HOW TO BUILD AN ALLIS CHALMERS BARBQUE PIT/FIRE RI
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Topic: HOW TO BUILD AN ALLIS CHALMERS BARBQUE PIT/FIRE RI
Posted By: AC Mel
Subject: HOW TO BUILD AN ALLIS CHALMERS BARBQUE PIT/FIRE RI
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 4:23pm
First you start with a perfectly good HD11B series farm tractor (no hydraulic cylinders on the hardnose)
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Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 4:29pm
| oops, standby I'll have to resize pictures that's not going to work |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 4:53pm
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Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 4:54pm
| Nope, I better go eat some turkey |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:04pm
 ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2011 at 8:06pm
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How was the turkey. My BIL deep fried ours and it was great. Everything was great!!!
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Tad Wicks
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 12:43pm
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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 |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 1:32pm
| Thanks to CTuckerNWIL for fixing the picture, our turkey was great also. I think I have a handle on the picture sizing now, I'm going to try again. So Tad just keep your curiosity up cause the story line includes a total of 15 pictures with how to instructions. If the next couple of pictures come up right I'll keep going. It'll be a fun topic. Mel |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 4:27pm
| OK, my insert image button won't bring up my pictures any more,guess I tilted the machine? |
Posted By: KD in SE Ks
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 4:45pm
| Go eat some more turkey Mel, seems like when you do that things come out better : ) |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 5:39pm
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"  |
Posted By: ACAmy
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011 at 8:01pm
| I'm pretty sure you're a Redneck when you successfully raise your daughters to be amused by "Tractor Part Pits." |
Posted By: Tad Wicks
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 11:14am
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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 |
Posted By: AC Tracy
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 10:22pm
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Tad, Where were you? We had a BBQ to break in the AC fire pit. I came all the way from NY State. This fire pit is AWESOME! Cheers, AC T  |
Posted By: AC Tracy
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 10:28pm
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Note the active fire. AC T
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Posted By: ACBONNIE
Date Posted: 28 Nov 2011 at 12:17am
| The AC Debut was a hit!! To be continued.... |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2013 at 10:24am
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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?) |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2013 at 2:40pm
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No need to delete any pictures. Just open a free photbucket account and upload ALL your pictures to it. Then you can keep your private pics private, make public any you want to share and they will always be availabe to you from any computer. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Steve in NJ
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2013 at 6:46am
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Mel,
You're a panic!! That's pretty cool!
mailto:Steve@B&B" rel="nofollow - Steve@B&B
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Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 9:05pm
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2016 at 9:34pm
| 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. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2016 at 2:24am
| sure beats burying the whole tractor! lol! that really looks good! |
Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2016 at 7:13am
| Methinks Mel had been hittin' the bottle when he did this! LOL |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2016 at 10:30pm
Ok, We've had enough rain here in N.Ca. that it's safe to start the AC BBQ. So we cooked a steak to make sure it still worked.  |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 13 Nov 2016 at 11:49pm
| just one steak? |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2016 at 2:27pm
| Sure looks yummy |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2017 at 3:28pm
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I'm with Shameless, looks like a lot of grill for one steak. Have to ask about the oven doors. Did you cut them in or were there hinges on it from factory? WHAT A FUN BUILD!!!!! ------------- 2-8070FWA PS/8050PS/7080/7045PS/200/D15-II/2-WD45/WD/3-WC/UC/C |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2017 at 9:36pm
| Yes I cut the oven doors and put the hinges in....those are 2 single bolt on covers otherwise |