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 The old fire ring was on it's last legs. We needed something better. The old fireplace Uncle Frank had built was long gone. Only a few stones remained. I was going to build a form and take it to camp where we would fill it with cement and let cure. I found it was almost as cheap to buy one pre-cast. I decide to get it to camp on my trailer, it weighed 1,040 pounds! My trailer will haul a ton (2,000 lbs) of weight.

 The guy at the concrete plant put it on the trailer with a fork lift, getting it off was the challenge. Several ideas were proposed, most notable was by Egyptian Slave Boy Billy. I had something similar in mind and used some 1" inch steel rods to roll the fire box slowly off the trailer. The trailer has a tilt bed which dropped the rear edge down and rested on some 4x4's and winched it off the trailer onto some 4x4's.

 I moved some of the log seats out of the way and backed the trailer close to the fire box location, and winched it off the trailer. I unhitched the trailer and tied a strap to the fire box and used the truck to pull it into position. I leveled it with some firebricks from the power plant. All went fairly smoothly with no problems except one scratched knuckle and one black and blue finger nail.

 I rearranged some of the log seats and cleaned up the mess, cooled down with a brew and started a fire. Mike showed up minus his family shortly after that.  After unpacking and cleaning up we sat around the fire and drank some beer until it got dark.

On Saturday and Mike and I did some more log seat moving. We now have a couple more usable seats. Mike also cleared some brush from behind the camp which we started to burn but it began raining on and off late Saturday. I cleaned up the corner at the top of the stairs, threw out useless old shower curtains and crappy rain coats. I hung up the better raincoats  then hung the tub on the far side (Spring) of the wood bin.

 Saturday night it showered on and off all night. As we got ready to pack up Sunday we got a thunderstorm and it rained really hard for a while then slacked off so we could load up our junk to leave.  It stopped just about the time we finished loading. If we'd have waited half an hour we could have stayed dry(er).

Here are some pictures,

Loaded up at home, ready to tow	Old fire ring gone ready for new fire box	Ready to start off loading	Backing up to position fire box	Winching and rolling fire box off tilted trailer bed
Almost there	Bingo! On the ground	On the ground, a couple of the steel roller bars in the foreground	In position and ready to go.	Relaxing with a brew
First fire in the new fire box	Hey guys, don't you wish you were there? It was sooo nice.	Flash photo of same fire.	Another flash photo	Boy, Mike and I really enjoyed how nice thing thing burns.
Mike sitting at fire.	Saturday Mike cleared some of the brush behind the camp	We need to clear more brush. Without the trees blocking the sun it's really getting bushy	We burned some brush but then it rained off and on late Saturday.	Old tub gone to side of wood bin, garbage thrown out, raincoats hung up
Area above steps.	Mike take well deserved snooze on Saturday after clearing brush	In honor of Joe's request I painted the fire box I think we should call it the Fire Box Council	It's a nice green color	A stange plant from behind the camp that Mike cleared. You can't believe how this stuff burns, even when damp and green! This stuff burns like it was soaked in kerosene!