New barbecue from an old barrel

July 7, 2016 Garden / Crafts from metal 10 536 1

In today's smoky bustle of time, the main sign of a weekend is outdoor recreation. And oxygen saturation of the body stimulates the gastrointestinal tract. Then, in choosing the composition and usefulness of dishes - the flight of imagination is not limited! But, the traditional menu always includes barbecue, the smell of which attracts both adults and children. Outlets offer many barbecue options. However, if you have time and desire, you can do it yourself. For example, from an old metal barrel. At the same time, the strength and durability of the life of such a homemade product is not in doubt, but the costs are completely absent.

Materials for work:
1. Old metal barrel - 1 pc.;
2. Iron bar - 1 pc.;
3. Rivets for a rivet hand gun - 6 pcs.;
4. Angle grinder (grinder), hammer, drill, pliers, manual rivet gun.

Stages of the work:
First step: give the barrel a shape.

Having picked up the barrel of the right size, we put it on the beam and align the two edges, forming the bottom of the barbecue.

It turned out a semicircle with a bottom.

Second stage: cut out the main hole.
We make a grinder a longitudinal section parallel to the bottom of the barbecue - along the barrel body (at a height of 30 centimeters, not reaching the edges of the barrel by 15 centimeters from each edge)

On both sides of the bottom section we put the slots upward at a distance of 40 centimeters.

We get rid of the dangling piece of the tin, making a slice parallel to the bottom. It turns out the main hole of the barbecue - a window. For security reasons, the lower edge of the learned “window” is bent inward using pliers.

The third stage: we form lateral bends.
Just above the already formed bottom of the brazier (10-15 centimeters), we make a parallel incision of 15 centimeters long.

We expand the grinder 90 degrees and form a perpendicular incision, deepening it to the bottom line.

The edges of the sections are bent inward on both sides.

In order to make the bend even in the area of the bottom of the barbecue, you can tap it with a hammer, placing an angular surface.

For security and stiffening the bottom, the sticking edges of the barbecue are folded in a triangle.

On the opposite side of the barrel, we make similar cuts and bends. It turns out the frame of the future brazier.

The fourth stage: we connect the seams.
To connect the joints of the side seams, with a thin drill of a drill we make two holes at a distance of 10 centimeters from each other.

With a rivet gun we connect the walls of the brazier (insert the rivet into the hole, set the gun, rivet). Similarly, we fix the joints of the remaining bends (three more: one on the same side of the barrel and two on the other).

Fifth stage: we fix the iron bar - stand.
Cut the iron bar of the desired length.

With a thin drill we make three holes in it, having slightly stuck it off from the edges and in the center.

On the reverse side of the grill we make similar three holes (with the same thin drill and at the same distance from each other).

We put a bar inside the brazier, connect it with rivets to the brazier.

The height of the mounting strap (from the bottom) should match the height of the bend of the front wall of the barbecue.

Sixth stage: we make ventilation for air circulation.
In order to ensure uniform air circulation in the lower part of the grill, we make ventilation holes. At the same time, we replace the thin drill with a thick drill.