I bought a Hossfled used and it came with a bunch of angle iron dies. All of it has been siting in a pile for almost 2yrs and I've been meaning to get it figured out. My 2nd Amendment Supplier buddy asked me to build him a fire pit. It was to as closely as possible resemble one his wife had seen, but he did not want to waste his money on rusty Chinese steel
Build it to last he said.I finished this pain in the ass fire pit. Came out pretty good. Took too long and I did not charge enough
Concentric rings for the shelf are 3/8 solid round. Inside ring is 1in x 3/16 flat edge bent and the outer ring is 1x1x3/16 angle bent leg in. Adjustable height swinging grate is sized for a weber kettle grate for easy replacement in the future. Upright for the grate is removable and just drops in a socket.The "shelf" part with the concentric rings took too much time, easily half of the 30hrs. The 48in outside shelf ring is 1x1x3/16 angle bent leg in. Holy Hell was this hard to do manually since you are compressing the metal. There was a lot of distortion, but after running it through a couple times and inch at a time it smoothed out. That size material is probably the limit without hydraulics. I needed a diameter between 36in and 47in for the 3/8 solid rod rings. I used the #18 and #20 die, 2 each and walked them into place. I made some "combs" to help with the spacing and built it upside down on the table to do all the bracing so the shelf surface would be flat.
The swinging grate was also bent on the Hossfled. It is 1.5inx3/16 strap and it bent easily. Sized the frame to support a 22.5in Weber Kettle Grate so he could replace it easily later on.
The bowl is an end from a 500 gallon propane tank and started out 37in but I trimmed it down to 33in. The footrest is 1in Sch40 pipe, also 48in I rolled on my modified Harbor Freight ring roller.
