Oxy-Acetylene Cutting 1/2" Thick Steel Fire Barrel

[jakeru]

Here is a friend's steel fire containing barrel I oxy-acetylene cut for him, out in his backyard. This was very substantial material; a 1/2" thick galvanized (zinc-plated) steel. He said it was a scrap he obtained that was originally made for some sort of pier footing or support (?) in Alaska.

He's going to take the cut off ring out to another location, an island vacation cabin where he'll use it for beach fires.

It would have been fun to use my Super200P's plasma cutter to do this, but the prospect of getting 240V power *and* compressed air out there was just too much. The portability of "old school" oxy-acetylene rig beat out new fancy plasma cutting technology in this case.

The "smokey" residue around the cut is from the galvanized (zinc layer) burning, and wiped right off, and the brittle slag "dribbles" on the inside of the cut edge also knocked off easily.