DIY Grease Pit In My Backyard

This is a grease pit at my home built on a hillside. I have a lot of classic cars and needed a comfortable means to reach the underside of cars for sandblasting, oil changes and so on. The total cost was about $2,500. Restoring the underside of one car pays the cost of the pit. The beams used to drive on are recycled highway bridge I-beams laid sideways. I hired a dirt man to cut the hillside and a concrete man to do the slab floor but all other work was DIY. The entire project only took about two weeks of work but the project spanned more than eight weeks due to contractor scheduling. I will never hire another oil change. Recently, I was quoted $1,500 just to preassure wash the underside of an old car. No thanks! I have my own pit now. Hope my video helps you achieve your dreams. Jim Marple

[anthonymcleod]

Great Job and Video, Thanks from Australia !

[Shamr]

That rock foundation you made prior to pouring concrete looked so beautiful and it all got buried what a shame haha. Amazing job 👍🏻

[lindapoworski]

Amazing. Im going to get the boys on this project. No worries about inhaling fumes or dust in the great outdoors too.

[MarcRademacher]

Could you enlighten me about the thickness of the steal beams?
Thanks!
Looks fantastic!!

[harrybruner]

Back in the day, they would just use a 6 or so old fence posts and a couple of railroad ties. Cost $0, time 2 hours.

[kylejcool]

I've had my mind on doing this, got the bank.made to go off of, your the first I've seen actually do it! Thanks for the video, really lays out the process. Do you think it could hold a 8k pound van though?