How to Change a Satelite Dish into a Fire Pit

 You can transform an old satelite dish into a nice backyard fire pit by doing this simple instructable. I hope you have fun and
success with this project, and that your hotdogs and marshmallows don't turn into smoldering black piles of gunk :)


                                                                                          Stuff You Need:
                                                                               Enough stone blocks(all the same size) to make a square that's 2-2 1/2 feet on each side
                                                                               Unwanted home satelite dish 
                                                                                
                                                 
                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                       Note: all pictures came from the Internet

Step 1: The Base

Take the stone blocks and make the previously mentioed square. The broadest sides should be facing the ground and the sky.

Comments

[patriots8888]

Maybe you should buy a camera next time instead of buying stones for a project you couldn't take pictures of because your money was in the stones not in a camera. I'm starting to wonder if you even made a fire pit...

[tom_guy]

I agree. Some photos here of an actual build would really helpful.

[Plo Koon]

I haven't made one, actually. I got the idea from the stacks of stone blocks lined up against my neighbor's garage.

[patriots8888]

then how do you "know how to do it"

[Plo Koon]

With reasoning.

[abstracted]

i used the mounting arms for the dish(s) for a ladder rack on the side of my garage

[verence]

Take care, some satellite dishes are not made from metal but plastic and only covered with a thin layer of metallic paint as a reflector. Those dishes will have the same chance to survive a barbecue as the proverbial snowball in hell.

[Plo Koon]

What does "proverbial" mean?

[verence]

proverbial : 1. Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.

proverb : 1. A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.

basic truth here: In hell, a snowball has no chance.

[Plo Koon]

Oh. But if it was made completely of metal, it would work, right?




PS: Did you do it?

[verence]

Completely metal? Sure, should work. Might smoke and smell on first use, when the coating is burnt away - probably not a very healthy smoke.

Might not last very long - with the coating burnt away, the water can corrode the metal.

Did I do it? No, don't have a garden to try. If I would try it, I wouldn't balance it on a single stone in the centre but put it on three or more stones at the rim.

[Plo Koon]

But I didn't say "put a stone in the middle". I said make a square and put the dish in it. And you could put a tarp over it while it's not in use.

[verence]

Oops, sorry, my fault. Somehow the picture of a single stone overrode the text about the square in my mind...

[Plo Koon]

thats OK.