Post #388193 by MadDogMike on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 3:26 PM

These pits are fairly common in my area, seems every service organization or church has a huge one they use for an annual feeding of the 5,000. They have a swivel hoist mounted next to them to lift the meat basket in and out. I guess you could pull out the embers but they still hold a lot of heat (and lifting a big basket of 1500 degree embers would make me nervous :0) As long as you seal the pit well, you are ok.