by Laredo » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:31 pm
if you can find a farm sale get a couple of used disks off a plow. (They're about 12'' around by about 3'' deep usually, and while they're heavy, they're also cheap.)
The HF DO idea is good -- but I'd go for a steel vessel rather than aluminum.
If you can stand a really small fire, try this:
get a quart-and-a-half OJ can (or pineapple or apple or tomato -- you get the idea) and open with a church-key to drain the contents. Once it's empty, take a hacksaw or a coping saw and cut it in half lengthwise. Take a pair of snips and cut 1/3'' or so off both edges of one half, tuck that half inside the other, and you have a compact firebowl.
Mopar's what my busted knuckles bleed, working on my 318s...