Grill production

My friend and I grilled a few times, first just some pork sausage, which we washed down with beer. But then we started grilling meat marinated in beer and spices. So I figured I couldn't get by with a fire pit at the cottage and decided to do something about it.
At first I was only thinking about the grate. The main thing is to make it dense enough, otherwise the sausages or the chicken wings would fall through. Then I wanted to put the grate in a barrel, to hold the heat, and put the whole thing on the fire pit, and from there it was a short step to the grill.

First, I cut the barrel in half with an angle grinder and used the half that had the bottom.

I bought two iron rebars (8 and 6 mm thick, just under 4 m long) at a building supply store, the kind meant for concrete. I used the thick one to make a circle and part of the crossbars for the grate. The legs for the grill are from leftovers that were at the cottage. The thin one was used up entirely on the crossbars of the grate.
I welded the grate at home and finished the rest at the cottage. (I had to learn how to weld)




I cut three holes with the angle grinder for adding fuel and bent the sheet metal up - this is the lowest level of the grill. Then I welded on the legs, which had to be done carefully, at the joint of the bottom and sides of the barrel, as the sheet metal alone is thin.

I drilled holes to slide in the rest of the bars-that's the next two levels of grilling

I lit a fire with willow wood, which is well suited to grilling.


I let the wood burn down and had a nice layer of embers.


Then all you have to do is take good care of the meat.

Making charcoal
What I grilled

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