How to Build An Outdoor Fireplace Easily

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By powerleg5
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An outdoor fireplace can be the hit of any outdoor occasion, especially in cooler weather. Keep reading to learn how you can build an outdoor fireplace of your own.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Small piece of sheet metal or tin.
Clothes Washer Drum
Clothes Dryer Drum
Gravel
Several Bricks

Step 1

You need to locate a clothes washer drum and a clothes dryer drum. This is the drum where you put the clothes in to wash and dry them. This should be fairly easy to find and you or your friends might even have an old one that quit. Decide on a location for your fire pit, then take your shovel and dig down about 6 or 8 inches deep and remove the grass and dirt. It is probably best to dig out a 3'x 3' square.
Step 2

Take some bricks and lay them around the perimeter of the square. Then fill inside the square with gravel. You can cut a piece of sheet metal or 5V tin and put on top of the gravel for easy ash removal. Then you just set the washer drum inside the square. This is where your pits fire wood will go. The holes in the washer drum feed air to the fire.
Step 3

The dryer drum will set right on top of the washer drum and helps contain the pits fire and flames. If you like you could set a grill grate on top of the dryer drum but I would build a fire or two in this set up first to burn any type of paint or whatever off of the drums. This makes an excellent outdoor fireplace and a perfect spot for the company to gather around. Your visitors will be wanting to build a fire pit fireplace for themselves.