re: I want to learn to weld..

To build a BBQ pit, you will need some plate steel, an angle grinder (to cut the pieces), A welder's helmet, so you won't fry your eyeballs, and a stick welding unit with welding rods for steel plate (all from Harbor Freight).

Look at some YouTube videos and practice cutting and welding some small pieces of metal. Learn how to grind a v cut fitting and how to fill it with a continuous weld bead. There are very good welders on YouTube willing to talk you through it and demonstrate the needed basic welds.

If you make good plans (also found by looking at google), you might be able to get a metal shop to cut them to size for you. A BBQ supplier may have a grill the size you want to design your pit around.

You will be better making a box grill, since making a round one requires lots you won't have and probably can't do. Making a round cylinder pit will be even more difficult for a beginner, but it can be done. If you try to make one from an old butane tank, don't blow yourself up with left over butane that will likely still be in the tank.

Don't kid yourself. This will be expensive. Depending on the level of your natural, "God given Man Skills" and the thickness of your wad of cash, it can be done. Chances are good, you will be somewhat disappointed with the results.

Option 2 - Go to Bucees and buy one. They have lots of manly pits for sale. Only problem with that will be trailering it home.

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Is this something I can teach myself to do

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Yep

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Nope.