Fire pit

[t3t4]

Greetings all,

Here is the beginning of my fire pit (aka) Franken-Smoker Companion.









This stuff cut like crap! I know my way around a plasma cutter and the machine I used to cut this should have no problem what-so-ever. I had new consumables and a good ground, but I'm here to tell ya I fought like hell to blow through this stuff! So what the hell is it? Some kind of steel of coarse, but it's like nothing I've cut before and I could barely move at 2" per min. I'm using a Thermal Dynamics 80 series plasma cutter which can do 1-1/4" severance and that's what it felt like I was cutting!








You can do this above if you move slow enough. But who want's to cut at 1" per min? Hell, you can see twice where I stopped and took a break over a 14" cut!







See, it's not even half of the capacity for this machine but I was still maxed out. So what the hell is this stuff?















Ehhh, something like that I guess. It's the last fire pit I'll ever have to build and that is what it's going to be, however, I still don't know what it is! I've never cut anything this hard so I can only wonder about how it welds. I'll use some 6011 rods and arc weld this, or at least I'll try!

So now I'll just do my clean up work and get this thing together. But this is some old-school American steel that was sitting in my fathers driveway for about 20 years until I picked it up. It has surface rust at best, hell, we all used to drive on it when we were kids. But this stuff has been out in mother nature for so long, so many years, and this is all it has to show for rust?



Thanks,
t3t4