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Got bp in. Got door frame welded up.

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I'm leaning towards swing out doors, I actually bought bullet hinges to match the fb door. I'm just sitting hear trying to double check my thought process. Lots of good ideas floating around here, thanks by the way. On the two smokers I have built, I tig welded everything. Craziness I tell ya. I got...

image.jpeg image.jpeg So decided on squared off doors, cut out the side with the fittings... Found another piece of truck exhaust pipe for the stack. The turned out exhaust tips make a nice transition into the cook chamber. Added a 1/4x3" brace under the fb mounting pipe. Ties into the spring hange...

Not sure on the throat yet. I'm tempted to move it forward some, maybe middle of the fire box and add a shadow plate. But I'm also tempted to put it all the way on the end and try to keep the rest of the build as close to a regular reverse flow set up. Start making to many changes all at once and th...

This looked like a good place to put the weld seam of the tank. That put the all the ports over on what will probably be the back side of the cooker, At this point, I'm more interested in getting it done this month. All the little extra stuff can wait.

image.jpeg Got the tank mounted, partially welded up. Probably going to leave the threaded nipples on the for now, get some pipe plugs , I can cut those off later. Wound up with a 3x4 ft deck area in front of the tank for coolers and what not. A few feet under the cc will be good for wood storage. ...

image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg Fb is basically done. Got it mounted on the trailer. Need to mount a tab for the air inlet linkage. Going to attach a clevis and run a rod through that tab and a handle on the end. Still not sure about the throat opening/ shadow plate yet. All the way on the end or ...

Fire box is about done, had to go get some small pieces to make a track for the inlet sliding damper. Put some angle around the door opening just in case.

Bcf, I was thinking of doing something like that on my current build, if I started to cut out the door, just where the hinges would go. Weld on 2, maybe 3 hinges like yours. Finish cutting out the door, it would hold shape? My tank is about 53 inches between the welds for the end caps, so door could...

The plan is to make the throat opening all the way at the end, use a bp, the rest of it will be set up like the usual offset reverse flow layout, I just moving the fb under the tank for a smaller footprint since I don't think I'd use a warming cabinet.

IMG_2420.JPG Here is the firebox tacked together. set it on the tank, a few quick measurements, it seems like its on there straight enough. need to weld it up and mount fb to trailer then I can drag the tank out of my truck and start working on the cook chamber. this was a vehicle tank, so I have l...

well here is what I got done today. one hf diy trailer kit. the first and second cross member tubes in the picture will make up the cargo rack area. something like 2x4ft maybe 2.5x4ft. about a 4x8ft deck, around 11ft total length, but I might trim that down some later

ill have some time to think on this. interesting idea. make regular fire box, and cram the whole thing in there. im wondering if I would be able to get somewhat even temps if 1/3 of the bp was also the top of the fire box. If I was needing a shadow plate for the top of the fire box, isn't that kinda...

scan0002.jpg so they didn't have my trailer in stock when I tried to buy one. so that gave me more time to think about this. just an idea here. what about an offset reverse flow, but tuck the fb under the tank like I did on my center feed. it would look better(to me anyways) than a cf on a trailer ...

image.jpeg That's the basic idea, have the bottom of the fire box easy to clean out, put the door deal lip under underneath. Probably use truck exhaust pipe for stack again if I can find another piece. Will wind up making a separate grill box that slides into a couple pieces of tubing welded to the...

So going with cf and hf 1720 lb capacity/2k gvwr trailer. The title sub agent says the kit comes with a vin and mfg statement of origin, they use that vin, and issue plate and title, no inspection from state police. If I home build, need reciepts and notorized bills of sale for the parts and an insp...

im still working on planning it out. so far I estimate my tank to be around 300lbs 67x20x1/4, havn't figured for the end caps(350-375 total?)...fire box should be 150ish and baffle plate maybe 75. haven't decided warming cabinet or not or what it would weigh. probably close to the firebox. I was thi...

IMG_2357.JPG decided my 60 gallon patio smoker was too much hassle to move around, and also a 57 pound pig is pretty much max...so I got a 85.4 gallon tank yesterday. gonna do a trailer build. I've only cooked on the center feed, so that's what I'm used to. but for a trailer, I think it would look ...

IMG_2342.JPG IMG_2341.JPG FullSizeRender.jpg here is the last pig I cooked, 57 pounds pretty much maxes out my 60 gallon smoker. very hard to get back out once its cooked. it was probably the best thing I have ever cooked. based off of this cook, a friend wants help cooking a pig for his sister in ...

Eli is a good looking machine,what were the dimensions? you think a 1" inlet will be enough on this size CC burning only wood?

a single 1" valve will work? thats interesting. i need to read up some more then.....

IMG_20140122_160701_738.jpg here is another find from work. going to help a friend build a vertical cabinet. 24x26.2x48". i have been reading around here on these cabinets. sounds like they run similar to a uds... can i use the feldon cacl for figuring firebox size. i was going to go with the recom...

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