Dad's Barbecue! Its Finished!!

                         By Rosie

In the 1940s Dad’s grandfather, Eugene Meda, started something. He wanted to build a barbecue. He mixed Mortar and he set stone until he had finished a tall, sturdy barbecue made of stone taken from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His creation stood in the back yard of his then current house in Sacramento. This was Dad’s first inspiration to build a stone barbecue. After many trips to the lovely country of Brazil Dad saw several Churrasqueiras (chure-has-keras a Brazilian version of a barbecue) that refined his vision. At last in the spring of 2013 Dad started. The following pictures document the building.

The progress about mid summer 2013. Dad wanted to use all local materials including:

Metal bought at Brehmer’s in Lyons NE, and welded by Dad in his garage, Brick fired in Sioux City, Rocks from the Elkhorn River, and the cement was all mixed by hand with the materials being purchased from Gerhold’s. 

 

Dad's First experiment with polished concrete. 

The granite inlays were not from Nebraska :)

View of the inside. The bars in the back can 

be adjusted for height, and one of them moved forward 

for rotisserie work 

The height of the fire grate is fully adjustable...

...Just turn the handle outside.

The mechanism inside between the rock and the 

firebrick can be oiled through this little tube.

Dad putting on the last bricks this spring

 

                                    All Done! :)