HOW TO BUILD AN ALLIS CHALMERS BARBQUE PIT/FIRE RI

First you start with a perfectly good HD11B series farm tractor (no hydraulic cylinders on the hardnose)

hey Mel, you got the picture down (literally) and my curiosity up.(insert smiley face here)


who has more fun than people eating turkey and talking tractors or is it talking turkey and eating tractors??? (put another smiley face here) Hope that all had a very happy Thanksgiving.   Tad


Edited by Tad Wicks - 25 Nov 2011 at 12:44pm

OK, my insert image button won't bring up my pictures any more,guess I tilted the machine?

Remove the hardnose from the tractor/remove the radiator and all the brackets from the hardnose
Square it up with some 1/2'' plate. This is about the time your friends will start asking hows it go, I don't understand?  That's when you tell them "GRILL UP"  radiator grill/barbque grill up
Now it's time to load and deliver and install
The existing pit (10)years old crumbling cement,needs replacement and has no easy cooking options available

Scrape of the gravel and prepare to remove the old pit (probably in many pieces)
If your real lucky it might come out in one piece (yep,havin a good day so far)
Dig out the round hole and old ashes and turn it into a square hole and when "HOOCH" says it's good enough for him you can begin installation
Hope it's not to heavy for your backhoe ( it ways 1400lbs. I weighed it on the truck scales when I left the yard,so I knew we were covered for our JD backhoe.
Drop it in the hole to the depth you prefer and square it up
Cover it up and replace the gravel
One grill uses the original hinges with a newly fabricated handle added for easy firewood loading
BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE !! it also comes with a stainless steel pivoting bracket and chain to hang your dutch oven on or other options you might want
BUT WAIT!! THERE'S STILL MORE!!  if you look now you'll see the custom made stainless steel warming tray option with hinged door access
The stepping stones were added at the same time. There exposed aggregate poured in 1800s wagon wheel rims with the ranch cow brand emblem (but don't spend a lot of time trying to figure it out) There's a learning curve with that exposed aggregate stuff that I'm still working on.      So my question for my forum friends is     are you a redneck if   "YOUR FAMILY BARBECUE PIT IS MADE FROM OLD TRACTOR PARTS"

So, I was pretty close, it is talking turkey and eating off of tractors(insert smiley face here)
I have no doubt that there are AC deities putting a big red X by your name for abusing the Orange paint, you could have at least used a Cat or IH and that would have been OK, but AC??????(insert another smiley face here) Now everything that you"Q" on that grill will probably have a citrus flavor  (think about it)(insert another smiley face here) So I think to make amends, a proper punishment would have to be, that you invite everyone on this forum to a BBQ sometime in the near future, after you have burnt the orange paint off, I hate to see grown men cry (another smiley face)

 You really know that you are a Redneck when you think sacrilege has something to do with "Burlap Bags" (A big smiley face here)

who has more fun than people driving tractors to Mel's house for BBQ??  All in fun; Tad

Edited by Tad Wicks - 26 Nov 2011 at 11:21am

Note the active fire.

Ok guys,thought I might revisit this post again. It's old enough that a lot of new forum members probably didn't see it the first time through. I'm out of picture space in my file manager so I'm thinking about deleting some of these older pictures and once there deleted from that file they won't show up on the post any more. We have lots of other AC pictures and stories to share so something has to go (or maybe I should leave it and delete something else?)

Mel,

Ok, so we're working on this 11B grapple facelift and we have this "DONOR" tractor with a hardnose that we could make a AC BBQ grill out of. Thought I might revisit this post for those who missed it.

Methinks Mel had been hittin' the bottle when he did this! LOL

just one steak?

I'm with Shameless, looks like a lot of grill for one steak.