A bad IDEA
Lately I have been wanting to get my hands dirty. What I really want to be doing is welding. I havent done any welding in 2 years and it is eating away at me. I just wont to have the rush of excitement that I get when I know I am melting metal to metal and creating something. I want to build a big BBQ pit. I want to make a monster out of it. Something that when you walk by and look at it you wonder what the hell the person was thinking when they built it.
I have plans. I have been thinking about this for about a month. I have two or three designs that I want to try to fuse into one really cool design. It wouldnt be the first BBQ pit that I built, but since high school I havent had the need to weld like I currently do.
I dont get the itch to weld often, but when I do, I tend to really really want to weld. Working at the research center, I was able to weld pretty much whenever I felt the need. I ended up spending 6 months working on welding bottoms to then monolith cores for one of the projects. [the monolith cores were meter square by 1.5 meter deep.] In order to install the bottoms drain holes had to be placed in each of them. That meant cutting nice circles and then welding a short pice of pipe into place. It was okay at first but after 86 bottoms it got tedious quick.
Having 86 bottoms meant 86 monoliths. Welding 86 bottoms to the bottom of each monolith box, was a challenge. Each bottom had to be custom fitted to the box and then welds that would be water tight. I experienced many burns during the 6 months of welding. There was much hot metal. After bottoms were placed on, each Box had leg welded into place to protect the drain and let the boxes sit higher then they already did...
6 months of welding, I got the bug mostly out of my system. I did weld on some trailers, a few odd and ends projects and made doors for a storage box I bought. But that was it. I havent done anythign since then. And now I really really want to weld again. Its an itch in my system.
So I have plans for a BBQ pit. My current drawinigs have a 8 foot cooking space with a 3 foot firebox, but those will be subject to change. I want to learn some more about smokers as I feel that in my pit design I want to have a smoker somehow. I think there might be a trailer purchase here in the near future if I am getting serious about this stuff.