BBQ Stand Overview

This outdoor grill stand is easier to make than it looks and surprisingly

useful if you want to use your backyard or lakeside cottage property for some

outdoor cooking. The legs and the framework can stay outside but the

grills themselves, so this larger one here and then the warming grill up top

can be brought inside for cleaning and storage so it just stays in better

condition, doesn't rust and as I said it's quite easy to build so let's

take a look at some of the details on the plans. Your construction work will go

better if you print out the plans and keep them handy in your shop for

reference and looking at them now you can see that the majority of the support

structure is made by one and a half inch by one and a half inch by 3 16th angle

iron. That 3 16th business refers to the thickness of the two sides that come

together so it's it's fairly thick angle iron. The front legs half inch square

solid rod that's the same thing that's used for the grill end components, the

components that hold together the quarter inch diameter solid steel rods that form the actual grill surface. Up here we've got the same material used to

make the handles for lifting the warming rack off. Quarter inch is small enough

that you can bend that around something without heating it necessarily. It's not

a big deal to bend that kind of steel before you weld it on to these upper

grill ends. When it comes to these side pieces here, here and here, as well as the

back pieces there's something I need to mention. The front is no problem it's

just a square cut front flush with the front legs but because the back piece

here that you can see meets the side pieces here you are going to need to cut

this at a 45 degree angle so so they can come together properly. Without that

the bottom flange of one piece of angle iron is going to interfere with another

but it's easy enough to make a 45 degree cut here. It doesn't have to be super

accurate. I mean the more accurate the better of course but it's it's not a

hugely crucial thing it's just more or less about creating clearance so the

parts can come together properly within this back leg. I'd like to leave you with

one other thing one other tip in this video and it has to do with efficiently

creating this grill with nice even spaces between. You can spend a lot of

time measuring and marking for the different grill bars and you're going to

spend a lot of time on that and it probably still won't work out all that accurately because a little bit of error is going to look kind of bad. It's going to

show up quite a bit visually so what I recommend is that you start by welding

the back bar on and you make that square square to the the grill ends here but

then you find some kind of a piece of metal that's the right width for the

spacing that you want between the grill bars so that could it's not crucial it

can be half an inch five-eighths of an inch you know even three-quarters if you

want but if you got a strip of steel it doesn't really matter what it is as long

as it's long enough to rest up against that first bar that you've welded down

it so it acts as a kind of a spacer you have you have your spacer piece tight to

the first bar and then you put your second bar in tight to the spacer and

then you tack weld it here and here and then you you hopscotch your spacer over

to the next one and then you put in the third grill bar and you just keep going

like that so that'll be much faster than measuring and as long as you're working

carefully you will have perfectly parallel grill bars that are going to

look great