DIY Smokeless Fire Pit Review, Your Questions Answered!

hey guys today i'm going to be revisiting the smokeless fire pit and doing a real brief review as to how it's working for me which real brief review it still works fantastic i have no complaints it works better than i hoped that it would so now i can really focus on what this video is really about and that's your questions and comments and i got a ton of them and a lot of them were the same ones so it really did make it hard to be able to respond to everybody because i like to give in-depth responses let's go ahead and just break down each one of these most common things that i was asked and i'll give my perspective or experience on each one of them so let's go ahead and jump right in let's go now one of the common questions that i get is how well does this fire pit give off heat and obviously the lower the fire pit would be the more heat you're going to be able to get to your lower extremities like your feet and just above your feet but this really isn't that tall i get plenty of heat coming up towards my knees my body my head all those areas no problem just like any other fire i've ever been around now if you're up north and you're wanting to have a bonfire during the winter and you're using it because you want to keep your whole body warm then this might not be the most ideal situation for keeping your feet warm but i've developed a hack for that another question i get asked a lot is after a fire how do i clean out the ash with those stones now after a fire this is typically what i'm left with it's basically just a few chunks of wood and maybe a couple of burned up coals here and there and this is how i clean it up ready for the next one but in all seriousness after a bunch of fires maybe there will be some ash buildup and at that point i would just probably try to scoop as much of it into a pile and then just scoop it up with a small shovel all right so now let's talk about these holes down at the bottom of the fire pit where the fresh air comes in now i got a lot of questions and a lot of comments from people asking why i had to break these blocks to make my holes on the bottom instead of just removing a few of the blocks and then spacing out the bottom row to equally to where you have a gap like that for instance all the way around the fire pit two reasons came to mind when i thought about it number one it probably would be very hard to get it symmetrical to the top two rows of stone for it to look right now that's just aesthetics that's not a big deal number two anytime i've dealt with trying to move have air flow and dealing with trying to create that vacuum effect it's always been my experience that the more holes that there are the less effective that it is so my thinking was to have less holes but to where they are large enough to be able to pull in enough air with that vacuum effect where when this ring gets hot and it causes that air in behind it to get hot and raise up and then come out those holes that it creates that vacuum effect pulling that air through those holes now that is just me i've had some people say that they did do that where they had holes all the way around and it worked very well for them i'm not going to question them i'm sure that it did and i'm glad that it did plus who doesn't want to practice their rokuan doe it's not all the time that you just get to sit around and just chop blocks like gosh dang it i did it again now i did get quite a few suggestions from people to get that high temperature paint to put on the holes that were cut out at the top of the ring here because now that steel is exposed to the elements and is more prone to rust and corrode which this is a really good idea so i did pick up this high heat 2 000 degree fahrenheit uh paint that is made by rust-oleum and i just picked it up at my local home improvement store now typically people use this paint in very hot areas in their vehicles like their engine compartment or they also use them in their grills so this should work very well for being on this ring typically a campfire is not going to get up to 2000 degrees fahrenheit even at the core so out away from the core like this is where the ring is it should never get up to that temperature but i imagine that over some time this paint will probably have to be touched up and if you don't have a ring that's already protected like this one was i just bought it this way if it was galvanized for instance you may want to spray this all over it so now let's talk more specifically about these holes going around the top here i got a lot of questions asking what size hole saw did i use i used an inch and a half hole saw now i also got questions of shouldn't the holes be smaller or would it work better if they were smaller i don't fully know the answer to that i just know that mine works great and i did comment to some people saying that if i could go back i might experiment with smaller holes because i could see the argument for having smaller holes how that might create more back pressure to where it would shoot the fresh air into the fire uh maybe a little bit harder and it would be able to go a little bit further but i don't really know how much of an effect that would actually have i just know that mine works the way that it is and i don't have any reason to change it now another thing i would suggest which i did have some people ask me about this is your ring size you need to pick your ring size not based on what i did or anybody else did as far as the size of it pick the ring size based on the size of fire that you have if you have smaller fires you want to have a smaller ring you want those ring walls to be as close as possible to whatever size of fire you typically have because you want those holes on top to be as close to that fire as possible the closer those holes are the more efficient those holes are going to be getting that fresh oxygenated air into the top of that fire now quite a few people ask why do i put holes in the top of the firing instead of down at the bottom you want to introduce fresh air into the bottom of the fire and while i agree with this that's just not how this fire pit works the reason for it is because i want the holes at the top to introduce fresh air into the top of the fire to help burn off the excess fuel or that smoke but a lot of people had some really great suggestions that i ended up going with some of them as far as introducing air into the bottom of the fire because i do agree that the healthier the fire the better this whole thing is going to work so i put in some aluminum tubing into the ground with an intake that would bring air into the bottom of the fire and many of you may have seen that video on that video i had some people comment that they did not like me using aluminum because they're afraid it's going to melt and they actually just flat out told me that it was not going to work i can tell you that without a doubt that is just false there is no way that being below the fire with cooler air coming through the aluminum tubing that it's ever going to get to the melting point of 1221 degrees fahrenheit which is the melting point of aluminum now don't just take my word for it let's go out and let's pull out the stack that's coming into the bottom of the fire and let's just take a look at how it looks after having a few fires in the pit all right so here is the metal that is the closest to the fire and as you can see completely intact no signs of melting even the little burrs that were left from where the drill went through they're still there and look at this the upc tag is even still there and you can even read the letters on it so yeah this is not getting anywhere near hot enough in order for this aluminum to even think about melting now i've also gotten some comments from some very skeptical people as to whether or not this actually works and i've even gotten some comments from people that are basically just flat out accusing me of being dishonest about my results even though they've never actually tried this themselves i don't know what to say about that other than i'm just telling you guys my personal experience and results that i've gotten ever since i built this my results have been nothing but good every single fire i've had has had little to no smoke and i've had numerous comments as well on the videos from other people let me know that they built this exact same pit or one very similar to it and they've had those same really good results but i'm gonna go ahead and build a fire just to show you again the results that i'm getting i'm a man of the people i'm gonna give the people what they want and it has nothing to do with the fact that i'll take any excuse to set something on fire and just so you all know at the very beginning of the fire when you're first getting it started it is very normal for there to be quite a bit of smoke it's not until the fire gets big enough and hot enough to heat up that ring for it to actually start doing its job and start taking away the smoke and you might see some of this smoke that's coming up and if you notice a lot of it just gets pushed back into the fire and then burns up and then never leaves the pit so that's another good thing about the holes is it just pushes it right back in [Music] there is nothing like having a fire on a 95 degree day well guys i hope that this was helpful for you and i answered all of your most commonly asked questions there were a lot of them hopefully i was able to touch on the vast majority of them though and if you have any more of course you can leave those down the comment section down below i may be building another one of these in the fairly near future of course everybody wants one now so i may be building one for somebody that i know if i do i will be using the same basic principle but using some of the ideas that you guys gave me that we talked about in this video here today and we'll see if it makes it any better or if it stays relatively the same so be looking out for that possibly in the near future which reminds me if you haven't done so already consider hitting that red subscribe button so you don't miss any of my videos i have coming out down the road and if you found this be helpful please let me know by giving it a thumbs up and i look forward to seeing you in the next one

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Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 02 2021