Swirl Design Cut-Out on Wood Burning Fire Pit

Outdoor fire pits can be difficult to light and to stay burning but the cut-out design of fire pits like this swirl design make ignition much easier. Although the swirl cut pits are covered with fire safe screens that do not allow popping sap or sparks to be emitted from the fire pit these same openings allow air flow across the flames. Building a wood burning fire includes rolled paper or some incendiary devise covered with twigs, then small pieces of wook, chips of wood, wood chunks and eventually logs so the flames can be built up enough to ignite the logs. The openings in the sides around this fire pit are a part of the design that throws different textures and colors above and below the fire bowl but also allows oxygen to feed the fire and make much better flames.