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Hi Tipps, I think I have the same exact tank size. 'Planning to do the same basic thing as you did (round firebox made from the tank). My questions are: what was the best way you found to cut the tank? In the photos your cuts look so straight! And secondly, I guess the fire wood and fire inside the...

I may be late to the party... I did my legs for the pit last. Got the cook chamber up on jackstands, and the fire box was resting on ground when I racked it all up. I was able to shim firebox with a 1x to get it where needed. I put my grease drain on stack end, and actually made my cook chamber slop...

Search the jack and chain method for straightening the door, I’ve seen it explained on this forum somehwere.
I used a big turnbuckle on my cook chamber to push part of it out, but that may not work for the door itself

looks like it's coming together good. And I think you may have enough wood in the background for several cooks.

I would spend my money on a smoker that is more traditionally shaped and a little bigger, whether it's custom or not. I am not sure what that guy is charging, but I would imagine you could find something that has a normal design and a little more fire/cooking room in it for not much more (academy, b...

Thanks for all the help and advice on my build guys, I really appreciate it. Learned so much through this whole process and ended up building something that is exactly what I had imagined and wanted from the beginning. It holding the temps like it does is rewarding for sure, and I am about to use th...

I'm finished. Lit the first fire in it last week and seasoned the cook chamber with a mix of tallow and bacon grease. Let that burn for about 5 hours and threw some chicken thighs on it just for kicks. The real first cook was this Saturday. Lit my fire about 4 in the morning, smoked a 13 lb brisket ...

we are having fun cooking on this thing!

Thanks to this forum, I saw these things and had to have one. Found me a few 22" discs (1 for me, and the others for folks down the street). Welded 1-1/2" lip around edge, welded on some handles, and cleaned up the disc surface. Bought me an old steel wheel from a tire shop, had some scrap metal so ...

Well, I finally got my front steering handle on this thing, built some tools for it and hangers on the back, and got it painted up. I debated about adding a shelf, but the more I thought about my old one the more I remembered I hardly ever used it, and I can just have a small table nearby. Time to l...

towtruck wrote: ↑

October 2nd, 2018, 11:02 am

It's a start.....it will come together for you. Sit and drink a beer or two and just stare at it....it works for me anyway.

Worked for me too, many times just staring and drinking beer. Somehow things start getting welded!

1/8” tubing should be good if you use 2”. I used 3” tubing, 1/8” on the 150 gallon I’m almost finished with (another thread here in standard offsets).

Dirtytires wrote: ↑

September 17th, 2018, 10:09 pm

Glad you found them. I looked at ordering them but shipping was a nightmare!

Yeah me too, the shipping was out of hand. Place I found had only 22” discs, but they had no holes in em, worked out good.

What’s the ideal space between the bottom of a disco and the burner? Gonna build a designated burner stand for this disc I got, and was thinking 4-5” or so would be about right.?.?

Thanks, I found a tractor place that had a few finally.

Anybody know of a source to buy plow discs for discadas around Dallas-Fort Worth? I need 2 24” and wanted to build them as opposed to buy em already made up.

Thanks

Got it notched and installed, and it works great. I just drilled a hole every inch in the middle of the flat bar that would be used to lift the opening cover plate, and then cut the remaining metal with a grinder. Smoothed them out with a Dremel. not perfect saw teeth, but they hold and now I have a...

finished my firebox door last night

Almost done. Just need to add a handle for steering, and paint this sucker.