Homemade grease/inspection pit

Just a crazy person that wanted a grease pit. Watch as I hand dig a grease pit. I talk about why I did it and some of the decisions I made. I welcome comments on future upgrades.

[projectponderer]

Just upload a short hack.
If you do your own oil changes. You need to do this.
Sometimes it's the little things. 😊

[peteryao]

After watching yours for many times, now I I am digging one myself:)😀

[royb.]

I really like this idea! Thank you for sharing Brotherman!

[George-pgii]

Very cool. Lots of ideas and pros/cons of making a pit vs a lift. Thanks for making ;-)

[Sstantial]

That idea with the big mirror on the end is genius!!!

[JieZhou-yfdn]

Thanks for sharing. Very honest and humble dude. You inspired me a lot. 👍

[jpdunamislodge]

Great video. 👍🏻 I was looking at a lift. I’ve got the ceiling height for one. My primary uses for one would be to power wash the bottom of my vehicles, apply anti corrosion, do oil / fluid changes, and do winter/summer tire swaps. I’m thinking that this might be the way for me to go. I am looking for ideas on a sliding fluid catchment tray and cover for the pit so that can use it as just a shop area for working on other vehicles like ATV’s and snow machines. Nice work brother. You obviously have some good brain matter that your working with 😎

[ef]

Don't stop uploading bro! please don't stop!

[macdoctor]

Awesome job, I really like it. Im going to go with a lift, that way if I move I can take it with me.

[JulioSanchez-lo]

I copied your idea to do this but upon hand digging the trench I found treasure worth 2 million, so now I just pay people to work on my cars.

[RS-cdcf]

I was thinking about a lift but had an idea for a grease pit as I feel it’s much safer

[ThomasRR]

Awesome build dude! 6 feet deep, I'm a shorter guy and I would probably not reach up working on a truck. But I guess you could have a stepping stool for shorties.

[DellAnderson]

Wish you had some pictures of the pour, but I'll bet you had more on your mind that day than making video! The result looks awesome. I saw in another post you reinforced the block, filled with concrete, then poured around that. It sounds like you're going to reinforce the pit edges with steel angle of some kind (trying to picture this) which is what I've seen on commercial pits to avoid chipping and cracking edges. Hope you'll post more. Subscribed.

[brianweber]

Little late to help. But next time try using a high pressure power washer in the sand stone. You need a trash pump to pull the water and sand out . Its messy but less labor intensive.

[loong]

42" ...nice and wide. Do you plan on covering it? Has anybody fallen in yet?

[ThinkBuildTest]

Great job! Like everyone always tells me. Make sure to vent the pit before use because of heavy gases. Do you think you will have any issues with rain water finding its way in?

[coleyoungren]

Great video I enjoyed that a lot, what do you use to pull your oil from the pit?

[keysautorepair]

Should have made the steps out of concrete the whole length of the wall.

[oby-]

Man, I would hate to fall in that pit.

[mrblack]

The pit looks great mate, top job 👍.
Im doing one now thats pretty much same dimensions as yours, 110cm wall to wall by 6m long. Im gonna have 2" angle on top and cast into the walls to slide a beam jack/place floor boards, bolting them to the side as you suggest I think might get in your way some and strength might be an issue without a wall under it. Re jacks Ill probably be making one that has a sliding trolley to have better access to hubs and suspension etc
Heres a commercial one with a price to match:-
Or home brew, im thinking something in between:-
Only limit is the imagination eh. I don't really get the whole lift vs pit thing, all of them have pros and cons for different work and are site dependent.
Keep on truckin, Cheers D