(OT Kinda) Best way to dispatch cracked blanks

Questions

Yonak

Dick does the bottom get hot ? Can it be used on a deck ? Is there a clean-out trap or do you empty the ashes but turning it over to dump them ? Is there a danger of hot ashes falling from the bottom ?

Re: Questions

Dick Coers

The whole thing is double walled with inlet air coming in the outside wall near the bottom. The pit bottom is solid nothing gets out. Perforated internal plate to stack the wood on and continual air flow under the fire. You have to turn it over to dump the ash. Their is a foot ring available that is probably around 2" high and it also has cooling holes. At full burn I could put my hand on the outside of the bottom of the fire pit, and around the air inlet holes about 1" up the sides. I could just barely touch the sides 2" up the side. Hell of a heat column out the top. I think one reviewer said 1400 degrees. So what little smoke may develop when you drop in more wood, rises straight up that column of heat. When the fire burns down inside the pit, you can sit 1' from it. They say placing on wood should be done at your own risk. I feel it will be fine, but I might put it on a piece of 1/2 cement board to just be certain.

Thanks, Dick

Yonak

I've been considering one for heat and roasting steaks in an enclosed deck.