How To Make The Easiest And Best Oil Barrel Barbecue Ever! (No Welding)

oil drums make excellent barbecues and over the years we've learned a few things about making them the easy way first up mark the hinges before you do any cutting and drill out the hole - while the drum is intact don't just cut your power in half either the lid only needs to be a little more than a quarter of the total circumference and you'll have a much better fit if you do this you know I want to cut this bit along here but not all the way through because I need to keep this rim intact so I'm trying to separate this the outer ring this one had engine oil in it and that's not going to waste very sharp edges now I just need to clean them up with the grinder it fits look I made the hose in the right place on the rim another big benefit to leaving most of the barrel intact there's no need to weld a stand either I'm using some old angle iron for the legs I cut two lengths at two and a half meters each and then cut halfway through at the midway point that way I could carefully bend the bar into an a-frame shape now with the hole drilled at the top of the pole I can secure the frame with just three gutter bolts at the top I'm using the biggest washer I can find the other two bolts go in near the rim of maximum support and triangulation and it's perfectly stable and how easy was that I found a skinny log in the wood stack for a handle and used some more long bolts and washers to hold it in place one inch mesh makes good shelving I made it in to Hobbes so I can stoke the fire if necessary and I put a warming show near the top to I think so lots of space for you know it of sausages no no just sausages then I let a hot fire in there to burn off any residues after that we just needed some hungry people to test it out we all run around in the field playing rounders for a while and that seemed to do the trick nicely open the barbecue lots of steam and smoke anything in neck oh and there's a power source or something look again give it five four minutes this needs a sausage or two just there with a carcass the tomatoes look good looks nice some people have been some chimneys to their oils on the barbecues all in all is one worked out really well I think and no one went hungry at all

Channel: Way Out West Blow-in blog

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Id: MEKT9ao2O-U

Length: 7min 23sec (443 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 27 2016