welcome friends welcome back to the
kitchen except today we're not going to
be doing any cooking
this summer i want to do some live fire
cooking some open
flame around a fire pit type cooking
and so i need to build a fire pit in the
backyard and i thought why am i going to
build a fire pit when i've got some
friends in guelph who do just that
so today we're going to drive to guelph
to see my friends at iron embers
and we're going to watch them weld
together our new fire pit
come on along
hey adrian hi glenn
so i've come down to iron embers here in
guelph
yep tell us about what you're doing here
well we're here in the shop
building um really high quality fire
pits like metal
and i i i'm back in the shop and i see
it's really thick steel and like it's
it's a quality product that you're
building here
how did you get started uh well we got
started back in my dad's shop and he
actually makes agriculture equipment
okay which is where that really heavy
gauge of steel comes from we use quarter
inch steel and all our products
and my dad used that to build um like
feed mixers for
the agricultural market so that's where
that like super duty
material come from you don't really see
it in in your day-to-day life
except in farm equipment and
construction um
construction equipment so we've kind of
applied that to you know
a fire pit for your backyard and so what
was the spark to do fire pits like what
was the idea
how did that come to you um well we were
looking for one for our backyard and we
kind of got together and
um we went to my dad's shop and put one
together with scrap steel that they had
cool
and they make a lot of big stuff so we
took some smaller parts and
cut out some pieces and made the first
uh forefoot cottager actually
you're in guelph um what is your
distribution at this point
um we have quite a few stores that carry
our stuff across ontario we're just
getting started with the us market as
well
okay we've got a couple people out in
alberta and bc
but also out east in nova scotia so and
can people order directly from you and
have it shipped to them or do they
we ship direct you know it's 20 20. cool
2021 now i guess
time's just stopped it's just stopped
don't worry anymore but
yeah you can order directly drop ship
right to your house okay we'll build it
to order
ship it right to you so you have custom
little tweaks done to it if you wanted
to yep you can
you know purchase exactly what you want
um get your name cut in the side get
extra attachment adapters for more
barbecue grills or
whatever you're looking for excellent so
i'm going to get the four foot cottager
yep i saw them being built in there
today i'm really looking forward to
getting it yeah
that we actually have the first forefoot
cottager on my parents house still and
it's
i think it's getting on 18 years old now
wow so that's good
that's a good longevity excellent so i'm
looking forward to getting it so let's
head back to the studio
and wait for delivery
i don't think i'm ever moving that again
uh
so
oh i lost one
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so this is just a little tease what
we've got coming this summer we're going
to be doing some
live fire cooking out here so
stay tuned thanks for stopping by see
you again soon
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