Yeah suppose so, the shelf was added when we were slow cooking some chicken. It worked ok, except for the large burn on my arm.
the brick in the background was my raised front lawn. they build a retaining wall out of brick with no drainage, so it was falling down when I move in. now that the weather is good I'm working on reclaiming the bricks so i can't build a brick oven for the patio... I've got a lot of work ahead of me.