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He got the tank for a $100. I didn’t measure it. I looked it up and 500Gs are supposed to be 36-40” diam, 10-12ft long. That seemed about right. I’d call it a standard size tank. The end bells aren’t dished, they are pretty close to hemispheres. I saw a pic where someone took half of one, and made a...

So a friend picked up a 500 gallon tank, it sure what to do with it. Way to much smoker for either of us. Thought maybe chopping it up. Even a 250gal reverse flow is more than I need. Any thoughts on something a little different I can do with half of this thing? I had an idea, combine the fire box a...

Came out pretty good, didn’t wind up needing emergency back up rib eye, but it came out pretty good too. Next time maybe a small pig

I like the scale of that operation. Looks cool

Getting ready for first (real) cook

Got a 19lb rib eye for my emergency back up plan.

Did a test run. Pork belly al pastor. Made some crazy awesome tacos. Ready for a lamb next weekend

Probably ready

I plan on using 3 arms on the cross. Probably won’t make adjustable hooks. When we go to wire the lamb to the cross, I’ll just drill some holes as needed.

E01A2732-AA36-4171-ACE4-2515CDACC53D.jpeg Working on a lamb cooker. Feels solid enough with 80lbs hanging off the end of it. Base is pretty much done. Started on the cross. The cross is square tubing that will rotate around the lower round tubing shaft. Going to weld a nut to the side of the square...

He bought a second batch of lambs. Got one for 75$ Gonna cook it for Labor Day. So I’ll be building a cross this month

My friend bought his wife some
Sheep. I’m trying to talk his wife into letting cook one this way.

B7DE71F6-52A0-4A6C-B45B-D4536E5C8EC6.jpeg DDEF8A30-A813-4DCD-88EF-EA4D3AA7E41F.jpeg Haven’t been building anything new. My pig cooker trailer and patio rig are working for me. But it’s time for the summer bbq at work. As per the usual, I had about 3 hours to make any changes for cook#2 on this smok...

With less mass to cook and restrict air flow, it runs pretty good. But that’s probably not realistic. I’m thinking that it’s always gonna be jammed full of meat, and figuring out the air flow is the only option. I’ll draw up some sketches of what I wound up building, I have a few ideas of what to do...

One dept bought the materials and my dept coverd my labor. I built it on skids to make it harder for people to borrow it, but we have forklifts, cranes , and trucks with cranes... so it could walk away. It’s supposed to stay at our location, but other people will have a chance to neglect it. Stuff l...

The sheet is 40% open. I went with that because I wanted something easier to keep clean since other people may wind up trining to use this smoker. But mostly it was in stock for same day pick up. If I had more time I could have custom perf made. Anyways, after some of the ribs started to approach do...

So, as expected, learning a few things now that we have 60 slabs on here. When we bent the shelves, that created a hollow space against the back wall, so I’m not getting the even temps I had empty and small test run. I think the air flow is just running up the back wall and not being evenly distribu...

Well I was gonna use two of them on the fb, I had wanted everything to match, there was on the fly design changes after the sheet metal guy came in, so with a new fb layout, those hinges wouldn’t work anymore. So they went on the cc doors. I wound up with a week and a half to build this thing, there...

Well, I wouldn’t call it done, operational is more like it. Did a quick test burn today. So far so good. Maybe a few tweaks when I have more time. Gonna cook some test chicken in the morning, should be ready enough to cook ribs Thursday.

I took a day off to cook this pig. Gonna have to make up for lost time next week. This is a small farm local pig, looks and smells better than the industrial commodity pigs from the restaurant supply store

Those shelves are great. Our sheet metal guy figured that would be better than me welding up angle iron frames. Probably saved me a day of work. Wich is good, cause Thursday this mofo needs to be cooking a pile of ribs.

I was thinking about a combo smoker/grill. Actually it would just be a 2x3 vertical cabinet with a charcoal grill on top.

Coming together. Fire box installed, inlets cut out and sliding dampers made. Went with an inlet on each side, opposite corners. Overall, fb is 78% the size needed for a std rf. Last time I built a vertical cabinet, the fire box could have been a lot smaller. So 78% is a educated guess here. Shelves...