile of half-rotten 2x4s and other random woodscraps sitting around the house that was begging to be disposed of.

Therefore fire.

We built a huge stack of lumber at the center, and sheathed it in some manageable scraps of 3/4" plywood of odd shapes and sizes...then balanced a small platform on top of the whole thing.

Within the fire, balanced on logs went 3 beer bottles filled to the rim with gasoline, and 2 mason jars on top of the platform, also filled with gasoline. Then a gas-soaked rag near the bottom of the fire acted as a pilot light for the whole thing. So I lit that up carefully avoiding the other gas-filled objects.

Then me and my buddy retreated behind a blast barrier (a piece of plywood leaned on a sawhorse, far from gasoline and other ignition sources) where we had 2 primed pellet guns ready to go. We count down from three and simultaneously shot the mason jars on top...which wasn't immediately explosive, but the gush of flammable fluid down over the wood, eventually hitting the pilot light produced a mushroom cloud that was pretty impressive overall.

Then of course we danced around the fire scream-laughing like idiots shooting at the remaining bottles and causing further mushroom clouds of flame and black smoke. Fucking fantastic.

2 more straight hours of 10ft flames and fire so hot you couldn't stand within 15 feet of the pit for longer than it takes to feed plywood into the inferno. Near the end we had a super long piece of plywood that we were using as a giant brick-oven pizza paddle...except with a bottle full of gas on the end where the pizza would normally go. One guy fed it into the flames and ran, then the other shot it with a pellet gun for more mushroom cloudiness.

Ah...good times. Also, no more plywood to worry about and I got rid of all that pesky gasoline I had lying around.

I have some amazing action pics, but they are too big and are sitting on the camera at home. Will post them later.