From the drum of a washing machine, you can make a barbecue outdoor barbecue with your own hands - for cooking meat, fish and other products on the grill. This homemade product is useful in a private house or in the country, and you can do it literally in a couple of hours.
The basis for the manufacture of a simple street barbecue will be any drum from a washing machine with a horizontal loading machine. From a tool for work, you will need a grinder with a cutting disc and a screwdriver or an electric power drill.
First of all, it is necessary to cut a small door in the side wall of the drum with a grinder, through which it will be possible to throw firewood into the chamber. We fasten the door to a hinge (it is better to take the door) using self-tapping screws with a drill.
The main stages of work
In the middle of the door, a suitable piece of metal strip must be fastened in length of 20 mm wide and 3 mm thick. This will give the door more rigidity. Then, from scraps of the same strip (or other materials), it will be necessary to make a home-made latch so that the door does not come off.
We install a steel pipe about 80-90 cm long on the drum shaft, which will act as a vertical rack on which the brazier is mounted. At the end of the pipe, you need to make small vertical slots and slightly bend the resulting “petals” to the sides so that it tightly “sits” on the shaft.
At the last stage of work, we weld a piece of the profile pipe to the bottom of the rack, and two more on the sides to it, so that in the end we get a cross. To maintain the correct angle, it is advisable to use a magnetic corner.
Then we clean the welding spots with a grinder. For a detailed process of making barbecue grill from the drum of a washing machine, see the video on the website.
